November 2008
Thursday, November 13
The Changing Field of Biology
Arnold Levine
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
Women and Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study
Karen Uhlenbeck
Professor, Department of Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin
Entrepreneurs and the American South from Napoleon Bonaparte to Karl Marx
Edward E. Baptist
Associate Professor, Department of History
Cornell University
Impacts and Evolution: Protecting Earth from Asteroids
David Morrison
Senior Scientist and Director, NASA Lunar Science Institute
NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Friday, November 14
Symposium: Action Not Words
Introduction
Claudio Vita-Finzi
Moderator
Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum of London
Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World’s Highest Mountains
Lonnie G. Thompson
Distinguished University Professor
School of Earth Sciences and the Byrd Polar Research Center
The Ohio State University
Population and Climate Change
Joel E. Cohen
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations
Rockefeller and Columbia Universities
Untitled
Warren Evans
Sector Director, World Bank Environment Department
Redefining What’s Possible
Mark M. Little
Senior Vice President and Director, General Electric Global Research
Jonathan E. Rhoads Medal Presentation
Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine
Lawrence K. Altman
Senior Medical Correspondent and "The Doctor’s World" Columnist
The New York Times
Richard A. F. Penrose Lecture
Finishing College: The Educational Attainment Gap in America
William G. Bowen
President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
President Emeritus, Princeton University
Saturday, November 15
Symposium: The Supreme Court and Useful Knowledge
Introduction
David Tatel
Moderator and Panelist
Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
How Do Judges Know What They Know?
Linda Greenhouse
Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law
Yale Law School
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
David Souter
Justice, Supreme Court of the United States