Topical Lectures

Friday, 14 February 2014

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Edward Roberts: Entrepreneurial Impact of Science and Technology-Based Universities
David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Heinrich Jaeger: Granular Matter: From Basic Questions to New Concepts and Applications
William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Professor of Physics, University of Chicago

Saturday, 15 February 2014

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Cori Bargmann: Using Fixed Circuits to Drive Variable Behaviors
Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, Rockefeller University
SARTON LECTURE: Susan Lederer: The Living and the Dead: Biomedical Science, American Society, and the Human Body
Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sunday, 16 February 2014

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Amy Smithson: Scientists and (the Ultimate) Responsibility
Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Eli Finkel: The Suffocation of Marriage
Professor of Psychology and Management and Organizations, Northwestern University