Dr. Dorsch is a historian of science and technology currently serving as a postdoctoral teaching fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies scientific expertise, knowledge-making, and boundary formation.
Dr. James Benford is President of Microwave Sciences, Inc., which does contracting and consulting in High Power Microwaves and space applications of such technologies.
Born in Redwood City, Fred Adams received his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley. His work in cosmology also includes explorations into the long term fate and evolution of the universe, as well as fine-tuning issues.
Our technological capacity to make changes to genomic data has expanded exponentially since the 2012 discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 as an RNA-programmable genome editing tool.
Harrison Steel, from the University of Oxford, will present recent work on a range of problems at the interface of control theory and synthetic biology. The talk aims to highlight many exciting new directions for research.
Dr. Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. This month's talk is titled "Applying Physics to Philosophy".
Paul Davies is a British-born theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling author. He is Regents’ Professor and Director of Beyond: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
The Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science invites you to attend a special lecture by Andrew Briggs, "It Keeps Me Seeking", to be followed with a panel discussion featuring Paul Davies, Barry Ritchie and Hava Samuelson.
The Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science is collaborating with the Interplanetary Initiative to present a symposium on "Planetary Intelligence: Humanities' Future in the Age of AI". There will be a variety of different talks.
Each year the Beyond Center presents a special award to a leading scientist to honor the life and work of Eugene Shoemaker and his wife Carolyn Shoemaker.