Thursday February 12, 2004
Encyclopedia of Life Symposium: The Need to Inventory Life on Earth
Co-convened with The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the Telluride Institute
Daniel Janzen, Diamura Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Pennsylvania
Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Gardens
Hosted by Cristián Samper, Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
7:30 – 10:00 pm, Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village

Tuesday May 11, 2004
The Changing Face of the Earth: How Telluride became so spectacularly beautiful in 70 million years
Ed Larson, geology professor emeritus, University of Colorado at Boulder
6:00 - 7:15 pm Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Tuesday May 25, 2004
An Introduction to the Plants and People of Papua New Guinea
George Weiblen, Curator of flowering plants at the Bell Museum, Assistant Professor in the University of Minnesota, Research Associate in Entomology and Botany at the Smithsonian
6:00 - 7:15 pm Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Thursday June 3, 2004
Old World Army Ants: How the wildest, most complex, most aggressive, largest organism on the planet got captured
Brian Fisher, assistant Curator of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences
8:00 - 9:15 pm, Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Tuesday June 29, 2004
99 Years Since Einstein's Quantum of Light - particles, waves, and uncertainty
Dan Dessau, associate physics professor of the University of Colorado at Boulder
6:00 - 7:15 pm Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Tuesday July 6, 2004
Watching the Earth Breathe: Measuring CO2 from Space with the Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Charles Miller, Deputy Investigator of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA and a professor at Haverford College
6:00 - 7:15 pm Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Tuesday July 13
A Study of How We Move: Playing with robots
Avis Cohen, professor at University of Maryland, College Park, departments of biology, neuroscience, and cognitive science.
6:00 - 7:15 pm Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Tuesday July 27, 2004
Ice: From Snowflakes to Glaciers
George Ewing, Guggenheim Fellow and Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus at Indiana University
6:00 - 7:15 pm Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Tuesday July 20, 2004
Molecular Machines in Health and Disease
John Cuppoletti, Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
6:00 - 7:15 pm Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Tuesday August 3, 2004
Randomness, Luck, and Bias: The role they play in life
Nicholas DiGiacomo, physicist and entrepreneur, SCIENT, Los Alamos, and CERN
6:00 - 7:15 pm Wilkinson Public Library Program Room

Extravaganza
Tuesday August 10, 2004
An Illustrated & Literary Tour of Real and Imagined Universes
William Reinhart, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Senior Scholar, Chemistry and Physics Professor at University of Washington in Seattle
Making Waves: Science, art, and politics
Eric Heller, Professor of Physics and Professor of Chemistry,
Harvard University
Hosted by Nicholas DiGiacomo, physicist and entrepreneur, SCIENT, Los Alamos, and CERN
7:30 – 9:30 pm Telluride Conference Center in the Mountain Village

The Pinhead Town Talks are supported by a generous grant from the
Mountain Village Owners Association.