Tuesday June 21
"Playing with the World's Smallest Erector Set"
John T. Fourkas Boston College Chemistry Professor, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, Beckman Young Investigator, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director Pinhead Institute and Smithsonian Research Collaborator
Tuesday June 28
"How do molecules manage to chill out?"
By Richard M. Stratt, Brown University Newport Rogers Professor of Chemistry, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, and Fulbright Scholar
In conversation with Rob Blair, Geology Professor Emeritus, Fort Lewis College and Vice President of Mountain Studies Institute
Tuesday July 5
“Quantum Encounters of the Cold Kind”
By Paul Julienne, Physics Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST Fellow and award winning scientist
In conversation Jonathan T. Overpeck, University of Arizona Professor, Department of Geosciences and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth
and Guggenheim Fellow
Tuesday July 12
“Big Men: Why Height Matters in Human Evolution”
By Nina Jablonski, California Academy of Sciences Department of Anthropology Irvine Chair and Curator, and Fletcher Fellow
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Pinhead Institute Executive Director and Smithsonian Research Collaborator
Tuesday July 19
“Perspectives in Science and Public Policy”
Mildred S. Dresselhaus, MIT Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Winner of the Founders Medal from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Director of the Office of Science in the Department of Energy in the Clinton administration
In conversation with Nina Jablonski, Irwin Chair and Curator of Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences, and Fletcher Fellow
Tuesday July 26
“The Salt of the Earth: From fish to physiologist”
Douglas C. Eaton, Distinguished Professor and Deputy Chair of Physiology and a Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia
In conversation with Peter Hackett, M.D., Director of Emergency Services at Telluride Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Health Sciences
Pinhead Town Talk Extravaganza
Tuesday August 2
7:30 pm, Conference Center in Mountain Village, $10 admission
The Pinhead Institute and the Telluride Science Research Center present two talks:
"A Lively Tour of the Periodic Table"
By John Straub, Professor of Chemistry at Boston University
AND
"Lasers: The Light Fantastic"
By Carl Lineberger, E. U. Condon Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado
Hosted by Howard Donner, M.D., wilderness medicine, pilot, and filmmaker
Tuesday, August 9
“Holding Single Molecules Up to the Light: Witness the wonder of DNA dancing in front of you”
By Sunney Xie, Harvard University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Award Winning Scientist
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Pinhead Institute Executive Director and Smithsonian Research Collaborator
Tuesday August 16
"Blood and Blood Substitutes: How oxygen gets where it is needed"
By David A. Case, Senior Scientist, The Scripps Research Institute Department of Molecular Biology
In conversation with TBA
The Pinhead Town Talks are supported by a generous grant from the
Mountain Village Owners Association.
