Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk - Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
6:00 – 7:15 pm
“Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Sea Level Rise: What's happening with climate change?”
Charles Burnham, PhD, Harvard University Professor of Mineralogy, Emeritus, and Adjunct Professor of Geology at Fort Lewis College, Mountain Studies Institute Board Member and past president.
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director of Pinhead Institute and Smithsonian Research Collaborator

Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk - Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
6:00 – 7:15 pm
“Serendipity in Physical Chemistry: How discoveries are made”
Professor Millard Alexander PhD, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director of Pinhead Institute and Smithsonian Research Collaborator

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk - Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
6:00 – 7:15 pm
“Antsy in Madagascar: Big Ideas from a Bushwhacking Biologist”
Brian Fisher, PhD, California Academy of Sciences Associate Curator and Chair of Entomology & Adjunct Professor at University of California, Berkeley
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director of Pinhead Institute and Smithsonian Research Collaborator

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk - Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
6:00 – 7:15 pm
"An Accidental Observation: Once scientist's circuitous route to discovery”
Josef Michl, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder
In conversation with John Straub, Boston University Professor of Chemistry and President of TSRC

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk - Sheridan Opera House
6:00 – 7:15 pm
“The Largest Mass Poisoning in History: Arsenic in drinking water of Asia”
Scott Fendorf, PhD, Stanford University Associate Professor of Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director of Pinhead Institute and Smithsonian Research Collaborator

Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk Extravaganza - Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
Hosted by Dr. John Straub, Boston University Professor of Chemistry and President of TSRC and Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director of Pinhead Institute and Smithsonian Research Collaborator
7:00 – 9:00
“The Chemistry of the Universe”
William Klemperer, PhD, Harvard University Research Professor of Physical Chemistry
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”On Quantum Weirdness in To-Hell-You-Ride: A Fresh Look at Mining Disasters”
David Coker, PhD, Boston University Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, and Visiting Professor at University of Cambridge and University of Rome

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk - Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
6:00 – 7:15 pm
“Chemistry in Our Own Atmosphere: What It Can Tell Us About Mars”
Joseph S. Francisco, PhD, Purdue University Professor of Chemistry
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director of Pinhead Institute and Smithsonian Research Collaborator

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk - Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
6:00 – 7:15 pm
“Demystifying genetics and genomics”
Scott Tenenbaum, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Gen*NY*Sis Center For Excellence in Cancer Genomics, University at Albany-SUNY
In conversation with Nana Naisbitt, Executive Director of Pinhead Institute and Smithsonian Research Collaborator

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Pinhead Town Talk - Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village
6:00 – 7:15 pm
“A Little Bit of Utah in Colorado: Land use, desert dust, and the ecology of the San Juan Mountains”
Jason Neff, PhD, Assistant Professor University of Colorado at Boulder, Geological Sciences Department & Environmental Studies
In conversation with Mallory Dimmitt, The Nature Conservancy

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