Pinhead Town Talk in Partnership with Mountainfilm
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Palm Theater
FILMS
Best Shorts of Mountainfilm 2007
PRESENTATION
“The Quantum Revolution - a new generation of supercomputers"
Rainer Blatt, PhD, Institut f. Experimentalphysik, Universitaet Innsbruck, Director of the Institute for Quantum Optics
and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences
 
Pinhead Town Talk
Tuesday July 3, 2007
No program due to holiday

Pinhead Town Talk in Partnership with Mountainfilm
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Palm Theater
FILMS
Best Shorts of Mountainfilm 2007
PRESENTATION
“Rough Seas: How the ocean is responding to climate change”
Julie Cole, PhD, Associate Professor of Geosciences and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona
 
Pinhead Town Talk
Tuesday July 17, 2007
6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Conference Center
PRESENTATION
“Time: A Modern Perspective from a Builder of Atomic Clocks”
Leo Hollberg, PhD, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Time and Frequency Division, Physicist and Group Leader of the Optical Frequency Measurements Group
 
Pinhead Town Talk
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Conference Center
PRESENTATION
“Schrödinger's Children, and How Quantum Theory Revolutionized Chemistry”
Kieron Burke, PhD, Professor of Heretical Physics and Computational Chemistry at University of California, Irvine
 
Pinhead Town Talk
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Conference Center
PRESENTATION
“What Doctors and Nurses Fear Most? Being a Patient in a Hospital: The Emergence of ‘Patient Safety’”
Dr. Paul Barach, Associate Professor and Founder of the Center for Patient Safety at the University of Miami and South Florida; Dr. David Mayer, University of Illinois Medical Center Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Education at UIC Chicago College of Medicine;
Helen Haskell, Founder of Mothers Against Medical Error

Pinhead Town Talk
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Conference Center
“Is it Science? — Global warming, intelligent design, the cosmic anthropic principle and Einstein’s moon
Michael E. Kellman, University of Oregon Professor of Theoretical Chemistry & Physical Chemistry, 2007 R. Stephen Berry Lecturer
 
Pinhead Town Talk
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Conference Center
“The Science of Sound: The acoustics of musical instruments”
James Martin, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM  
 
Pinhead Town Talk
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
6:00 – 7:15 p.m.
Conference Center
“Nuclear Power and Climate Change: Choosing a Course Beyond Emotions"
By R. Stephen Berry, James Franck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at University of Chicago and a member of the National Academy of Sciences

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