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Priming the Pump
Government's Role in Green Building
Speakers: Paul DeCotis, Deputy Secretary for Energy, New York State; John Krieble, New York City Department of Design and Construction
Moderator: Craig Kneeland, NYSERDA
eBriefing | posted Jul 22, 2008
Market Crisis
Did Quantitative Strategies Compound the Problem?
Speakers: Emanuel Derman, Columbia U.; James Grant, Grant's Interest Rate Observer; Brian Hayes, Lehman Brothers Alternative Investment Management; Kenneth Posner, Morgan Stanley
eBriefing | posted Jun 12, 2008
Making Waves
Harnessing Photons for Smart Materials
Speakers: Jeffrey Koberstein, Columbia University; Edwin Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
eBriefing | posted May 30, 2008
The Next Green Challenge
Energy Use in Existing Buildings
Speakers: Gordon Holness, Albert Kahn Associates, Inc., ASHRAE; Jeffrey Perlman, Bright Power, Inc.
Moderator: Beth Heider, Skanska USA Building
eBriefing | posted May 23, 2008
Carbon Management
Findings of the McKinsey Report on Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Speakers: Rick Duke, Natural Resources Defense Council; Marco Castaldi, Columbia University
eBriefing | posted May 20, 2008
Coal Without Guilt?
Technologies for Zero-Emission Power Plants
Speakers: Klaus Lackner, Columbia University; Alex Fassbender, ThermoEnergy Corporation
eBriefing | posted Apr 18, 2008
The Biopolymer Patch Kit
Novel Materials for Regenerative Medicine
Speakers: Joel Schneider, University of Delaware; Vincent Conticello, Emory University; David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology
eBriefing | posted Apr 16, 2008
Integration and Invention
Frontiers of Nanotechnology and Biotechnology
Keynote speakers: Chad Mirkin, Northwestern University; Tadashi Matsunaga, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
eBriefing | posted Apr 7, 2008
Green Dollars Make Sense
How Investing in Sustainable Buildings Pays Off
Speakers: Dave Hewitt, New Buildings Institute; Vivian Loftness, Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture; Noel Morrin, Skanska
eBriefing | posted Apr 1, 2008
Climate Change
What We Know and What We Can Do
Organizer: George Hendrey, Queens College, City University of New York
eBriefing | posted Mar 21, 2008
Signatures of Spacetime
The Tenth Northeast String Cosmology Meeting
Speakers: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology; Petr Hořava, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Randall, Harvard University; Jeff Harvey, University of Chicago
eBriefing | posted Mar 18, 2008
Granular Materials
The Unusual Properties of Powders, Ball-Bearings, and M&Ms
Speakers: Bruno Hancock, Pfizer Inc.; Mark Shattuck, The City College of New York; Paul Chaikin, New York University
eBriefing | posted Mar 11, 2008
Back to Nature
Rethinking Natural Products as Sources of Drug Leads
Speakers: Takushi Kaneko, Global Alliance for TB Drug Development; Ronald J. Quinn, Griffith University; Guy T. Carter, Wyeth Research; Ray Lam, Nereus Pharmaceuticals; Sheo Singh, Merck Research Laboratories; Arnold Demain, Drew University
eBriefing | posted Feb 29, 2008
Educated Guesses
The Second Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods (DREAM)
Organizers: Andrea Califano, Columbia University; Gustavo Stolovitzky, IBM Computational Biology Center
eBriefing | posted Feb 27, 2008
Eighth Annual NBTC Nanobiotechnology Symposium
Organizers: Harold G. Craighead and Graham Kerslick, Cornell University
eBriefing | posted Jan 18, 2008
Tools for Assembly
Bioinspiration in Materials Science
Speakers: Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University; Virgil Percec, University of Pennsylvania
eBriefing | posted Jan 11, 2008
A Light Touch
Nanoscale Applications of Holography
Speaker: David Grier, New York University
eBriefing | posted Jan 9, 2008
Flywheels Take Off
Energy Storage Projects Address Changing Power Demands
Speakers: Joseph H. Sayer, NYSERDA; Matt Lazarewicz, Beacon Power; Edvina Uzunovic, New York Power Authority
eBriefing | posted Dec 21, 2007
Algorithms on Wall Street
High-Frequency Automated Trading
Speakers: Robert Almgren, Banc of America Securities; Kamal Kasera, Deutsche Bank; Mark Mueller, GMO, LLC
eBriefing | posted Dec 21, 2007
Molecular Machines
Single-Molecule Tests of Nanoscale Cellular Functions
Organizers: Susan Marqusee and Clayton Heathcock, University of California, Berkeley
eBriefing | posted Dec 18, 2007
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