Guest lectures have been a highlight of each Summer Science Program since 1959, but “you had to be there.” Until now.
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| Date | Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
| Mon, June 21 | 11am PDT / 2pm EDT | Dr. Kady Lyons | Research Scientist, Georgia Aquarium | Secret Sex Lives of Sharks |
| Thu, June 24 | 8am PDT / 11 am EDT | Dr. Bevil Conway | Senior Investigator, NIH | Color Inside Out: The Neuroscience Of A Human Obsession |
| Fri, June 25 | 11am PDT / 2pm EDT | Dr. Jill Tartar | Chair Emeritus for SETI Research, SETI Institute | A Cosmic Perspective: Searching for Aliens, Finding Ourselves |
| Mon, June 28 | 8am PDT / 11 am EDT | Dr. Paul Pottinger | Prof. of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, Univ. of Washington | COVID-19: challenges and opportunities |
| Tue, June 29 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. Fran Bagenal | Prof. of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, Univ. of Colorado | New Horizons Mission to Pluto and Beyond |
| Wed, June 30 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. Nick Suntzeff | Distinguished Prof., Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M Univ. | The Three Universes |
| Thu, July 1 | 8am PDT / 11 am EDT | Dr. Doug Emlen | Prof. of Biological Sciences, Univ. of Montana | Extreme Weapons: A Natural History |
| Fri, July 2 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. Shanil Virani | Astronomer & author, Our Island Universe | Finding Hidden Populations of Supermassive Black Holes |
| Sat, July 3 | 9 am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. Larry Sverdrup | Senior Scientist, Trex Enterprises Corporation | Mad? Science! |
| Mon, July 5 | 11am PDT was 8am PDT / 11 am EDT | Dr. Tyrone Hayes | Prof. of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley | From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men |
| Tue, July 6 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. Bram Boroson | Assistant Prof. of Physics and Astronomy, Albion College | Patterns in the X-ray Stars |
| Wed, July 7 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Blaise Aguera y Arcas | Vice President & Engineering Fellow, Google | Neuroscience, AI, and the Future of Intelligence on Earth |
| Thu, July 8 | 8am PDT / 11 am EDT | Dr. Ken Paller | Prof. of Psychology, Northwestern Univ. | Human Memory and Sleep |
| Fri, July 9 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. David Grinspoon | Planetary scientist & author, Planetary Science Institute | My Path from High School to the Planet Venus |
| Mon, July 12 | 11am PDT was 8am PDT / 11 am EDT | Dr. K.K. Ojo | Research Associate Prof., Univ. of Washington, Dept. of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Infectious Diseases | Protect the Mosquitoes? New Strategy for Malaria Eradication |
| Tue, July 13 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. Eric Cornell | Nobel Laureate and Professor, Physics, University of Colorado | Looking for Fossils of the Big Bang in the Laboratory |
| Wed, July 14 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. Elena Amador-French | MSL Science Operations Coordinator, NASA JPL | Discovering the early history of Mars through robotic exploration |
| Thu, July 15 | 8am PDT / 11 am EDT | Dr. James Allison and Dr. Padmanee Sharma | (Respectively) Prof. and Chair of Immunology and Nobel Laureate (Physiology / Medicine); Prof. of Genitourinary Medical Oncology and Immunology, Univ. Of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center | Immune Checkpoint Blockade in Cancer Therapy: New insights into therapeutic mechanisms; From the Clinic to the Lab: Investigating Mechanisms of Response and Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Therapy |
| Fri, July 16 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Tracy Drain | Lead Flight Systems Engineer for the Europa Clipper mission, NASA JPL | An Engineer’s Journey to Jupiter |
| Tue, July 20 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Dr. Vicky Hamilton | Institute Scientist, Southwest Research Institute | The composition of asteroid Bennu and predictions for the returned sample |
| Wed, July 21 | 9am PDT / 12 noon EDT | Amnahir Pena-Alcantara | PhD student, Stanford Univ. | The Journey for Smart Clothing |
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