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Each program offers a Guest Lecture Series. A presention is followed by a reception, where participants and guests interact informally. Many speakers have a long association with Summer Science Program, including as alumni and former faculty.
"I so much enjoy talking to the brilliant young students at SSP. My trips there are among the highlights of my year."
"After presenting at SSP for the past three summers, I know these teenagers will restore your faith in humanity and hope for the future. I feel a bit guilty about getting more out of the experience than they do."
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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
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Blaise Aguera y Arcase |
Vice President and Google Fellow, Google |
Language models and social intelligence |
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Dr. Erika Alden DeBenedictis |
Computational Physicist and Synthetic Biologist, MIT |
High-Throughput Protein Design and Evolution for Synthetic Biology |
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Dr. Stephon Alexander |
Professor of Physics, Brown University; President, The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP); Executive Director, Harlem Gallery of Science, Brown University |
The Jazz of Physics |
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Dr. Elena Amador-French |
MSL Science Operations Coordinator, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Discovering the Early History of Mars Through Robotic Exploration |
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Dr. Nadia Atallah Lanman |
Assistant Research Professor of Comparative Pathobiology, Purdue University |
Bioinformatics: Unleashing the Power of Data to Fight Cancer |
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Dr. Fran Bagenal |
Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado |
Juno Mission to Jupiter |
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Dr. Nancy Chabot |
Planetary Scientist, Coordination Lead for NASA’s DART Mission, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory |
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART): NASA’s First Planetary Defense Test Mission |
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Dr. Richard Chuang |
Adjunct Faculty, Cogswell College; Co-founder of Dreamworks Animation, Cogswell College |
The Infinite Space of Learning |
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Dr. Doug Duncan |
Professor of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder |
Solar Astronomy, Eclipses, and the Upcoming 2023 and 2024 Eclipses |
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Dr. Adrienne Erickcek |
Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
Cosmology: Understanding the Evolution and Content of the Universe |
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Dr. Kelly Fast |
Near-Earth Object Observations Program Manager for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, NASA |
Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us: Planetary Defense at NASA |
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Dr. Millie Georgiadis |
Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine |
Alien DNA As An Alternative Genetic System |
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Dr. Tyrone Hayes |
Professor of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley |
From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Me |
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Dr. Briony Horgan |
Associate Professor: Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University |
Roving Mars: NASA’s Search for Ancient Life With the Perseverance Rover |
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Dr. Laurie Levenson |
Attorney, Author, and Speaker; Professor of Law and Ethics, LLS Loyola School of Law |
Doing Justice: Why it Matters to Help the Wrongfully Convicted |
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Dr. Christina Li |
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University |
From SSP to Renewable Fuel |
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Dr. Steve Mayo |
Professor: Biology, Chemistry & Engineering, Caltech |
CDR Extended Antibodies: Antibody Small Molecule Conjugates with Computationally Designed Target Binding Synergy |
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Dr. Derek Muller |
Veritasium host and creator, Veritasium |
Experimenting on YouTube |
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Dr. Peter Park |
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School |
Sequencing the Cancer Genome |
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Jiwon Park |
Medical Student, University of Michigan Medical School |
3 things I wish I had known |
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Jim Reed |
Founder and Director, R&D, Rockware, Inc. |
NecroSearch |
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Dr. Dan Reichart |
UNC Professor of Physics & Astronomy; Director Skynet Robotic Telescope Network, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Two Ways to Make a Black Hole – And See It! |
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Dr. Eileen Ryan |
Director of the 2.4 Meter Telescope, Magdalena Ridge Observatory, NM, New Mexico Tech |
Mitigating Asteroid Threats: the NASA DART Spacecraft Mission |
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Dr. Kelsi Singer |
Principal Scientist, Southwest Research Institute and deputy project scientist, NASA’s New Horizons mission, Southwest Research Institute |
The Asteroids Belt vs the Kuiper Belt – As Seen Close Up by Spacecraft |
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Dr. Nick Suntzeff |
Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M |
The Day With No Yesterday |
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Dr. Lawrence Sverdrup |
Senior Scientist, Trex Enterprises |
Mad? Science! |
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Dr. Alain Waffo |
Associate Professor of Biology, IU School of Medicine |
Phage Display and Molecular Evolution |
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Dr. Mike Weiss |
Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochem & Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine |
Forrest Gump and A Life’s Journey in Science |
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Dr. Timothy Yu |
Associate Professor: Harvard Medical School; Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Medical School |
Hyper-Personalized Medicine |
SSP International is a nonprofit offering inspiring science immersion experiences. Founded in 1959, its mission is to provide opportunities to accelerate learning, doing and belonging in science. SSP International’s flagship program is Summer Science Program, a leading education experience for exceptional high school students in astrophysics, biochemistry, genomics and more.
