2020 Summer Lunch Talks
There will be a lunch talk every Tuesday and Thursday at 19:00 CEST / 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT. Unlike past years, these talks will all be via zoom, so you're welcome to invite your colleagues and friends. The planned speakers for Summer 2020 are below.
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| June 23 | Lars Maaløe (Corti.ai) | Uncertainty estimation in complex input distributions: Why it is difficult and why it is desperately needed |
| June 25 | None | BUFFALO Conference |
| June 30 | Noah Olsman (Harvard) | Computing Logarithms with Proteins |
| July 2 | None | Cosmic DAWN Summit |
| July 7 | Jonathan Heckman (UPenn) | Top Down Approach to Quantum Fields |
| July 9 | Lilly Chin (MIT) | Embodied intelligence through compliant robots and digital avatars |
| July 14 | George Varnavides (Harvard/MIT) | Moiré superlattices: Direct imaging, origins, and physical property implications at the 2D/3D materials interface |
| July 16, 18:00 CEST | Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU) | Supernova Neutrinos Without the Annoying Wait |
| July 21 | Emil Khabiboulline (Harvard) | Quantum Chaos and Traversable Wormholes |
| July 23 | Mason MacDougall (UCLA) | Inferring the Orbital Eccentricities of Transiting Exoplanets |
| July 27, 11 PM CEST | Tamara Davis (Queensland) | Cosmological Confusion |
| July 30 | Tom Gilbert (KU/NTNU) | It's life Jim, but not quite as we know it: Life through the Hologenomic window |
| August 4 | Cynthia Steinhardt (Johns Hopkins) | Biomedical Engineering: Improving the Cochlear Implant |
| August 6 | Alex Brinson (MIT) | Radioactive Molecules: A Low Energy Lab for High Energy Physics |
| August 11 | Jessie Oehrlein (Columbia) | The Other Polar Vortex: Stratospheric Impacts on North Atlantic Winter |
| August 13 | Peter Laursen (DAWN) | Science Communication |
| August 18 - CANCELLED | Sarah Pearson (Flatiron CCA) | CANCELLED |
| August 20 | Stella Kafka (AAVSO) | Variable Stars and Their Stories |
| August 25 | Andrés Santos (Extremadura) | Aristotle, a Tanzanian boy, and a British professor play with sand grains |
| August 27 | Martin Elvis (CfA) | Asteroid Futures: Decade, Century, Millennium |