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National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
Lecture Links |
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National Academy of Sciences
(NAS) Members' Lectures
(153 lectures from 73
members) |
| James A. Van
Allen |
The
University of Iowa (In memory) |
The Modern Saga of Planetary Exploration |
| Don L.
Anderson |
Caltech |
Eclogite Engine |
| George J.
Annas |
Boston
University |
American
Bioethics after Nuremberg: Pragmatism, Politics, and Human Rights |
| Tanya M.
Atwater |
University of
California, Santa Barbara |
A Tectonic
explanation of the May 12, 2008, Sichuan Earthquake
in Chinese |
| Francisco J.
Ayala |
University
of California, Irvine |
Biology to
Ethics: The Biological Roots of Morality
Darwin’s
Greatest Discovery: Design without Designer
Evolutionary
Origin and World Expansion of Malaria |
| ZDENĚK P.
BAŽANT |
Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois |
NANO-MECHANICS BASED ASSESSMENT OF FAILURE RISK, SIZE
EFFECT AND LIFETIME OF QUASIBRITTLE STRUCTURES AT DIFFERENT SCALES
MECHANICS OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE: WHAT DID AND DID
NOT DOOM WORLD TRADE CENTER, AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN ? Part I
Part II
|
| Roger
Beachy |
Donald
Danforth Plant Science Center |
Controlling Pests and Diseases via Genetic
Transformation: Examples from the Public |
| James
Berger |
Duke
University and Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
(SAMSI) |
CS&E and Statistics |
| Robert A.
Berner |
Yale
University |
Geoscience Systems: Modeling oxygen and
carbon dioxide over the past 600 million years |
| R. Stephen
Berry |
The
University of Chicago |
Energy:
Mysterious and Amazing, Conserved and Conserving |
| Baruch S.
Blumberg |
Fox Chase
Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA |
Australia
Antigen and the Biology of Hepatitis B
in Chinese
HEPATITIS B VIRUS. Discovery and Development
Hepatitis B Virus.Discovery, the Present, and the
Future
HEPATITIS B VIRUS: COMMENTS ON VIRAL AND HUMAN
EVOLUTION
CONSCIOUSNESS IN HUMANS AND ELSEWHERE
|
| Ronald
Breslow |
Columbia
University |
HYDROPHOBIC AND
ANTIHYDROPHOBIC EFFECTS ON ORGANIC REACTIONS |
| John
Cairns, Jr. |
Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia |
BIOSPHERIC HEALTH AND INTEGRITY: THE TOP PRIORITY FOR
HUMANKIND
MONITORING BIOSPHERIC HEALTH AND INTEGRITY
Global Climate Pacts: Self Destructive or Successful?
ECO-ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY ETHICS TO PROTECT THE
BIOSPHERIC LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES: ETHICAL ISSUES INVOLVING
OVERPOPULATION
EXPANDING ECOTOXICOLOGY TO ENHANCE THE HEALTH OF THE
BIOSPHERE
BIOSPHERIC CHANGES ARE THREAT MULTIPLIERS
SUSTAINABILITY AND THE BIOSPHERIC LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
THE EFFECT OF ENVIRONMENTAL REFUGEES UPON BIOSPHERIC
HEALTH AND INTEGRITY
BIOSPHERIC FEEDBACK LOOPS AND RAPID GLOBAL CLIMATE
CHANGE
SOCIETAL ADAPTATION TO A BADLY DAMAGED BIOSPHERE
SLOWING DOWN BIOSPHERIC CHANGE
THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES AND THE BIOSPHERE
CHANGING BEHAVIORS TO NURTURE THE BIOSPHERE IS THE
RIGHT THING TO DO
DUMB GROWTH AND THE BIOSPHERE |
| Shu Chien |
University
of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA |
Molecular Basis
of Mechanotransduction in Endothelial Cells Part I
Part II |
| Joel E.
Cohen |
Rockefeller
University and Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. |
Food Webs Augmented With Additional Data:
Structure and Dynamics |
| Ronald
Coifman |
Applied
Mathematics Yale University |
Diffusion Geometries, and multiscale Harmonic
Analysis on graphs and complex data sets
Harmonic Analysis, diffusion geometries and Multi
Scale organizations of data and matrices |
| Eric E.
Conn |
University
of California, Davis, California |
Our Work with Cyanogenic Plants |
| James W.
Cronin |
|
Properties of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from The
Pierre Auger Observatory
Auger Northern Observatory
Pierre Auger Observatory
Detection ot the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
Solving the Mystery of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays:
1938 to 2007 cosmic rays
The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays. Propagation and
Detection |
| Samuel
Danishefsky |
Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
Biology -
Chemistry Frontier.Roger Adams Award Lecture |
| Arnold L. Demain |
Drew
University, Madison |
Actinomycetes:
Contributions to Medicine |
| Renata
Dmowska |
Harvard
University, Cambridge |
Dynamics of
rupture through branched and offset fault systems |
| Alan
Dressler |
Observatories of the Carnegie
Institution |
IMACS Commissioning Report to
the Magellan SAC |
| David
Donoho |
Stanford
University |
An Information-Theoretic Approach to Traffic
Matrix Estimation |
| James L.
Dye |
Michigan
State University |
My half-century with alkali metals. From alkali metal anions to anionic
electrons |
| Stephen
J. Elledge |
Harvard
Medical School |
Cell
Division. Part I
Part II
GENETICS IS A
STUDY OF HOW PROTEINS INTERACT, FOLD, AND FUNCTION. Part I
Part II |
| Nina V.
Fedoroff |
Pennsylvania
State University |
Plant Epigenetic
Mechanisms
Genetically
Modified Foods: Myths and Realities
Flattening the
World: The Role of Science and Technology Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Genetically Modified Foods: Miracles or
Monsters? Part I
Part II
Part III |
| Stephen E.
Fienberg |
Department
of Statistics, Center for Automated Learning & Discovery, Carnegie
Mellon University |
The Interplay Between Research Innovation and
Federal Statistical Practice
Allowing Access to Confidential Data: Some
Recent Experiences and Statistical Approaches
Statistical Disclosure Limitation: Releasing
Useful Data for Statistical Analysis |
|
Joseph Fraumeni |
National
Cancer Institute |
Genes
and the Environment in Cancer Causation
In Spanish
In Russian
|
| Avner
Friedman |
Mathematical
Biosciences Institute, The Ohio State University |
What is Mathematical Biology and how useful
is it?
INTERACTION BETWEEN TUMOR & ITS
MICROENVIRONMENT |
| C. Randy
Gallistel |
Rutgers
Center for Cognitive Science |
An Information
Processing Perspective on Conditioning |
|
Gerson Goldhaber |
University of California at Berkeley and LBNL |
The Discovery
of Dark Energy |
| Gene
Golub |
The
CS Department – SCCM Program Stanford University |
Shape from Moments - An Estimation
Perspective |
|
Lawrence O. Gostin |
Georgetown University Law Center |
Meeting Basic Survival Needs of the World's Least Healthy People: Toward a
Framework Convention on Global Health |
|
Harry B. Gray |
California Institute of Technology |
Solar Fuel II: The Quest for Catalysts |
| John
Emil Halver |
University of Washington |
How Se and C affect
Fish Health
How Oleic Acid in
Olive Oil Reduces Blood Pressure |
|
David Haussler |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Assembly, Comparison, and Annotation of
Mammalian Genomes |
| John
P. Holdren |
The
Woods Hole Research Center, Harvard University |
Science and
Technology for Sustainable Well-Being Part I
Part II |
| Tony
Hunter |
The
Salk Institute |
Tyrosine
phosphorylation: from discovery to the kinome and beyond
ASBMB Tabor Lecture is
available also at
http://www469.pair.com/cammon/index.html
|
| H.R.
Kaback |
Department of Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles |
Inaugural lecture
Membrane
Potentials and pH Gradients in Microscopic Systems: The Chemiosmotic
Paradigm
Bioenergetics
Ofion-Coupled Active Transport
The Model
System: Preparation and Characterization of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles |
| Eric R. Kandel |
Howard Hughes Medical Research
Institute at Columbia |
Molecular Biology of Memory: A Dialogue Between Genes
and Synapses |
|
Charles F. Kennel |
Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego |
Earth
Observations: The View from Scripps |
| Sung-Hou
Kim |
University
of California, Berkeley |
A Global View of
the Protein Structure Universe and Protein Evolution |
| G.S.Khush |
|
Rice
for Feeding half the World Population |
|
Alexander
Leaf |
Harvard
Medical School, Boston |
The
Beneficial Effects of Long-Chain, Polyunsaturated n-3 Fish Oil Fatty Acids
on the Cardiovascular System. Part I
Part
II |
| Jean-Marie
Lehn |
|
Three-level Synthetic Strategy Towards Mixed-valence
and Heterometallic [2×2] Gridlike Arrays |
| Judith
Lean |
Naval
Research Laboratory, Washington, DC |
Our
Home in Space: The Sun-Earth System |
| Joshua
Lederberg |
The
Rockefeller University, NY |
Microbial Threats to Health in
the United States: Natural and Manmade |
| Wen-Hsiung
Li |
Ecology and
Evolution, University of Chicago |
Evolution by Gene
Duplication Part I
Part II |
| Elizabeth
F. Loftus |
University
of California, Irvine, USA |
Illusions of
Memory and Loss of Justice
in Spanish |
| David W.
McLaughlin |
Courant
Institute & Center for Neural Science, New York University |
Kinetic Theory for the Dynamics of
Fluctuation-Driven Neural Systems |
| Henry
Metzger |
NIAMS, NIH |
Dual-Use
Research: A Double Challenge for International Science |
|
A.I.Meyers |
Colorado
State University |
Chiral Oxazolines
- Their Legacy in Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation. Part I
Part II
|
| Mario J.
Molina |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
The Mexico City Air Quality Case Study |
| David
Mumford |
Division of
Applied Mathematics, Brown University |
Pattern Theory: the Mathematics of Perception
Discovering the same things in two such
different ways: Indian and Western Calculus |
| Alexandra
Navrotsky |
University
of California at Davis |
Energetics of
Nanomaterials and Zeolites |
| Erwin
Neher |
|
Brainsignals, Synaptic Transmission and Short-term
Plasticity |
| Elinor
Ostrom |
Indiana
University |
Lecture at the inauguration of
the new Stockholm Resilience Centre (May 2007)
Halting Deforestation: Reflections from the Air, on
the Ground, and in the Experimental Lab
Why Development Aid Has Failed So Often
Beyond the Tragedy
of the Commons
Sustaining
Social-Ecological Systems: An Ontological Approach |
| Arthur B.
Pardee |
Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute |
Regulatory Molecular Biology |
|
Michael Posner |
University of Oregon |
EVOLUTION
AND DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-REGULATION |
| James R.
Rice |
Harvard
University, Cambridge |
Structure of
Mature Faults and Physics of Their Weakening during Earthquakes. Part I
Part II |
| Burton
Richter |
Stanford
University |
GAMBLING WITH THE FUTURE: ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND
ECONOMICS IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Nuclear Renaissance
Energy in the 21st Century |
| Carlo
Rubbia |
|
New Horizons
Visible and Invisible Universe: A short commentary |
| Leo Sachs |
Weizmann
Institute of Science |
The control of hematopoiesis
and leukemia: From basic biology to the clinic |
| John H.
Schwarz |
California Institute of Technology |
STRING THEORY:
CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS |
| Andrew M.
Sessler |
Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA |
75 Years of
Particle Accelerators. Part I
Part II
An Introduction to Cancer Therapy With Hadron
Radiation |
| Shlomo Sternberg |
Harvard
University |
General covariance and the passive equations of
physics |
| Kip S.
Thorne |
Caltech,
Pasadena |
http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~kip/scripts/lectures.html
Online
lecture course on
gravitational-wave science
http://elmer.tapir.caltech.edu/ph237/
|
| Waldo
Tobler |
Geography
Department, University of California |
Geographic Location and Map Projections. Part I Part II
The World is
Shriveling as it Shrinks. Part I
Part II
Geographical Interpolation
Using Asymmetry
to Estimate Potential. Part I Part II
Geographical
Movement - Maps and Models. Part I
Part II
Map Making for
Social Scientists. Part I Part II
Unusual Map
Projections. Part I Part II
Part III
The Care and
Feeding of Vector Fields. Part I Part II
Exploring
Geography Cartographically. Part I Part II
Part III
Resel Processing.
Part I
Part II
Qibla
Maps |
| Susumu
Tonegawa |
|
An Important Role of Neural Activity-Dependent CaMKIV
Signaling in the Consolidation of Long-Term Memory |
| Frank
Wilczek |
MIT |
HEP 2002: Summary and Prospect |
| Kenneth G.
Wilson |
The Ohio
State University |
The Origins of Lattice Gauge Theory |
|
James B. Wyngaarden |
Former NIH
Director |
Physician Scientist |
| Ahmed H.
Zewail |
|
Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical
Bond |
| R.Zinkernagel |
Institute of
Experimental Immunology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland |
Infection. Tumor
Grafts. Specificity. Memory. “Tolerance“ |