Distinguished Lectures in Mathematical and Physical Sciences

The National Science Foundation announces the 2017-2018 Distinguished Lectures in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, a series of free lectures at the NSF Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. If you are going to be in the area, all you need to do is send an email to arrange for a visitor badge at least 24 hours prior to the lecture you wish to attend. The schedule is:

•Monday, Dec. 11, 2017: Soft Materials Research in the Era of Machine Learning, Juan de Pablo, professor of molecular engineering, University of Chicago.

•Monday, Jan. 22, 2018: Turning Inert Nitrogen from the Atmosphere into Useful Products through Mild Catalytic Chemistry, Nobel laureate Richard Schrock, professor of chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

•Monday, Feb. 12, 2018: Strange Bonds and Odd Angles: Exploring Exotic Chemistry in Space, Michael McCarthy, associate director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

•Monday, April 23, 2018: Modeling and Simulation of Asteroid-Generated Tsunamis, Marsha Berger, professor of mathematics and computer science, New York University.

•Monday, May 21, 2018: Hairy Hydrodynamics in Biology and Beyond, Anette (Peko) Hosoi, professor of mechanical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

•Monday, June 25, 2018: Atomic Clocks in the Next Quantum Revolution, Marianna Safronova, professor of physics, University of Delaware.

For more information, please see NSF's Media Advisory 17-012.