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Autumn Meeting: November 13 - 15, 2008

Benjamin Franklin Hall

ARNOLD LEVINE
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
The Changing Field of Biology

KAREN UHLENBECK
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin
Women and Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study

EDWARD E. BAPTIST
Associate Professor, Department of History, Cornell University
read by RICHARD DUNN
Entrepreneurs and the American South from Napoleon Bonaparte to Karl Marx

DAVID MORRISON
Senior Scientist and Director, NASA Lunar Science Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Impacts and Evolution: Protecting Earth from Asteroids

Symposium: Action Not Words

CLAUDIO VITA-FINZI
Moderator; Scientific Associate, Natural History Museum of London
Introduction

LONNIE G. THOMPSON
Distinguished University Professor, School of Earth Sciences and the Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University
Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World’s Highest Mountains

JOEL E. COHEN
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations, Rockefeller and Columbia Universities
Population and Climate Change

WARREN EVANS
Sector Director, World Bank Environment Department
The Immediate Challenge of Climate Change - Reducing Impacts on the Poorest Communities in the Poorest Countries

MARK M. LITTLE
Senior Vice President and Director, General Electric Global Research
Redefining What’s Possible

2008 Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecture & Medal Presentation

LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Senior Medical Correspondent and “The Doctor’s World” Columnist, The New York Times
introduced by CLYDE F. BARKER
Vice President, in the Chair
Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine

Richard A. F. Penrose Lecture

WILLIAM G. BOWEN
President Emeritus, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; President Emeritus, Princeton University
Finishing College: The Educational Attainment Gap in America
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Symposium: The Supreme Court and Useful Knowledge

DAVID TATEL
Moderator and Panelist; Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
introduced by CONRAD HARPER
Vice President, in the Chair
Introduction

LINDA GREENHOUSE
Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow in Law, Yale Law School
How Do Judges Know What They Know?

RUTH BADER GINSBURG
Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
DAVID SOUTER
Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
Panel Discussion
Joining Judge Tatel & Ms. Greenhouse on the Dais