Recorded sessions from the April 2019 General Meeting of the APS are now available online. Click on the links in the talk titles to see each presentation.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Linda Greenhouse
President, in the Chair
Lincoln and Marfan Syndrome
Ronald M. Fairman
Clyde F. Barker–William Maul Measey Professor in Surgery
Chief, Division of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
"The Papers Have Blown Me Up Sky High!": John James Audubon (APS 1831), America's First Celebrity Scientist
Gregory Nobles
Robert C. Ritchie Distinguished Fellow in Early American History
Henry E. Huntington Library
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
Jill Abramson
Senior Lecturer, Department of English
Harvard University
Former Executive Editor, The New York Times
Separation of Powers and Statutory Interpretation: A Battle Hidden in Plain Sight
David S. Tatel
United States Circuit Judge
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Friday, April 26, 2019
Warren M. Washington
Vice President, in the Chair
Landscape and History in the Early Modern Atlantic Basin
Peter C. Mancall
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities
University of Southern California
Design Problem-Solving in the Anthropocene
David A. Rubin
Principal
DAVID RUBIN Land Collective
On Sheet Ice Melt in a Warming Climate and What We Should Do About It
Eric Rignot
Donald Bren Professor, Earth System Science
University of California at Irvine
Senior Research Scientist
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Why Are There So Many Kinds of Leaves?
Michael J. Donoghue
Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
Director, Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies
Elizabeth Cropper
Vice President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Awards and Prizes
Woman Suffrage West to East
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
300th Anniversary University Professor Emerita, Department of History
Harvard University
Juggling the Middle Ages
Jan M. Ziolkowski
Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
Harvard University
Director, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Saturday, April 27, 2019
Rowena G. Matthews
Vice President, in the Chair
A Path to a Low Carbon Energy Future: A Conversation
Daniel G. Nocera
Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
and
Ernest J. Moniz
United States Secretary of Energy, May 2013 to January 2017
Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Model International Mobility Convention: Beyond Migrants and Refugees
Michael W. Doyle
University Professor, School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
Some Thoughts on 2050 and Beyond
Martin Rees
Former Master, Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
Astronomer Royal