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Join the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory on December 7, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. for a talk with EPL Staff Scientist Dr. Peter Driscoll: "Is Earth’s core young at […]
On June 29, at 6:30pm, the Earth and Planets Laboratory will host a special Neighborhood Lecture honoring the late Carnegie astronomer Vera Rubin, the "Mother of Dark Matter." Guest speaker […]
Join the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory for a talk with Staff Scientist Dr. Conel Alexander titled "A new golden age for sample return missions." During the talk, attendees […]
Learn about the Giant Magellan Telescope from the project's Chief Scientist, Carnegie astronomer Rebecca Bernstein. Get more details at https://carnegiescience.edu/events/lectures/pursuit-light-building-giant-magellan-telescope
As part of the Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory's Neighborhood Lecture Series, speaker Dr. Michael L. Wong will present "The Science of Star Trek" Learn more at […]
Carnegie Observatories Director, and interim co-President of Carnegie Science, Dr. John S. Mulchaey will present a talk entitled “Eyes on the Universe: Carnegie’s Leadership in Astronomy Today.” Learn more at https://carnegiescience.edu/events/lectures/eyes-universe-carnegie%E2%80%99s-leadership-astronomy-today
As part of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Broad Branch Road Spring 2018 Neighborhood Lecture Series, Peter van Keken, staff scientist at The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, will present "When Earth Attacks: Causes and Consequences of a Tectonic Planet" at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2018, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall. Light refreshments will […]
This lecture, by Dr. John E. Chambers of the Carnegie Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, will explore how planets form and why they look the way they do. Learn more at https://carnegiescience.edu/events/lectures/dr-john-e-chambers
The Carnegie Institution of Washington's Broad Branch Road Spring 2017 Neighborhood Lecture Series continues with Andrew Steele, staff scientist at the Geophysical Laboratory. Steele will present, "Mars, Moons, Missions & Microbes: Life as We Don't Know It - How Do We Find It?" at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 25, 2017, in the Greenewalt Lecture […]
The Carnegie Institution of Washington's Broad Branch Road Spring 2017 Neighborhood Lecture Series continues with Conel M. O'D. Alexander, a staff scientist at DTM. Alexander will present "Rocks from Space: […]
Dr. Robert Hazen, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, will present a talk entitled “The Private Lives of Minerals: Social Network Analysis Applied to Mineralogy.” Learn more and register at https://carnegiescience.edu/events/lectures/dr-robert-hazen-private-lives-minerals-social-network-analysis-applied-mineralogy The Broad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures provide an opportunity to get up close and personal with Carnegie scientists at our campus in northwest Washington […]
Dr. Lara Wagner, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, will present a talk entitled “Pointing the Telescope Down: Seismo-vision into the Earth.” Learn more and register at https://carnegiescience.edu/events/lectures/dr-lara-wagner-pointing-telescope-down-seismo-vision-earth%E2%80%99s-interior The Broad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures provide an opportunity to get up close and personal with Carnegie scientists at its campus in northwest Washington DC. […]
Dr. R. Paul Butler, from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, will deliver a lecture entitled "Alien Worlds and the Origins of Science.", at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 15, in the Carnegie Institution's Greenewalt Building. Paul Butler’s work focuses on improving the measurement precision of stellar Doppler velocities, which resulted in the discovery […]
You are cordially invited to attend Carnegie's third 2014-15 Neighborhood Lecture on Thursday, 16th April, 6:30pm, at 5241 Broad Branch Road, Washington, DC, 20015. The Geophysical Laboratory's Dr. Viktor Struzhkin will present a talk entitled "The Quest for Room Temperature Superconductivity." The event is free and open to the general public. Refreshments will be served […]
You are invited to attend Carnegie's second 2014-15 Neighborhood Lecture on Thursday, 13th November, 6:30pm, at 5241 Broad Branch Road, Washington, DC, 20015. The Geophysical Laboratory's Dr. Douglas Rumble will present a talk entitled "What Are You Breathing? Stable Isotopes in the Atmosphere." The event is free and open to the general public. Refreshments will […]