The Ronald E. Hatcher Science On Saturday Lecture Series (A few SOS speakers elected not to be recorded, so some titles/ topics remain unlisted.) 2020 Science On Saturday, February 29, 2020, "50 years of Mars Exploration: What have we learned?", Professor Luhendra Ojha, Rutgers University Science On Saturday, February 8, 2020, "The Cosmic Multiverse: Science or Fantasy?", Professor Matthew Kleban, New York University Science On Saturday, February 1, 2020, "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Fusion Energy: Gotta Catch 'Em All", Dr. Michael Churchill, PPPL Science On Saturday, January 25, 2020, "The Boundary Layer in Fusion Plasmas: Where the Fourth State of Matter Meets the Other Three", Dr. Rajesh Maingi, PPPL Science On Saturday, January 18, 2020, "Will Robots Save Us or Slay Us? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology & Society", Professor Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University Science On Saturday, January 11, 2020, "Visual Perception — The Art of the Brain", Professor Sabine Kastner, Princeton University 2019 Science On Saturday, March 16, 2019, "How Deep are Plant Roots? Take a Guess!", Professor Ying Reinfelder, Rutgers University Science On Saturday, March 9, 2019, "Tracking Water Around the Globe - in the Atmosphere-Surface and Subsurface", Professor Francina Dominguez, Associate Professor, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Richard and Margaret Romano Professional Scholar, University of Illinois Science On Saturday, March 2, 2019, "Managing Coastal Risk in an Age of Sea-level Rise", Professor Robert Kopp, Rutgers University Science On Saturday, February 16, 2019, "Magnetic Explosions: From Space Plasmas to Fusion Energy", Dr. Fatima Ebrahimi, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Science On Saturday, February 2, 2019, "New Jersey's Changing Climate", Professor David Robinson, Rutgers University Science On Saturday, January 26, 2019, "Osteoarthritis of the Hip and Knee: The Science Behind the Pain, and How New Research is Revolutionizing Treatment", Dr. Christina Gutowski, Cooper University Healthcare Science On Saturday, January 19, 2019, "The Magnetic Universe", Professor Steven Cowley, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Science On Saturday, January 12, 2019, "When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11... or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy Metal", Professor Philip Moriarty, University of Nottingham 2018 Science On Saturday, March 17, 2018, "On the Path to Clean Fusion Energy", Dr. Michl Binderbauer, TAE Technologies Science On Saturday, March 10, 2018, "Control in the Sciences of Vast Length and Timescales", Professor Herschel Rabitz, Princeton University/PPPL, Professor Andrea Woody, University of Washington Science On Saturday, March 3, 2018, "Looking Ahead A Split Second: How The Brain Learns Predictions In An Unpredictable World", Professor Sam Wang, Princeton University Science On Saturday, February 17, 2018,"Self-Driving Cars and AI: Transforming our Cities and our Lives", Professor Jeff Schneider, Carnegie Mellon University Science On Saturday, February 10, 2018, "Electromagnetic Screening for Airport Security", Professor Carey Rappaport, Northeastern University Science On Saturday, February 3, 2018, "Synthetic Muscle for Deep Space Travel", Dr. Lenore Rasmussen, RAS Labs Science On Saturday, January 27, 2018, "Magnetic Explosions in the Plasma Universe", Professor Amitava Bhattacharjee, Princeton University Science On Saturday, January 13, 2018, "From Lemons to Lithium, Squeezing More Life Out of Batteries", Professor Craig Arnold, Princeton University Science On Saturday, January 20, 2018, "Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Prizes", Mr. Marc Abrahams, Editor, Annals of Improbable Research 2017 Science On Saturday, March 18, 2017, "Mechanics, organ development, and disease", Professor Celeste Nelson, Princeton University Science On Saturday, March 11, 2017, "Science Invigorating Architecture", Professor Forrest Meggers, Princeton University Science On Saturday, February 18, 2017, "Cities in the 21st century: the nexus of the climate, water, and energy challenges", Professor Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University Science On Saturday, February 11, 2017, "Meat, Monkeys, and Mosquitoes: A One Health Perspective on Emerging Diseases", Professor Laura Kahn, Princeton University Science On Saturday, February 4, 2017, "Imperative of Vaccination Nationally and Globally", Professor Adel Mahmoud, Princeton University Science On Saturday, January 28, 2017, "The Physics of Cancer", Professor Robert Austin, Princeton University Science On Saturday, January 21, 2017, "When Plasmas Meet Surfaces: An Exploration of Physics and Technology at the Plasma-Materials Interface", Professor Angela Capece, The College of New Jersey Science On Saturday, January 14, 2017, "Plasma Control for Energy", Professor Egemen Kolemen, Princeton University 2016 Science On Saturday, March 19, 2016, "Using Physics and Chemistry to Understand the Genome", Professor Mary Jo Ondrechen, Northeastern University Science On Saturday, March 12, 2016, "Taking the Universe's Baby Picture", David N. Spergel Princeton University Science On Saturday, March 05, 2016, "Reimagining the Possible: Scientific Transformations Shaping the Path Towards Fusion Energy", Edmund Synakowski, Associate Director of Science for Fusion Energy Sciences, Department of Energy Science On Saturday, February 27, 2016, "Brutal Efficiency: How Mating and Reproduction Influence C. Elegans Longevity", Professor Coleen Murphy, Princeton University Science On Saturday, February 13, 2016, "Music and 3D Audio", Professor Edgar Choueiri, Princeton University Science On Saturday, February 6, 2016, "Plastic Electronics", Professor Lynn Loo, Princeton University Science On Saturday, January 16, 2016, "The Wild and Wacky World of Epigenetics", Professor Shirley Tilghman, Princeton University Science On Saturday, January 9, 2016, "Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe", Professor Alan Hirshfeld, University of Massachusetts 2015 Science On Saturday, March 14, 2015, "Scientific Opportunities & Challenges in the Upgraded National Spherical Torus Experiment", Dr. Jonathan Menard, PPPL Science On Saturday, February 28, 2015, "Zero-Knowledge Arms Control: Proving a Warhead is Real while Learning Nothing About It", Professor Rob Goldston, Princeton University Science on Saturday, February 14, 2015, "Honey, I Shrunk the Plasma: Studying Astrophysical Processes in Laboratory Experiments", Dr. Clayton Myers, PPPL Science on Saturday, February 7, 2015, "Is SUSY the Guardian of Our Reality from Oblivion", Professor S. James Gates, University of Maryland Science on Saturday, January 31, 2015, "The Road to a Sustainable Energy Future", Prof. Emily Carter, Princeton University Science on Saturday, January 17, 2015, Stellarators: Shedding New Light on an Old Idea", Dr. Samuel Lazerson, Stellarator Computational Physicist, PPPL Science on Saturday, January 10, 2015, "Consciousness and The Social Brain", Professor Michael Graziano, Princeton University 2014 Science On Saturday, March 15, 2014, "What Art Can Tell Us About The Brain", Dr. Margaret Livingstone, Harvard University Science On Saturday, March 8, 2014, "From MOOC to MIIC: Can Effective Learning Be Big", Professor Mung Chiang, Princeton University Science On Saturday, March 1, 2014, "Can Studying Infinite Dimensional Space Help Us Improve Healthcare", Dr. David Scheinker, MIT Science on Saturday, February 15, 2014, "Blown Away: What Knot to Do When Sailing, by: Sir Randolph Bacon III (cousin -in-law to Colin Adams) Science On Saturday, February 8, 2014, "Uncovering our Cosmic Origins: What We Know, What We Can Know & What Limits We May Face", Professor William C. Jones, Princeton University Science On Saturday, February 1, 2014, "The Invisible World of Marine Microbes: How Earth's Smallest Living Things Have the Biggest Impact on How Our Ocean Works", Professor Kay Bidle, Rutgers University Science On Saturday, January 25, 2014, "The Atmosphere as a Laboratory: Aerosols, Air Quality and Climate", Peter DeCarlo, Drexel University Science On Saturday, January 18, 2014, "Physics of Cancer", Dr. Wolfgang Losert, University of Maryland Science On Saturday, January 11, 2014, "Containing a Star on Earth: Understanding Turbulence at 100 Million Degrees", Dr. Walter Guttenfelder, PPPL