It is our pleasure to provide access to the extraordinary talks from the Hertz Foundation's third symposium. Our sincere thank you and appreciation to all the speakers for two and a half days of ideas, innovations, and real world applications. A special thank you for the financial support from Hertz Fellow Louis Lerman who has made possible the access to the talks.
Wanda M. Austin
President and CEO, The Aerospace Corporation
Getting it Right in an Imperfect World
48 minutes
Eric A. Boe
Hertz Fellow 2002, NASA Astronaut
Pilot of the Space Shuttle Endeavor, November 14, 2008
42 minutes
Justin Fox
Economics Editor-at-Large, Time Magazine
Is Today’s Market Rational, and Was it Ever?
50 minutes
Linda M. Garverick
Principal, Coactive Consultants
How Gender Differences in Leadership Style Affect the Workplace
55 minutes
William (Bill) H. Gates III
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Co-chair and Trustee
A Conversation with Bill Gates
92 minutes
Paul M. Horn
New York University Distinguished Scientist in Residence & IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research (ret.)
The Changing Nature of Innovation
55 minutes
Jay Keasling
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering, UC Berkeley; Director of the Physical Biosciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Synthetic Biology: From Bugs to Drugs and Fuels
56 minutes
Thomas C. Reed
Former Secretary of the Air Force
A Political History of Nuclear Weapons, 1938-2008
55 minutes
Walter S. Scott
DigitalGlobe, Inc. Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
Open Skies For All: Past, Present and Future of Commercial Remote Sensing
40 minutes
Carl Wieman
Hertz Fellow 1977; Nobel Laureate, Director of the Carl Wieman Science Initiative, University of British Columbia
A scientific approach to science education
85 minutes
Xiaowei Zhuang
Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Harvard Professor of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Physics
Imaging the Nanoscopic World of Living Systems
55 minutes
Hertz Thesis Prize Winners Panel
85 minutes
Wendy R. Cieslak
Moderator
Hertz Fellow and Director, Materials Science and Technology Division Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Lilian Childress
Hertz Fellow 2007; Hertz Thesis Prize 2007; Assistant Professor, Bates College
Christopher Loose
Hertz Fellow 2003, Hertz Thesis Prize 2007, Semprus BioSciences CTO
Youssef Marzouk
Hertz Fellow 2002, Hertz Thesis Prize 2004, MIT Boeing Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Alexander Wissner-Gross
Hertz Fellow 2008, Hertz Thesis Prize 2008
Entrepreneur Panel
55 minutes
Amir H. Nashat
Moderator
Hertz Fellow 1999; General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Paul Graham
Essayist, Programmer, and Programming Language Designer
Christine Hartmann-Siantar
Global Security Portfolio Manager for Laboratory Directed Research and Development and Strategic Mission Support, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Louis Lerman
Hertz Fellow 1986
Walter S. Scott
DigitalGlobe, Inc. Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
Steve Vassallo
Principal at Foundation Capital
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