August 02, 2013 - August 04, 2013
SYMPOSIUM LOCATION:
The Marriott Conference Center
3501 University
East Hyattsville, Maryland 20783
Registration Fees (Does not include Lodging)
$595 – Conference events and all meals August 2, 3, 4
$295 – One day conference and all meal included for that day
$95 – Reception, dinner and speaker for one night only
LODGING INFORMATION:
The Marriott Inn and Conference Center, University of Maryland University College
3501 University
East Hyattsville, Maryland 20783
p: 301.985.7300
Please call the Marriott directly to make your reservation, ask for the Hertz Group Rate.
Discounted Hertz Group Rate of $109 (Single or Double Bed Type)
The discounted rate will not be available online.
Marriott Discounted Hertz Group Room Rate Cut-Off Date: July 1, 2013
AGENDA
Friday – August 2
8am – Registration
11:30am – Opening Remarks and Welcome
1pm to 3pm - Engineering Challenge
4pm – Poster Session
6pm – Hertz Performance
6:30pm – Formal dinner
8pm – Norman R. Augustine, Keynote Speaker
Saturday – August 3
7:30 am – Breakfast
9am – Speaker, Kenneth R. Miller
12pm – Lunch
1:30pm – Ellen M. Pawlikowski, Lieutenant General USAF
4pm – Poster Session
6pm – Dan Goodman Performance (Hertz Fellow 1982)
6:30pm – Formal dinner
8pm – John C. Mather
Sunday – August 4
7:30am – Breakfast
9am – Alice P. Gast
12pm – Lunch
Distinguished Speakers
Norman R. Augustine is the retired Chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He previously served as Under Secretary of the Army and chaired the Review of the United States
Human Space Flight Committee. He also chaired the committee which produced the National Academies’ report “Rising Above the Gathering Storm,” prepared in response to the following question:
“What are the top 10 actions, in priority order, that federal policymakers could take to enhance the science and technology enterprise so that the US can successfully compete, prosper, and be secure in the
global community of the 21st century?” Mr. Augustine holds 29 honorary degrees and was selected by Who’s Who in America and the Library of Congress as one of “Fifty Great Americans”
on the occasion of Who’s Who’s 50th anniversary.
Alice P. Gast (Hertz Fellow 1980, Princeton, Chemical Engineering) is the 13th and first woman President of Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Prior to her appointment at Lehigh, Dr. Gast served as the vice president for research and associate provost at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and held the Robert T. Haslam chair in chemical engineering. She previously spent 16 years as a professor of chemical engineering at Stanford University and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. In 2010, Dr. Gast was named to the prestigious post of science envoy by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and the U.S. Department of State. As one of three science envoys named in 2010, Dr. Gast will travel to the Caucasus and Central Asia and advise the White House, the Department of State, and the U.S. scientific community about ways to deepen existing ties and foster new relationships there. Dr. Gast is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
John C. Mather (Hertz Fellow 1970, UC Berkeley, Physics) is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite (COBE), which measured the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation. This work helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science." Dr. Mather is a senior astrophysicist at the U.S. space agency's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and adjunct professor of physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Mather is also the project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, a space telescope to be launched to L2 no earlier than 2018.
Kenneth R. Miller is Professor of Biology at Brown University. A cell biologist, he serves as an advisor on life sciences to the NewsHour, a daily PBS television program on news and public affairs, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Miller is coauthor, with Joseph S. Levine, of a series of high school and college biology textbooks used by millions of students nationwide. In 2005 he served as lead witness in the trial on evolution and intelligent design in Dover, Pennsylvania. His popular book, Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground between God and Evolution, addresses the scientific status of evolutionary theory and its relationship to religious views of nature. His latest book, Only a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul, addresses the continuing struggle over how evolution is to be understood in American society. His honors include the Presidential Citation of the American Institute of Biological Science (2005), the Public Service Award of the American Society for Cell Biology (2006), the Distinguished Service Award of the National Association of Biology teachers (2008), and the Public Understanding of Science and Technology Award from AAAS (2009). Most recently, the Society for the Study of Evolution recognized Dr. Miller with the 2011 Stephen Jay Gould Prize for advancing the public understanding of evolution.
Ellen M. Pawlikowski, Lieutenant General USAF (Hertz Fellow 1979, UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering) is the first woman to assume command of the Space and Missile Systems Center at the Los Angeles Air Force Base. She is responsible for more than 5,000 employees nationwide and an annual budget of $10 billion. As the Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space, General Pawlikowski manages the research, design, development, acquisition, and sustainment of satellites and the associated command and control systems. Her extensive portfolio includes military satellite communication, missile warning, navigation and timing, space-based weather, space launch and test ranges, certification for launch, space superiority, responsive space and other emerging evolutionary space programs. She has previously served as commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, managing the scientific research and development operations of the Air Force.
For additional information or questions, please contact Amanda O'Connor