2010 Meeting Highlights

John Wesley Powell Memorial Lecture
Dr. Stephon H. Alexander
“Dark Energy and the Future of Science”
3:00pm, Saturday, April 10, 2010

STEPHON H. ALEXANDER is an associate professor of physics at Haverford College. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Brown University in 2000, with a dissertation titled “Topics at the Interface between String Theory and Cosmology.” From 2000 to 2002, he held a postdoctoral fellowship from PPARC (the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the United Kingdom). He recently won the National Science Foundation CAREER award and was elected a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. His research focuses on unresolved problems— such as the cosmological- constant or dark- energy problem— that connect cosmology to quantum gravity and the standard model of elementary particles. In particular, he uses observations in cosmology to both construct and test fundamental theories.

Scheduled Symposia Include:

• microRNAs in Disease and Development
• Polymer Nancomposites
• Systems Biology
• Nuclear Receptors and Coregulators: Mechanisms and Transitional Potential in Cancer
• Regulation of Self-Renewal and Differentiation in Stem Cells
• Developing Your Teaching and Educational Leadership Skills
• Genome Stability and Cancer
• Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine
• Physical Biology
• Synthetic Biology