Completed Colloquia
Below is a list of completed colloquia, beginning with the most recent. Follow the link from the title of each colloquium to view a description of the colloquium and its program, and also find links to videos and PNAS papers as they become available.
2019
Life 2.0: The Promise and Challenge of a CRISPR Path to a Sustainable Planet
December 10-11; Irvine, CA
Organized by Barbara Meyer, Fyodor Urnov and Dana Carroll
Brain Produces Mind by Modeling
May 1-3; Irvine, CA
Organized by Richard Shiffrin, Danielle Bassett, Sophie Deneve, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte and Josh Tenenbaum
Advancing the Science and Practice of Science Communication: Misinformation about Science in the Public Sphere
April 3-4, 2019; Irvine, CA
Organized by: May Berenbaum, Dietram Scheufele, William K. Hallman, Andrew Hoffman, Liz Neeley and Czerne M. Reid
The Science of Deep Learning
March 3-4, 2019; Washington, D.C.
Organized by: David Donoho, Maithra Raghu, Ali Rahimi, Ben Recht, and Matan Gavish
19th Annual Arthur M. Sackler Lecture presented by Rodney Brooks, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology
Using Monkey Models to Understand and Develop Treatments for Human Brain Disorders
January 7-8, 2019; Irvine, CA
Organized by Bob Wurtz, Beth Buffalo, Tony Movshon
2018
Status and Challenges in Decarbonizing our Energy Landscape
October 11-12, 2018; Irvine, CA
Organized by: Richard Eisenberg, Karen I. Goldberg, Harry B. Gray, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer, Thomas Mallouk, John Turner, Yet-Ming Chiang, and George Crabtree
Creativity and Collaboration: Revisiting Cybernetic Serendipity
March 13-14 2018; Washington, DC
Organized by Ben Shneiderman, Maneesh Agrawala, Alyssa Goodman, Youngmoo Kim, and Roger Malina
18th Annual Arthur M. Sackler Lecture presented by David Skorton, Smithsonian Institution
Economics, Environment, and Sustainable Development
January 17-18, 2018: Irvine, CA
Organized by Simon Levin, Stephen Carpenter, Gretchen Daily, Sir Partha Dasgupta, Paul Ehrlich, Geoffrey Heal, Catherine Kling, Jane Lubchenco, and Stephen Polasky
Videos
2017
Modeling and Visualizing Science and Technology Developments
December 4-5, 2017; Irvine, CA
Organized by Katy Börner, William Rouse, H. Eugene Stanley, and Paul Trunfio
Videos
Science of Science Communication III: Inspiring Novel Collaborations and Building Capacity
November 16-17, 2017; Washington, DC
Organized by Karen Cook, Baruch Fischhoff, Alan I. Leshner, and Dietram A. Scheufele
Videos
Pressing Questions in the Study of Psychological and Behavioral Diversity
September 8-9, 2017; Irvine, CA
Organized by Douglas Medin, Joseph Henrich, Daniel Hruschka, and Barbara Rogoff
PNAS
Videos
Reproducibility of Research: Issues and Proposed Remedies
March 8-10, 2017; Washington, DC
Organized by David B. Allison, Richard Shiffrin and Victoria Stodden
17th Annual Arthur M. Sackler Lecture presented by Randy Schekman, University of California, Berkeley
Videos
2016
Extension of Biology Through Culture
November 16-17, 2016; Irvine, CA
Organized by Marcus Feldman, Francisco J. Ayala, Andrew Whiten, and Kevin Laland
Videos
Gene Regulatory Networks and Network Models in Development and Evolution
April 12-14, 2016; Irvine, CA
Organized by Neil Shubin, Ellen V. Rothenberg, and Douglas H. Erwin
Videos
Coupled Human and Environmental Systems
March 14-15, 2016; Washington, DC
Organized by Alison Galvani, Robert May, Simon Levin, Burton Singer, Madhur Anand, and Chris Bauch
16th Annual Arthur M. Sackler Lecture presented by Jane Lubchenco, Oregon State University
PNAS
Videos
In the Light of Evolution X: Comparative Phylogeography
January 8-9, 2016; Irvine, CA
Organized by John C. Avise, Brian W. Bowen, and Francisco J. Ayala
Co-sonsored by University of California, Irvine
PNAS
Videos
2015
Digital Media and Developing Minds
October 14-16, 2015; Irvine, CA
Organized by David Meyer, Pamela Hurst-Della Pietra, and Jane Brown
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Digital Media and Child Development
Videos
Improving Our Fundamental Understanding of the Role of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in the Climate System
June 23-24, 2015; Irvine, CA
Organized by John Seinfeld, Kimberly Prather, Ian Kraucunas, Alex Guenther, and Edward Dunlea
PNAS
Videos
Drawing Causal Inference from Big Data
March 26-27, 2015; Washington, DC
Organized by Richard M. Shiffrin, Susan Dumais, Mike Hawrylycz, Jennifer Hill, Michael Jordan, Bernhard Scholkopf, and Jasjeet Sekhon
15th Annual Arthur M. Sackler Lecture presented by Steven Levitt, The University of Chicago
PNAS
Videos
In the Light of Evolution IX. Clonal Reproduction: Alternatives to Sex
January 9-10, 2015; Irvine, CA
Organized by Michel Tibayrenc, John C. Avise, and Francisco J. Ayala
Co-sponsored by tthe University of California, Irvine
PNAS
Videos
2014
Symbioses Becoming Permanent: The Origins and Evolutionary Trajectories of Organelles
October 15-17, 2014; Irvine, CA
Organized by W. Ford Doolittle, Patrick Keeling, and John McCutcheon
Co-sponsored by Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
PNAS
Videos
Epigenetic Changes in the Developing Brain: Effects on Behavior
March 28-29, 2014; Washington, DC
Organized by Donald Pfaff and Barry Keverne
14th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Thomas M. Jessell, Columbia University
PNAS
Videos
In the Light of Evolution VIII: Darwinian Thinking in the Social Sciences
January 10-11, 2014; Irvine, CA
Organized by Brian Skyrms, John C. Avise, and Francisco J. Ayala
PNAS
Videos
2013
The NAS at 150: Celebrating Service to the Nation
October 16-18, 2013
Organized by Robert Hauser, Burton Richter, Maxine Singer, Barbara Torrey, and Peter Westwick
Co-sponsored by Ford Foundation, Richard Lounsbery Foundation and W.M. Keck Foundation
13th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Daniel Kevles, Yale University
PNAS
Videos
The Science of Science Communication II
September 23-25, 2013; Washington, DC
Organized by Ralph Cicerone, Baruch Fischhoff, Alan Leshner, Barbara Schaal, and Dietram Scheufele
Co-sponsored by Moore Foundation, PNAS, Science, Compass and National Science Foundation
National Academies Press Summary
Videos
In the Light of Evolution VII: Human Mental Machinery
January 10-12, 2013; Irvine, CA
Organized by Camilo J. Cela-Conde, Raúl Gutiérrez Lombardo, John C. Avise, and Francisco J. Ayala
Co-sponsored by Centro de Estudios Filosóficos Políticos y Sociales Vicente Lombardo Toledano
PNAS
Videos
2012
Dark Matter Universe: On the Threshold of Discovery
October 18-20, 2012; Irvine, CA
Organized by Michael S. Turner, Roger D. Blandford, Edward W. Kolb, and Maria Spiropulu
PNAS
Videos
The Science of Science Communication
May 21-22, 2012; Washington, DC
Organized by Ralph Cicerone, Baruch Fischhoff, Alan O. Leshner, Barbara Schaal, and Dietram A. Scheufele
12th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Daniel Kahneman
PNAS
Videos
In the Light of Evolution VI: Brain and Behavior
January 19-21, 2012; Irvine, CA
Organized by Georg F. Striedter, John C. Avise and Francisco J. Ayala
PNAS
2011
Biological Embedding of Early Social Adversity
December 9-10, 2011; Irvine, CA
Organized by W. Thomas Boyce, Gene E. Robinson, and Marla B. Sokolowski
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
PNAS
Fostering Advances in Interdisciplinary Climate Research
March 31- April 2, 2011; Washington, DC
Organized by Rita Colwell, Christopher Field, Jeffrey Shaman, and Susan Solomon
11th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Steven Chu
PNAS
In the Light of Evolution V: Cooperation
January 6-8, 2011; Irvine, CA
Organized by Joan E. Strassmann, David C. Queller, John C. Avise, and Francisco J. Ayala
PNAS
2010
Dynamics of Social, Political, and Economic Institutions
December 3-4, 2011: Irvine, CA
Organized by Avinash Dixit, Eva Meyersson Milgrom, and Paul Milgrom
PNAS
Telomerase and Retrotransposons: Reverse Transcriptases that Shaped Genomes
September 29-30, 2010; Irvine, CA
Organized by M. Joan Curcio, Neal Lue, and Marlene Belfort
PNAS
Quantification of Behavior
June 11-13, 2010; Washington, DC
Organized by Donald Pfaff and Alan Leshner
10th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Nora Volkow
PNAS
2009
In the Light of Evolution: The Human Condition
December 10-12, 2009; Irvine, CA
Organized by John C. Avise and Francisco J. Ayala
PNAS
Microbes and Health
November 2-3, 2009; Irvine, CA
Organized by Jeffrey Gordon and Todd Klaenhammer
PNAS
Evolution in Health and Medicine
April 2-3, 2009; Washington, DC
Organized by Peter Ellison, Diddahally R. Govindaraju, Randolph M. Nesse, and Stephen C. Stearns
9th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by E.O. Wilson
PNAS
In the Light of Evolution III: Two Centuries of Darwin
January 15-17, 2009; Irvine, CA
Organized by John C. Avise and Francisco J. Ayala
PNAS
2008
Biogeography, Changing Climates and Niche Evolution
December 11-13, 2008; Irvine, CA
Organized by David Wake, Elizabeth Hadly, and David Ackerly
PNAS
Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development
April 3-4, 2008; Washington, DC
Organized by William Clark, Pamela Matson, and Nancy Dickson
8th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Michael Crow
Gene Networks in Animal Development and Evolution
February 15-16, 2008; Irvine, CA
Organized by Eric Davidson and Michael Levine
PNAS
2007
In the Light of Evolution II: Biodiversity and Extinction
December 6-8, 2007; Irvine, CA
Organized by John C. Avise, Stephen P. Hubbell, and Francisco J. Ayala
PNAS
"Therapeutic Cloning": Where Do We Go From Here?
October 8-9, 2007; Irvine, CA
Organized by Douglas C. Wallace, Susan V. Bryant, and Peter J. Donovan
Nanomaterials in Biology and Medicine: Promises and Perils
April 10-11, 2007; Washington, DC
Organized by Robert Austin
7th Annual Sackler Lecure presented by George Whitesides
Evolution and Exploration of Solar Systems
January 5-6, 2007; Irvine, CA
Organized by David J. Stevenson and Maria Zuber
2006
In the Light of Evolution: Adaptation and Complex Design
December 1-2, 2006; Irvine, CA
Organized by John C. Avise and Francisco J. Ayala
PNAS
The New Comparative Biology of Human Nature
November 16-18, 2006; Irvine, CA
Organized by Jon H. Kaas, Todd M. Preuss, John M. Allman, and Susan M. Fitzpatrick
From Functional Genomics of Model Organisms to Crop Plants for Global Health
April 3-5, 2006; Washington, DC
Organized by Diter von Wettstein, Roger Beachy, and Robert Goldberg
6th Annual Sackler Lecure presented by Senator Christopher S. Bond
PNAS
2005
The Tapestry of Life: Lateral Transfers of Heritable Elements
December 12-13, 2005; Irvine, CA
Organized by Siv Andersson, Jonathan Eisen, Claire Fraser, and Jeffrey Gordon
Forensic Science: The Nexus of Science and the Law
November 16-18, 2005; Washington, DC
Organized by Stephen F. Fienberg, Margaret A. Berger, David Donoho, Donald Kennedy, Roger Kahn, and Douglas H. Ubelaker
Early Cities: New Perspectives on Pre-Industrial Urbanism
May 18-20, 2005; Washington, DC
Organized by Joyce Marcus and Jeremy Sabloff
5th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Colin Renfrew
2004
Systematics and the Origin of Species. On Ernst Mayr's 100th Anniversary
December 16-18, 2004; Irvine, CA
Organized by Jody Hey, Walter M. Fitch, and Francisco J. Ayala
Frontiers in Bioinformatics: Unsolved Problems and Challenges
October 15-17, 2004; Irvine, CA
Organized by Samuel Karlin, David Eisenberg, and Russ Altman
Role of Science in Solving the World's Emerging Water Problems
October 8-10, 2004; Irvine, CA
Organized by William Jury and Henry Vaux
The Biology of RNAi
May 17-18, 2004; Washington, DC
Organized by Phillip Sharp and Andrew Fire
Therapeutic Vaccines: Realities of Today and Hopes for Tomorrow
April 1-3, 2004; Washington, DC
Organized by Michael Sela and Maurice Hilleman
4th Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Anthony S. Fauci
2003
Mapping Knowledge Domains
May 9-11, 2003; Irvine, CA
Organized by Richard M. Shiffrin and Katy Borner
Scientific Examination of Art: Modern Techniques in Conservation and Analysis
March 19-21, 2003; Washington, DC
Organized by Barbara Berrie, E. Rene de la Rie, Janis Tomlinson, and John Winter
3rd Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Maurizio Seracini
Chemical Communication in a Post-genomic World
January 17-19, 2003; Irvine, CA
Organized by May Berenbaum and Gene Robinson
2002
Challenges to the Standard Paradigm: Fundamental Physics and Cosmology
November 1-3, 2002; Irvine, CA
Organized by Marc Davis and Paul Steinhardt
Regenerative Medicine
October 18-20, 2002; Irvine, CA
Organized by Inder Verma and Fred H. Gage
Self-perpetuating Structural States in Biology, Disease, and Genetics
March 22-24, 2002; Washington, DC
Organized by Susan Lindquist and Steven Henikoff
2nd Annual Sackler Lecture presented by Susan Lindquist
2001
Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity Through Agent-Based Modeling
October 4-6, 2001; Irvine, CA
Organized by Brian Berry, L. Douglas Kiel, and Euel Elliott
Nanoscience: Underlying Physical Concepts and Phenomena
May 19-20, 2001; Washington, DC
Organized by John T. Yates, Jr., Phaedon Avouris, and George Whitesides
Self-organized Complexity in the Physical, Biological, and Social Sciences
March 23-24, 2001; Irvine, CA
Organized by Donald Turcotte
Neural Signaling
February 15-17, 2001
Organized by Solomon Snyder and Richard L. Huganir
Inaugural Sackler Lecture presented by Solomon Snyder
2000
Molecular Kinesis in Cellular Function and Plasticity
December 7-9, 2000, Irvine, CA
Organized by Henri Tiedge, Floyd E. Bloom, and Dietmar Richter
Links between Recombination and Replication: Vital Roles of Recombination
November 10-12, 2000; Irvine, CA
Organized by Charles Radding
Auditory Neuroscience: Development, Transduction, and Integration
May 19-21, 2000; Irvine, CA
Organized by James Hudspeth and Mark Konishi
The Biotic Crisis and the Future of Evolution
March 16-19, 2000; Irvine, CA
Organized by Norman Meyers and Andrew Knoll
Variation and Evolution in Plants and Microorganisms; Fifty Years after Stebbins
January 27-29, 2000; Irvine, CA
Organized by Francisco J. Ayala, Walter M. Fitch, and Michael T. Clegg
1999
Virulence and Defense in Host-Pathogen Interactions: Common Features Between Plants and Animals
December 9-11, 1999; Irvine, CA
Organized by Jim Cook, Noel T. Keen, Brian J. Staskawicz, John J. Mekalanos, and Frederick M. Ausubel
Proteolytic Processing and Physiological Regulation
February 20-21, 1999; Irvine, CA
Organized by Hans Neurath and Charles Craik
Non-linear Differential Equations and Computation
January 4-8, 1999; Irvine, CA
Organized by Haim Brezis, Felix Browder, Louis Nirenberg, and James Serrin
1998
The Neurobiology of Pain
December 11-13, 1998; Irvine, CA
Organized by Ronald Dubner and Michael Gold
Plants and Population: Is There Time?
December 5-6, 1998; Irvine, CA
Organized by Nina Fedoroff and Joel Cohen
Geology, Mineralogy, and Human Welfare
November 7-9, 1998; Irvine, CA
Organized by Joseph Smith, Malcolm Ross, and Peter Buseck
1997
A Library Approach to Chemistry
October 19-21, 1997; Irvine, CA
Organized by Peter Schultz
Computational Biomolecular Science
September 11-14, 1997; Irvine, CA
Organized by Peter G. Wolynes, Russell Doolittle, and J. A. McCammon
Protecting Our Food Supply
June 2-5, 1997; Irvine, CA
Organized by Michael Freeling, Ronald Phillips, and John Axtell
Neuroimaging of Human Brain Function
May 29-31, 1997; Irvine, CA
Organized by Michael Posner and Marcus Raichle
The Age of the Universe: Dark Matter and Structure Formation
March 21-23, 1997; Irvine, CA
Organized by David Schramm and P. J. E. Peebles
Genetics and the Origin of Species
January 30-February 1, 1997; Irvine, CA
Organized by Francisco J. Ayala and Walter M. Fitch
1996
Science, Technology and the Economy
October 20-22, 1996; Irvine, CA
Organized by James Heckman, Ariel Pakes, and Kenneth Sokoloff
Genetic Engineering of Viruses and Viral Vectors
June 9-11, 1996; Irvine, CA
Organized by Peter Palese and Bernard Roizman
Symmetries Throughout the Sciences
May 10-12, 1996; Irvine, CA
Organized by Ernest Henley
Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms
March 15-17, 1996; Washington, DC
Organized by Barry Mazur and Karl Rubin
Memory: Recording Experience in Cells and Circuits
February 17-20, 1996; Irvine, CA
Organized by Patricia Goldman-Rakic
1995
Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change
November 13-15, 1995; Irvine, CA
Organized by Charles Keeling
Developmental Biology of Transcription Control
October 26-28, 1995; Irvine, CA
Organized by Roy Britten, Eric Davidson, and Gary Felsenfeld
Science, Technology, and the Economy
October 20-22, 1995; Irvine, CA
Organized by James Heckman, Ariel Pakes, and Kenneth Sokoloff
Vision: From Photon to Perception
May 21-22, 1995; Irvine, CA
Organized by John Dowling, Lubert Stryer, and Torsten Wiesel
Quasars and Active Galaxies: High Resolution Radio Imaging
March 24-25, 1995; Irvine, CA
Organized by Marshall Cohen and Kenneth Kellermann
Earthquake Prediction
February 10-11, 1995; Irvine, CA
Organized by Leon Knopoff
1994
Self Defense by Plants: Induction and Signaling Pathways
September 15-17, 1994; Irvine, CA
Organized by Andre Jagendorf and Clarence Ryan
Physics: The Opening to Complexity
June 25-27, 1994; Irvine, CA
Organized by Philip Anderson
Chemical Ecology: The Chemistry of Biotic Interaction
March 25-26, 1994; Washington, DC
Organized by Thomas Eisner and Jerrold Meinwald
The Tempo and Mode of Evolution
January 27-29, 1994; Irvine, CA
Organized by Francisco J. Ayala and Walter Fitch
1993
Changing Human Ecology and Behavior: Effects on Infectious Diseases
September 27-28, 1993; Washington, DC
Organized by Bernard Roizman
Human-Machine Communication by Voice
February 8-9, 1993; Irvine, CA
Organized by Lawrence Rabiner
1992
Molecular Recognition
September 10-11, 1992; Washington, DC
Organized by Ronald Breslow
Physical Cosmology
March 27-29, 1992; Irvine, CA
Organized by David Schramm
Images of Science: Science of Images
January 13-14, 1992; Washington, DC
Organized by Albert Crewe
1991
Industrial Ecology
May 20-21, 1991; Washington, DC
Organized by C. Kumar N. Patel
