163rd NAS Annual Meeting Research Briefings

The landscape of scientific research is changing faster than ever, and the 163rd NAS Annual Meeting Research Briefings will give you a front-row seat to the latest discoveries shaping our world. From giant earthquakes and modern robotics, to the complexities of collective intelligence and the neuroscience of language, these sessions will dive into a wide range of groundbreaking research.

Briefings Presented by:

 

When India Crashes into Eurasia: Faults, Rising Mountains and giant Earthquakes
Jean-Philippe Avouac, Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology, California Institute of Technology

 

 

 

The Cellular Biology of Words
Edward F. Chang, Professor and Chair, Neurological Surgery, University of California, San Francisco

 

 

 

 

Computational Foundations of Modern Robotics
Lydia E. Kavraki, Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing, Rice University

 

 

 

 

Humanizing Drug Discovery
David Matthew Altshuler, Executive Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

 

 

 

Thinking Different and Collective Intelligence
Scott E. Page, John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan

 

 

 

 

The Hidden Language of Plants: How Genome Evolution Drives Chemical Diversity
C. Robin Buell, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Chair in Crop Genomics, University of Georgia

 

 

 

Join us virtually on April 25 and hear directly from the newly elected NAS members who are pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Register to attend and learn more about the speakers here.