Jefferson Society — Fall 2007 Speakers

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Fall 2007 Speaker Series

Friday, September 7th, 6:00 PM Jefferson Hall	Dr. Ajay Royyuru Dr. Ajay Royyuru, Head of IBM's computational biology department. More Information
Friday, September 14th, 6:00 PM Jefferson Hall	Dr. Seth Shostak Dr. Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. More Information Summary
Friday, September 21st, 6:00 PM Jefferson Hall	Dr. Don E. Detmer Dr. Don Detmer, The President and CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association. More Information
Friday, October 5th, 6:00 PM South Meeting Room of Newcomb Hall	Dr. Robert Solow Dr. Robert Solow, Recipient of 1987 Nobel Prize in Economics. The visit is cosponsored by the University of Virginia's Department of Economics, and by the Economics Club of the University of Virginia. More Information Summary
Friday, October 12th, 7:29 PM Jefferson Hall	Mr. Nicholas L. Johnson Mr. Nicholas L. Johnson, Chief Scientist NASA Orbital Debris More Information
Wednesday, October 17th, 7:00 PM Rotunda Dome Room	South American Journalism Panel South American Journalism Panel The Virginia Quarterly Review and the Pulitzer Center of Crisis Reporting, in partnership with the Jefferson Society, presented a South American journalism panel in the Rotunda Dome Room.
Friday, October 19th, 7:29 PM Jefferson Hall	Dr. Stuart Davies Dr. Stuart Davies, Director of Harvard's Center for Tropical Forest Science More Information
Friday, October 26th, 7:29 PM Jefferson Hall	Mr. Paul Bibeau Mr. Paul Bibeau, a Jefferson Society alumnus, a former correspondent for Maxim Magazine, and the author of a humorous travel book on Transylvania and the vampire cult ("Sundays With Vlad"), recently published by Crown. Summary
Friday, November 2nd, 7:29 PM Jefferson Hall	John Miller John Miller, U.S. Ambassador At Large on human trafficking; GWU Research Professor More Information
Friday, November 9th, 7:29 PM Newcomb Hall Commonwealth Room	Dr. Larry Sanger Dr. Larry Sanger, Editor-in-Chief of Citizendium and co-Founder of Wikipedia More Information
Friday, November 16th, 7:29 PM Jefferson Hall	Larry Peck Larry Peck, Former Vice President for Global Fuels Technology for BP, and current Chief Operating Officer of Cilion. More Information Summary
Friday, November 16th, 8:30 PM Jefferson Hall	Thomas Albright Thomas Albright, Director of the Vision Center Laboratory, Salk Institute More Information

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