The College of Science is honored to engage in its Distinguished Speaker Series, supported by the John Wiley Jones Science Endowment Fund. The goal of the series is to attract intriguing speakers with relevant topics to speak at RIT. Listed here are past speakers, with links to both their profiles and streaming videos of their talks.

  2013

11/14	Steve Squyres	Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet
10/10	Maryann Mycek	Biomedical Optics - Shining Light on Clinical Medicine
	John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture
3/22	Tyrone Hayes	From Silent Spring To Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men
1/18	Stefano Curtarolo	Topological Insulators within the Materials Genome initiative: robustness/fragility, new  materials, and topological quantum devices
2012
11/30	Pamela Cook	Complex, yet everyday, fluids
10/5	James Gentile	Solving Complex Questions in Science through Innovation and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
4/24	Les Johnson	Solar Sailing: Using Solar Photon Pressure for Exploring the Solar System and Beyond  (pdf only)
4/17	Varadaraja V. Raman	Science and Religion in Today's World
02/17	John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture
	David Weintraub	Exoplanets, Extraterrestrial Life, and Terrestrial Religion
2011
10/28	Nancy B. Jackson	Sunshine to Petro
3/24	Gregory Beroza	Off-Main-Sequence Earthquakes
2010
10/28	Wouter van Hoven	Some challenges to wildlife in Africa today
9/30	Rebecca Skloot	The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
5/3	Irwin Shapiro	Defending Planet Earth from Impacts by Asteroids
4/23	John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture
	Stephen Dewhurst	Novel Approaches to the Prevention of HIV-1 Transmission
4/8	Robert Rose	Development of an effective, licensed vaccine for cervical cancer ¦ the rest of the story
3/18	Mario Livio	Is God a Mathematician?
2009
4/24	John Wiley Jones Distinguished Lecture
	Donald W. Pfaff	The Brains Control of Behavior
2/12	Matthew Schneps	The Power and Pitfalls of Visual Thinking
1/8	Dickson Despommier	The City as Ecosystem
Distinguished Speaker Series Archives