Hitachi/AAAS Lecture Series

Lectures

14 May 2013

Annual Hitachi Lectureship at AAAS
Focus: Time for Transformational Change in Global Environmental Policy
Featuring: Naoko Ishii, CEO and Chairperson, Global Environmental Facility

2 May 2012

Annual Hitachi Lectureship at AAAS
Focus: From DNA Sequencer to Single Cell Analysis: Development of Innovative Technologies and Instruments
Featuring: Hideki Kambara, Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd.
Discussant: Steven G. Boxer, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor in Chemistry, Stanford University

8 December 2011

Annual AAAS-Hitachi Lecture on Science and Society
Focus: How Thomas Edison Invented the Future
Featuring: Sarah Miller Caldicott
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6 October 2011

Third Climate Change Forum sponsored by Hitachi and featuring panels organized by AAAS and the Brookings Institution.
Focus: Eco-Engineering: Building Sustainable Cities
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28 October 2010

Annual AAAS-Hitachi Lecture on Science and Society
Focus: Synthetic Biology: What is it? What challenges does it pose to ethics and public policy?
Featuring: Thomas H. Murray, President and CEO, The Hastings Center (slides)
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27 May 2010

Second Climate Change Forum sponsored by Hitachi and featuring panels organized by AAAS and the Brookings Institution.
Focus: Three Keys to Sustainable Urban Communities: Water, Power and Transportation

7 April 2010

Annual Hitachi Lectureship at AAAS
Focus: Healthcare of an Organization: Overcoming Silos in Society Featuring: Kazuo Yano, Hitachi, Ltd.
Discussant: Brad Allenby, Arizona State University
For background on the topic, please read Measurement of Human Behavior: Creating a Society for Discovering Opportunities.

14 October 2009

Annual AAAS-Hitachi Lecture on Science and Society
Focus: Energy Technology for a Low Carbon Future
Featuring: Ernest J. Moniz, Professor of Physics and Cecil & Ida Green Distinguished Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (slides)
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23 April 2009

Inaugural Hitachi Lectureship at AAAS
Focus: Brain Science
Featuring: Hideaki Koizumi, Hitachi Ltd., and Thomas Woosley, Washington University School of Medicine
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5 March 2009

First Climate Change Forum sponsored by Hitachi and featuring panels organized by AAAS and the Brookings Institution
Focus: Meeting Energy Needs, Reducing Environmental Impact
Featuring: U.S. Senator John Kerry
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6 November 2008

Inaugural AAAS-Hitachi Lecture on Science and Society
Focus: Climate Change Rescue Plan
Featuting: Thomas E. Lovejoy, President of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment
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