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Oct. 8-11, 2019 - The Lodge at Torrey Pines, La Jolla, CA
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Pure Science

FiRe’s Pure Science channel focuses on research by members of the FiRe community into pure science, including physics, climatology, space and ocean exploration, evolutionary theory, ethnology, and more.

 

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Leaders in This Focus Channel

  • John Delaney

    Professor of Oceanography, University of Washington; Director and Principal Investigator, Regional Scale Nodes, NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative

  • Patti Grace Smith

    Aerospace Consultant, Patti Grace Smith Consulting LLC

  • Dan Simon

    President and CEO, Heliae Technology Holdings Inc.

  • Ariel Ekblaw

    Founder & Lead, Space Exploration Initiative, MIT Media Lab

  • Larry Smarr

    Founding Director, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2; a UC San Diego / UC Irvine partnership)

  • Robert Anderson

    President, Robert F. Anderson and Assoc. Inc.

  • Gregory J. McRae

    Executive Director, Morgan Stanley; and Hoyt C. Hottel Professor of Chemical Engineering

  • Wieslaw Maslowski

    Research Professor of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School

  • Chris Johnson

    Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute; and Distinguished Professor, School of Computing, University of Utah

  • Mark Ferguson

    Director General, Science Foundation Ireland & Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland

  • Leah Boyer

    Director, Stem Cell Core Laboratory, Salk Institute

  • Kim Stanley Robinson

    Science Fiction Author

  • John Seely Brown

    Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge; , and Visiting Scholar, USC

  • Kevin Montgomery

    CEO, Collaborate.org

  • Craig Venter

    Co-Founder, Chair, CEO, and Co-Chief Scientific Officer, Synthetic Genomics Inc.

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