This award-winning lecture series features scientists whose passion for their work inspires us all. Each event involves a lecture by a Yale professor and engaging science demonstrations by Yale college students. Science on Saturdays provides an opportunity for Yale scientists and residents of New Haven and beyond to come together over a shared sense of wonder. Past topics have included “Why Birds Are Dinosaurs,” “Nu Frontiers in Neutrino Physics,” and “Chaperonins: Molecular Origami Machines.”
Time: Demonstrations by Synapse of Yale Scientific Magazine from 10am - 11am; Talk from 11am - noon.
About Mark Reed: Mark A. Reed received his Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University in and spent the following seven years working at Texas Instruments, where he demonstrated the first quantum dots device. In 1990 Mark joined the Yale community, where he now holds the Harold Hodgkinson Chair of Engineering and Applied Science, and serves as the Associate Director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering. His research has included the investigation of electronic transport in nanoscale and mesoscopic systems, artificially structured materials and devices, molecular scale electronic transport, plasmonic transport in nanostructures, and chem/bio nanosensors. Reed holds 25 U.S. and foreign patents on quantum effect, heterojunction, and molecular devices and was elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering and Who’s Who in the World. He has been awarded Fortune Magazine “Most Promising Young Scientist” (1990), the Kilby Young Innovator Award (1994), the Fujitsu ISCS Quantum Device Award (2001), the Yale Science and Engineering Association Award for Advancement of Basic and Applied Science (2002), Fellow of the American Physical Society (2003), the IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology (2007), and Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2009).