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We'd like your thoughts on these and other topics you are interested in seeing or maybe presenting. Send your thoughts via email to info@LCTG.toku.us or contact John Rudy, Peter Albin, Bob Primak, or Steve Isenberg directly – Thank you.
This list last changed 2021.04.22 11:07

1. Search for life on other planets Ian Crawford, April 2018 (36min)
2. (Dick Wagner) most recent Nobel Prizes in Physiology & Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry - maybe a half hour on each with discussion. I have a background in Physics, Chemistry and Molecular Biology so the topics are not foreign to me. I could also discuss the Economics Prize, since I've recently become interested in economics, but someone else in the group may be more knowledgeable about this prize which was on auction theory. Another topic I could talk about is the discovery of the platinum containing compound that has been used for decades in chemotherapy of cancer. This talk would be from the same perspective as our last speaker (Harry?) in the sense that I was there as the discovery was made. This discovery is a great example of how basic science research really happens.
   • Ian Crawford, April 2018, 36min - played 3/3/2021
3. (Peter to fup with Jonathan Goode) Actual accomplishments of things in the Frontiers of Science.
   a) has quantum computing ever solved a problem?,
   b) has blockchain produced a cost effective solution for anything?,
   c) has the Large Hadron Collider advanced science or provided the real confirmations the string theorists were looking for? (John Rudy knows someone named Harvey might fit)
4. (Peter to fup with Jonathan Goode) A revised explanation, in an intuitively satisfying way, why do airplanes fly? This was presented earlier using incomprehensible equations that seem unsatisfying and suspicious. Can planes really achieve level flight upside down?
5. (GeorgeB to fup) Recycling (what happens when you put trash out; computer or lightbulb return to BB or Staples) (Bodoin/Harvey & What Lex Does? How to separate recyclables?) (need speaker. (HarryF to fup) Chris Barnett, theory of recycling (GeorgeB to followup); Chris Barnett, VP waste mgmt
6. (Peter to fup) https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/decoding-da-vinci/ A NOVA on DaVinci (Peter- I’d love to get Nancy Alimansky to participate and comment on it –John Rudy)
7. Women in Science, Scientists in Other Cultures (Charlie ask Dan for suggestions; GeorgeG to ask CAAL; Harry to ask Indian Association; for speaker possibilities) (Need contact with Black Americans – Harry to search)
8. Advances in Surgery (interesting but need speaker); past, present, future
9. Solar Panels, Solar Technology. Mark Sandeen (Select Person); Cindy Ariens?; Frank van Mierlo, owner of solar technology company, explains science of solar panels. (Harry email to Mark & Cindy cc:PeterA)
10. Discussion of Blockchain (enhanced from earlier presentation; including encryption; and uses) (SteveI)
11. iRobot and associated technologies (Peter to investigate)
12. idea: Telescopes (JohnR; huge telescope being decommissioned. Rich Ralston has contacts at Lincoln Lab & MIT, possible talks on optical, ground, space, x-ray in space, large bodies in space, etc)
13. idea: ISO-NE webinar being presented by the Attorney General's office; JohnBrown to see if it is recorded and if it's good for the group [20201125 email b/JohnRudy & JohnBrown]
14. BBC Horizon video, “Pluto: Back from the Dead” 1hr (PeterA)
15. BBC Horizon video, “Britain's Next Air Disaster? Drones.” 1hr (PeterA)
16. Other Mark Rober youtube videos (he did Squirrel vid) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY1kMZp36IQSyNx_9h4mpCg
17. Chris Hess: Musicians record themselves at home on their phones. They send me their files and I build virtual video performances in software. We've done a couple dozen virtual ensemble pieces at First Parish since the lockdown started. I work on a PC, with tools in the Adobe Creative suite. If that's of interest, I could do an introduction to the process and tools and then do some Q&A. Zoom isn't directly relevant, although we do stream the stuff I make over Zoom at virtual Sunday services at First Parish.
18. Revisit Cloud Storage Options (update from December 2019, steveI)
19. The first LASER of 2021 explores the relationship between humans, DNA, and data, featuring media artist and TED speaker Refik Anadol in conversation with Dr. Robert Grass from ETH Zurich, and Christine Choirat from Harvard and the Swiss Data Science Center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCMaMEyYpdw (90 min)
20. Count Rumford (Supplemental to Dan's, but emphasis is on history). Howard Cohen; talk is prepared
21. Automatic Bucks meeting: Programmed Trading and Internet Fastlanes
22. Approach LHS Grad Brandeis, MD, now at Penn; re Moderna technology Harry
23. Weather modeling tools: Stella. (Jay Foreester?) Modeling a dynamic system. Harry
24. Meandering Rivers (proposed by John Rudy) Concord River is a good example. e.g., https://www.ausableriver.org/blog/why-do-streams-meander
25. Virus package update; both real-time (e.g., Defender) and off-line (e.g., Malware Bytes). Consider Windows, but also Mac/OSX.
26. Al Sherman: “Everything” from https://www.voidtools.com/ (John Rudy to contact, where is he, when can he speak)
27. Al Sherman: “Advanced Renamer” from https://www.advancedrenamer.com/ (NOTE Al can be recorded off-line for replay on Weds.)
28. Shelly Lowenthal: Total Commander, Irfanview https://www.irfanview.com/