Seminars

In 1945, the late Edwin G. Baetjer of Baltimore bequeathed to Princeton University an endowment in memory of Lieutenant Edwin G. Baetjer II, his nephew and namesake. Lt. Baetjer had been one of the first Princeton students to graduate from the University's then new Department of Aeronautical Engineering and enter the U.S. Army Air Forces. He met death in July, 1944, near Chengtu, China, while serving as Flight Engineer in one of the earliest B-29 bomber squadrons to reach the Asiatic theater. The Edwin G. Baetjer II Memorial Fund has, since its establishment, enriched Princeton's formal instruction in aeronautical engineering through an expanding program of lectures, seminars, colloquia and conferences on varied topics and has brought to the University some of the outstanding scientists in the Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences.

October

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: Some Challenges and New Perspectives

From Memes to Molasses Floods: Adventures in Science Communication

November

Dancing With Robots: Expressivity in Natural and Artificial Systems

TBD

Biofuels for Transportation

December

New Strategies in Radiation Detection for Nuclear Arms Control and Nonproliferation

Suin Shim: Detective in the Lab – and Everyday Life

Abhishek Saha: Driving Research Toward Cleaner Energy