Past Meetings | The Lyncean Group of San Diego

The first meeting was held on 11/25/02 at Larry Kull’s house. The first talk was by Clyde Richards (Air Cleanup Technology) on 2/28/03 followed by Bob Ginaven (Cosmology) on 4/1/03, Bill Scott (The Calculus of Finance) on 5/8/03, and so on…

All past meetings are included in the following list. In most cases, there are links back to a summary of the talk or the viewgraphs that were used. For more recent meetings, there are also a few pictures from the meeting.

#		Date	Speaker	Subject	Place*
1		11/25/02	N/A	Group Formation	Kull Residence
2		2/28/03	Clyde Richards	Air Cleanup Technology	SWYC
3		4/1/03	Bob Ginaven	Cosmology	SWYC
4		5/8/03	Bill Scott	The Calculus of Finance	SWYC
5		7/8/03	Tom Olson	Arctic Exploration	SWYC
6		10/29/03	Multiple Speakers	Fleet Center Visit and Exchange	FSC
7		12/2/03	Barry Butler	Solar Energy and Quality of Life	SWYC
8		2/3/04	Ali Dabiri	Water in the 21st Century	SWYC
9		3/18/04	Mo Oloumi	State of Information Technology	SWYC
10		5/5/04	Giancarlo Borgonovi	Irreverent Quantum Mechanics	FSC
11		6/16/04	Roger Johnson	Electronic Display Fabric	Point Loma Nazarene University
12		9/8/04	Gary Phillips	How Weather is Predicted	FSC
13		10/20/04	Larry Kull	Dark Energy	SWYC
14		12/8/04	Davoud Nassiri	Oil Industry Operations	FSC
15		2/2/05	Mauro Pacelli	Quantum Computers	SWYC
16		3/23/05	David Groce	Benford’s Law	SIO
17		4/27/05	Bob Ginaven	The Three Gorges Dam in China	SWYC
18		6/8/05	Don Lyle, Jim Miller	The Pace of Technology Change in Computing	FSC
19		7/20/05	William Burns	Modeling Community Response and Impacts to a Terrorist Strike in a Large Urban Area	Cal State San Marcos
20		9/14/05	Barry Butler	Two Topics: 1) Peak Oil, and 2) Katrina	FSC
21		11/2/05	Raulf Polichar	New Gamma-Ray Detectors	FSC
22		12/14/05	Larry Kull	Dark Matter	SWYC
23		2/1/06	Bruce Ridout	Animals and Humans: Friends or Foes?	San Diego Zoo
24		3/29/06	Costa Cassapakis	Large Rigidized-Inflatable Space Structures Enabling Effective Access to Space	SIO
25		5/10/06	Nelson Byrne	Table-Top Simulation of Nuclear Bursts	SWYC
N/A		5/24/06	John MacKinney	EPA R&D Program on Radiological Decontamination	SWYC
26		6/28/06	Bill Fenical	Medical Future of Pharmaceuticals from the Ocean	SIO
27		8/9/06	Behrokh Khoshnevis	Upcoming Revolution in Construction	SWYC
28		9/20/06	Bob Weaver	Use of Massive Parallel Supercomputers	FSC
29		11/8/06	Richard Lukens	Exoplanets and the Drake Equation	SWYC
30		1/17/07	John Asmus	Hedy Lamarr and the Descent of Art Restoration by Laser	SWYC
31		2/28/07	Vic Engleman	Global Climate Change	SWYC
32		4/18/07	John Asmus	Beneath the Gioconda Veil	SWYC
33		5/30/07	Mick Hager	Overview of the Museum’s Mission and Research with Emphasis on the Upcoming Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit	Natural History Museum
34		7/25/07	John Asmus	Science in the Service of Art and Art in the Service of Science, Part Three	SWYC
35		9/19/07	Magdy Mansour	Grand Tour of Ancient Egypt	SWYC
36		11/28/07	Prof. Konrad Gelbke	The NSCL – Today and the Future	SWYC
37	2/20/08		Vic Engleman & NOVA	The Ghost Particle (The Neutrino)	SWYC
38	4/9/08		John Asmus	Ten Years of Art Restoration in China	SWYC
39	5/14/08		Dean Kaul, Steve Egbert	A-Bomb Survivor Dosimetry	SWYC
40	6/25/08		Yanbei Chen	Gravitational-Wave Detection: Space-Time Warps in the Distant Universe and Quantum Uncertainties of Macroscopic Objects	SWYC
41	8/20/08		Gordon Procter	Pebble Bed Modular Reactor	SWYC
42	9/24/08		John R. Kelsoe, MD	Genetics of Mental Illness	FSC
43	11/12/08		Wayne Cornelius	Looking Forward to a Smarter U.S. Immigration Policy	Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD
44	1/21/09		David Groce, Giancarlo Borgonovi, Bill Scott	Two Topics: 1) High-Tech Art (DG), and 2) Atomic Models and the Old Quantum Theory (GB, BS)	FSC
45	2/25/09		Gary Phillips	Analysis of Obama’s Economic Plan	FSC
46	4/15/09		Larry Kull	Cosmic Microwave Background	FSC
47	5/20/09		Yanbei Chen	Quantum Mechanics of Macroscopic Objects	FSC
48	6/17/09		Craig Smith	Nuclear Energy and the Lead-Cooled Reactor	FSC
49	9/9/09		John Asmus	Paul Gauguin’s Five Parisian Ladies	FSC
50	9/30/09		Howard Maccabee	Update on Climate Change and Health	FSC
51	11/18/09		Gary Carriveau, Richard Lukens	Two Topics: 1) Asian Laquerware (GC), and 2) Exoplanets: An Update and Derivative Thoughts (RL)	FSC
52	1/6/10		David Groce, John King	Two Topics: 1) The Ultimate E-Ticket Ride: Zero Gravity (DG), and 2) Technical and Economic Considerations for Algae Biofuel Production (JK))	FSC
53	2/24/10		Hugh Kendrick, Bill Scott	Two Topics: 1) Anthropogenic Global Warming – Unsettled Science (HK), and 2) Ice Core Records of CO 2 and Temperature Correlations Over 600,000 Years (BS)	FSC
54	4/7/10		Kip Thorne	The Warped Side of the Universe: From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Gravitational Waves	FSC
55	4/28/10		Doug Pewitt	New Techniques for Fast Signals from Massive Noisy Data	FSC
56	5/26/10		Gary Carriveau	Examination of a Bronze Age Spindle Bottle: Determination of the Age, Provenance and Contents	FSC
57	6/16/10		Dan Lubin	Maunder Minimum	FSC
58	7/21/10		Roger Cohen, Will Happer	Understand Climate Science Before Making Climate Policy	FSC
59	9/29/10		Victoria Orphan	Oases of the Deep: Chemical-Based Microbial Life and Methane Cycling in the Deep-Sea	FSC
60	10/20/10		Richard Somerville	Speaking Truth to Power: Science at the Copenhagen Climate Talks	FSC
61	1/12/11		Fred Singer	Nature – Not Human Activity – Rules the Climate	FSC
62	2/23/11		David Groce, Debbie DeRoma	Two Topics: 1) The Golden Age of Radio – 1930 to 1962 (DG), and 2) The Fleet Inquiry Institute, FII (DD)	FSC
63	3/30/11		Mark Thiemens	New Uses of Stable Isotopes to Resolve the Origin of the Solar System and the Change of Climate on Earth: From Deep Past to Present	SWYC
64	5/4/11		Ken Kupfer	How to Develop of Novel Medical Diagnostic for a Disease that is Inaccurately Defined?	FSC
65	8/24/11		Henry Abarbanel	Experience with the JASONs	SWYC
66	9/21/11		Patrick Linson, MD Zion Huang	Introducing the Cyberknife	SWYC
67	11/16/11		Vic Orphan Jim Winso	Lessons Learned in Developing the VACIS Products	SWYC
68	12/16/11		Alfred Torri	Nuclear Reactor Safety and the Accident at Fukushima	FSC
69	1/18/12		Pete Lobner	The Fukushima Earthquake + Tsunami and Other Recent External Events that Have Challenged the Design Basis for Commercial Nuclear Power Plants	SWYC
70	2/29/12		Barry Butler	Energy and Our Way of Life	FSC
71	4/4/12		Andrew McCulloch	Computer Modeling of the Heart: From Molecule to Organ and from Mouse to Man	SWYC
72	5/23/12		James Larrimore	IAEA Safeguards in Iran	SWYC
73	7/11/12		Stephen Egbert	Fallout Deposition in Hiroshima Where Gamma-Ray TLD Measurements Exceed the Dosimetry System (DS02)	SWYC
74	9/5/12		Thomas Murphy	An Astrophysicists Approach to Understanding Global and Renewable Energy	SWYC
75	10/24/12		Alison Coil	Lighting Up the Dark: How Galaxies Trace Dark Matter on Large Scales	SWYC
76	12/5/12		Sandy Heck	Reach Bionics – Repurposing Vestigial Ear Muscles as a New Mode of Human Command Output	SWYC
77	1/30/13		Tim Gentner	A Bird’s Eye View of Auditory Cognition	SWYC
78	4/24/13		Rommie Amaro	Enabling Chemical Discovery Through the Lens of a Computational Microscope	SWYC
79	6/5/13		John Asmus	Seeing Double: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa Twin	SWYC
80	7/17/13		John Haller	Patents: The Facilitator of Success	SWYC
81	9/6/13		Yeshaiahu (Shaya) Fainman	Nanophotonics Technology and Applications	SWYC
82	10/16/13		Brian Keating	Going to the End of the Earth to Study the Beginning of Time	SWYC
83	1/29/14		Lisa Lamont	Libraries: Why Do We Need Them When We Have Google?	SWYC
84	3/12/14		William Bradley, MD	MRI Over the Next Decade: Quo Vadis?	SWYC
85	4/16/14		Erik Viirre	New Era in Health Technology: Health Spurred by the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE and Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE	SWYC
86	5/28/14		Michael Mace	Avian Reintroduction Programs – San Diego Zoo Safari Park	SWYC
87	7/16/14		Allison Hahn	How Genomics is Changing the Way We Think of Health and Disease	SWYC
88	8/27/14		Maria Spiropulo	The Future of the Higgs Boson	SWYC
89	10/1/14		Phil Pressel	Meeting the Challenge: The Hexagon KH-9 Reconnaissance Satellite	SWYC
90	11/19/14		John Asmus	Fabled Druze Assassins Penetrated by a Passionate Nomad	SWYC
91	12/17/14		Lambert Ninteman	Making Stone Soup: The Challenges of Healthcare Technology Innovation with Volunteer teams and Limited Resources	SWYC
92	1/21/15		Magdy Mansour Badawy	Mary and Jesus Christ Stayed for Three and a Half Years in Egypt 2,000 years Ago	SWYC
93	2/25/15		Elena Murchikova	A Russian PhD Theoretical Physicist’s Experience in US Astrophysics and Movie Making with Kip Thorne (“Interstellar”)	SWYC
94	4/1/15		George Tynan	Status and Prospects for Fusion as an Energy Source	SWYC
95	5/13/15		Keith Henson	Thermal Power Satellites	SWYC
96	6/24/15		John Asmus	Final Endeavors of the “Monument Man”	SWYC
97	8/5/15		Pete Lobner	60 Years of Marine Nuclear Power: 1955-2015	SWYC
98	9/16/15		Dave Zobel	The Science of TV’s “The Big Bang Theory”: Explanations That Even Penny Would Understand	SWYC
99	10/28/15		George Tynan	Energy for the 21st Century	SWYC
100	12/16/15		Hossein Eslambolchi	The Power of Technology to Transform the Future	SWYC
101	1/27/16		Chuck Nichols	TRANSPAC 2015, A Lot More Than a Boat Race	SWYC
102	3/9/16		Chell Roberts	Revolutionizing Engineering Education	SWYC
103	4/20/16		Bradley Fikes	Stem Cells: From the Lab to Patients	SWYC
104	6/8/16		Konstantin Batygin	Planet Nine from Outer Space	SWYC
105	8/31/16		Michael Campbell	The National Ignition Facility: An Unexpected Journey	SWYC
106	10/19/16		Geoffrey Wahl	Tumor Heterogeneity: the “Imprecision” in “Precision Medicine”	SWYC
107	11/23/16		Stanley Maloy	Beneficial Microbes and Harmful Antibiotics	SWYC
108	1/11/17		Richard Moore	Trends in Supercomputing and Evolution of the San Diego Supercomputer Center	SWYC
109	2/15/17		Keith Wahl	The Science and Art of Glass	SWYC
110	3/29/17		Tom Soifer	The Spitzer Space Telescope: NASA’s Infrared Great Observatory – From the Youngest Galaxies to Exoplanets	SWYC
111	5/10/17		Cindy Outlaw	The Seven Summits	SWYC
112	6/21/17		Barbara Durrant	Endangered Species Rescue: How far should we go?	SWYC
113	8/2/17		Patrick Lee	A fast, precise, flexible, & coordinated control technology for the electric grid of the future	SWYC
114	9/13/17		John Glass	Engineering Life Using CRISPRs and Synthetic Biology	SWYC
115	10/25/17		Ray Ashley	Replicating the San Salvador, the ship in which Juan Cabrillo sailed to San Diego	SWYC
116	12/6/17		Andres Bratt-Leal	Patient Specific Cell Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease	SWY
117	1/17/18		Alex Cannara	Ocean Acidification and Its Remediation	SWYC
118	2/28/18		Victor Albert	Applied Quantum Mechanics Today	SWYC
119	4/11/18		Rana Adhikari	The Dirty Details of Detecting Gravitational Waves from Black Holes	SWYC
120	5/23/18		Roger Smith, Matthew Graham	The (New) Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory	SWYC
121	7/11/18		John Whiteman	The Harmonica: It’s Evolution, Variety, and Beauty – For Players, Collectors, and the Curious	SWYC
122	8/22/18		David Brin	Singularities, AI-takeover, the Fermi Paradox, and other reasons everyone should remain calm, while science drives the future	SWYC
123	10/3/18		Tim Barton	SEA HUNTER and Maritime Autonomous Behaviors	SWYC
124	11/14/18		Tom Sanger	Athenia – A Forgotten Tragedy of World War II	SWYC
125	1/9/19		Nai-Chang Yeh	The Rise of Graphene: From Laboratory Curiosity to a Wonder Material for Science and Technology	SWYC
126	2/20/19		Brian Keating	Losing the Nobel Prize: A Cosmic Mystery Story	SWYC
127	4/3/19		Pamela Cosman	An Engineer’s Data-Driven Perspective on Gender in STEM	SWYC
128	5/15/19		Eric Robinson, John Hunter	Space Cannons	SWYC
129	6/26/19		Jeff Severinghaus	Climate Change: What have we learned about our future from studying ice-core climate records?	SWYC
130	8/7/19		William Tong	Zeptomole-level (sub-parts-per-quadrillion-level) detection by multi-photon nonlinear laser methods for biomedical, environmental and security applications	SWYC
131	9/25/19		Mark Merrifield	Climate Change: Sea-level Rise: Global and Local Perspectives	SWYC
132	10/30/19		Pete Lobner	Russia’s Plans for Arctic Development Depend on Marine Nuclear Power	SWYC
133	12/11/19		Shelley Wright	New ways to search for extraterrestrial intelligence	SWYC
134	1/22/20		Richard Norris	Climate Change – Future California: if you know what’s coming, you can change it	SWYC
135	3/3/20		Daniel Whiteson	We Have No Idea: Big, Unanswered Questions about the Universe and Its Particles	SWYC
136	6/21/23		Lynne Talley	The ocean’s large-scale circulation with emphasis on the Antarctic – Observations to process understanding to climate implications	SWYC
137	7/19/23		David Weisberg	Prospects for deploying fusion power plants to meet future US electricity demand	SWYC
138	9/20/23		Karin Sandstrom	Exploring Our Dusty Universe with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)	SWYC
139	12/13/23		Colleen Petrik	Climate impacts on marine fish populations: from microscale to macroscale	SWYC
140	1/17/24		Andrea Smidler	Using CRISPR genome engineering to study mosquito biology and combat malaria	SWYC
141	3/6/24		Ryan Kastner	Creating a Digital Twin of the El Zotz Mayan Archaeological Site	SWYC
142	4/24/24		Gresham Bayne, MD	STRATOS: How setting world skydiving records saved lives	SWYC
143	6/12/24		Anastacia MacAllister	Developing the Human Machine Teaming (HMT) Ecosystem	SWYC
144	10/2/24		Ian Eisenman	Changes in the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice covers and implications to global climate	SWYC
145	11/20/24		Barbara Durrant	The ART of Saving Species – The Northern White Rhino Initiative	SWYC
146	2/12/25		Kevin Sheek	San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) Decommissioning Status and the Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel	SWYC
147	5/7/25		Laurence Abcede, P.E.	Grid Scale Energy Storage Use Cases for Reliability and Resiliency	SWYC
148	7/9/25		Ethan Nadler	Dark Matter Physics in the Sky	SWYC
149	9/24/25		Daniel Green	Signals of a Quantum Universe	SWYC
150	11/21/25		Rose Yu	Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science and Engineering	SWYC
150	1/7/26		Yadi Cao	Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in controlled fusion	SWYC

Abbreviations for frequent meeting locations/places are

SWYC = Southwestern Yacht Club
FSC = Fleet Science Center
SIO = Scripps Institution of Oceanography

There is actually a constellation named after the lynx!

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This is a painting of Federico Cesi, who founded the Academia del Lincei (“academy of the lynx-eyed”) in 1603 as an Italian science academy located at the Palazzo Corsini in Rome. The name was later anglicized to Lincean Academy. We have americanized it to “Lynceans.” Since Cesi undoubtedly held the first Lyncean meeting, we include his picture on this “Past Meetings” page.