Events

As part of Carnegie’s public outreach efforts, the institution hosts various science-related lectures, events, and seminars at its administration building in Washington, D.C., and at the Carnegie campuses on the East and West Coasts. These events are all free and open to the public, and provide an opportunity to hear from some of the most extraordinary researchers of our time. Many of our events are webcast live and/or recorded. Registration is required for some of the programs.

Capital Science Evening Lectures
Thursday, September 29, 2016 - 6:30pm
Dr. Sean Carroll - The Serengeti Rules: The Quest to Discover How Nature Works & Why It Matters

Everything in nature is regulated—from the number of vital molecules found in our bloodstreams to the number of lions living on an African savanna. Over the past 50 years, two revolutions have...

Registration Opens 8/29 at 9:00 a.m.
1530 P St NW
Washington, DC 20016
United States
Capital Science Evening Lectures
Thursday, October 13, 2016 - 6:30pm
Dr. Nadrian C. Seeman - DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life

KAVLI PRIZE LAUREATE LECTURE

Everyone learns in school that DNA is the genetic coding material  found in all organisms. However, the information storage capacity that...

Registration Opens 9/13 at 9:00 a.m.
1530 P St NW
Washington, DC 20005
United States
Special Events
Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 6:00pm
Expedition Earth - Frans Lanting - Dialogues with Nature

(doors open at 5:30)

 

Dialogues with Nature - A Presentation by Photographer Frans Lanting

Hailed as one of the great photographers of our time, Frans...

Registration Open
1530 P St, NW
Washington, DC 20005
United States
Broad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures
Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 6:30pm
Dr. Lara Wagner - Pointing the Telescope Down: Seismo-vision into the Earth’s Interior

Please note that tickets are not required and seating is first come, first serve. Tickets from Eventbrite enable you to skip the sign-in process at the door,...

Registration
Broad Branch Road Campus
5251 Broad Branch Rd NW
Washington, DC 20015
United States
Capital Science Evening Lectures
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 6:30pm
Dr. Piers Sellers - Creating the Science of Global Ecology

Over the last 30 years, the business of understanding and modeling the Earth's biosphere has evolved. During the early 1980s, simple climate models showed that global warming could be a real...

Registration Opens 10/2 at 9:00 a.m.
1530 P St NW
Washington, DC 20016
United States
Broad Branch Road Neighborhood Lectures
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 - 6:30pm
Dr. Robert Hazen - The Private Lives of Minerals: Social Network Analysis Applied to Mineralogy

Please note that tickets are not required and seating is first come, first serve. Tickets from Eventbrite enable you to skip the sign-in process at the  door,...

Registration
Broad Branch Road Campus
5251 Broad Branch Rd NW
Washington, DC 20015
United States
Capital Science Evening Lectures
Monday, December 5, 2016 - 6:30pm
Dr. Elizabeth Loftus - The Fiction of Memory

For several decades, Dr. Elizabeth Loftus has been manufacturing memories in unsuspecting minds. Sometimes this involves changing details of events that someone actually experienced.  Other times...

Registration Opens 11/5 at 9:00 a.m.
1530 P St NW
Washington, DC 20016
United States