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SO SUCCESSFUL THE LAST TWO YEARS IN A ROW, OUR IEEE MEMBERS ASKED WE DO IT AGAIN.

THIS NOVEMBER 17^TH LECTURE IS BY THE WORLD RENOWNED GABE ZICHERMAN SHOWING HOW COMPUTER GAMES ARE CHANGING OUR LIVES AND WHY OUR YOUTH THINK SO DIFFERENTLY THAN WE DO!!!

See below for more on this lecture. Last day to order tickets is November 14^thfor mail out and 15^th for box office pick up

  – DON'T MISS THIS ONE!!

EXPERIENCE UNFORGETTABLE EVENINGS WITH WORLD CLASS

SCIENTISTS AND EDUCATORS!
MEET THEM PERSONALLY BEFORE THE SHOW, WITH AN OPTION TO

"DINE WITH THE SPEAKER" AFTER THEIR LECTURES!

If you're like me, you became an engineer to expand your world of learning, and to seek out exciting topics to stimulate and heighten your intellect and love of learning! I’m also guessing science, math, and technology are hot-wired into your brain, and you’d thrill at any chance to engage with some of the brightest researchers in the fields of science, philosophy, biology, theology and mathematics. How about if all that were both possible and affordable?! IEEE Membership has its privileges!

Now, for the second year in a row, IEEE Oregon Section has made arrangements with the Institute of Science, Education, and Public Policy (ISEPP), to offer you an opportunity to participate in a 6-part lecture series, where the greatest researchers in their respective fields will be speaking, in clear, everyday language, before an audience of peers, students, and other educated minds! This series of 6 mind-expanding lectures, coming to Portland from October 11, 2011 through May 17, 2011, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, in downtown Portland, will offer you the chance to attend their presentations at a heavily discounted special IEEE price. You’ll not only hear these prestigious lectures, but also be assured three separate opportunities to engage with each speaker, one-on-one, and ask any questions that come to mind! If you attended any of the lectures last season, you know how exciting they can be!

Your evening will begin with an exclusive IEEE get-together with the speaker, before the lecture, and a chance to purchase personally autographed books! During the lecture, you’ll be sitting right up front, in the exclusive Patron Reserved Seating, where you’ll be engrossed in the presentation, then encouraged to ask your questions at the end of the talk. After the lecture, you are invited to join the speaker for a special IEEE attended dinner gathering at the Heathman Inn, where this intimate setting offers additional opportunities for questions and networking.*

This is truly an opportunity you don’t want to miss, at pricing way below that of similar type lectures in other cities, and considerably below non-member rates! Read below for all the sign-up information! Hope to see you there! If you have any questions, please call me at 432-559-7013 (cell)

Sincerely,

Christopher Jacobs, PhD EE Senior Member
IEEE Oregon Section Public Relations and Event Coordinator

* Dinner is a separately purchased event, and not included in price of the lectures (details below).

Linus Pauling Memorial Lectures

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This lecture is past.

It was a sellout, and all the IEEE members I talked to said it was EXTREMELY interesting and informative!

Knocking on Heaven's Door

with Dr. Lisa Randall
Professor of Physics
Harvard University

The latest developments in physics have the potential to radically revise our understanding of the world: its makeup, its evolution, and the fundamental forces that drive its operation.

Lecture & Dinner Date:
7pm, Tuesday October 11th, 2011

Want to learn more about this speaker and topic, click on link:

http://www.isepp.org/Pages/11-12%20Pages/Randall.html

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The New Science of Engagement

with Gabe Zichermann

Gamification, using computer game thinking and mechanics to engage audiences and solve problems, has now been proven to be one of the most effective process of:
a) Teaching students. (You can expect to see it heavily used in our school within the next 5 years!)
b) Influencing people. (Without realizing it, good sales people have been using this for years. Find out what they do.)
c) Planning strategy. (The success of our military has increased dramatically since they have been using gaming computers to plan for all possible situations.)

Lecture & Dinner Date:
7pm, Thursday November 17th, 2011

Want to learn more about this speaker and topic, click on link:

http://www.isepp.org/Pages/11-12%20Pages/Zichermann.html

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Human Genetics, Drug Development, and Biobanks

with Dr. David Cox
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer
Biotherapeutics and Innovation Center – Pfizer Inc.

Recent advances in DNA sequencing technology enable exploration of the genetic basis of a broad range of clinically important outcomes. Examples where a positive clinical outcome is associated with a significantly increased frequency of DNA sequence variants are particularly informative. 

Such examples identify valuable diagnostic tools for patient stratification and provide new targets for the generation of novel drugs.

Lecture & Dinner Date:
7pm, Thursday, January 26, 2012

Want to learn more about this speaker and topic, click on link:

http://www.isepp.org/Pages/11-12%20Pages/Cox.html

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Breakthrough in Energy: Nano-Solar

with Dr. Paul Alvisatos
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

As director of Berkeley Lab, Alivisatos has launched two major scientific initiatives, “Carbon Cycle 2.0,” a multidisciplinary approach to developing ways to help restore the balance in Earth’s carbon cycle, which has been adversely affected by human activity, and the “Next Generation Light Source,” the world’s first facility capable of producing x-ray pulses measured in attoseconds, the timescale needed to capture the movement of electrons. Alivisatos has also proactively invigorated Berkeley Lab’s safety culture and elevated the Lab’s community outreach efforts. 

Alivisatos was appointed to lead Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division by then Lab director Charles Shank who hailed him as “one of the fathers of nanoscience.” One of the first to publish scientific results in the field, Alivisatos went on to publish well over 100 papers. He is widely recognized as the man who altered the nanoscience landscape with the creation of rod-shaped semiconductor nanocrystals that could be stacked to create nano-sized electronic devices. Until then, semiconductor nanocrystals came in one shape only, that of a sphere. He followed that milestone with numerous other technical breakthroughs that advanced nanotechnology, including the creation of a new generation of hybrid solar cells that combined nanotechnology with plastic electronics.

Lecture & Dinner Date:
7pm, Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Want to learn more about this speaker and topic, click on link:

http://www.isepp.org/Pages/11-12%20Pages/Alivisatos.html

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Science and Religion: An Update

Dr. Dr. Philip Clayton
Yale University

Dr. Clayton develops a constructive Christian theology in dialogue with metaphysics, modern philosophy, and science. The demands of this task have led to his work and publications in the theory of knowledge; the history of philosophy and theology; the philosophy of science; physics, evolutionary biology and the neurosciences; comparative theology; and constructive metaphysics. A panentheist, he defends a form of process theology that is hypothetical, dialogical and pluralistic. 

Author of 18 books and hundreds of articles, Clayton is an international leader in the dialogue between science and the world’s religions, a scholar on the future of faith, and an activist in emergent Christianity. He received Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. degrees from Yale University after receiving an M.A. from Fuller Theological Seminary and a B.A. from Westmont College. Clayton has also been instrumental in the planning process for Claremont Lincoln University

Lecture & Dinner Date:
7pm, Thursday, April 26th, 2012

Want to learn more about this speaker and topic, click on link:

http://www.isepp.org/Pages/11-12%20Pages/Clayton.html

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Human Nature's Social Brain

with Dr. John Cacioppo
University of Chicago

As a social species, humans create emergent organizations beyond the individual - structures that range from dyads, families, and groups to cities, civilizations, and international alliances. 

These emergent structures evolved hand in hand with neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms to support them because the consequent social behaviors helped humans survive, reproduce, and care for offspring sufficiently long that they too survived to reproduce. Cacioppo's research is focused on understanding these neural, hormonal, cellular, and genetic mechanisms and their effect on the mind, behavior, and health - an approach he and Gary Berntson termed social neuroscience. 

Social neuroscience represents an inter-disciplinary approach devoted to understanding how biological systems implement social processes and behavior and to using biological concepts and methods to inform and refine theories of social processes and behavior. We use a variety of methods in our research, including functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), standard and high density electroencephalo-graphy and event-related brain potentials, psychophysiological assessments, and neuro-endocrine and immune assays, and in collaboration with colleagues we also have begun to bring quantitative genetics to bear on our research questions.

Lecture & Dinner Date:
7pm, Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Want to learn more about this speaker and topic, click on link:

http://www.isepp.org/Pages/11-12%20Pages/Cacioppo.html

THE DETAILS OF WHAT YOU RECEIVE AND THE MECHANICS OF HOW TO PARTICIPATE:

As a participant in this lecture series, you and your guests are entitled to the following perks and benefits:

• Significantly reduced ticket prices over non-members

o    NO additional Ticketmaster surcharges*

o    Additional price reductions for all junior- and high-school students! (This ONLY applies to students, please! Valid ID may be required)

• Up-close-to-the-stage seating in the RESERVED PATRON SECTION, where all IEEE members and guests sit together
• Pre-lecture get-together with speakers to ask questions and, if desired, purchase copies of their books, which they will gladly autograph for you
• After-lecture opportunity to have wine and dinner, with the speaker in a PRIVATE DINING ROOM in the elegant Heathman Inn, right next door to the Schnitzer, for additional questions and answers (This is optional only, and at additional cost; see **, below)

HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS TERRIFIC IEEE OPPORTUNITY:

Depending on your interests, you can select just the speakers you want to hear--from just one to all six in the Series. Your family and friends are allowed to attend at the same price per ticket as you pay! What's Your Investment?

* Your IEEE has arranged for you to bypass Ticketmaster (you buy directly from our affiliate, Matthews Media Marketing), and get the volume discount no matter what viewing combination suits your convenience. For example, you would pay the 6 ticket price if you went to all 6 lectures, you and 5 guests went to one lecture, or you and a partner went to 3 lectures; it’s all the same discounted price. NOTE: Normally, for this discount to be in effect, you would have to have one person going to either 4 or 6 lectures. However, this discount only applies to each individual purchase. That is, to get the 6 ticket price, you have to buy all 6 at once. You can’t buy 2 tickets now, 3 a month from now, and 1 more two months from now.

NOTE: Because Member prices are significantly lower than you could get elsewhere, and student prices have been further slashed as to be virtual give-always, we can only offer the multi-buy volume discount to adult tickets only, and NOT as a combination of both adult and student tickets. For example, if you purchase 6 adult tickets and 4 student tickets, you will receive the 6-ticket price of $38 each, and not the 10-ticket price of $36 each and the student tickets will only be $28.

** Because the cost of the after-lecture dinner at the Heathman Inn is not under our control, we cannot reduce the $55 price. Your attendance is purely optional. However, we can tell you, having attended these dinners before, the food and wine are amazing, the conversation and question/answer opportunities are both stimulating and memorable, and the opportunity to meet and network with other like-minded scientists and educators is a not-to-be-missed occasion. Because dinner discussions often center on the topic(s) of the lectures, attendance is only available as a continuation of the presentations and cannot be purchased apart from the lectures themselves.

QUESTIONS REGARDING DEADLINES

TICKETS FOR EACH LECTURE MUST BE ORDERED NO LESS THAN TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE LECTURE DATE!

Here are answers to two questions you might already be asking:

Q: If I can order two weeks before each lecture, what is the advantage of ordering all my tickets now?
A: Saves money, because the volume discounts only apply to each order, so if you spread your order out, you don't get the best volume discount deal.

Q: What if something unexpected comes up and I can't attend.
A: All the lectures will be recorded. If you paid for and can't attend any lecture, you will be mailed, at no cost, the DVD of that lecture. You can also pass on your ticket to another family member or friend, if desired.

TO PLACE YOUR ORDER: CLICK ON THIS LINK:

http://ieee-beeep.org/tickets

when the page opens, fill out the form, hit "Purchase Tickets" –

That's it!