Monthly Meetings
Program Calendar
** Please Note: The February 10th meeting has been cancelled **
Meeting dates are as follows, meeting flyers will be updated monthly.
Technology Forum:
Dr. Jeffrey Hurst from Hershey Foods, Hershey, Pennsylvania – “Ethnobotanical Uses of Cocao In Mesoamerica or Take Two Kisses and Call Me in the Morning”
Chair: Eli Absey
Technical Program:
Dr. Ira W. Levin, Scientific Director of the Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health – “Interlacing Basic
Biophysical Research with Translational Clinical Studies: From Bench to Bedside and Back”
Chair: John Jackovitz
Technology Forum:
Ronald J. Baillie, Carnegie Science Center– “Robots in the Public” (Joint with Pittsburgh Amateur Astronomers Association)
Chair: Robert Witkowski
Technical Program:
Daniel Vanden Berk, St. Vincent College- “Three-Million Spectra and Counting: Exploring the Universe with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey”
Chair: Dave Pensenstadler
Technology Forum:
Dr. Gerry Getman, Biosafe Inc. – “Chemistry and Applications of Biosafe Products”
Chair: Fu-mei Lin
Technical Program:
Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon – "Going Nonlinear to Study Environmentally Important Processes at Surfaces"
Chair: John Jackovitz
Joint meeting with SACP (Hosted by SSP)
Technology Forum:
James R. McCarville , Port Of Pittsburgh Commission- "Technology, Innovation and Economic Development On The Waterways" (Joint with Optical Society of America)
Chair: Maggie Hall
Technical Program:
Steven Christesen, Ph.D., Edgewood Chemical and Biological Center- “Detection of Chemical, Biological and Explosive Agents Using Raman Spectroscopy”
Chair: Chuck Gardner
February 10, 2010 - Meeting Cancelled
Technology Forum:
Dr. John E. Rawlins, Carnegie Museum of Natural History- “Bug Therapy: Discovering How Insects Make Our World Better”
Chair: Eli Absey
Technical Program:
Dr. Robert Griffin, Director of the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – “High Frequency Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Solids and Liquids”
Chair: Sanford Asher
February 28 to March 5, 2010
PITTCON 2010 - Orlando, FL
Technology Forum:
Gregory Boulos, Slow Food USA- Mid-Atlantic Region- "Community Based Food Systems"
Chair: Eli Absey
Technical Program:
Dr. Graham Fleming, Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California Berkeley – “Energy, Spectroscopy and Photosynthesis”
Chair: Dave Waldeck
May 19, 2010
Award’s Banquet & Former Chairmen’s Night
Duquesne University Ballroom (4th floor)
Chair: Hubert MacDonald