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Caroline Anderson is Manager for Outreach at the Fusion Industry Association. In previous work she coordinated economic empowerment and conflict resolution programs in the Middle East and North Africa. She also worked at a think tank in Washington D.C. that specializes in international conflict resolution, foreign trade policy, and security. Caroline graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she earned degrees in Economics and Peace, War & Defense. She lives in Washington, DC.

The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is congressionally chartered to represent all aspects of nuclear history and science. It is an intriguing place to learn the story of the Atomic Age, from early conception, the Manhattan Project and Cold War, to today's peaceful uses of nuclear technology. Jennifer Hayden has been a port of this museum since 2013 beginning in communications and marketing. Today Jennifer shares her first hand experience as President & Chief Executive Officer at National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.

This interview was recorded live at the Nuclear Science Week Expo at the Fleet Science Center in San Diego, CA.

An instructor and researcher in artificial intelligence and advanced statistical techniques applied to process diagnostics, condition based maintenance, and prognostics at the University of Tennessee.

This interview was recorded live at the Nuclear Science Week Expo at the Fleet Science Center in San Diego, CA.

A nuclear engineer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She is campaign manager for the 252-Californium Campaign and was involved with the discovery of Tennessine.

This interview was recorded live at the Nuclear Science Week Expo at the Fleet Science Center in San Diego, CA.

Today we hear from the award-winning science writer Brian Clegg about his terrific book titled Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life. We can take for granted how our lives have benefited from revolutionary changes in physics over the past 150 years. Our growing knowledge of fields from thermodynamics and electromagnetism to superconductivity and information theory have made our lives very different from generations past.

Teaching at the University of Oregon with a specialty cultural and intellectual history and how institutions have been impacted by the spread of ideas Ian McNeely has written several books. Today we discuss a book written with his wife, Lisa Wolverton titled, Reinventing Knowledge from Alexandria to the Internet.

Currently teaching public policy at Dartmouth College Dr. Charles Wheelan has created the organization Unite America. Having written for The New York Times, the Economist and The Wall Street Journal and a number of books. We're going to discuss today, Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread from the Data for All.

With twenty years as an editor at Military Review at the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth Dennis Giangreco has written many award-winning books on U.S. military and political history. Here we'll discuss the books, Hell to Pay: Operation Downfall and the Invasion of Japan and Truman and the Bomb: The Untold Story.

A professor of science at Harvard University and was the longest serving chair of Harvard's Depart- ment of Astronomy and founded Harvard's Black Hole Initiative. Today, he is director of the Institute for Theory and Computation in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and serves as the head of the Galileo Project.

Once holding the title of "curator of timekeeping" David Rooney has served in museums since the mid-nineties. David chairs the Electrical Timekeeping group and acts as pass steward of the Worshipful Company of Clockmaker. David has authored several books, including Spaces of Congestion and Traffic, Politics and Technologies in 20th Century London Mathematics How It Shaped Our World.