Dr. George Brown is currently a Professor of Physics in the UC Santa Cruz Physics Department, and from 1996-2000, served as chair of the department. From 2000 -2007, Dr. Brown served as the campus's Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. Before joining UCSC, Dr. Brown worked for Bell Laboratories and Stanford University. Dr Brown received his Bachelor's degree with honors in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, and his Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in upstate New York. In 1985, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests span a wide variety of topics, from elementary particle physics, particle accelerators, solid-state physics, and biophysics.
Click here to watch his lecture - "Great Challenges for 21st Century Scientists

Adina obtained her B.Sc. double major in Biology and Geology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Realizing how important science education is to the well-being of our planet she pursued a M.S. degree in science education at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, and another masters degree in oceanography, from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1989 she moved to San Diego to take part in the Ph.D. program at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography where, after 6 years, she graduated with a degree and a daughter. In the summer of 1999 she moved to Stanford, where she worked for 8 years as a professor in the department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. Currently she is an Associate Research Scientist at the Institute of Marine Sciences here at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Click here to watch her lecture - "Ground Water Discharge and Coastal Health"

Mr. Aznar serves on the Educational/Consulting Advisory Board of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
Click here to watch his lecture - "Technology and Specialization"

Merry Ayres, a Human Resources Manager at EA, spoke to the students about the types of careers that are available in the video game industry, what degrees and skills you need to have for a career in video game design, and how to be a competitive applicant for a career in the video game industry. She even gave away a few EA games as prizes! She was a huge hit!
Click here to watch her lecture - "What it Takes to be a Video Game Designer"

Allison Galloway is a forensics anthropologist and a professor of anthropology at UCSC. She is also the vice provost of academic affairs. In 1994, she was a winner of the Excellence in Teaching Award for UCSC, and was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer from 2003-2005. Dr. Galloway received her B.A. from UC Berkeley and later attended the University of Arizona to get her Masters’ and PhD. Her areas of research includes Skeletal changes and bone metabolism, reproductive and skeletal interactions, forensic skeletal analysis and expert witness testimony.
Click here to watch her lecture - "The Glamorous World of the Forensic Anthropologist....the other side of "Bones"

Dr. Sandra Faber has been a University Professor since 1995. Before then, she joined the UC Santa Cruz faculty and the UC Observatories/Lick Observatory in 1972. She is also a core member of the Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe and is involved in the Deep-Imaging Multi object Spectrograph (DEIMOS) project. She received her Bachelor’s from Swarthmore College and went on to get her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Faber’s research focuses on the formation and evolution of galaxies and the evolution of structure in the universe.

Dr. Raja Guha Thakurta is an astronomer for UC Lick Observatory and a professor in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department here at UCSC. He joined UCSC in 1994 as an assistant professor making full professor in 2002. Dr. Guha Thakurta received his bachelors of science from Calcutta University in India in 1983. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in Astrophysical Science from Princeton University. Dr. Guha Thakutra is a former Alfred P. Sloan fellow and has over 100 publications. His area of research includes studies in Galaxy formation and evolution, dwarf galaxies, globular star clusters, and interstellar dust.
Click here to watch there lecture - "The Birth and Evolution of Galaxies"

David Deamer is a Research Professor in the Department of Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His undergraduate B.Sc. degree was in Chemistry, at Duke University and his Ph.D. in Physiological Chemistry from the Ohio State University School of Medicine. In 1994 he moved his laboratory from UC Davis to UC Santa Cruz. Prof. Deamer's research interest focuses on DNA, in this talk he will explore the relationship between stars, planets, life on earth and life elsewhere.
Click here to watch his lecture - "Astrobiology and the Origins of Life"

Justin Revenaugh uses seismology and geodynamic modeling to delineate structure at all levels within the Earth, with the hope of constraining its current state, composition, and evolution. Beginning in 1990, Revenaugh and co-workers from the Institute of Tectonics began developing the research resources of the Crustal Imaging Laboratory, which now includes state-of-the-art facilities for processing MCS (multichannel seismic) data, with a number of additional applications under development or awaiting implementation, including sea-bottom mapping and imaging methods (SeaMARC, GLORIA, and Sea Beam). In this lecture he will explore the importance and the hazards of volcanoes, including how they relate to the breakup of the Earth's continents, mass extinctions, and the diversity of life.
Click here to watch his lecture - "Volcanoes and Hot Spots"