2025 March 20: The Scientific Method is Incomplete
- Event: American Physical Society Global Physics Summit (History, Philosophy & Public Policy Session), Anaheim, CA
- Speaker: Jeff Tsao (Sandia National Labs)
- Date: March 20, 2025
- Title: The Scientific Method is Incomplete
- Link to 11 minute video of talk: Link
2025 February 25-26: The Bell Labs X "Project"
- Event: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable (GUIPRR) Workshop
- Speaker: Jeff Tsao (Sandia National Labs)
- Host: Darryll Pines (President, University of Maryland)
- Date: February 25-26, 2025
- Title: The Bell Labs X “Project”: A Vision for Reinventing Corporate Research Labs
- Link to Working Paper: Link
- Link to "Conversation with Jeff": Link
- Link to Event: Link
2024 December 23: Podcast Interview with Yinuo Li
- Event: Podcast Interview of Venky Narayanamurti
- Speaker: Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Host: Yinuo Li
- Date: December 23, 2024
- Title: Innovation: Beyond Boundaries Lies the Unknown and the Answer
- Link to YouTube Video: Link
2024 July 1: Microzone Episode
- Event: Podcast Interview of Venky Narayanamurti
- Speaker: Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Hosts: Adarsh Ravi (Analog Devices) and Allison Lemus (Analog Devices)
- Date: July 1, 2024
- Title: Venky Narayanamurti's Professional Journey
- Abstract: Microzone is the IEEE Microsystems Boston Chapter's premier podcast. In this episode, Adarsh Ravi and Allison Lemus interview Professor and Former Dean, Dr. Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti from Harvard University who talks about his professional journey and a few hobbies that keep him agile at work.
- Link to Spotify Audio Podcast: Link
2024 June 28: Tsinghua University Talk
- Event: Fourth event of Tsinghua University's "Wen Dao" series
- Speaker: Xue Lan [薛澜] (Dean of Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University)
- Host: Gao Yuchen (Tsinghua University Think Tank Center)
- Date: June 28, 2024
- Title: The Origin of the Scientific and Technological Revolution - How to Cultivate Excellent Research and Innovation
- Link to English Translation of Abstract: Link
- Link to Video Recording: Link
2023 August 17: NREL Seminar
- Event: Seminar given at NREL (the National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Golden, CO
- Speaker: Jeff Tsao (Sandia National Labs)
- Host: Kirstin Alberi (Director of the Materials Science Center at NREL)
- Date: August 17, 2023
- Title: How Human Intelligences Advance Technoscience (and How AI Might Also)
- Abstract: Understanding how science and technology advance has long been of interest to diverse scholarly communities. Thus far, however, such understanding has not been easy to map to—and thus help improve—the practice of research. In this talk, we describe the beginnings of a mechanistic rethinking of how human intelligences actually advance science and technology, particularly at its creative extreme, and some implications on policy and institutional design for research. We also describe the beginnings of a mapping between how human intelligences advance science and technology and how artificial intelligences might advance science and technology—a topic of current interest given the tremendous recent progress in artificial intelligence.
- Link to YouTube Video Recording: Link
2023 July 26: AmSECast Interview
- Interviewer: Alan Lowe, Director of the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE)
- Interviewee: Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Date: 2023 July 26
- Posted: 2023 August 1
- Title: Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research: Implications for Science and Technology Policy
- Abstract: As a Bell Laboratory alumni rose to lead the Semiconductor Electronics and Solid-State Electronics Research Departments today's guest has been Dean of multiple disciplines at Harvard as well as an international representative of the sciences at large. With numerous publications we will Now we discuss his co-authored book, titled The Genesis of Techno Scientific Revolutions Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Research.
- Link to Video Recording: Link
- Link to AMSECast Library: Link
2023 May 11: UC Santa Barbara Seminar
- Event: Seminar hosted by UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Energy Efficiency
- Speaker: Venkatesh Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Host: John Bowers
- Date/Time: 2023 May 11, 3p PT, Henley Hall Auditorium Rm 1010
- Title: Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research: Implications for Science and Technology Policy
- Abstract: Research, particularly on the "discovery" end of the R&D spectrum, is complex and easily misunderstood. Scientific advance doesn’t always precede, it often follows, engineering advance. Answering questions isn’t always the goal, finding questions often is. We don’t always seek to strengthen conventional wisdom, sometimes we seek to surprise it. What if we could rethink research so that its nurturing, through policy and management, harmonizes with its nature?
- Link to Video Recording: Link
- Link to UCSB Institute for Energy Efficiency YouTube Channel: Link
2022 August 16: Protocol Labs Seminar
- Event: Protocol Labs Research Seminar
- Speaker: Jeff Tsao (Sandia National Labs)
- Host: Liam O'Hagan
- Date/Time: 2022 August 16, 1-2 pm EDT
- Title: The Nature and Nurture of Research: A Modern Synthesis
- Abstract: Research is complex, fragile, and easily misunderstood. Scientific advance doesn’t always precede, it often follows, engineering advance. Answering questions isn’t always the goal, finding questions often is. We don’t always seek to strengthen conventional wisdom, sometimes we seek to surprise it. What if we could rethink research so that its nurturing, through policy and management, harmonizes with its nature? In this talk, we give an overview of a such a rethinking, as outlined in a new book, “The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions: Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Research.”
- Link to Video Recording: Link
- Link to Protocol Labs Research Seminar Series: Link
2022 April 28: C-EENRG Thursday Seminar
- Event: Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) Thursday Seminar Series
- Speaker: Venky Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Hosts: Qi Li and Sergey Kolesnikov
- Date/Time: 2022 April 28, 3 pm UK time (10 am EDT in the US)
- Title: Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research
- Abstract: Research, particularly on the “discovery” end of the R&D spectrum, is complex and easily misunderstood. Scientific advance doesn’t always precede, it often follows, engineering advance. Answering questions isn’t always the goal, finding questions often is. We don’t always seek to strengthen conventional wisdom, sometimes we seek to surprise it. What if we could rethink research so that its nurturing, through policy and management, harmonizes with its nature? Join us for a talk by Venky on his new book with Jeff Tsao, “The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions” (Harvard University Press, Nov 2021) addressing this question.
- Link to Video Recording: Link
2022 Feb 24: JPL OCSCT Distinguished Speaker Series
- Speaker: Venky Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Hosts: Paul Goldsmith and Shouleh Nikzad
- Date/Time: 2022 Feb 24, 11 am PST
- Title: Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research
- Abstract: Research, particularly on the “discovery” end of the R&D spectrum, is complex and easily misunderstood. Scientific advance doesn’t always precede, it often follows, engineering advance. Answering questions isn’t always the goal, finding questions often is. We don’t always seek to strengthen conventional wisdom, sometimes we seek to surprise it. What if we could rethink research so that its nurturing, through policy and management, harmonizes with its nature? Join us for a talk by Venky on his new book with Jeff Tsao, “The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions” (Harvard University Press, Nov 2021) addressing this question.
- WebEx Recording of Talk: Link
2022 Jan 9: India Science Festival
- Speaker: Venky Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Facilitator: Shruti Sundaresan
- Title: Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research
- Date: 9 Jan 2022 Sunday
- Time: 8 pm IST (9:30 am EST)
2021 Dec 13: Purdue University Birck Nanotechnology Center
- Series: Birck Nanotechnology Center Distinguished Seminar (Purdue University)
- Title: “Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Discovery Research”
- Speaker: Venky Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Abstract: Research, particularly on the “discovery” end of the R&D spectrum, is complex and easily misunderstood. Scientific advance doesn’t always precede, it often follows, engineering advance.
2021 Nov 11: Sandia New Research Ideas Forum
- Duration: 1 hour 30 min
- Date: 11/11/2021
- Speaker: Venky Narayanamurti (Harvard University)
- Facilitator: Jeff Tsao (Sandia National Labs)
- Abstract: Research, particularly on the “discovery” end of the R&D spectrum, is complex and easily misunderstood. Scientific advance doesn’t always precede, it often follows, engineering advance. Answering questions isn’t always the goal, finding questions often is. We don’t always seek to strengthen conventional wisdom, sometimes we seek to surprise it. What if we could rethink research so that its nurturing, through policy and management, harmonizes with its nature? Join us for a conversation between co-authors Venky Narayanamurti and Jeff Tsao on their new book, “The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions” (Harvard University Press, November, 2021) addressing this question.
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