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Bruce J. Nelson Speaker Series Mission<\/h2><\/div>
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The Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series has been made possible through the generosity of the family of Bruce J. Nelson \u201974. Nelson was a brilliant technologist and leader, who developed the remote procedure call and who, at the time of his death, was the chief science officer at Cisco Systems. The speaker series addresses global technical issues and their social, economic and political challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lectures are held on campus in the fall semester.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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2025 Speaker Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Doing the Impossible: Journeys Across Space and Time<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sept. 18 and Nov. 12<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The 2025 Nelson Series explores innovation at the intersection of STEM, space and human possibility. Astronaut Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez, the subject of the Amazon Prime movie A Million Miles Away, will share his journey: from being the son of migrant farmworkers to serving as space shuttle mission specialist. Nobel Laureate Kip Thorne will reveal the decades-long effort to detect gravitational ripples in spacetime created by colliding black holes, exotic objects he helped bring to life in the movie Interstellar.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A reception precedes each event, and the lectures commence at 6 p.m. Talks are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

2025 Series Speakers<\/h2><\/div>
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<\/span>Jos\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez, Sept. 18<\/span><\/a><\/h3>

Former NASA Astronaut and Founder, Tierra Luna Engineering<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Kip Thorne, Nov. 12<\/span><\/a><\/h3>

Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Past Nelson Events<\/h2>More Nelson Events<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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<\/span> \u201cDon\u2019t Try to Get Answers from a Stochastic Parrot\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/h3>

Emily Bender<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>\u201cResist, Renew, Explore: Human Values in the Age of AI\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/h3>

John Warner<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>\u201cAI Won\u2019t Destroy Education, It\u2019ll Save It\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/h3>

Sal Khan<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4791,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-primary.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4801","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4801\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}