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Daniel Lewis from The Huntington and John Mulchaey from Carnegie Observatories deliver closing remarks for “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Wendy Freedman from University of Chicago delivers a talk titled “Hubble’s Expanding Legacy: Our Unexpected Universe.” This talk was included in the session titled “Faster Than Ever: The Accelerating Universe.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Bryan Penprase from Soka University of Americadelivers a talk titled “Horizons: Conceptions of Cosmology from a Multi-Cultural Perspective.” This talk was included in the session titled “Faster Than Ever: The Accelerating Universe.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Guillermo Blanc from Las Campanas Observatory, Carnegie Institution for Science, delivers a talk titled “From VAR! to the Edge of the Universe.” This talk was included in the session titled “VAR!: Hale, Shapley, Hubble–and Beyond.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Marcia Bartusiak from Massachusetts Institute of Technology delivers a talk titled “How the 100-Inch and a Variable Star Revealed Our Modern Universe.” This talk was included in the session titled “VAR!: Hale, Shapley, Hubble–and Beyond.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Andrew McWilliam from Carnegie Observatories delivers a talk titled “Origin of the Elements and Galactic Archaeology.” This talk was included in the session titled “It’s Elemental.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
David DeVorkin from the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian, delivers a talk titled “Hale’s Mount Wilson as a ‘Physicist’s Testbench’.” This talk was included in the session titled “Taking the Measurement of the Stars.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Alan Dressler from Carnegie Observatories delivers a talk titled “Eyes on the Universe: Inventing the Telescope.” This talk was included in the session titled “Telescopes Past and Future.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
John Mulchaey from Carnegie Observatories delivers a talk titled “Astronomy in a Connected World.” This talk was included in the session titled “Building Science across Boundaries.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Jay Pasachoff from Williams College delivers a talk titled “Studying Sunshine from Pasadena and Mount Wilson.” This talk was included in the session titled “Staring Into the Suns.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Jennifer van Saders from University of Hawaii delivers a talk titled “Sounds and Spots: Kepler’s Eye on the Stars.” This talk was included in the session titled “Staring Into the Suns.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Patrick McCray from University of California, Santa Barbara, delivers a talk titled “When Astronomical Ambitions Met California Skies.” This talk was included in the session titled “Telescopes Past and Future.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Harold McAlister from Georgia State University delivers a talk titled “Optical Interferometry: Ensuring Mount Wilson’s Second Century of Science.” This talk was included in the session titled “Taking the Measurement of the Stars. Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Ronald Brashear from Chemical Heritage Foundation delivers a talk titled “The Observatory as Laboratory: Spectral Analysis at Mount Wilson Observatory.” This talk was included in the session titled “It’s Elemental.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Barbara Becker from University of California, Irvine, delivers a talk titled “William Huggins and George Ellery Hale: Stalking the Secrets of the Sun.” This talk was included in the session titled “Building Science across Boundaries.” Part of “First Light: The Astronomy Century in California, 1917–2017,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 17–18, 2017.
Matthew Jones from Columbia University delivers a talk titled “Random Forests and Decision Trees: Machine Learning, Empirical Statistics, and the Challenge of Interpretability.” This talk was included in the session titled “Methods and Ambiguities in the Contemporary Age.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Rebecca Lemov from Harvard University delivers a talk titled “A Violent Behavior Database, c. 1969-1973: Episodes in the History of Pre-Crime.” This talk was included in the session titled “With Data We Order Society.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Sarah E. Igo from Vanderbilt University delivers a talk titled “Nine Digits: A Biography of the SSN, 1935-1975.” This talk was included in the session titled “With Data We Order Society.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Dan Bouk from Colgate University delivers a talk titled “Personal Data and the US Planned Society.” This talk was included in the session titled “With Data We Order Society.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Emmanuel Didier from CNRS and University of California, Los Angeles, delivers a talk titled “The Value of Genomics Databases.” This talk was included in the session titled “Methods and Ambiguities in the Contemporary Age.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Soraya de Chadarevian from University of California, Los Angeles, delivers a talk titled “Things and Data in Recent Biology.” This talk was included in the session titled “Machineries and Objects of Data.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
J. Andrew Mendelsohn from Queen Mary University of London and Charité Berlin delivers a talk titled “Data as a State of Mind and the Problem of How It Came to Be in Early Modern Europe.” This talk was included in the session titled “Envisioning Data from the Early Modern to the Nineteenth Century.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Staffan Müller-Wille from University of Exeter delivers a talk titled “Data Selection and Re-Use in Franz Boas’ Anthropometric Studies.” This talk was included in the session titled “Machineries and Objects of Data.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Theodore M. Porter from University of California, Los Angeles, delivers a talk titled “Cases as Data in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum.” This talk was included in the session titled “Machineries and Objects of Data.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Christine von Oertzen from Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, delivers a talk titled “Datafication and Visualization of Statistics in Nineteenth-Century Europe.” This talk was included in the session titled “Envisioning Data from the Early Modern to the Nineteenth Century.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
David Sepkoski from Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, delivers a talk titled “Narrating the Past with Data: Cameralism, Natural History, and the Visual Language of Statistics in the Nineteenth Century.” This talk was included in the session titled “Envisioning Data from the Early Modern to the Nineteenth Century.” Part of “Histories of Data and the Database,” a conference held at The Huntington Nov. 18–19, 2016.
Suzanne E. Wright from University of Tennessee, Knoxville, delivers a talk titled “The Swallow Messenger: Text and Image.” Part of “Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints,” a symposium held at The Huntington Nov. 12, 2016. Part of “Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints,” a symposium held at The Huntington Nov. 12, 2016.
Meng-ching Ma from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, delivers a talk titled “Poetic Pictures in Late-Ming Illustrated Dramatic Publications.” Part of “Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints,” a symposium held at The Huntington Nov. 12, 2016.
Richard Strassberg from University of California, Los Angeles, delivers a talk titled “The Kangxi Emperor’s Thirty-Six Views: The Making of an Imperial Publication.” Part of “Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints,” a symposium held at The Huntington Nov. 12, 2016.
Kai-Wing Chow from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign delivers the keynote address for “Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints,” a symposium held at The Huntington Nov. 12, 2016.
June Li from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints,” a symposium held at The Huntington Nov. 12, 2016.
Hu Jun from Northwestern University delivers a talk titled “The Swallow Messenger: Text and Image.” Part of “Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints,” a symposium held at The Huntington Nov. 12, 2016.