NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Scott Hubbard, a Vanderbilt alumnus and director
of NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, is scheduled to give a
free public lecture at Vanderbilt on the latest information about Mars,
including the latest images coming from the two robot rovers currently
operating on the surface of the red planet. Scientists and engineers at
Ames provided scientific guidance and developed some of the scientific
instruments carried by the two rovers.
The lecture will be 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 in Room 4327 of the Stevenson Center on the Vanderbilt campus.
Hubbard became the director of NASA Ames in 2002. Previously, he was
an investigator on a number of space missions, including the Lunar
Prospector mission that searched for evidence of water on the moon. He
has served as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory and was a founder, vice president and general manager for
the high-tech startup company Canberra Semiconductor. Before that, he
held the position of senior research physicist at the think-tank SRI
International. He received an undergraduate degree in physics and
astronomy from Vanderbilt in 1970 and obtained his doctorate from the
University of California at Berkeley.
Hubbard will also deliver a technical physics colloquium at 4 p.m. on Feb. 12, in Stevenson Center Room 4309.
The Holladay Lecture honors Professor Wendell Holladay, who was a
professor of physics at Vanderbilt prior to his service as dean of the
College of Arts and Science and provost of the University. Holladay is
retired but remains active exploring the foundations of quantum
mechanics and attending department seminars.
Media contact: David Salisbury, (615) 343-6803
David.Salisbury@vanderbilt.edu