Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series
Bruce J. Nelson Speaker Series Mission
The Bruce J. Nelson Distinguished Speaker Series has been made possible through the generosity of the family of Bruce J. Nelson 鈥�74. 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.
Lectures are held on campus in the fall semester.
2025 Speaker Series
Doing the Impossible: Journeys Across Space and Time
Sept. 18 and Nov. 12
The 2025 Nelson Series explores innovation at the intersection of 无忧视频, space and human possibility. Astronaut Jos茅 Hern谩ndez, 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.
A reception precedes each event, and the lectures commence at 6 p.m. Talks are free and open to the public.
Jos茅 Hern谩ndez, Sept. 18
Former NASA Astronaut and Founder, Tierra Luna Engineering
Kip Thorne, Nov. 12
Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate