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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

June 13th Dr. Amit Goyal presents High Temperature Superconductors: From Discovery to Large-Scale Industrial Applications

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Remember high-temperature superconductors? These high-tech darlings of the late 1980s brought a Nobel Prize to their discoverers and generat...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Forum’s Resident Historian Vincent Dixon speaks on The History of Industrial Revolutions

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On May 23rd, The Forum’s Resident Historian Vincent Dixon will speak on The History of Industrial Revolutions. Industrial Revolutions have d...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Raising the Bar on AI Education with MIT Professor Eric Klopfer

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On May 9th, Professor Eric Klopfer of MIT’s Media Lab will speak about the work of MIT's RAISE (Responsible AI for Social Empowerment an...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Join us on April 25th as Chief Development Officer of BlueSky Utility discusses the future of solar.

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Bill Hilliard, the Chief Development Officer at BlueSky Utility, a branch of the publicly listed power producer, Nofar Energy, will speak wi...
Monday, April 14, 2025

On April 11th Professor Ramses V. Martinez Will Discuss Scalable Manufacturing of Self-Powered Smart Wearables

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Professor Ramses V. Martinez of Purdue University will present cutting-edge strategies for the scalable manufacturing of intelligent, self-p...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

March 28th- AI in K-12 Education: Empowering Minds, Not Machines

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On March 28th, Courtney Marshall Fairfax County Public Schools will speak on AI in K-12 education, The Human Edge: Empowering Minds, Not Mac...

On March 14- Perspectives on the Electrical Grid from a Second Year PhD Student

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On March 14th, Dahlia Saba will speak with us on Perspectives on the Electric Grid from a Second Year PhD Student. For over 100 years, we ha...
Thursday, March 6, 2025

On February 28th, Dr. Albert Moussa will speak on Hydrogen in Aviation – Potentials and Challenges

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Join Dr. Albert Moussa to discuss how decarbonization and advances in Urban Air Mobility are driving the introduction of new fuels, technolo...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

On February 14th join Professor Srinivasan Chandrasekar.

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Professor Srinivasan Chandrasekar of Purdue University will speak about Prince Rupert’s Drops: 400- year-old Mystery Revealed. Prince Rupert...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Johns Hopkins University Professor Peter Searson

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will speak on The blood-brain barrier: what is it and what does it do? The blood-brain barrier is a 600 km network of blood vessels that ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

On January 10, Professor Ron Ballinger of MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering will speak on Restarting Decommissioned Nuclear Power Plants.

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Professor Ron Ballinger will discuss how the growing demand for electricity stimulated by EVs and data mining has led, for example, to consi...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

On Friday December 13, Patrick Roche will discuss the state of renewable energy on the New England grid.

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Roche's presentation will have a particular emphasis on how Winchester’s electricity supply program, WinPower, aligns with and accelerat...
Tuesday, December 3, 2024

November 22nd- Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good Computers?

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On November 22nd Walter Hubbard, President of PC QuickHelp, will talk about Why Bad Things Happen to Good Computers. Perhaps this has happen...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

On November 8th, Peter Ciriscioli will speak with us on Autonomous Vehicle Policy Issues.

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Peter Ciriscioli joins us to speak on Autonomous Vehicle Policy Issues. Autonomous Vehicle developers have relied on “miles driven” to evalu...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

On Friday, October 25 join Winchester's Sustainability Director, Ken Pruitt to discuss the progress of the Town's Climate Action Plan.

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On Friday, October 25, Ken Pruitt, Sustainability Director for the Town of Winchester, will discuss Winchester’s Climate Action Plan, his ro...
Monday, October 21, 2024

On October 11th join our Generative AI Panel Discussion with Ron Smith, Bernhard Suhm, and Marv Goldschmitt.

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On October 11th the speakers who met with in September have been invited back for an open conversation with us. I hope that you will come pr...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

On September 27th, Bernhard Suhm will continue our conversation about Generative AI.

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He will speak with us on Transforming Search Experiences with Semantic Search. The landscape of information retrieval has undergone a paradi...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

We leadoff our new Wilson Forum season on Friday, September 13th

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with Innovation Toronto’s Ron Smith, Marv Goldschmitt of AIUpdate, and Paula McConnell of Seva Digital who will lead us through An Introduct...
Tuesday, July 2, 2024

On June 28, Walter Hubbard will moderate a discussion on The Electric Grid and Climate Issues.

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On Friday, June 28th we will wrap up our current year of The Wilson Forum. Walter Hubbard will moderate a discussion regarding our focus in ...
Friday, June 14, 2024

On Friday, June 14, 2024, Dr. Albert Moussa will answer the question, How Safe are the Friendly Skies?

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While commercial air travel is an extremely safe mode of transport, accidents involving fire or explosion have occurred. Though very infreq...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024

On Friday, May 24th, Jane Kent will speak about Hospital Planning Going Forward.

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She will speak on her work at The University of Michigan Medicine in maintaining the facilities documentation and how this is changing. The...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

On Friday, May 10th, Peter Baldwin, Past President of Ramgen Power System (Ret.), will offer his perspectives on evolving Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) opportunities.

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Ramgen Power Systems had successfully developed a supersonic CO2 compression technology with support from DOE-NETL and Dresser-Rand, intende...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Professor David Seidman will speak about Northwestern University’s Center of Atom Probe Tomography.

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He will explain what is an atom-probe tomograph and then describe two examples of its use: (1) determination of the ratio of carbon 12 (99%)...
Friday, April 26, 2024

On Friday, April 12th, Historian Vincent Dixon, will speak on The Massachusetts Legislative Process.

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The Right of Free Petition is a legally unique opportunity for all those in Massachusetts to file their own legislation, once each Legislati...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

On March 22, Boston Globe business reporter Jon Chesto will speak broadly about current events shaping Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Future

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Jon Chesto covers the leaders who shape Boston’s business community. He has been reporting on business and politics in New England for the p...
Monday, March 18, 2024

Richard Adler rejoins us on March 8th to revisit Bending the Law of Unintended Consequences: More Decision Support Models.

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We witness the unintended consequences of critical decisions all around us, like Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and the disastrous war i...
Thursday, March 7, 2024

On February 23rd, MIT Professor Jesus del Alamo will speak on the future direction of microelectronics, Microelectronics: Quo Vadis?

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The COVID pandemic, in dramatic form, made evident the critical role that microelectronics plays in modern human society. Supply disruptions...
Friday, February 16, 2024

On February 9th, Professor Angel Serrano Aroca of the Catholic University of Velencia (UCV) will speak about his work on Antimicrobial Face Masks, Face Shields and...Lipsticks.

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Face masks and face shields are accepted to be effective protective tools to avoid bacterial and viral transmission, especially against ind...
Monday, February 5, 2024

On Friday, January 26th, Dr. Robert Caligiuri , Corporate Vice President at Exponent, Inc., will describe An Example of the Challenges and Adventures of Failure Analysis and Risk Mitigation—The Camisea Pipeline System.

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Engineering systems sometimes fail in service. Understanding the origin of such events can lead to improved design and increased performance...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

On January 12th, Dr. Piotr Moncarz, XGS Energy, will speak on Geothermal Solutions.

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The most under-utilized of all currently available energy sources, geological heat, is a principal topic of this discussion. With all the at...
Friday, December 29, 2023

On Friday, December 22nd, Professor Noam Eliaz of Tel Aviv University will speak on Additive Manufacturing by Directed Energy Deposition – Opportunities and Challenges.

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Directed energy deposition (DED) is a branch of additive manufacturing (AM) processes in which a feedstock material in the form of powder or...
Monday, December 18, 2023

On Friday, December 8th Professor Ahmed Ghoniem will speak on Fuels Beyond Fossil: Why, What and When?

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On the road to decarbonize energy, power and propulsion systems, electrification (using low carbon electricity from renewables, nuclear or w...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023

On Friday, November 17th State Senator Mike Barrett will join our Forum meeting and speak on the tandem goals of expanding clean energy infrastructure and contracting natural gas infrastructure in Massachusetts.

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In his words, “Thank you for the invitation to speak at the Wilson Forum. I appreciate the opportunity. I want to discuss a challenge that u...

On November 10th, Professor Chris Knittel of MIT’s Sloan School will speak on Climate Policy and The Electric Grid.

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He will describe how markets work, generally, and the economics of climate change. He will address how different types of policies affect th...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

On Friday, October 27th, Zeyneb Magavi of the Home Energy Efficiency team, HEET, will speak on Cutting Carbon Emissions: Geothermal Energy.

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She will share an unfolding story of socio-technical systems change that has resulted in a new rapidly spreading decarbonization pathway for...
Monday, October 16, 2023

On Friday, October 13, Walter Hubbard will moderate our discussion on Solutions for the Grid: The Light at the End of the Tunnel.

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In 1963 at the age of twelve, Walter’s Science Fair project was a Solar PhotoVoltaic cell powering a motor. Ever since, he has been enthral...
Tuesday, September 26, 2023

On Friday, September 22nd, Eric Johnson of will speak about the work of ISO New England.

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Through collaboration and innovation, ISO New England plans the transmission system, administers the region’s wholesale markets, and operate...
Monday, September 11, 2023

On Friday, September 8th, MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer will speak on Controlling the release of large molecules from biomaterials: How overcoming skepticism led to new medical treatments and ways to tackle a global health challenge.

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Advanced drug delivery systems are having an enormous impact on human health. We start by discussing our early research on developing the fi...
Thursday, July 6, 2023

On Friday, June 23rd , Innovation Toronto’s Ron Smith will join us. His presentation is titled From Science Fiction to Science Friction.

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Ron is Innovation Toronto's chief cook and bottle washer, and he has had the privilege of being able to observe the wonders and challeng...
Monday, June 12, 2023

On Friday, June 9th, historian and writer Vincent Dixon will speak about America’s preparations for its 250th Anniversary, Heading Toward America’s 250th, and the background foundational history that explains how Massachusetts led the Original Thirteen, forward, to the culminating actions, and the document, that we know of as The Declaration of Independence.

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Important, but little known, is that we are in the 250th Anniversary Cycle of The United States, which began before 2020 (1770-1776); and mo...
Thursday, June 1, 2023

On Friday, May 26th Paul Woskov, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, will join us to speak about Geothermal Drilling Technologies. Geothermal energy from Super-Hot Rock

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Super Hot Rock (SHR) can be a virtually limitless base energy source with a power density comparable to fossil fuels. At depths ranging fro...
Tuesday, May 9, 2023

Friday May 12th, 2023 Laura Lewis on Synthetic Tetrataenite: Extraterrestrial Origins and Terrestrial Consequences.

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Northeastern University Professor Laura Lewis will speak on Synthetic Tetrataenite: Extraterrestrial Origins and Terrestrial Consequences. 2...