Online Sunday Seminars
Mensa NZ is running monthly online seminars covering major issues that many people may want to know more about and/or know what they can do more about.
12 noon Sunday, March 2nd, 2025
Title: Molecular Manufacturing and Microscopic Medical Robots
Description
This talk will describe the promise and challenges of molecular manufacturing, its application to building microscopic robots for medicine and some ethical issues they raise.
Speaker
Tad holds a PhD from Stanford and BS from Caltech, both in physics. He has been an industry advisor at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) at UCLA and a visiting faculty member at the University of Girona and the Santa Fe Institute summer school on complex systems. Tad is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and a Member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
How to Access the Seminars
- The March seminar will be on Zoom. (We may switch to Teams at some point, but you will be notified if / when that happens).
- The Zoom link is: https://vuw.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYof-Cpqz8qG9HKiIZSE3WmnTAk-Spf3XJf
- The password is: 01010011
- It will ask you to register, but it just requires an e-mail address to discourage mischief-makers.
Future Seminars
Seminars will take place from 12-1:30 pm NZ time the first Sunday of every month except January. Topic and speaker details will be provided via Menzed and the Mensa NZ website. New Zealand Mensa members will also be notified by e-mail.
Previous Seminars
December 1st, 2024
Topic: Climate change – what’s happening and what do we do about it?
Speaker: James Renwick
December 8th 2024
Topic: The intergenerational value of regular population censuses whilst amidst a population storm
Speaker: Len Cook
February 2nd 2025
Topic: The past, present, and future of AI
Speaker: Hazel Watson-Smith