John Holdren
Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
March 22 - 5pm @ Rackham Aud
John Holdren trained in aeronautics, astronautics, and plasma physics and earned a bachelor's degree from MIT in 1965 and a PhD from Stanford University in 1970. Holdren taught at Harvard for 13 years and at the University of California, Berkeley for more than two decades. His work has focused on the causes and consequences of global environmental change, energy technologies and policies, ways to reduce the dangers from nuclear weapons and materials, and science and technology policy. Check it out...
Michael Sander
Manager of the JPL Exploration Systems and Technology Office
March 23 - 1:30pm @ 2246 SRB Aud.
Michael Sander oversees the office that conducts advanced technology development for future space missions and transfers JPL-developed technology to U.S. industry. Since February 1995, Sander has served as deputy director of JPL's Space and Earth Science Programs Directorate and as project manager for JPL's Develop New Products reengineering activities. Previously, he was manager of JPL's Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) project. With JPL since 1963, Sander has worked in various capacities in JPL management and project organizations, including management of JPL's Mission Control Center. His early career was spent processing science data from the first missions to Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and beyond.