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To perpetuate more than two centuries of shared ideals and friendship; to build lasting, practical working ties; and to advance solutions to problems of shared concern. |
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You do not need a Zoom account to join. Registered guests will receive a link to join in the days leading up to the event. You can find the full list of descriptions and recordings of our webinars on our website. |
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Open to the public
Title: "The Future of the Republican Party"
Description: What will the future of the Republican Party be if Trump is reelected or not?
Date: Wednesday, October 7 at 1:00 pm EST
Speaker: Douglas Heye, Senior Vice President for Media at CRAFT Media & Digital and CNN Political Commentator. He served as Communications Director to the Republican National Committee and Deputy Chief of Staff to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
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Private event
Description: The new initiative brings together participants and alumni of the Young Leaders program to learn more about one another and examine topical issues in transatlantic affairs.
Date: Thursday, September 24 at 1:00 pm EST
Speakers: Alexander Slater (2016 Young Leader) & Olivier Kamanda ( 2017 Young Leader). Alexander and Olivier will compare the responses to the coronavirus pandemic from (respectively) India and Switzerland, and will ask you about your area's response.
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Interviews with members of our growing community of leaders and experts (Young Leaders, Transatlantic Forum members, Cyber security experts, Translation Prize winners, Immigration Journalism Fellows, and more) |
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Young Leader '20
Thomas J. Quirk IV is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and a 2020 French-American Foundation Young Leader. Read our new interview discussing his career.
Q. At Sandia National Laboratories, the premier engineering center in the US Department of Energy, you are responsible for the design and measurements of radiation effects testing. What kind of problems are you and your team working to solve?
I get to work in a nuclear playground. When pandemics don’t interfere, I sit quite literally between two nuclear reactors and a massive gamma irradiator. The types of experiments performed at these facilities are incredibly varied. For example, some test the degradation of electrical insulation coating wires installed at nuclear power plants after enduring years of exposure. Others attempt to produce pit-less cherries or novel nanoparticles or to assess the response of darkened fiber optic cables or the performance of satellite components passing through radiation belts. I get to assist experts across countless scientific disciplines in formulating and executing successful experiments.
More specifically, I determine the amount of radiation absorbed during the test (this is called dose). One challenge I face is that users of these facilities continue to push the envelope, demanding higher levels of radiation for their tests. The traditional tools used to measure radiation dose saturate at high levels. Some of my research seeks to extend the useful ranges of radiation responses accordingly higher. Read the full interview.
Biography
Thomas J. Quirk IV is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. He operates the Radiation Metrology Laboratory, which supports radiation effects testing by measuring ionizing dose in mixed field environments and by researching dosimetric responses on irradiated materials. Read more.
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The Passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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"‘The voters of this country should be heard,” Joe Biden said this weekend as he exhorted Senate Republicans to block a vote on President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. That might be clever messaging—who doesn’t want voters to be heard? But there’s one problem: Unlike Mr. Trump and Senate Republicans, Mr. Biden has given so few details about his Supreme Court vision that voters are left guessing at what a vote for him means for the judiciary. (...)"
"If the bare-knuckles partisan fight over the Supreme Court results in a triumphant President Trump adding a third justice to the bench, three areas seem especially ripe for change: abortion, gun control and religious liberty concerns important to the right. (...)"
"Senate Republicans are set to reprise their 2016 election strategy: Make it all about the courts. With their majority increasingly in peril and Joe Biden demonstrating a durable lead over President Donald Trump, GOP senators are trying to make 2020 a sequel to their surprising win four years ago. (...)"
"The brawl over Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's successor began before her body was buried. Within hours of her death on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, "President Trump's nominee will receive a vote on the floor of the United States Senate. (...)"
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La Maison Française of New York University is organizing a weekly series with 20 philosophers who present their thoughts and redraw the landscape of contemporary philosophy. The 20/20 Philosophers meetings give voice to this renewal of French speaking philosophical practices in the 21st century. More info.
Title: 20/20 Philosophers: Adèle Van Reeth - Event in French
When: Thursday, September 24 At 3:00 pm EST
Speaker: Adèle Van Reeth, a French philosopher, radio producer and columnist
Philosophy, in the 21st century, has changed: its practices and languages are no longer those of the previous century. A turning point has been taken by new generations and thinkers from diverse origins who, more than commenting on the old masters, are taking philosophy into new fields: health, ecology, neurosciences, security warfare, non-Western thought, trans-identities, the rights of non-human living beings... Shifting the frameworks of the history of philosophy, these thinkers are also finding new audiences, through the media, in hospitals, in the theater, or through literary creation. The 20/20 Philosophers meetings give voice to this renewal of French speaking philosophical practices in the 21st century. More.
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