Lifeboat Foundation Dinner
Our James Blodgett will be hosting a dinner meeting for our members
at WorldFuture 2012. If you have suggestions for a restaurant, write
to
WorldFuture 2012 will be held in Toronto, July 27-29, 2012 at the
Sheraton Centre Toronto hotel. Our Peter Bishop, James Blodgett, John
Cassel, Joe Coates, José Luis Cordeiro, Tom Cowper, William Crossman,
Sean Daken, Elizabeth Florescu, Jay Gary, Jerome C. Glenn, Adam Gordon,
Theodore J. Gordon, Linda Groff, William Halal, Juanita Hardy, Jay
Herson, Rodney Hill, Syed Isa, John Jackson, Naveen Jain, Peter Jones,
Ted Kahn, Bud Levin, Tom Lombardo, John Meagher, Ramez Naam, Pavel
Novacek, Concepción Olavarrieta, Youngsook Park, Alex Peake, Tiffany
Pressler, Sheila Ronis, Ziauddin Sardar, Heather Schlegel, Josh
Schonwald, Karl Schroeder, Kamal Zaki Mahmoud Ali Shaeer, John Smart,
Jack Smith, Rick Smyre, Dave Stein, Suzanne Stein, Patrick Tucker, Verne
Wheelwright, Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, and Ibon Zugasti will be
speaking/participating.
Learn more at http://www.wfs.org/worldfuture-2012
Summer Growth Fundraiser
Donald Maclean has pledged $5,000 in matching funds in honor of his 50th
wedding anniversary. This, plus the matching funds from Jeff
Bone/Topsight Fund, gives us a total of $11,250 in matching funds for
our Summer Growth Fundraiser!
Learn more at https://lifeboat.com/ex/summer.growth
Apocalypse When?
Our Willard Wells has authored "Apocalypse When?: Calculating How Long
the Human Race Will Survive" (Springer, 2009) at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038709...87098364
Read the review by John J. Watkins, Professor of Math at Colorado
College at http://www.springerlink.com/content/f4r...54r4266/
This review will be published in the summer of 2012 in the Mathematical
Intelligencer, Vol. 34.
Read the review by S. Gill Williamson who is Professor Emeritus of Math
at University of California, San Diego at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-rev...E8CWA423
Read the review by Adhemar Bultheel who is at the Department of Computer
Science at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven at
http://nalag.cs.kuleuven.be/papers/ade/...view.pdf
Read the review by Dr. Ted Weverka at
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1S2RSDHTH...inkCode=
Read the review by Samuel Goldberg who is Professor Emeritus of Math at
Oberlin College at
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/col...42.5.413
Patterns of Distinction
Our Richard Thieme will keynote at Patterns of Distinction: $ecurity
Matter$ on April 12, 2012 speaking on "The Future of Hacking: Living in
a World Without Walls".
Learn more at http://www.podsecuritymatters.com/about.html
10 National Graduate Research Polymer Conference
Our Liming Dai is co-chair of the 10th National Graduate Research
Polymer Conference which will be held May 21-24, 2012 at Case Western
Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
This conference will cover: bio-related materials, energy related
materials, photonics and electronics, surfaces and self-assembling,
nanostructured materials, and
characterization/kinetics/theory/processing.
Learn more at http://www.case.edu/emac/gradpoly12/
Cosmic Garden
Learn about the campaign to create the Cosmic Garden in Shanghai at
http://www.indiegogo.com/cosmicgarden
Imagine slowly flying through space surrounded by an ancient lost city. Join the Cosmic Garden team in creating a relaxing indoor garden that
flies through space.
Blog
John Cassel joins our blog team with the post "Risk Assessment is Hard
(computationally and otherwise)" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/04/risk-a...therwise
Jake Mann joins our blog team with the post "One Key to The Future is
Financial Clarity" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/04/key-to...-clarity
Roland Schiefer joins our blog team with the post "GadgetBridge — Taming dangerous technologies by pushing them into consumer gadgets" at
http://lifeboat.com/blog/2012/04/gadget...-gadgets
Our Facebook group now has over 1,300 members. Join our discussions at https://www.facebook.com/groups/lifeboatfoundation
Growing Membership
We now accept Discover cards. Recent donations/pledges we have received,
since our last newsletter:
Donald Maclean: $5,000,
Michael Dickey: $85,
Sergio M.L. Tarrero: $85,
Philippe Van Nedervelde: $85,
Kenneth P. Weiss: $85,
Brandon E. Larson: $50,
Richard Kane: $30,
Rick Hubbard: $25,
Matthew L. McGuirl: $25,
Anonymous: $10,
James Bracken: $10,
Rebecca R. Cooper: $10,
Thomas Dolphin: $10,
George Garrett: $10,
Charles Hawk: $10,
Tom Kerwick: $10,
Alexander Macrae: $10,
Aaron Mayzes: $10,
Glenn A. Miller: $10,
Philip Morehead: $10,
Roland Schiefer: $10,
Benjamin T. Solomon: $10,
Ryan Witt: $10,
and UNIVEX RAM Kft: $10.
Our Join Us page at https://lifeboat.com/ex/join.us now allows you to
pay for your membership anywhere from monthly to every ten years.
