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    • December 09, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speakers: Andy Ratermann, Jeff Rasley, and Doug Gettelfinger --- Andy Ratermann is president of the Scientech Club. Jeff Rasley is president of the Scientech Foundation. Doug Gettelfinger is treasurer of both organizations. (Sponsored By: Rick Whitener)(ID: 1896)

    The annual meeting will be held to elect officers for 2025. This meeting is required by the bylaws of our club. After the elections, Jeff Rasley will give an update on the activities of the Scientech Foundation. Doug Gettelfinger will give an update on the Foundations first full year as a public charity.


    Zoom Meeting Info

    https://zoom.us/j/97527634510?pwd=eWcyTFJRMkZGanBQekJxTWxwSTdxdz09

    Meeting ID: 975 2763 4510

    Passcode: 946584


    • January 06, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Ruth Schmidt, PhD, MBA, was the program manager of the business mailer payment systems at the United States Postal Service. She has been involved in information security design, testing, and implementation for over 20 years. She is certified as a Project Management Professional and a Program Management Professional from the Project Management Institute. She is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional, CISSP, from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc. ISC2.

    The CrowdStrike cybersecurity Falcon platform update on July 19, 2024, caused the largest IT outage in the history of the world. The estimated cost of this outage is now over $5 billion. Ruth Schmidt will show how CrowdStrike and other companies offering cybersecurity products could improve product technical design, testing and roll out procedures to prevent or minimize the impact of future outages. She will explore how client companies can prevent outages through testing, acceptance, and contingency processes.


    • January 13, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speakers: Richard Gunderman is Professor of Radiology at the IU School of Medicine. He is a Scientech Member and frequent contributor.


    The life and career of Vince Lombardi includes the Green Bay Packers winning five championships in seven years, including the first two Super Bowls. Although he is associated with the view that 'Winning isn't everything - it's the only thing,' Lombardi in fact thought there are things more important than winning in both football and life.

    These lessons have applied to those working in scientific discovery and the inventions that changed our lives and our society. Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison, and the Curies are a few examples.



    • January 20, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Lisa Milton

    Lisa is the Director of Natural Resources at Newfield's. Lisa Milton has been at Newfields since May 2022. Prior, she served as the Assistant Operations and Property Manager for White River State Park. Lisa has a Masters of Science in Environmental Science with concentrations in Applied Ecology and Water Resources from the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Lisa has worked in erosion mitigation, technical theater production, and ornamental horticulture and interned with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources at the Dwight Chamberlain Raptor Rehabilitation Center at Hardy Lake Nature Preserve. Lisa is Vice President of Friends of the White River and sits on the Tactical Advisory Board for Frank’s Paddlesports Livery. She previously served as Co-Chair of the White River Waterway Committee for Reconnecting to Our Waterways and Vice President of the Board of Directors for the White River Alliance.

    This talk will include a brief overview of the history and current management of The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park with a focus on the new sculpture installations in the Hawryluk Sculpture Green. I will discuss the successes and complications with the construction and installation of these sculptures and how these additions contribute to our overarching goals for Fairbanks Park. She will also discuss the engineering and ecological components necessary to successfully install and maintain these scuptures.

    • January 27, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Monica Peterson

    Monica is the Community Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator for Hamilton County Emergency Management.

    She will talk about all types of emergencies, ranging from where in your house you go to be safe during a storm, how to shut off the water if there is a leak, how to shelter in place, how to use a fire extinguisher, how to shut off the gas to your how, how to turn off the electricity, how to build a kit of food and water, how to create a communications plan for your family and more. She will bring handouts in either paper or digital form


    • February 03, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Bobby Dalzell. Day job: Investment Advisor at a family office in Carmel. More interesting job: Spotter for Arrow McLaren Indycar Team. BS from Indiana University in Public Financial Management and 17 years in open wheel racing.

    At 230+ mph and millions of dollars in technology, Indycar drivers still rely on the human eye from high above the press box to provide vital information. Strategists and Engineers have split seconds to accept, filter, and utilize the spotter’s input in conjunction with thousands of datapoints of telemetry to win races.

     

    • February 10, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Bradley Marchant 

    This lecture will discuss the evolution of genealogy as a past time into the powerful tool it is today in law enforcement. We will examine the early history of genetic genealogy and discuss some of the earliest cases, as well as showing an example of a case in Indiana which led to a conviction. We will also discuss the processes behind forensic investigative genetic genealogy, as well as the future for this scientific advancement.

    About the Speaker: Bradley Marchant is a Forensic Scientist for Indiana State Police. He graduated with a degree in Family History-Genealogy from Brigham Young University. Bradley worked as a Scandinavian research consultant at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah and was a metadata specialist for FamilySearch where he was in charge of organizing genealogical data for online publications of images. He was a cataloguer for the Family History Library Catalog in charge of multiple languages and worked as a genealogist researcher at Ancestry ProGenealogists.

    • February 24, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: David Nelson

    David Nelson is a Eastland Historian. Grandson of Elmer Nelson -Eastland Rescuer and welder. He is Director of Remember the Eastland. Lecturer and historian, who informs the public of this 1915 worst maritime disaster and preserves its history with nautical error in ship-building and a cause of a great loss of life..844 people died.

    The SS Eastland sinking was due to failed engineering. The ship sank in the Chicago River before heading to Michigan City, Indiana. The ship was known for cruising the Lake Michigan from Port Huron to Michigan City and Chicago.  The speaker will cover the problems with the ship which had been known to the ship building company before the sinking. .

    • March 03, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Hernán Castillo-Hermosilla 

    Feldhusen Doctoral Student Fellow in Education. Marcia Gentry Influence Scholar & Fulbright Scholar. MENSA Foundation Gifted Education Fellow & Dean's Doctoral Fellow. Department of Educational Studies.College of Education.

    Link to Purdue Gifted Education Research Institute

    Link to Speaker Profile

    Mr. Castillo-Hermosilla will present a project explores novel gifted identification methods to find gifted people forgotten in the system by current instruments and how these other measurements may be relevant to use for additional pathways for identifying children who may be overlooked. This research project was given an award by the MENSA Researchn and Education Foundation (he presented it this year at the Foundation Meeting at the Mensa Annual Gathering in Kansas City) and he also received the Marcia Gentry Influence Scholarship.

    Sponsored by Alison Brown

    • March 17, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speakers: Glenn Bingle and Hank Wolfla.

    Glenn Bingle will describe the benefits that healthcare professionals are gaining from the uses of AI. He will talk about the social concerns and fraudulent uses that have occurred and steps being taken to counter these activities. Hank Wolfla will show how you can download AI tools onto your smartphones and use these tools to improve your life.

    Glenn Bingle received a BA from the University of Massachusetts and his MD and PhD from IU. He was the medical director of Genetic Service and Counseling for Community Health Network and a Clinical Professor of Medicine and Medical Molecular Genetics at the IU School of Medicine. He has been a member of Scientech since 2018. Hank Wolfla received an associate degree and bachelor degree from Purdue University in 1965 and 1968. He taught at IU-Kokomo for a while before entering the bioengineering field. He has worked for Clarian, Community Hospital, and Hancock County Hospital. He helped to development instrumentation for the insertion of cardiac pacemakers, and received a patent for his design of an ergometer (exercise device) used in cardiac rehabilitation.


    • April 07, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Scott A. Namestnik


    Scott Namestnik is the state botanist in the Indiana Department of Natural Resource, Indiana Natural Heritage data center, Division of Nature Preserves. Much of his work involves conducting botanical inventories, assessing sites for protection consideration, and documenting and monitoring occurrences of endangered and threatened species. He has a degree in Botany with a focus in Environmental Science from Miami University and over 25 years of experience with the flora of the Great Lakes region and the Midwestern United States. His written work on flora has appeared in several peer-reviewed journals including The Michigan Botanist, The Great Lakes Botanist, Phytoneuron, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science, and Rhodora, and he is co-author of Wildflowers of the Midwest (Timber Press) and Wildflowers of the Indiana Dunes National Park (Indiana University Press). He is a board member for NatureCITE, Indiana Native Plant Society (North Chapter) and South Bend-Elkhart Audobon Society, is on the advisory council for Shirley Heinze Land Trust and the planning committee for the Indiana Dunes Birding Festival, and is active with the Indiana Native Plant Society (Journal Team Leader) and the Indiana Academy of Science (member of the Biodiversity and Natural Areas Committee and past Chair of the Plant Systematics and Biodiversity section). Scott is a highly sought after speaker, including as keynote speaker for the 2023 open house of the Friesner Herbarium at Butler University.

    Scott Namestnik is the state botanist in the Indiana Department of Natural Resource, Indiana Natural Heritage data center, Division of Nature Preserves. He is involved in the identification, collection of biological samples and collaborations within Indiana and surrounding states. Biological collections underpin basic science discoveries as well as deepen our understanding of many challenges such as global change, biodiversity loss, sustainable food production, ecosystem conservation, and improving human health and security.
    Since members of Scientech Club have a diverse scientific background.
    Everyone isn’t (and can't be) a biologist but everyone can still play a part in building our understanding through citizen/community science. What better life long learning than getting involve in contributing to citizen science projects. Scott will share his vast knowledge of the flora and fauna of Indiana and suggestions on how members of Scientech Club can get involved as citizen scientists.


    Sponsored by Betty Yan

    • May 05, 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
    • 2100 E 71st Street Indianapolis, IN 46220
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    Speaker: Roger N. Blomquist 

    In addition to serving as a nuclear propulsion officer on a US Navy nuclear-powered submarine, Roger has worked at Argonne National Laboratories since the late 1970’s. His career has centered on computational methods in neutron transport, reactor physics, and nuclear data processing. He has co-taught nuclear energy courses at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and other universities, as well as chairing the International Expert Group on Source Convergence in Criticality Safety Analysis, which is a part of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. He currently serves on the Nuclear Engineering Division Outreach Committee.


    Roger will give a high-level overview of current developments in nuclear reactor and fuel cycle technologies. Topic will include current large, water-cooled reactors, small modular reactors, and advanced reactors. Technical and economic pros and cons and trends will be explored, along with the effects on the electricity grid of various generating technologies.

    Sponsored by John Prentice

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