Jim Gates,
Keynote Speaker
Jim Gates, PhD, will give the keynote address.
Slyvester “Jim” Gates is the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the
University of Maryland at College Park, the first African American to
hold an endowed chair in physics at a major research university in the
United States. Gates has held appointments at MIT, Harvard, the
California Institute of Technology and Howard University and has served
as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department
of Energy, the U.S. Department of Defense, the Educational Testing
Service and Time-Life Books, and is a member of the Maryland State Board
of Education. Gates was named in April 2009 by President Obama as a
member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
(PCAST). Gates has also been engaged in many issues of science and
education policy at the international level.