What Matters to Me and Why featuring Arthur Bienenstock, Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy, Professor at SSRL and of Materials Science and Engineering and of Applied Physics 

Arthur Bienenstock, Vice Provost and Dean of Research and Graduate Policy, Professor at SSRL and of Materials Science and Engineering and of Applied Physics, will be the featured speaker at this lecture/discussion series encouraging reflection within the Stanford community on matters of personal values, beliefs, and motivations. Come discover what inspires and really matters to those who help shape the university. All students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome! Feel free to bring your lunch, if you like!

Arthur Bienenstock served from November 1997 until January 2001 in Washington, DC as the Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy. He currently holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Materials Science and Applied Physics and was Director of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.

Born in the Bronx and educated at Bronx High School of Science, Bienenstock received his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics from Polytechnic University of New York and his doctorate in applied physics from Harvard. He came to Stanford in 1967 after serving as an assistant professor at Harvard.

Throughout his Stanford career, Bienenstock has maintained a research group that has, among other things, contributed significantly to the ability to determine atomic arrangements in amorphous materials using synchrotron radiation. Nationally and internationally, he has organized major conferences and has been a member of many distinguished advisory committees.