Past Lectures (Talks)
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Worshipped Today, Scorned Tomorrow…: Albert Einstein and the Perils of Public Engagement | 2012-03-14 | Diana Kormos Buchwald |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| How Bacteria Talk to Each Other | 2011-01-19 | Bonnie Bassler |
| Life After Stellar Death: Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Pulsars and Black Holes | 2011-03-23 | Edward van den Heuvel |
| From String Theory to Exotic Materials and Back Again | 2011-10-12 | Sean Hartnoll |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| The Great Ideas of Biology | 2010-02-24 | Paul Nurse |
| The New Century of Exoplanets | 2010-04-07 | Adam Burrows |
| Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe | 2010-10-13 | William Phillips |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Quantum Reality | 2009-02-25 | Sankar Das Sarma |
| The Universe in Collisions | 2009-05-13 | Maria Spiropulu |
| Exploring the Dark Universe | 2009-12-16 | Nima Arkani-Hamed |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Citizen-Scientists and the Dawn of the Space Age | 2008-01-24 | Patrick McCray |
| Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life | 2008-04-16 | Samuel S.-h. Wang |
| Mathematics and the Quantum Universe | 2008-07-30 | Robbert Dijkgraaf |
| Topology, Physics, and Complexity: The birthing of the quantum computer | 2008-11-05 | Michael H. Freedman |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Intellectual Courage and Scientific Ballooning | 2007-01-07 | Julian Nott |
| Einstein's Blunder Undone: the discovery of cosmic acceleration | 2007-04-11 | Robert Kirshner |
| Challenges for Global Energy | 2007-12-04 | Nathan S. Lewis |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Putting Weirdness to Work: Quantum Information Science | 2006-05-03 | John Preskill |
| Bringing Order to Chaotic Hearts | 2006-07-26 | Alain S. Karma |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Genetic Predispositions for Cancers in Humans | 2005-02-02 | Arnold J. Levine |
| Albert Einstein the Peacenik | 2005-04-27 | Larry Badash |
| The Search for Habitable Environments in the Solar System | 2005-07-13 | Dan McCleese |
| The Nature of Space | 2005-10-26 | Michael Atiyah |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Finding Planets and Searching for Life: Worthy Goals for 21st Century Science | 2004-03-03 | Charles Beichman |
| From photons to perception: A physicist looks at the brain | 2004-09-01 | William Bialek |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| The Physics of Star Trek | 2003-03-12 | Lawrence M. Krauss |
| Neutrinos Get under Your Skin! | 2003-04-30 | Boris Kayser |
| The Human Genome Project, where do we go from here? | 2003-06-11 | Arnold J. Levine |
| The Interplay Between Art and Physics: Altering Perceptions of Reality | 2003-09-10 | Jean-Pierre Hébert |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| The World's Numerical Recipe | 2002-04-03 | Frank Wilczek |
| New Eyes for Space Exploration: Upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope | 2002-10-03 | John M. Grunsfeld |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| This Particular Elegant Universe: How Do We Measure It? | 2001-01-31 | Melissa Eve Bronwen Franklin |
| You Say You Want a Revolution: Planetary Systems Different from Our Own | 2001-10-17 | Geoffrey W. Marcy |
| Building Things With Atoms: A Report From The Small Frontier | 2001-12-12 | Don Eigler |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| The Future of Gravity | 2000-04-12 | James B. Hartle |
| Mr. Feynman's Quantum Mechanics: A Field Guide for Curious Characters | 2000-11-01 | Steven M. Girvin |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Einstein's Clocks: High Theory and Lowly Technology | 1999-11-10 | Peter Galison |
| Science and the Mind | 1999-05-12 | Roger Penrose |
| Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future | 1999-02-24 | Kip S. Thorne |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Pictures, Models, Approximations and Reality: Phase Transitions and Our Understanding of the Physical World | 1998-11-04 | Michael E. Fisher |
| A New Form Of Matter: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser | 1998-04-01 | Wolfgang Ketterle |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Towards a Theory of Everything | 1997-03-05 | David Gross |
| Taking Measure of the Universe: How Big? How Old? How Do We Know? | 1997-11-12 | Robert Kirshner |
| The Quark and the Jaguar: from Simplicity to Complexity | 1997-05-04 | Murray Gell-Mann |
| Duality, Space-Time and Quantum Mechanics | 1997-11-12 | Edward Witten |
| TITLE | Date | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| A Hubble Space Telescope Picture Gallery | 1996-11-20 | Sandra M. Faber |
| Does God Play Dice Inside Black Holes | 1996-03-13 | Stephen William Hawking |
| Snowflakes, Seashells, and the Origins of Complexity in Nature | 1996-05-15 | James S. Langer |
