Public Lectures

Physics for the Inquiring Mind

KITP Public Lectures connect you with people and research that is transforming our understanding of the universe. This popular series of 3-4 public lectures each year takes advantage of the presence of the many distinguished scientists who visit KITP to collaborate on the most fascinating and challenging questions in their fields.

Speakers have included, among others, Conny Aerts, Peter Galison, Asimina Arvanitaki, Murray Gell-Mann, John Grunsfeld, Stephen Hawking, Robert Kirshner, Nathan Lewis, and M. Cristina Marchetti. Talks have ranged from how stars ring, projects at the large hadron collider (LHC), how the brain works, challenges for global energy, the potential in the human genome, and black holes.

Friends of KITP receive priority seat reservations, and an informal reception follows each lecture.

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KITP Public Lectures Archive

	Event Information
	On Growth & Form of the Embryo: From Gene Expression to Tissue Mechanics Speaker: Eric F. Wieschaus Date: 2013-07-31
	Particle Physics On a Chip: the Search for Majorana Fermions Speaker: Leo Kouwenhoven Date: 2012-12-05
	Putting Weirdness to Work: Quantum Information Science Speaker: John Preskill Date: 2006-05-03
	Quantum Reality Speaker: Sankar Das Sarma Date: 2009-02-25
	Quantum Theory of the Classical Speaker: Wojciech Hubert Zurek Date: 2019-05-29
	Realizing Feynman’s Dream of a Quantum Simulator Speaker: Immanuel Bloch Date: 2016-09-28
	Rhythms & Algorithms ~ Physics and Music Speaker: Theo Geisel Date: 2014-02-19
	Science and the Mind Speaker: Roger Penrose Date: 1999-05-12
	Snowflakes, Seashells, and the Origins of Complexity in Nature Speaker: James S. Langer Date: 1996-05-15
	Space-Time Versus the Quantum Speaker: Joseph Polchinski Date: 2014-12-04