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“The best aspects of the workshop were: it was highly interactive, had lots of informal discussion and many young
people who are now leading these efforts. Sessions were held no more than 3 hours every other day, thus leaving lots of time for
collaborative discussions and doing one's own work. And a big plus was a greatly diminished use of powerpoint talks.” Current Press ReleasesSCROLL DOWN TO FIND EVENTS BY DATEJune 20 Jennifer Ross Public LecturePress Release date: June 14, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Heinz Pagels Physics Lecture on Thursday, June 20 at Paepcke Auditorium, 1000 North Third Street at 6:30 pm. The title is What Physics Teaches Us about Cells. Jenny Ross is a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working on how cells organize and instantly reorganize themselves in the mysterious and highly complex ways that we simple–minded humans are trying to understand. Professor Ross will take us on a journey inside cells through dance and role–playing in which audience participation is encouraged! No reservations are needed. For more information see www.aspenphys.org or call (970) 925-2585. June 6 David Weitz Public LecturePress Release date: May 30, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Heinz Pagels Physics Lecture on Thursday, June 6 at Paepcke Auditorium, 1000 North Third Street at 6:30 pm. The title is The Physics of Cooking. David Weitz is a professor of physics and applied physics at Harvard University and is the creator of the fabulously popular course, Science and Cooking. Professor Weitz will demonstrate and explain soft condensed matter: phases of matter and elasticity in eggs, spherification of yogurt and juices, emulsions, foams and entropy. To get a taste of his savory lecture, google: david weitz You Tube. This lecture and all our events are free. No reservations are needed - but come early for a front row seat! For more information see www.aspenphys.org or call (970) 925-2585. March 13 Matthew Strassler Public LecturePress Release date: March 4, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Nick and Maggie DeWolf Physics Lecture on Wednesday, March 13 at the Wheeler Opera House at 4:30 to 5:30 pm for the Physics Café co-hosted with Aspen Science Center and at 5:30 to 6:30 for the lecture. The title is “The Quest for the Higgs Boson," a lecture presented by Matthew Strassler of Rutgers University. All indications are that the new type of particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider last summer is a Higgs boson. The quest for this famous particle goes back nearly 50 years. Professor Strassler will illuminate why the mysterious Higgs field is so crucial for our world and how understanding its true nature advances our knowledge of the Universe. Lastly, he will describe other great, unsolved puzzles that still trouble particle physicists and how ongoing research at the Large Hadron Collider will help to resolve them. For more information: patty@aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585. February 13 Natalie Batalha Public LecturePress Release date: February 5, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Nick and Maggie DeWolf Physics Lecture on Wednesday, February 13 at the Wheeler Opera House at 4:30 to 5:30 pm for the Physics Café co-hosted with Aspen Science Center and at 5:30 to 6:30 for the lecture. The title is “Catching Shadows: Kepler's Search for Exo-earths," a lecture presented by Natalie Batalha of NASA Ames. Speculation about the existence of other worlds like our own turned into a veritable quest with the launch of NASA's Kepler spacecraft in March, 2009. A census of planets orbiting other stars in the Milky Way now numbers over 2,700, hundreds of which are earth-size, hinting that each point of light seen in the sky harbors at least one companion planet. Dr. Batalha will describe the techniques used by Kepler scientists to identify planets orbiting other stars and share some of the milestone discoveries that have made headlines. Are there planets amenable to life as we know it in our galaxy? For more information: patty@aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 February 6 Deborah Harris Public LecturePress Release date: January 29, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Nick and Maggie DeWolf Physics Lecture on Wednesday, February 6 at the Wheeler Opera House at 4:30 to 5:30 pm for the Physics Café co-hosted with Aspen Science Center and at 5:30 to 6:30 for the lecture. The title is “Neutrino Monologues," a play and lecture presented by Deborah Harris of Fermilab and the University of Rochester. Dr. Harris’ one-woman play traces the fascinating history of the discovery of neutrinos. She will also describe the research now being discussed at this week’s winter conference at the Aspen Center for Physics, “New Direction in Neutrino Physics.” Neutrinos are electrically neutral, tiny subatomic particles that pass through you and the earth almost unimpeded. Their discovery took the courage of conviction! For more information: patty@aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 January 30 P. James E. Peebles Public LecturePress Release date: January 21, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Nick and Maggie DeWolf Physics Lecture on Wednesday, January 30 at the Wheeler Opera House at 4:30 to 5:30 pm for the Physics Café co-hosted with Aspen Science Center and at 5:30 to 6:30 for the lecture. The title is “Seeking Dark Matter" presented by P. James E. Peebles of Princeton University. What is the universe made of? The evidence is that one sixth of the matter is the stuff of which we and planets and stars are made – the “trace elements.” The existence of the other five sixths, Dark Matter, is an inference, but it is based on so many separate lines of evidence that the case is about as close to compelling as you can get in science. Professor Peebles will share the cutting-edge discussions being held this week at the Aspen Center for Physics about theories of the nature of Dark Matter, experiments in progress aimed at testing the theories, and whether the experiments have already detected Dark Matter. For more information: patty@aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585. January 22 (Tuesday) Matthew Bailes Public LecturePress Release date: January 14, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Nick and Maggie DeWolf Physics Lecture on Tuesday, January 22 at the Wheeler Opera House at 4:30 to 5:30 pm for the Physics Café co-hosted with Aspen Science Center and at 5:30 to 6:30 for the lecture. The title is “Discovery of a Diamond Planet" presented by Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology. Professor Bailes will describe the discovery of the famous "diamond planet.” Spinning at an astonishing 700 rotations per second, this millisecond pulsar orbits its host star every two hours. It is the collapsed core of a once-massive star that ended its normal stellar life in a supernova explosion before being spun-up to astonishing speeds by its companion, becoming a rare jewel in the cosmic ocean. For more information: patty@aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 January 16 Leo Kouwenhoven Public LecturePress Release date: January 8, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Nick and Maggie DeWolf Physics Lecture on Wednesday, January 16 at the Wheeler Opera House at 4:30 to 5:30 pm for the Physics Café co-hosted with Aspen Science Center and at 5:30 to 6:30 for the lecture. The title is “Particle Physics On a Chip: The Search for Majorana Fermions" presented by Leo Kouwenhoven of the Delft University of Technology. Will majorana fermions be the key to developing a quantum computer? These particles have the mysterious property that they are equal to their anti-particles which implies that they have zero charge and zero energy. Professor Kouwenhoven will explain how nanofabrication is used to define nanoscale electronic and photonic devices with new quantum functionality, including the search for majorana fermions. They hope that in the long term, their fundamental studies will turn quantum mechanics into a new resource for technology. For more information: patty@aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585. January 9 Taekjip Ha Public LecturePress Release date: January 3, 2013 for Immediate ReleaseThere will be a FREE Nick and Maggie DeWolf Physics Lecture on Wednesday, January 9 at the Wheeler Opera House at 4:30 to 5:30 pm for the Physics Café co-hosted with Aspen Science Center and at 5:30 to 6:30 for the lecture. The title is “Probing Nature’s Nanomachines Using Light” by Taekjip (TJ) Ha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Did you know that proteins are nano-scale machines that help us think, dance and keep the threat of cancer at bay? Did you know that biology is a new research frontier for physicists? In this talk, Professor Ha will discuss how biophysicists are using light-based tools to poke and examine Nature’s nanomachines, one molecule at a time, uncovering the amazing acrobatic abilities that are essential for all forms of life. For more information: patty@aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 September 6 Maslov and Sneppen DialoguePress Release date: August 23 for Release August 29Event: There will be a FREE physics dialogue, "Randomness and Selection in Biological and Technological Evolution" given by Sergei Maslov, rookhaven National Laboratory & Kim Sneppen, Niels Bohr Institute, at 5:30 pm, Thursday, September 6, at the Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie. Genomes, gene networks, species, ecosystems evolve—and technological systems evolve too! Evolution is a process fueled by randomness but also exposed to selection that eliminates or modifies parts that do not work. By focusing on the interplay between function and randomness, we will discuss a few examples of evolution in biological and technological systems. Both bacterial genomes and Linux open source software demonstrate how mutual dependency between components affects their function, evolution, and even popularity. August 30 Schwarz Public LecturePress Release date: August 23 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics lecture at 6:00 pm, Thursday, August 30, in Paepcke Auditorium: “String Theory in Aspen” with John Schwarz, California Institute of Technology. No tickets necessary. “String theory” is the name of the main approach being pursued by theoretical physicists who are striving to construct a theory unifying elementary particles and fundamental forces. The goal is to explain and predict phenomena at all distances, ranging from sub-nuclear to the entire universe. During the 40 years of its development, string theory has been a major theme at the Aspen Center for Physics. This lecture will survey the theory and the role that the Physics Center has played. August 23 Hogan Public LecturePress Release date: August 20 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics lecture at 6:00 pm, Thursday, August 23, in Paepcke Auditorium: “Is Space Real?” with Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and Fermilab. No tickets necessary. Space--- the familiar space we live in, right here and now--- is the first concept of physics we all learn as little kids, yet it is entangled with some of the deepest mysteries confronting physics. Space is based on the idea of locality, but experiments show that in reality, nothing happens at definite time or place, which suggests that space is not as real as it seems. It has been suggested that all the space of the universe began, and may end, dominated by the energy of the vacuum, expanding and devoid of particles; that when examined over very short time intervals, space as we know it does not even exist, but dissolves into a cloud of quantum indeterminacy, and constantly seethes in microscopic ambiguity; that space has either more than three dimensions or fewer, depending on how you look at it; that reality carries only a finite amount of information, and unfolds at the Planck frequency, about 10^44 bits per second. It may even be that all of these exotic possibilities actually apply in the real world. At Fermilab, we are working on experiments including the Dark Energy Survey, the Fermilab Holometer, and the CMS experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, that probe these ideas in very different ways. The talk will survey what we hope to learn from them. August 16 Davis Public LecturePress Release date: August 9 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE public lecture,“ Visualizing the Quantum World,” given by J.C. Séamus Davis, of Cornell University, at 6:00 pm, Thursday, August 16, in Paepcke Auditorium. No ticket necessary. Everything around us, everything each of us has ever experienced, and virtually everything underpinning our technological society and economy is governed by quantum mechanics. Yet this most fundamental physical theory of nature seems eerie and counterintuitive with no direct relevance to our lives. Why is this? One reason is that we cannot perceive the strangeness (and astonishing beauty) of the quantum mechanical phenomena by using our own senses. I will describe the development of techniques that allow us to visualize electronic quantum matter directly at the atomic scale. August 12 Science Fair - Aspen Science CenterPress Release date: August 2Contact: Stephen Pinsky, Aspen Science Center, 970-920-6605 Event: A free, all-day Science Festival and Street Fair from 9am to 4pm in Paepcke Park. The Festival will feature a non-stop program of stage presentations, interactive exhibits, experiments, and games for kids of all ages, designed to inform, entertain, and inspire. Presenters include University of Arizona, Aspen CORE, University of Bonn, CalTech, University of Colorado, Colorado State University, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Solar Energy International, and more. The Festival is presented by the Aspen Science Center in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Aspen Center for Physics. For more information, please see www.aspensciencecenter.org. August 9 Randall Public LecturePress Release date: August 2 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics lecture, “Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World," given by Lisa Randall, Harvard University, at 6:00 pm, Thursday, August 9, in Paepcke Auditorium, behind the Music Tent. Professor Randall’s first book, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions was included in the New York Times' 100 notable books of 2005. This lecture explores ideas from her current release by the lecture title. The goals and achievements in elementary particle physics, as well as the recent Higgs boson discovery, will be “illuminated.” August 2 de Granda Public LecturePress Release date: July 25 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics lecture, "Alchemy, Violins, and the Harmony of Physics," given by Boris Odio de Granda, The Boris Violins Studio, at 6:00 pm, Thursday, August 2, in Paepcke Auditorium, behind the Music Tent. The violin is a masterpiece of Renaissance engineering. It is an intricately balanced system of indivisible complexity, unimproved upon by modern technology. Exploring harmonic correlations between the violin and the nature of physics is magnificent and compelling. July 25 Cicerone Public LecturePress Release date: July 17 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics lecture, "Contemporary climate change as seen through data," given by Ralph J. Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chair of the National Research Council, at 6:00 pm, WEDNESDAY, July 25, at Paepcke Auditorium, behind the Music Tent. The planetary energy budget of Earth underlies the state of Earth’s climate and of changes to it. Today, climatic change is being driven by global changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect of these observed composition changes. Professor Cicerone will present data demonstrating this increased greenhouse effect. Because the observed increases of greenhouse gas concentrations are due to human activities, concern over human-caused climate change has a firm physical basis. July 19 Stevens Public LecturePress Release date: July 11 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics lecture, " Maps of – and in – the Brain," given by Charles F. Stevens, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, at 6:00 pm, Thursday, July 19, at Paepcke Auditorium, behind the Music Tent. The human brain is the most complex object known. Despite this complexity, many features of brain design can be easily grasped. I plan to describe some of these features, from ones discovered 100 years ago to new principles based on recent advances in physics, mathematics, and computer science. For more information about all of our 50th Anniversary events, please see www.aspenphys.org or call 925-2585. July 12 Drell Public LecturePress Release date: July 3 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE lecture,“A Billion Times Brighter – The Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC,” given by Persis Drell, Director of Research at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, at 6:00 pm in Paepcke Auditorium. The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), built on the legacy of the Stanford Linear Accelerator, is the world’s brightest source of hard X-ray laser light. Like an ultra-fast, ultra-bright strobe, the LCLS opens new doors on atomic and molecular structure and dynamics, illuminates the formation and breaking of chemical bonds at the atomic level, shows how materials work on the quantum level, and reveals the structures of key biological molecules and viruses. July 5 Grunsfeld Public Lecture and Kid's EventPress Release date: June 25 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE event ESPECIALLY FOR KIDS from 5:15 to 6:00 pm, Thursday, July 5 in the Lobby of Paepcke Auditorium just before the physics lecture there, “Big Science Questions,” given by John Grunsfeld, Astronaut, “Hubble Repairman” and now, NASA Associate Administrator for Science Mission Directorate, at 6:00 pm. A veteran of five space flights, including three missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, 2002, and 2009, John Grunsfeld has logged over 835 hours in space, including nearly 60 hours of Extravehicular Activity during eight space walks. Grunsfeld is now the Associate Administrator for Science at NASA which plays a part in understanding Earth and space science. The Directorate works in four areas, Planetary Science, Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Astrophysics, all of which are enhanced by views from space. June 28 Elvis DialoguePress Release date: June 19 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics dialogue, "Love, Fear and Greed: Why We Should Go to the Asteroids," given by Martin Elvis, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at 5:30 pm, Thursday, June 28, at the Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie. Most people fear asteroids as a threat to life on Earth. Scientists' love of knowledge drives them to check out the material our planet grew from.And a few visionaries have argued that the mineral wealth in the asteroids is huge. A single asteroid could contain $35 billion in platinum. The time has now come where advanced space engineering and new astronomical knowledge can be combined to make exploring the asteroids possible, and potentially profitable. Martin Elvis will discuss how this can be done, making use of the International Space Station and the new NASA push to send humans to an asteroid. June 25 Bernstein DialoguePress Release date: June 18 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics dialogue, " A Guided Tour Through Nuclear Iran,” by Jeremy Bernstein, at 5:30 PM, Monday, June 25, at the Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie. Jeremy Bernstein is going to present an illustrated guided tour of the principal nuclear facilities in Iran. Some are devoted to uranium enrichment. Some appear to be for potential use in the manufacture of plutonium. Some appear to have no civil application. The physics of these various applications will be discussed as well as their general significance. June 21 Soderberg DialoguePress Release date: June 12 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics dialogue, "Supernova Forensics" given by Alicia Soderberg, Harvard University, at 5:30 pm, Thursday, June 21, at the Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie. For several decades, observational studies of supernova (SN) explosions have focused almost exclusively on the optical emission that dominates their bolometric luminosity. Yet many of the leading breakthroughs in our understanding of supernovae have been enabled by observations at other wavelengths. I will present new results on the nature of the progenitors, evolutionary histories, and explosion properties based on untraditional supernova studies. The combination of sensitive radio/mm-band arrays, wide-field optical surveys, and gravitational wave facilities mark this decade as an opportune time for an in depth study of supernovae. June 20 Sky Stories & Ice Cream SocialPress Release date: June 14 for Immediate ReleaseCelebrating 50 years of Physics in Aspen! FREE Informal Physics Events in June Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie June 20, Wed, 8:00 to 9:30 pm Sky Stories & Ice Cream Social SPECIAL EVENT with the Aspen Science Center & Spellbinders Bring binoculars, blankets, flashlight! Dialogues, 5:30 to 6:30 pm June 21, Thurs Supernova Forensics Alicia Soderberg, Harvard University June 25, Mon NEW SPECIAL DIALOGUE! A Guided Tour Through Nuclear Iran Jeremy Bernstein June 28, Thurs Love, Fear & Greed: Why we should go to the Asteroids Martin Elvis, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Look for FREE Public Lectures in July & August Please join the many events celebrating our 50th Anniversary this summer. There will be special Heinz R. Pagels Memorial Lectures every Thursday in July and August and two public symposia. On July 7, a panel will address “Public Engagement of Science” and on August 11, Nobel Laureates will explore “The Future of Theoretical Physics.” Both symposia will be followed by a reception on our campus. Visit us at http://aspenphys.org/50th/index.html and join our email list at patty@aspenphys.org for updates and announcements. The Aspen Center for Physics is supported by the National Science Foundation Grant #1066293. June 14 Shaevitz DialoguePress Release date: June 5 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics dialogue, “It's a small world after all: a day in the life of molecules and cells,” given by Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University, at 5:30 pm, Thursday, June 14, at the Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie. The human body is made up of a hundred trillion tiny cells but single-celled organisms can also be found in nearly every niche on air, land, and sea from the deepest ocean trenches to the nastiest chemical plumes. Cells possess remarkable abilities to eat and digest a huge variety of substances, to smell chemicals and see light, to move in complex surroundings, and to reproduce identical copies of themselves. I will introduce some intriguing elements of physics at the cellular and molecular scales and highlight a number of ways in which biological organisms have solved complex engineering problems with remarkable success. June 7 Austin DialoguePress Release date: May 31 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics dialogue, “The Physics of Cancer” given by Robert Austin, Princeton University, at 5:30 pm, Thursday, June 7, at the Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie. Last winter, Professor Austin lectured on “Darwin, Evolution and Cancer” to a riveted audience in the Wheeler Opera House. This informal dialogue offers an opportunity to ask questions and probe deeper into Austin’s theory that evolution and cancer may be inevitably linked together and that our current approach to the disease needs to be rethought. For more information about all of our 50th Anniversary events, please see www.aspenphys.org or call 925-2585. May 31 Huterer DialoguePress Release date: May 22 For Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics dialogue, “The Universe Caught Speeding: the Mystery of Dark Energy,” given by Dragan Huterer, University of Michigan, at 5:30 pm, Thursday, May 31, at the Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie. In the late 1990s cosmologists discovered that the expansion of the universe is speeding up, not slowing down as expected. This discovery, honored with the Nobel Prize in 2011, has generated waves in the field of cosmology and presents us with a grand mystery: what is the origin and nature of Dark Energy, the stuff that causes the accelerated expansion? For more information about all of our 50th Anniversary events, please see www.aspenphys.org or call 925-2585. May 24 Holder DialoguePress Release date: May 14 for Immediate ReleaseEvent: There will be a FREE physics dialogue, "The Dynamic and Evolving Universe”, given by Gil Holder, McGill University, at 5:30 pm, Thursday, May 24, at the Aspen Center for Physics, 6th & Gillespie. As the universe expands, it is constantly evolving, from the dense and hot earliest times of the big bang when the universe was very smooth to the relatively cold and empty universe of today that is full of the rich structures we see around us. The details of this process are active areas of research in cosmology and astrophysics, both observationally and theoretically, and a remarkably clear picture of how the universe has evolved is emerging. February 13Celebrating 50 years of Physics in Aspen! February 8Celebrating 50 years of Physics in Aspen!2012 Maggie & Nick DeWolf FREE Physics Lectures Wednesday, February 8 * Wheeler Opera House 4:30 to 5:30 pm Physics Café co–hosted with Aspen Science Center 5:30 to 6:30 pm Lecture “Quantum Matters ” A lecture by Chetan Nayak – UC Santa Barbara & KITP Physicists have discovered states of matter where there are particles with properties not possessed by any other particles.
Their exotic properties are a consequence of quantum mechanics and have no analog in the familiar, classical world. Remarkably,
hese particles might be harnessed for a quantum computer, a hypothetical computer that could solve problems far beyond the reach of
today’s computers. For more information: patty at aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585
February 1Celebrating 50 years of Physics in Aspen!2012 Maggie & Nick DeWolf FREE Physics Lectures Wednesday, February 1 * Wheeler Opera House 4:30 to 5:30 pm Physics Café co–hosted with Aspen Science Center 5:30 to 6:30 pm Lecture “The Small (and Large) Scale Structure of Space-Time ” A lecture by Shamit Kachru – Stanford University & SLAC tbaFor more information: patty at aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 January 25Celebrating 50 years of Physics in Aspen!2012 Maggie & Nick DeWolf FREE Physics Lectures Wednesday, January 25 * Wheeler Opera House 4:30 to 5:30 pm Physics Café co–hosted with Aspen Science Center 5:30 to 6:30 pm Lecture “Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe ” A lecture by Alex Filippenko, UC, Berkeley tba.For more information: patty at aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 January 18Celebrating 50 years of Physics in Aspen!2012 Maggie & Nick DeWolf FREE Physics Lectures Wednesday, January 18 * Wheeler Opera House 4:30 to 5:30 pm Physics Café co–hosted with Aspen Science Center 5:30 to 6:30 pm Lecture “Science Fiction Atmospheres” A lecture by Raymond T. Pierrehumbert – University of Chicago How did early science fiction writers imagine planetary climate? These writers have provided windows into what the newly discovered extrasolar planets (1500 and counting!) might be like and provide fertile ground for imaginative play leading to new, scientific stories. Dr. Pierrehumbert will discuss this interplay between the imagination and the science in the context of several of his favorite stories and present some unexploited storylines based on new thinking about exoplanet climates.For more information: patty at aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 January 11Celebrating 50 years of Physics in Aspen!2012 Maggie & Nick DeWolf FREE Physics Lectures Wednesday, January 11 * Wheeler Opera House 4:30 to 5:30 pm Physics Café co–hosted with Aspen Science Center 5:30 to 6:30 Lecture “New Forms of Matter near Absolute Zero” A lecture by 2001 Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle [ket–er–lee] Massachusetts Institute of Technology Why do physicists freeze matter to extremely low temperatures, temperatures which are a billion times lower than that of interstellar space? In this talk, Professor Ketterle will discuss new forms of matter, which only exist at extremely low temperatures and which open a new door to the quantum world where particles behave as waves and “march in lockstep.” For more information: patty at aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 January 4Celebrating 50 years of Physics in Aspen!2012 Maggie & Nick DeWolf FREE Physics Lectures Wednesday, January 4 * Wheeler Opera House 4:30 to 5:30 pm Physics Café co–hosted with Aspen Science Center 5:30 to 6:30 Lecture “Darwin, Evolution and Cancer” A lecture by Robert Austin, Princeton University Robert H. Austin is a researcher in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, which probes the biological limits of evolving organisms under stress. He is currently researching the idea that we have to entirely rethink cancer as being not adisease but rather the inevitable result of the rapid evolution of the homo sapiens species. Austin will examine the roots of evolution as viewed from a modern form of Darwinian natural selection and present some experiments that indicate that evolution and cancer are inevitably linked together. For more information: patty at aspenphys.org or (970) 925-2585 |
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