Maggie & Nick DeWolf Winter Lecture Series 2006

Wheeler Opera House, 7:30 P.M.

Free

These are popular talks designed for a general audience. Admission is free. The speakers will be available for informal discussion following the lectures.

 

Monday, January 16 - Condensed Matter Physics

Professor Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT

New Forms of Quantum Matter Near Absolute Zero Temperature

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 25 - Astrophysics

Professor Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve

Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions

Wednesday, February 8 - Cosmology

Professor Leo Blitz, UC, Berkeley

Exploring Cosmic Origins with the Next Generation of Telescopes

Wednesday, February 15 - Elementary Particle Physics

Professor John Womersley, Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK

The Quantum Universe

The programs of the Aspen Center for Physics are supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Argonne National Laboratory.

Summer Public Lecture and Dialogue Schedule 2005

Free

These are popular talks designed for a general audience. Admission is free. The speakers will be available for informal discussion following the talks. The Heinz R. Pagels Memorial Public Lectures will be held in Paepcke Auditorium, 1000 N. 3rd Street. The Dialogues and Einstein Seminar will be held in Flug Forum on the Aspen Center for Physics Campus at 6th and Gillespie Streets.

There are also Science for kids BBQs, Wednesdays through Aug. 17, 5-6:30, free

Lectures, Dialogues, and presentations at BBQs are aired by GrassRoots TV.

Thursday, June 16, 5:30 - Dialogue

Quantum Matter at -273.15° C
Murray Holland (JILA) and Erich Mueller (Cornell)

Wednesday, June 29, 6:30 - Public Lecture

Einstein's Vision and the Quantum Universe
Jim Hartle (UC Santa Barbara)

Tuesday, July 12, 6:30 - Public Lecture - with the Aspen Institute

Threats to the Future of U.S. Science and Technology
Neal Lane (Rice University)

Monday, July 18, 5:30 - Dialogue

The Shape of the Universe
Glenn Starkman (Case Western Reserve University)

Wednesday, July 20, 6:30 - Lecture

Genius and (Genius)²: Planck, Einstein and the Birth of Quantum Theory
A. Douglas Stone (Yale)

Wednesday, July 27, 6:30 - Lecture

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Carl Weiman (CU Boulder)

August 2,4,9,11, 5:30 - Einstein Seminar

The Secrets of the Old One
Tuesday, August 2 - Lecture I: Motion and Light
Thursday, August 4 - Lecture II: The Theory of Relativity
Tuesday, August 9 - Lecture III: Do Atoms Exist?
Thursday, August 11 - Lecture IV: The Quantum
Jeremy Bernstein (Stephens Tech)

Monday, August 8, 5:30 - Dialogue

Electrons, Topology and Quantum Computing
Chetan Nayak (UCLA)

Wednesday, August 17, 6:30 - Lecture - with the ILC workshop

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Young-Kee Kim (Chicago)

Wednesday, August 24, 6:30 - Lecture

Energy and Extra Dimensions in Einstein's Universe
Lisa Randall (Harvard)

Thursday, August 25, 5:30 - Dialogue

Learning How Bacteria Talk and Think
Ned Wingreen (Princeton)

The programs of the Aspen Center for Physics are supported in part by the National Science Foundation and NASA.