In the above photo, some of those who attended the Aspen Center for Physics' June 6, 2013 public lecture on The Physics of Cooking by David Weitz made ice cream after the lecture by tossing salt and ice and a bag of milk, cream and sugar until it solidified.

Heinz Pagels Public Lectures

Summer 2013

Thursdays - 6:30 pm

Paepcke Auditorium, Aspen Institute, 1000 North Third Street

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  • June 6 - Condensed Matter Speaker: David Weitz, Harvard University
    Title: The Physics of Cooking
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  • June 20 - Biophysics Speaker: Jennifer Ross, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
    Title: What Physics Teaches Us About Cells
  • July 11 - Particle Physics Speaker: Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University
    Title: Public Science in the Digital Age
  • July 25 - Particle Physics Speaker: Eddie Farhi, MIT
    Title: Quantum Computing
  • August 15 - Condensed Matter Speaker: Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
    Title: TBA
  • August 22 - Astrophysics Speaker: Marc Kamionkowski, The Johns Hopkins University
    Title: Beauty and Blemishes in the Universe

Public Dialogues

Summer 2013

Thursdays - 5:30 pm

Flug Forum, Aspen Center for Physics, 700 West Gillespie

Dialogues are an informal opportunity for the audience to interact with a physicist in a Q&A setting
  • June 27 - Astrophysics Speaker: Tony Tyson, University of California, Davis
    Title: Exploring the Dark Universe: Discovery and Invention
  • July 18 - Particle Physics Speaker: Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech
    Title: What is Gravity?
  • August 1 - Astrophysics Speaker: Kathryn Johnston, Columbia University
    Title: The Milky Way as Cannibal
  • August 8 - Particle Physics Speaker: Carlos Wagner, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
    Title: What We Know About the Higgs Boson, One Year Later