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Recent Past Public Lectures



Thanks to Maggie DeWolf and the Nick DeWolf Foundation, the local community access television station, Grassroots TV, has archived all past public lectures so they can be viewed at any time. You can access the Grassroots website here

2012 Winter Lectures

  • Robert Austin
    Darwin, Evolution and Cancer
  • Wolfgang Ketterle
    New Forms of Matter near Absolute Zero
  • Raymond Pierrehumbert
    Science Fiction Atmospheres
  • Alex Filippenko
    Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe
  • Shamit Kachru
    The Small (and Large) Scale Structure of Space-Time
  • Chetan Nayak
    Quantum Matters
  • Neal Weiner
    Hunting the Dark Universe

2011

  • Elliott Bloom
    The Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope: Seeing the Universe Through Gamma-Ray Eyes
  • Blas Cabrera
    What Makes up the Dark Matter?
  • Paul Canfield
    Cook's Tale: A Guide to Understanding New Materials
  • Daniel Holz
    Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves
  • Ben Kilminster
    The Hunt for the Elusive Higgs Boson
  • Thomas Kiorboe
    The Ocean's Cryptic Life
  • David R. Nelson
    Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest
  • Phil Nelson
    The Physics of Human and Superhuman Vision
  • Dam Thanh Son
    Fluid Viscosity: From Maxwell to String Theory
  • Douglas Stone
    Lasers, Micro-Lasers and Anti-Lasers
  • Risa Wechsler
    Dark Matter, the Search for 85% of the Mass in the Universe
  • Ali Yazdani
    High-Temperature Superconductivity: Quantum Mechanics Meets Energy Efficiency
  • Xiaowei Zhuang
    Zooming into Life on the Nano Scale

2010

  • Jack Burns
    Exploring the Cosmos from the Moon
  • Eric Dufresne
    Birds Do It, Bees Do It; Physics and the Art of Attracting a Mate
  • Jonathan Feng
    What's the Matter? The Race for Clues in our Cold, Dark Universe
  • Michael Freedman
    The Limits of Knowledge: Philosophical and Practical Aspects of Building a Quantum Computer
  • Andrea Ghez
    Unveiling a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
  • David E. Kaplan
    The Large Hadron Collider: Living with the Uncertainty Principle
  • Jeremy Levy
    Etch-a-Sketch Nanoelectronics
  • Joanna Masel
    Biological Evolution: What it is and what it isn't
  • Matthias Neubert
    Mysteries of Mass and Matter: Revealing Nature's Secrets with the Large Hadron Collider
  • R. Shankar
    From 0 to c in 60 Minutes: A Crash Course in Einstein, Featuring Planes, Trains and Automobiles

2009

  • Roger Bailey
    The Large Hadron Collider
  • Donald Eigler
    Condensed Matter: The Small Frontier
  • Daniel S. Fisher
    Can Evolution Be Understood Quantitatively?
  • Yuval Grossman
    LHC: A Big Window to the Small World
  • Craig Hogan
    The Sounds of Spacetime: Black Holes, Early Universe, Cosmic Strings and Holographic Noise
  • Bhuvnesh Jain
    Einstein Rings and Giant Arcs: Mapping Dark Matter with Gravitational Lensing
  • Steve Koonin
    Addressing America's Energy Challenges
  • John Bradley Marston
    The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming
  • Kathryn Moler
    Quantum Whirlpools: Tiny Vortices of Tireless Electrons
  • Steven Simon
    Knots, World-Lines, and Quantum Computation
  • James Spudich
    Nature's Exquisite Nanomachines: The Dynamic and Varied City Plan of Living Cells
  • Edward P. J. Van Den Heuvel
    Life after Stellar Death: Suprenovae, Neutron Stars, Pulsars and Magnetars
  • Simon White
    Dark Matters

2008

  • Steven Beckwith
    The Dawn of Galaxy Creation: Its First Two Billion Years
  • Paul Chaikin
    How Many M&Ms Are in That Jar and Why Does it Matter: Experiments with Colloids and Candies
  • J.C. Seamus Davis
    Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
  • Timothy Heckman
    Supermassive Black Holes
  • Boris Kayser
    Matter, Antimatter, and How We Came to be Here
  • Antonio Castro Neto
    Atomically Thin Carbon: From Revolutionary Electronics to the Core of Neutron Stars
  • Rob Phillips
    How Cells Decide What to Eat
  • Robert Rosner
    Reaching for a Sustainable and Attainable Energy Future
  • Sara Seager
    Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
  • George Smoot
    CSI: Aspen Cosmic Scene Investigation
  • Panel Discussion: Marcela Carena, Patrick Fox, Howard Haber, Elizabeth Simmons, Michael Turner, Dick Zerwas
    Coming Soon at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the Higgs, Dark Matter and Maybe Even Black Holes or New Dimensions of Space