"The atmosphere at ACP is inspiring and my creativity level seems to go up as if I were in my twenties. The staff here is
professional and very friendly. The facilities are perfect. The talks here are excellent...Being in Korea, I often find myself isolated from the
frontline of research. Staying here at ACP helps me to be in contact with a world-class level of research and gives me an opportunity to
meet people who are actively involved in the hot issues of my interest."
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