"Besides all the fight for grants and positions, scientists should sometimes rest and consider what is our actual goal: understanding the origin of our Universe and the physical processes that govern its evolution. The core idea of Aspen - bringing a group of interested and smart people together and letting them think and chat about their subject - is well suited to achieve this goal."

Past Dialogues

2014 Dialogues

Gurtina Besla
Small Dwarfs, Tall Shadows
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Alexander Grosberg
How Do You Keep Your DNA Manageable?
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Daniel Holz
Title: Black Holes Whisper Sweet Nothings
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Joseph G. Polchinski
Spacetime Versus the Quantum
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Eva Silverstein
Cosmic Inflation and Quantum Gravity
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Shankar
The Tragic Tale of the Mathematical Genius Ramanujan
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Vijay Balasubramanian
The Maps Inside Your Head

2013 Dialogues

Anthony Tyson
Exploring the Dark Universe: Discovery and Invention

Hirosi Ooguri
What is Gravity?
Kathryn Johnston
The Milky Way as Cannibal
Carlos Wagner
What We Know About the Higgs Boson, One Year Later

2012 Dialogues

Gil Holder
The Dynamic and Evolving Universe

Dragan Huterer
The Universe Caught Speeding: the Mystery of Dark Energy
Robert Austin
The Physics of Cancer
Joshua Shaevitz
It's a Small World After All: A Day in the Life of Molecules and Cells
Sky Stories with Astronomer Daryl Haggard and Ice Cream Social at the Aspen Center for Physics, cohosted with the Aspen Science Center
Alicia Soderberg
Supernova Forensics
Jeremy Bernstein
A Guided Tour Through Nuclear Iran
Martin Elvis
Love, Fear & Greed: Why We Should Go to the Asteroids
Julien Bobroff
Superconductivity:. Becoming Engaged with Great Physics
Sergei Maslov and Kim Sneppen
Randomness and Selection in Biological and Technological Evolution

2011 Dialogues

Kathryn Zurek
Physics at the Frontiers:Exotic and Unexpected Signals at the LHC
Herbi Dreiner
Radioactivity, Nuclear Power Plants, and Fukushima
Elliot Lipeles
The Large Hadron Collider: On the Road to Discovery
Piers Coleman
From the Quantum to the Micron: the Mind-Blowing Quest to Understand Matter and Life Between the Angstrom and the Micron
Stuart Raby
Power and Beauty of Symmetry: Beyond the Standard Model

2010 Dialogues

Michael Hopkins
Mathematical Invariants: How to Know the Answer in Advance
Maria Spiropulu
The LHC
Robbert Dijkgraaf
The Work of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Adiel Stern
Quantum Electronics and the Shackles of Practicality

2009 Dialogues

Liam McAllister, Hiranya Peiris, Richard Easther, Clifford Burgess
Matter and Antimatter: The Science of �Angels and Demons,� The Movie
Ignacio Cirac, David Weiss
Might Quantum Computers Change the World?
Zeljko Ivezic
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Space Movies and Killer Asteroids
Karin Rabe
Energy and Climate Change