Please see below for events prior to 2023. Click the titles to view the recordings of the talks on YouTube. Please email emily@aspenphys.org if you have specific questions about past events. We unfortunately do not have links to recordings prior to 2017.

• The Quantum Physics of Matter and Light
  Ana Asenjo-Garcia, Columbia University
• From the Possibility to the Certainty of a Supermassive Black Hole
  Andrea Ghez, UCLA, 2020 Nobel Prize Winner
• Quantum Simulation of Relativistic Physics with Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates
  Ian Spielman, National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Quantum Phenomena at the Human Scale
  Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
• Geometry and String Theory Confronting Black Holes and Particle Physics
  Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania
• Engineering Gravitational Theories
  Alejandra Castro, University of Amsterdam
• JWST Comes to Life!
  Garth Illingworth, University of California Santa Cruz
• The Genealogy of the Milky Way and its Missing Dark Matter
  Lina Necib, MIT
• How Satellites Reveal the Physics of Penguins
  Heather Lynch, Stonybrook University
• Gravitational Wave Observatories: Today and Tomorrow
  David Shoemaker, MIT Kavli Institute
• Adaptive Matter: Living Systems, Machine Learning, and Robots
  Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Chicago
• What Physicists Do Behind Closed Doors
  Paul Goldbart, Stony Brook University
• Touring a Supermassive Black Hole
  Daryl Haggard, McGill University
• The Strange New Universe of Quantum Materials
  Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
• Entanglement and the Second Quantum Revolution
  Duncan Haldane, Princeton University
• Unearthing New Theories Effectively
  Sophie Renner, University of Glasgow
• Chaos, Black Holes, and Quantum Mechanics
  Stephen Shenker, Stanford University
• Black Holes and Quantum Teleportation
  Douglas Stanford, Stanford University

• Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe
  Gopolang Mohlabeng, Queens University
• SARS-CoV2 and mRNA Vaccines by the (Bio)Numbers
  Nic Vega, Emory University
• The Mysterious Moun: the Electron’s Heavy Sibling
  Aida El-Khadra, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Patterns in Posture: Chaotic Worms and Other Surprises from the Physics of Animal Behavior
  Greg Stephens, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Taking the First Picture of a Black Hole
  Dimitrios Psaltis, University of Arizona
• Understanding Solids with Supercomputers, Many Electrons at a Time
  Cyrus Dreyer, Stonybrook University
• Faster than Light: Spooky Action at a Distance in Nature
  Mark Alford, Washington University in St. Louis
• The Flavors of Particle Physics
  Peter Onyisi, University of Texas Austin
• The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts Dark Matter
  Katherine Freese, University of Texas Austin
• Puzzles in the Milky Way’s Highest-Energy Light
  Tracy Slatyer, MIT
• Atoms and Photons: from Fundamental Physics to Quantum Technology
  Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University

• Particle Physics: What We Know We Don’t Know
  André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University
• Macrocosm in the Microcosm: Analogies Between Materials and Particle Physics
  Peter Armitage, Johns Hopkins University
• The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon?
  Netta Engelhardt, MIT
• Darkly Changed Dark Matter
  Lisa Randall, Harvard University
• The Evolutionary “Design” of Protein Machines
  Rama Ranganathan, University of Chicago
• Giant Black Holes Devouring Stars: Extreme Cosmic Events Illuminating Black Hole Spacetimes
  Jane Dai, University of Hong Kong
• Time Reversal Symmetry and Unconventional Superconductors
  Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
• In Hot Water: Our Changing Polar Oceans
  Andrew Thompson, Caltech
• The Hubble Conundrum: A Potential Hint of New Physics in the Universe’s Oldest Light
  Colin Hill, Columbia University
• Quantum Mechanics for Quantum Materials: The Quantum Revolution in Solid State Physics and Materials Science
  Andrew Millis, Columbia University
• Gulliver’s Travels in Biology: On the Size of Living Things
  Jane Kondev, Brandeis University
• Tying Knots in Quantum Computing
  Charles Marcus, University of Copenhagen
• Materials in the Flatland
  Konstantin Novoselov, University of Manchester
• Hubble Past and Present: Witnessing the Formation of Galaxies
  Casey Papovich, Texas A&M University
• Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier
  John Preskill, Caltech
• Card Tricks and Quantum Physics
  Thierry Giamarchi, University of Geneva