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June 2014
time-lapse photo taken by Shane Larson of
sky over Smart Hall at the Aspen Center
for Physics during an astrophysics
workshop.
"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
The Nick and Maggie DeWolf Foundation has
sponsored our winter public lecture series
since their inception in 1985. Summer
lectures are presented by the Aspen Center
for Physics in memory of Heinz R.
Pagels. You can click the links below
to go directly to the talks organized by
year. Lectures prior to 2017 can also be
found through Grassroots website:
http://www.grassrootstv.org/ Since 2017, the
lectures have been archived on YouTube,
Aspen Physics.
2023
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- Recreational Biology: Topological Puzzles at Cellular Scales
Speaker: Manu Prakash, Stanford
University
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- A Physicist's View of
Wiggling Worms and Fighting
Fish
Speaker: Joshua Shaevitz,
Princeton University
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- The New Frontier of Quantum Computing
Speaker: Mikhail Lukin, Harvard
University
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- Topic: Will Machine Intelligence Surpass Human Intelligence?
Speaker: Yann LeCun, Meta-AI, New York University
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- Black Holes in the Spotlight
Speaker: Suvi Gezari, Space Telescope Science Institute
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- Magic Angle Graphene: The
Twist and Shout of Quantum
Materials
Speaker: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero,
MIT
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- Never-Before-Seen Details of the Universe with the James Webb Telescope (JWST)
Speaker: Susan Mullally, Space
Telescope Science Institute
2022
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- The Quantum Physics of Matter and
Light
Speaker: Ana Asenjo-Garcia,
Columbia University
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- From the Possibility to the
Certainty of a Supermassive Black
Hole
Speaker: Andrea Ghez, UCLA, 2020
Nobel Prize Winner
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- Quantum Simulation of
Relativistic Physics with Atomic
Bose-Einstein Condensates
Speaker: Ian Spielman,
National Institute of Standards
and Technology
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- Quantum Phenomena at the
Human Scale
Speaker: Steven Kivelson,
Stanford University
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- Geometry and String Theory
Confronting Black Holes and
Particle Physics
Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic,
University of Pennsylvania
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- Engineering Gravitational
Theories
Speaker: Alejandra Castro,
University of Amsterdam
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- JWST Comes to Life!
Speaker: Garth
Illingworth, University of California
Santa Cruz
- The Genealogy of the Milky
Way and its Missing Dark
Matter
Speaker: Lina Necib,
MIT
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- How Satellites Reveal the
Physics of Penguins
Speaker: Heather Lynch,
Stonybrook University
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- Gravitational Wave Observatories:
Today and Tomorrow
Speaker: David Shoemaker, MIT Kavli
Institute
- Adaptive Matter: Living
Systems, Machine Learning, and
Robots
Speaker: Vincenzo Vitelli,
University of Chicago
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- What Physicists Do Behind
Closed Doors
Speaker: Paul Goldbart, Stony Brook
University
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- Touring a Supermassive
Black Hole
Speaker: Daryl Haggard, McGill
University
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- The Strange New Universe of
Quantum Materials
Speaker: Piers Coleman, Rutgers
University
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- Entanglement and the Second
Quantum Revolution
Speaker: Duncan Haldane, Princeton
University
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- Unearthing New Theories
Effectively
Speaker: Sophie Renner,
University of Glasgow
- Chaos, Black Holes, and
Quantum Mechanics
Speaker: Stephen Shenker,
Stanford University
2021
- Unraveling the Mysteries of the
Universe
Speaker: Gopolang Mohlabeng, Queens
University
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- SARS-CoV2 and mRNA Vaccines by the
(Bio)Numbers
Speaker: Nic Vega, Emory University
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- The Mysterious Moun: the Electron's
Heavy Sibling
Speaker: Aida El-Khadra, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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- Patterns in Posture: Chaotic Worms
and Other Surprises from the Physics
of Animal Behavior
Speaker: Greg Stephens, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam
- Taking the First Picture of a Black
Hole
Speaker: Dimitrios Psaltis,
University of Arizona
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- Understanding Solids with
Supercomputers, Many Electrons at a
Time
Speaker: Cyrus Dreyer, Stonybrook
University
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- Faster than Light: Spooky Action at
a Distance in Nature
Speaker: Mark Alford, Washington
University in St. Louis
- The Flavors of Particle Physics
Speaker: Peter Onyisi, University of
Texas Austin
- The Cosmic Cocktail: Three Parts
Dark Matter
Speaker: Katherine Freese,
University of Texas Austin
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- Puzzles in the Milky Way's
Highest-Energy Light
Speaker: Tracy Slatyer, MIT
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- Atoms and Photons: from Fundamental
Physics to Quantum Technology
Speaker: Monika Schleier-Smith,
Stanford University
2020
- Particle Physics: What We Know We
Don't Know
Speaker: André de Gouvêa, Northwestern
University
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- Macrocosm in the Microcosm:
Analogies Between Materials and
Particle Physics
Speaker: Peter Armitage, Johns
Hopkins University
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- The Black Hole Information Paradox:
A Resolution on the Horizon?
Speaker: Netta Engelhardt, MIT
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- Darkly Changed Dark Matter
Speaker: Lisa Randall, Harvard
University
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- The Evolutionary
"Design" of Protein
Machines
Speaker: Rama Ranganathan,
University of Chicago
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- Giant Black Holes
Devouring Stars: Extreme
Cosmic Events Illuminating
Black Hole Spacetimes
Speaker: Jane Dai,
University of Hong Kong
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- Time Reversal Symmetry
and Unconventional
Superconductors
Speaker: Aharon Kapitulnik,
Stanford University
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- In Hot Water: Our Changing
Polar Oceans
Speaker: Andrew Thompson, Caltech
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- The Hubble Conundrum: A
Potential Hint of New Physics in
the Universe's Oldest Light
Speaker: Colin Hill, Columbia
University
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- Quantum Mechanics for Quantum
Materials: The Quantum Revolution
in Solid State Physics and
Materials Science
Speaker: Andrew Millis, Columbia
University
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- Gulliver’s Travels in Biology:
On the Size of Living Things
Speaker: Jane Kondev, Brandeis
University
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lecture.
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- Tying Knots in Quantum
Computing
Speaker: Charles Marcus,
University of Copenhagen
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- Materials in the
Flatland
Speaker: Konstantin
Novoselov, University of
Manchester
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the
lecture.
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- Hubble Past and
Present:Witnessing
the Formation of
Galaxies
Speaker: Casey
Papovich, Texas
A&M University
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- Quantum
Computing and the
Entanglement
Frontier
Speaker: John
Preskill, Caltech
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lecture.
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- Card
Tricks and
Quantum
Physics
Speaker:
Thierry
Giamarchi,
University of
Geneva
2019
- The 2018 Nobel Lecture in Physics:
Optical Tweezers and their Biological
Applications
Speaker: Arthur Ashkin, Bell Laboratories,
emeritus
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- Rise of the Machines: Deep Learning
from Backgammon to Skynet
Speaker: Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University
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- Quantum Dances: Life, Love and
Jealousy in the Quantum World
Speaker: Ulrich Schollwoeck, University of
Munich
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- The Ultimate Collision: Neutron Stars
Rattle Shine and Sparkle
Speaker: Sanjay Reddy, University of
Washington
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- The First Galaxies: Exploring Cosmic
Sunrise with Hubble and JWST
Speaker: Garth Illingworth, UC Santa Cruz
and Lick Observatory
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- Entangled Butterflies: Chaos in the
Quantum World
Speaker: Brian Swingle, University of
Maryland
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- The Unity of Physics: From New
Materials to Fundamental Laws of Nature
Speaker: David Tong, University of
Cambridge
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- From Cosmological Observations to
Fundamental Physics: Past, Present, and
Future
Speaker: Cora Dvorkin, Harvard University
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- Exploring the Dark Side of Our
Cosmos: “Seeing" the Invisible.
Speaker: Mustafa Amin, Rice University
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- A Dark Matter Hunter's Guide to the
Galaxy
Speaker: Kathryn Zurek, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
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- Physics and the HIV Virus
Speaker: Robijn Bruinsma, University of
California Los Angeles
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- How Much Number Theory Does it Take
to be a Sunflower
Speaker: Leonid Levitov, MIT
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- Making Crystals Clear - from Food to
Phone
Speaker: Emilia Morosan, Rice University
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- Information processing in a single
cell: what and how does E. coli compute?
Speaker: Yuhai Tu, IBM Research
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- The Brain Inside a Cell: Adaptation
and Learning with Cellular Networks
Speaker: Naama Brenner, Technion
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- Richard Feynman's Adventures in
Biology: Forgotten History with
Implications for Today
Speaker: Curtis Callan, Princeton
University
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- Graphic Talk About the Universe
Speaker: Clifford Johnson, University of
Southern California
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- Dark Matter Genesis: Tales from an
Agnostic
Speaker: Josh Ruderman, New York
University
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- Particle Physics at the Crossroads
Speaker: Csaba Csaki, Cornell University
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- Tuning Stars into Gold: The Discovery
of the First Kilonova
Speaker: Iair Arcavi , Tel Aviv University
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2018
- Games that Microbes Play: Cooperation
and Cheating in the Microscopic Realm
Speaker: Jeff Gore, MIT
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- Seeing What's Coming: How Your Brain
Computes the Future
Speaker: Stephanie Palmer, University of
Chicago
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- Mapping the Dark Universe with Galaxy
Surveys
Speaker: Risa Wechsler, Stanford
University
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- The Coolest Use of Light: Using Light
Forces to Study the Coldest Matter in
the Universe
Speaker: Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
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- AI in the Sky: Intelligent Machines
in Science and Society
Speaker: Brian Nord, Fermilab
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- The Inner Universe of Quantum
Materials
Speaker: Premala Chandra, Rutgers
University
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- Faster, Smaller, Cheaper: Discovering
the Universe on a Shoestring Budget
Speaker: Jonathan Feng, University of
California Irvine
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- Black Holes, Hawking Radiation and
the Structure of Spacetime
Speaker: Juan Maldacena, Institute for
Advanced Studies
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- Illuminating Dark Matter: New Ideas
in the Search for the Missing Universe
Speaker: Neal Weiner, New York University
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- Dark Matter Archaeology
Speaker: Mariangela Lisanti, Stanford
University
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- Prediction and Control of Extreme
Events, from Rogue Waves to Protein
Folding
Speaker: Eric Vanden-Eijnden, NYU
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- The Dark Energy of Quantum Materials
Speaker: Laura H Greene, National High
Field Magnet Lab
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- Tidal Disruption Events: How One
Star’s Death Gives Life to a Black
Hole
Speaker: Erin Kara, University of Maryland
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- The Physics of Flocking
Speaker: M Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse
University
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- Searching for Cosmic Dawn
Speaker: Cynthia Chiang, Princeton
University
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- Knots in Physics
Speaker: Louis Kauffman, University of
Illinois at Chicago
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- Quantum Information Science:
Exploring the Strangeness of the Atomic
World for Information Processing
Speaker: David Poulin, University of
Sherbrooke
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- The Search for Quantum Gravity
Speaker: Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute
for Fundamental Research, Mumbai
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- We Have No Idea: An Exploration of
the Unanswered Questions About Our
Universe
Speaker: Daniel Whiteson, University of
California Irvine
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2017
- The Science of "The Man from the 9
Dimensions"
Speaker: Hirosi Ooguri, Caltech
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- Origami: Art and Science
Speaker: L Mehadevan, Harvard University
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- The All-American Total Solar Eclipse
of August 2017
Speaker: Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley
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- Let's Go Delve Into a Black Hole
Speaker: Feryal Ozel, University of
Arizona
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- A Quantum Future of Computation
Speaker: Matthias Troyer, Microsoft
Research
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- Healing the Sciences/Humanities
Divide
Speaker: Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of
Mines
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- This Time Will be Different: Time
Crystals in Quantum Systems
Speaker: Chetan Nayak, Microsoft Research
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- The Secret Life of the Higgs Boson
Speaker: Stefania Gori, University of
Cincinnati
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- Hidden Messages in Johannes Kepler's
Frontispiece
Speaker: Stefano Gattei, Caltech
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- The Quantum Physics of Climate Change
Speaker: Brad Marston, Brown University
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- The Mathematics of Paper
Speaker: Randall Kamien, University of
Pennsylvania
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- Atomic Legos: Building and
Investigating Quantum Matter One Atom at
a Time
Speaker: Markus Grenier, Harvard
University
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- Humanity's New Gravitational Sense
Speaker: Rana Adhikari, California
Institute of Technology
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- Fast Radio Bursts and Nature's Latest
Cosmic Mystery
Speaker: Duncan Lorimer, West Virginia
University
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- The Unification of Forces through
Geometry
Speaker: Alessandro Tomasiello, U of
Milano-Bicocca
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- Confronting the Invisible Universe
Speaker: Jesse Thaler, MIT
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- The Search for Exoplanets
Speaker: Joshua N. Winn, Princeton
University
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2016
- The Higgs Boson and the Mystery of
Mass
Speaker: Roni Harnik, Fermilab
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- The Dark Side of the Universe
Speaker: Catherine Heymans, University of
Edinburgh
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- Singing Binaries: Listening to the
Chirps of Black Holes
Speaker: Ilya Mandel, University of
Birmingham
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- String Theory Meets Quantum Field
Theory
Speaker: Jacques Distler, University of
Texas Austin
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- Does Copper have Extra Dimensions?
Speaker: Philip Phillips, University of
Illinois
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- Human Genome, Now in 3D!
Speaker: Leonid Mirny, MIT
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- The Evolution Within Us: Statistics
of Immunity
Speaker: Aleksandra Walczak, Ecole Normale
Superieure
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- The Search for Earth 2.0
Speaker: Justin Crepp, Notre Dame
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- Tiny Cells, Global Impact: The
Ocean's Invisible Forest
Speaker: Sallie (Penny) Chisholm, MIT
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- Are We Ready for a Final Theory of
Physics?
Speaker: Michael Peskin, Stanford
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- The Monster of the Milky Way
Speaker: Andrea Ghez, UCLA
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- Hunting for Exotic Quantum Particles
under the Microscope
Speaker: Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
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- Let There be Light: The First Stars
Speaker: Rachel Webster, University of
Melbourne
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- Computational Complexity and
Fundamental Physics
Speaker: Scott Aaronson, MIT
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- The Human Body as a Living Material
Speaker: Lisa Manning, University of
Syracuse
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2015
- Nature's Smallest Rotary Engine: Why
We Eat and Why We Breathe
Speaker: Kazuhiko Kinosita Huang, Waseda
University
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- How Plants and Animals Survive
Crashing Ocean Waves
Speaker: Mark Denny, Stanford University
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- The Monster at the Heart of the Milky
Way
Speaker: Andrea Ghez, UCLA
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- Fundamental Physics in the 21st
Century
Speaker: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for
Advanced Study
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- From the Physics of Adhesion to Organ
Repair
Speaker: Ludwik Leibler, ESPCI
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- Quantum Matter, Spacetime, and
Emergence
Speaker: Shamit Kachru, Stanford
University
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- Taking the Universe's Baby Picture
Speaker: David N Spergel, Princeton
University
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A second interview with
Andy Curtis, Aspen 82, is available also.
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- Quantum Crystals, Quantum Computing
and Quantum Cognition
Speaker: Matthew P.A. Fisher, University
of California, Santa Barbara and KITP
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- The Physics of the Iran Nuclear
Negotiations
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein, Stevens
Institute of Technology
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- Mapping the Milky Way, Our Cosmic
Backyard
Speaker: Beth Willman, Haverford College
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- Astronomy and Market Forces:
Rediscovering an Ancient Partnership
Speaker: Martin Elvis, Harvard Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics
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- Sensing, Learning, and Communicating:
Are our Cells Better than We are?
Speaker: Ilya Nemenman, Emory University
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- Engineered Magnetism in an Atomic
Bose-Einstein Condensate
Speaker: Ian Spielman, National Institute
of Standards and Technology
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- Using Geometry to Simplify Particle
Physics
Speaker: Henriette Elvang, University of
Michigan
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- The Secret Lives of Electrons
Speaker: Chetan Nayak, Microsoft
Research,Station Q
. Watch the lecture
- Ice Fishing for Neutrinos: the
IceCube Project
Speaker: Francis Halzen, University of
Wisconsin, IceCube
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- Revealing the Nature of Dark Matter
Speaker: Dan Hooper, University of
Chicago, Fermilab
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- Observing Ultra–High Energy Cosmic
Rays with Smartphones
Speaker: Daniel Whiteson, UC Irvine
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- The Remarriage of Pure Mathematics
and Theoretical Physics
Speaker: David Morrison, University of
California Santa Barbara
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2014
- A Bug's Life
Speaker: Kerwyn Casey Huang, Stanford
University
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- The Accelerating
Universe: Einstein's Blunder Undone
Speaker: Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard
University
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- Neutrinos are
Everywhere
Speaker: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab
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- Conflicted Genius: A
New Perspective on Einstein's Science
Speaker: Douglas Stone, Yale
University
Conflicted Genius: A New Perspective on
Einstein's Science
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- Superconductivity:
Magic and Mystery
Speaker: Louis Taillefer, University of
Sherbrooke
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- Particles,
Quasi-particles and Beyond
Speaker: Leon Balents, University of
California, Santa Barbara
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- Higgs Boson: A
Natural Disaster!
Speaker: Kyle Cranmer, New York University
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- Swimming in Syrup:
How do Bacteria Move?
Speaker: Kenneth Breuer, Brown University
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- Supermassive Black
Holes, Workhorses of the Universe
Speaker: Brian Mc Namara, University of
Waterloo and Perimeter Institute
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- Quantum Computing
and the Entanglement Frontier
Speaker: John Preskill, California
Institute of Technology
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- Quantum
Entanglement and Superconductivity
Speaker: Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
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2013
2012
2011
- The Fermi Gamma Ray Space
Telescope: Seeing the Universe Through
Gamma-Ray Eyes
Speaker: Elliott Bloom
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- What Makes up the Dark Matter?
Speaker: Blas Cabrera
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- Cook's Tale: A Guide to
Understanding New Materials
Speaker: Paul Canfield
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- Listening to the Universe with
Gravitational Waves
Speaker: Daniel Holz
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- The Hunt for the Elusive Higgs
Boson
Speaker: Ben Kilminster
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- The Ocean's Cryptic Life
Speaker: Thomas Kiorboe
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- Gene Surfing and Survival of the
Luckiest
Speaker: David R. Nelson
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- The Physics of Human and Superhuman
Vision
Speaker: Phil Nelson
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- Fluid Viscosity: From Maxwell to
String Theory
Speaker: Dam Thanh Son
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- Lasers, Micro-Lasers and
Anti-Lasers
Speaker: Douglas Stone
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- Dark Matter, the Search for 85% of
the Mass in the Universe
Speaker: Risa Wechsler
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- High-Temperature Superconductivity:
Quantum Mechanics Meets Energy
Efficiency
Speaker: Ali Yazdani
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- Zooming into Life on the Nano Scale
Speaker: Xiaowei Zhuang
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2010
- Exploring the Cosmos from the Moon
Speaker: Jack Burns
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- Birds Do It, Bees Do It; Physics
and the Art of Attracting a Mate
Speaker: Eric Dufresne
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- What's the Matter? The Race for
Clues in our Cold, Dark Universe
Speaker: Jonathan Feng
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- The Limits of Knowledge:
Philosophical and Practical Aspects of
Building a Quantum Computer
Speaker: Michael Freedman
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- Unveiling a Supermassive Black Hole
at the Center of Our Galaxy
Speaker: Andrea Ghez
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- The Large Hadron Collider: Living
with the Uncertainty Principle
Speaker: David E. Kaplan
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- Etch-a-Sketch Nanoelectronics
Speaker: Jeremy Levy
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- Biological Evolution: What it is
and what it isn't
Speaker: Joanna Masel
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- Mysteries of Mass and Matter:
Revealing Nature's Secrets with the
Large Hadron Collider
Speaker: Matthias Neubert
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- From 0 to c in 60 Minutes: A Crash
Course in Einstein, Featuring Planes,
Trains and Automobiles
Speaker: R. Shankar
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2009
- The Large Hadron Collider
Speaker: Roger Bailey
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- Condensed Matter: The Small
Frontier
Speaker: Donald Eigler
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- Can Evolution Be Understood
Quantitatively?
Speaker: Daniel S. Fisher
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- LHC: A Big Window to the Small
World
Speaker: Yuval Grossman
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- The Sounds of Spacetime: Black
Holes, Early Universe, Cosmic Strings
and Holographic Noise
Speaker: Craig Hogan
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- Einstein Rings and Giant Arcs:
Mapping Dark Matter with Gravitational
Lensing
Speaker: Bhuvnesh Jain
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- Addressing America's Energy
Challenges
Speaker: Steve Koonin
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- The Quantum Mechanics of Global
Warming
Speaker: John Bradley Marston
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- Quantum Whirlpools: Tiny Vortices
of Tireless Electrons
Speaker: Kathryn Moler
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- Knots, World-Lines, and Quantum
Computation
Speaker: Steven Simon
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- Nature's Exquisite Nanomachines:
The Dynamic and Varied City Plan of
Living Cells
Speaker: James Spudich
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- Life after Stellar Death:
Suprenovae, Neutron Stars, Pulsars and
Magnetars
Speaker: Edward P. J. Van Den Heuvel
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- Dark Matters
Speaker: Simon White
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2008
- The Dawn of Galaxy Creation: Its
First Two Billion Years
Speaker: Steven Beckwith
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- How Many M&Ms Are in That Jar
and Why Does it Matter: Experiments with
Colloids and Candies
Speaker: Paul Chaikin
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- Visualizing Complex Electronic
Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Speaker: J.C. Seamus Davis
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- Supermassive Black Holes
Speaker: Timothy Heckman
- Matter, Antimatter, and How We Came
to be Here
Speaker: Boris Kayser
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- Atomically Thin Carbon: From
Revolutionary Electronics to the Core of
Neutron Stars
Speaker: Antonio Castro Neto
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- How Cells Decide What to Eat
Speaker: Rob Phillips
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- Reaching for a Sustainable and
Attainable Energy Future
Speaker: Robert Rosner
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- Extrasolar Planets and the Search
for Habitable Worlds
Speaker: Sara Seager
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- CSI: Aspen Cosmic Scene
Investigation
Speaker: George Smoot
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- Coming Soon at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) - the Higgs, Dark Matter
and Maybe Even Black Holes or New
Dimensions of Space
Panel Discussion: Marcela Carena, Patrick
Fox, Howard Haber, Elizabeth Simmons,
Michael Turner, Dick Zerwas
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2007
- Energy and Extra Dimensions in
Einstein's Universe
Speaker: Lisa Randall
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- Quantum Mechanics in the
Information age: New Bits, Qubits, and
Knot bits
Speaker: Charles Marcus
- Neutrinos in Astrophysics: Ghostly
Messegners of the Heavens
Speaker: A. Baha Balantekin
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- Reflections from Outbursts of
Supermassive Black Holes at the Centers
of Galaxies
Speaker: Christine Jones
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- Supernovae and the Life of the
Cosmos
Speaker: Richard Mc Cray
- Dark Energy and the Runaway
Universe
Speaker: Alexei Filippenko
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- Can the Universe be captured in an
Equation?
Speaker: Robbert Kijdgraaf
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- The Future of Particle Physics
Speaker: Piermaria J. Oddone
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- Superconductivity and
Superfluidity: Life without Friction
Speaker: Gordon Baym
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- Mitochondrial Sequences and the
Migration History of Modern Humans
Speaker: Gyan Bhanot
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2006
- The Sciense of the Ultracold
Speaker: Randall Gardner
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- Hiding in the Mirror: The
Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions
Speaker: Lawrence Krauss
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- Exploring Cosmic Origins with the
Next Generation of Telescopes
Speaker: Leo Blitz
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- Quantum Universe
Speaker: John Womersley
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- When Obsessions Collide: Golf and
Physics
Speaker: Rovert D. Grover
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- Quantum Money, Teleportation and
Computation
Speaker: Steven M. Girvin
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- Spooky Action at a Distance?
Speaker: N. David Mermin
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- The Explosive Universe
Speaker: Adam Burrows
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- Strings Everywhere?
Speaker: Clifford V. Johnson
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2005
- Nanotechnology in Nature: Agility
of Biomolecules Explored One at a Time
Speaker: Yale E. Goldman
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- Levitation, Superconductivity &
Time: Einstei–s Special Relativity
Speaker: Francesco Fidecaro
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- Exoplanets, Yellowstone &
Prospects for Life in the Universe
Speaker: Geoffrey Marcy
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Dark Matter & Dark Energy: From the
Universe to the Laboratory
Speaker: Sean Carroll
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- Einstein–s Vision & the Quantum
Universe
Speaker: James B. Hartle
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- Threats to the Future of US Science
& Technology
Speaker: Neal Lane
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- Genius and (Genius)2: Planck,
Einstein & the Birth of Quantum
Theory
Speaker: A. Douglas stone
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- Bose-Einstein Condensation: Guantum
Wierdness at the Lowerst Tempurature in
the Universe
Speaker: Carl E. Wieman
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- Secrets of the Old One: Motion
& Light
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
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- Secrets of the Old One: The Theory
of Relativity
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
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- Secrets of the Old One: Do Atoms
Exist?
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
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- Secrets of the Old One: The Quantum
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
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- Warped Passages: Energy & Extra
Dimensions in Einstein's Universe
Speaker: Lisa Randall
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2004
- Novel Phenomena,Devices &
Materials at the Nanoscal
Speaker: David Goldhaber
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- The Violent High–Energy Universe
Speaker: Vicky Gaspin
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- The Expanding Universe
Speaker: P James E Peebles
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- Of Genes and Genomes
Speaker: David Botstein
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- Fundamental Particles, Fundamental
Questions
Speaker: Elizabeth H Simmons
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- The Universe Live & in Concert
Speaker: Mark Coles
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- Neutrinos Under Your Skin
Speaker: Boris Kayser
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- Images of Our Milky Way Galaxy: Our
Place in the Universe
Speaker: Rosemary Wyse
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- The Arrow of Time
Speaker: Joel Lebowits
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- Einstein in the Stars
Speaker: J. Craig Wheeler
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- String Theory: Past, Present &
Future
Speaker: John H. Schwartz
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2003
- What is Matter and What is Life
from a Physicist's Perspective:
Conversation with the Dalai Lama
Speaker: Steven Chu
- The First Thing in the Universe
Speaker: Tom Abel
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- Matters of Degrees: What
Temperature Reveals About the Past,
Present, Future of our Species, Planet,
Universe
Speaker: Gino Segre
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- From Black Holes to Light Waves to
a New Astronomy
Speaker: Lee S Finn
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- From Superconductors to the Theory
of Everything: A Journey through the
Physics of the Electron
Speaker: Catherine Kallin
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- Messengers of the Extreme Universe
Speaker: Angela Olinto
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- The Sun Shines Even at 3AM: The
Magical Story of Neutrinos and the
Scientists Who Found Them
Speaker: Pierre Ramond
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- Magnetism: A Guided Tour From
Ancient Greece to Modern Aspen
Speaker: Dieter Vollhardt
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- The Symmetry (or Lack of It)
between Matter & Antimatter
Speaker: Helen R. Quinn
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- Mapping the Heavens: The Universe
Revealed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Speaker: Joshua Frieman
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- The Fragrant Mind: How the Brain
Senses Scents
Speaker: Lawrence Katz
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2002
- Icefishing for Neutrinos at the
South Pole
Speaker: Francis Halzen
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- Invasions in Particle Physics
Speakers: Maria Spiropulu and Joseph
Lykken
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- The Real Story Behind Stopping
Light
Speaker: Ronald Walsworth
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- In the Beginning
Speaker: Michael S. Turner
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- Light & Life
Speaker: Lubert Stryer
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- Higgs Boson: The Origins of Mass
Speaker: Marcela Carena
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- Why Climb Mountains When You Can
(Quantum) Tunnel Through Them? Solving
Hard Problems from Magnets to Protein
Folding
Speaker: Thomas F. Rosenbaum
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- Why Things Usually Hum Equally in
Every Octave
Speaker: Michael Weissmam
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- The Physics of the Heart
Speaker: John Wikswo
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2001
- Why is the Universe
Matter–Animatter Asymmetr
Speaker: Roberto D. Peccei
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- Visualizing Single Molecules with
Lasers
Speaker: W E Moerner
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- Complex Adaptive Matter: Science
for the New Millennium
Speaker: David Pines
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- Universe in a Box
Speaker: Matthias Steinmetz
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- Supermassive Black Holes in
Galaxies: Chicken or the Egg?
Speaker: Thomas Prince
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- Making the Most out of Moore:
Physics and the Information Age
Speaker: Cherry A. Murray
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- Living Nightmares: Facing the
Growing Threat of Biological Weapons
Speaker: Steven Block
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- Taming Light with Cold Atoms: Light
at Bicycle Speed...and slower yet!
Speaker: Lene Vestergaard
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2000
- 1+1=3? The Frontier Science of
Emergent Materials
Speaker: Piers Coleman
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- Physics at the Turn of the Century
Speaker: Thomas Appelquist
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- The Origins of Cancer in Humans
Speaker: Arnold J. Levine
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- The Size and Age of the Universe
Speaker: Wendy Freedman
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- Getting a Charge out of
Shape–Changing Crystals
Speaker: David Vanderbit
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- Violence in the Graveyard of the
Universe
Speaker: Rovin Stebbins
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- Einstein's Biggest Blunder?
Speaker: Lawrence Krauss
- New View of the Distant Universe
with Chandra X–Ray Observatory
Speaker: Belinda Wilkes
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- When You Come to the Fork in the
Road Take it– Yogi Berra's Guide to the
Quantum World
Speaker: Ramamurti Shankar
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- The Theory of Everything
Speaker: Robert B Laughlin
- New Dimensions to Einstein's
Gravity
Speaker: Lisa Randall
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1999
- This Not So Crazy World: Order in
Randomness
Speaker: Raymond Orbach
- Thinking about Complexity
Speaker: L. M. Simmons, Jr.
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- How to Hunt a Wild Neutrino
Speaker: Janet Conrad
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- The Origin of the Galaxies:
Studying Evolution with a Time Machine
Speaker: Simon White
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- Journey to the Coldest Place in the
Universe, What Atoms Do When It's Really
Cold
Speaker: Gordon Baym
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- Jointly sponsered Historical
Society/Physics/Music lectures on the
50–year history of the Music Assoc of
Aspen 7/1,15,29
- Seeing the Invisible: Dark Matter
in the Universe
Speaker: J. Anthony Tyson
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- Exploring Forbidden Paths:
Tunneling into High Termperature
Superconductors
Speaker: Laura H Greene
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- The Origin of Mass
Speaker: Jonathan Bagger
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- Sonuluminescence: Star in a Jar,
Creation of Light from Sound
Speaker: Seth Putterman
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- New developments in the art and
science of skiing and snowboarding
Speaker: David Lind
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- Emergence, Reductionism & the
Seamless Web: When & Why is Science
Right?
Speaker: Philip Warren Anderson
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1998
- for KUSA
Speaker: Maggie De Wolf
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- The Quest for Gravitational Waves:
Fulfilling Einstein's Vision
Speaker: Peter Saulson
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- Young Stars, Planetary Systems
& the Search for Life in the
Universe
Speaker: Steven V.W.
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- Fractal Dimensions & the
Physics of Crumbled Bodies
Speaker: David Nelson
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- Probing the Universe with the
Hubble Space Telescope
Speakers: Robert Williams and Claude
Nicollier
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- Bose–Einstein Condensation:
Creating a New Form of Matter at the
Coldest Temperature in the universe
Speaker: Carl E. Wieman
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- New Developments in the Art &
Science of Skiing & Snowboarding
Speaker: David Lind
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- Medical Imaging with
Laser–Polarized 3-He and 129–Xe
Speaker: William Harper
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- What Makes the Big Bang So Big?
Speaker: Craig Hogan
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- Small is Beautiful: Silicon Micro
Machines for Science & Technology
Speaker: David Bishop
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1997
- Measuring the Size & Age of the
Universe with the Hubble Space Telescope
Speaker: Robert Kennicutt
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- The Wonders of Nature in Less than
3 Dimensions
Speaker: Rovert J. Birgeneau
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- Neutrinos: Importance &
Peculiarities of the Nearest Thing to
Nothing
Speaker: David O. Caldwell
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- Listening to Einstein's Universe
Speaker: Gary Sanders
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- Aspen Science Fair
Speaker: Bernice Durand
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- Interviews with Famous Physicists
Speaker: Bernice Durand
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- Blue Skies, Rainbows & UV Rays
Speaker: Bernice Durand
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- Poking & Cajoling Quarks, The
Fundamental Particles
Speaker: Melissa Franklin
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- Duality, Space–Time & Quantum
Mechanics
Speaker: Edward Witten
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- Predictablity & Chaos
Speaker: Pierre C. Hohenberg
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- Space & Time are Relative
Speaker: Bernice Durand
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- How the Brain is Like &
Different from a Computer
Speaker: Charles Stevens
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- Space & Time are Curved
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1996
- Using Tractor Beams to Study
Biological Motors
Speaker: Steven Block
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- 1896 to 1986: A Century of High
Energy Physics
Speaker: Roy Frederick
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- The Physics of Star Trek
Speaker: Lawrence Krauss
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- The Hunt for Black Holes
Speaker: Philip Charles
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- Shadows of Creation: The Dark
Matter of the Universe
Speaker: David Schramm
- From Simplicity to Complexity
Speaker: Murray Gell–Mann
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- Does God Throw Dice in Black Holes?
Speaker: Stephen Hawking
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- Space-Time Since Einstein (Strings)
Speaker: Brian Greene
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- Quantum Cryptography
Speaker: Charles Bennett
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1995
- Black Holes & Gravitational
Waves: Dark Side of the Universe
Speaker: Kip S. Thorne
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- Quantum Structures and & Their
Physics: Principles Underlying Layered
Lasers
Speaker: Shirley Ann Jackson
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- Big telescopes look at the big bang
Speaker: Craig Hogan
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1994
- Three Ways of Misreading Physics
Speaker: Sidney Coleman
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- Building Tomorrow's Electronics:
Legols for the Materials Scientist
Speaker: Thomas F.
- The Hubble Space Telescope: A view
of the Universe
Speaker: Mario Livio
- Is there any way to make public
school science teaching better?
Speaker: Michael Fowler
- Women in Science: Does Gender
Matter?
Speaker: Londa Schiebinger
- The Unsolved Mysteries of Particle
Physics
Speaker: Thomas Appelquist
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- What Does Superconductivity Have to
do with Elementary Particle Physics?
Everthing!
Speaker: Robert B Laughlin
- Neutron Stars: The Ultimate Metrics
of Time, Space & Mass/Energy?
Speaker: Joseph H. Taylor
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1993
- Cosmology and Culture; Implications
of Recent Cosmological Discoveries
Speaker: Joel Primack
- Order in Disorder; Spatial
Patterns, Chaos, and Turbulence
Speaker: Michael Cross
- More Questions than Questions about
Schools
Speaker: George Stranahan
- Searching for Superconductivity
Speaker: David Pines
- Cosmological Mysteries - Myth or
Science
Speaker: Jeremiah P. Ostriker
- Taking the Measure of the Universe:
How Big? How Old?
Speaker: Robert P. Kirshner
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- Super Theories & Super
Colliders
Speaker: John H. Schwarz
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- Relaxation at the angle of repose:
Do avalanches explain the fractal nature
of the universe?
Speaker: Sidney R Nagel
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1992
- Getting Creative Ideas
Speaker: Murray Gell-Mann
- Wiggles from Creation: News from
the Big Bang
Speaker: P James E Peebles
- The Future of the Universe
Speaker: Stephen Hawking
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- In Search of the Ultimate Structure
Speaker: Pierre Ramond
- Is Theoretical Physics Useful?
Speaker: Susan N.
- The Space Program in the New Russia
Speaker: Rashid Sunyaev
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- How to Find a Black Hole
Speaker: Jonathan E. Grindlay
- Particle Physics in the Cosmos:
Beginning & End of Universe
Speaker: Lawrence Krauss
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- High Temperature Superconductors,
Squids & Hearts
Speaker: John W. Clark
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1991
- Phase Transitions & Critical
Phenomena
Speaker: Michael E. Fisher
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- The Big Bang Really Happened
Speaker: Michael S. Turner
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- Black Holes Up Close & Personal
Speaker: J. Craig Wheeler
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- The Health of American Science
& Education
Speaker: Leon Max Lederman
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- Primeval Fireball
Speaker: David Wilkinson
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1990
- Quasi Crystals: A New Phase of
Matter
Speaker: Paul J. Steinhardt
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- Do Computers Think?
Speaker: John Joseph Hopfield
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- What is Solid State Physics?
Quantum Mechanics in Your Everyday Life
Speaker: A. Douglas Stone
- Probing the Creation: Tests for the
Big Bang
Speaker: David Schramm
- Supercolliders, Superconductors,
Supernovas, and Economic Development (in
Aspen Colorado)
Speaker: Leon Max Lederman
- Technology of 21st Century
Speaker: Paul M Horn
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1989
- The Fastest Pulsars in the Universe
Speaker: Jacob Shaham
- Patterns and Chaos: Central Ideas
in Non-Linear Science
Speaker: Jerry P Gollub
- The Mystery of Neutrinos from the
Sun
Speaker: S. Peter Gollub
- Druk Yol, The Gragon Kingdom
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
- High Temperature Superconductivity
Speaker: M. Brian Maple
- Black Holes and Their Children,
Baby Universes
Speaker: Stephen Hawking
- Global Warming: A View from the
Rockies
Speaker: John Harte
- Fronteir Science at Very Low
Temperatures
Speaker: Robert W Richardson
- Big Bang Revisited
Speaker: William Alfred Fowler
- Superconductors, Supercolliders,
Supernovas and Economic Development in
Aspen
Speaker: Leon Max Lederman
1988
- Superstrings - A Theory of
Everything?
Speaker: David Gross
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- A Thousand Years of Popular Views
of Astronomical Discoveries
Speaker: Malvin Avram
- Psycho - Sociology of the
Superconducting Super Collider (SSC)
Speaker: Peter Carruthers
- Shadows of Creation: The Large
Scale Structure of the Universe
Speaker: David Schramm
- High Temperature Superconductivity:
The Challenge and the Promise
Speaker: David Pines
- Here Comes the Sun: The Cuzco-Machu
Picchu Connections
Speaker: David Dearborn
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- High Temperature Super Conductors:
A New State of Matter?
Speaker: Robert B Laughlin
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- 2500 Years of Particle Physics: The
Latest to the Super Collider
Speaker: Leon Max Lederman
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- Supernova 1987: The Supernova of a
Lifetime
Speaker: Robert P. Kirshner
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1987
- Before the Big Bang - date unkown
Speaker: Heinz R. Pagels
- A Voyage to Lhasa - date unkown
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
- Superstring Theory
Speaker: John H. Schwarz
- The Supernova of 1987
Speaker: David Schramm
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1986
- Title unlisted
Speaker: Marvin L. Goldberger
- Scientist as Educator
Speaker: William Frazer
- Recollections of a Native
Adventurer
Speaker: Robert Craig
- Sequencing the Human Genome
Speaker: George Bell
- The World in which We Live
Speaker: Robert O. Andersom
- Physicists against Star Wars: David
vs. Goliath
Speaker: Philip warren
- Art and Physics
Speaker: Robert Rathbun
- Is Everything in the Universe
Composed of Superstrings?
Speaker: Murray Gell-Mann
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- 3 Degrees Above Zero
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
- The Secrets of Stradivari's Violins
Speaker: William F. Fry
- The Big Bang: The Creation of the
Universe
Speaker: David Schramm
1985
- From Atom Smashers to Quark
Smashers: The Search for the fundamental
properties of nature
Speaker: James Watson Cronin
- What are Nature's Building Blocks?
Speaker: Murray Gell-Mann
1971
- Gravitation, Nature's Weakest Force
- date not certain - AIHS speaker series
Speaker: Joseph Weber
- Life and Personality of Einstein -
date not certain - AIHS speaker series
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
1970
- The Horizons of Physics
Speaker: Murray Gell-Mann
- The Application of Physics
Speaker: Hans Emil
- The Funding of Physics
Speaker: Robert Rathbun
- The Aspen Center for Physics
Speaker: George Stranahan
- White Teacher, Black Students: The
Problem of Third World Colleges
Speaker: William Frazer
- Darwin vs. Newton: Models for
Scientific Theorists
Speaker: Murray Gell-Mann
- Some Mountains of Asia
Speaker: Jeremy Bernstein
1969
- Why Anti-Ballistic Missles Will Not
Contribute to the Security of the U.S.
Speaker: Hans Bethe
1966
- The Role of Scientists in Decision
Making
- The Problems of Cities
- Modern Ethics (moderated by
Mortimer Alder)
- Science and Government: The Moon
Shot
1962
- Neutrino Physics
Speaker: Robert R. Lewis
- Elementary Particles
Speaker: Loyal Durand
- Soviet Science
Speaker: Robert Marshak
- Helium Three
Speaker: Henry Primakoff
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