KITP Public Lectures Online

KITP Public Lectures

Recreational Biology: Topological puzzles in cell biology Manu Prakash, Stanford (Oct 24)
Living in the Matrix: Recent Advances in Understanding Quantum Spacetime Clifford V. Johnson, UC Santa Barbara (Apr 24)
The Search for Quantum Gravity Shiraz Minwalla, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (Feb 23)
Why Face Masks Work Eberhard Bodenschatz, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Oct 22)
Lessons From Other Viruses: How Pandemics Start and End Richard Neher, University of Basel (Apr 22)
Stars: The Ultimate Laboratory For Modern Physics Pascale Garaud, UC Santa Cruz (Apr 22)
Where Does Matter That Falls into a Black Hole Go? Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseille University (Jun 21)
Ted Jacobson, University of Maryland The Radiant Universe: The Story of Electromagnetic Waves (Oct 20)
K. Birgitta Whaley, UC Berkeley The Renaissance of Quantum Biology (Jun 20)
Cumrun Vafa, Harvard & KITP The String Landscape, the Swampland, and Our Universe (Feb 20)
Jairo Sinova, Johannes Gutenberg Univ. of Mainz and KITP From Magnetic Cats to Artificial Intelligence: The Circular Technological Revolution of Spintronics (Oct 19)
Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland & KITP Fundamental Physics and the Fifth Dimension (Jul 19)
Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory & KITP Quantum Theory of the Classical (May 19)
Marc Mezard, École Normale Supérieure Paris & KITP Artificial intelligence: success, limits, myths and threats (Jan 19)
Stephen Shenker, Stanford Univ. & KITP Chaos, Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics (Oct 18)
Stephen Belcher, Chief Scientist of the UK Meteorological Office & KITP New Challenges for Climate Science Following the Paris Agreement (May 18)
Asimina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute & KITP Novel Directions in the Search for New Physics (Apr 18)
Sidney Nagel, Univ. of Chicago & KITP Impact and Intrusion(Feb 18)
Leon Balents, KITP Yzurdiaga Chair Inauguration: Magical Magnetism & Other Strange Stuff(Nov 17)
A. James Hudspeth, Rockefeller University & KITP How Hearing Happens(Jun 17)
Saul Teukolsky, Cornell University Black Holes and Gravitational Waves -- Was Einstein Right?(May 17)
Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Beyond Chaos: The Continuing Enigma of Turbulence(Feb 17)
Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics & KITP Realizing Feynman's Dream of a Quantum Simulator(Sep 16)
Zvi Bern, UCLA & KITP Do I have to draw you a diagram? A tale of quantum gravity(Apr 16)
Curt Callan, Princeton & KITP The Biological Future of Theoretical Physics(Feb 16)
Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab & KITP Weight, Weight... Do Tell Me!: QCD and the Origin of Mass(Sep 15)
Conny Aerts, Universities of Leuven & Nijmegen & KITP Starquakes and Exoplanets in the Milky Way(Feb 15)
Joe Polchinski, KITP Spacetime versus the Quantum -- Faculty Research Lecture(Dec 14)
R. Shankar, Yale University From zero to c in 60 minutes -- A crash course in Einstein's relativity(Dec 14)
Brad Marston, Brown University The Quantum Physics of Global Warming(Jun 14)
Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University The Physics of Flocking(May 14)
Theo Geisel, Max Planck Institute Rhythms & Algorithms ~ Physics and Music(Feb 14)
Stuart Parkin, IBM Almaden Research Center The Spin on Electronics! -- The nanoscience and nanotech of spin currents(Nov 13)
Eric Wieschaus, Princeton Univ. On Growth & Form of the Embryo: From Gene Expressions to Tissue Mechanics(Jul 13)
Joe Polchinski, KITP Gravity and Quantum Mechanics - The Quest for Unification(Mar 13)
Daniel Fisher, Stanford University Can Evolution Be Understood Quantitatively?(Jan 13)
Leo Kouwenhoven, Delft Univ. of Technology Particle Physics On a Chip: the Search for Majorana Fermions(Dec 12)
Diana Kormos Buchwald, Caltech Worshipped Today, Scorned Tomorrow...: Albert Einstein and the Perils of Public Engagement(Mar 12)
Sean Hartnoll, Stanford University From String Theory to Exotic Materials and Back Again(Oct 11)
Edward van den Heuvel, University of Amsterdam Life After Stellar Death: Supernovae, Neutron Stars, Pulsars, and Black Holes(Mar 11)
Benjamin Monreal, UCSB How Bad is the Reactor Meltdown in Japan?(Mar 11)
Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University How Bacteria Talk to Each Other(Jan 11)
William Phillips, NIST Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe(Oct 10)
Adam Burrows, Princeton University The New Century of Exoplanets(Apr 10)
Paul Nurse, Rockefeller University The Great Ideas of Biology(Feb 10)
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study Exploring the Dark Universe(Dec 09)
Maria Spiropulu, CERN & Caltech The Universe in Collisions(May 09)
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland Quantum Reality(Feb 09)
Michael Freedman, Microsoft Station Q Topology, Physics, and Complexity: The Birthing of the Quantum Computer(Nov 08)
Robbert Dijkgraaf, University of Amsterdam Mathematics and the Quantum Universe(Jul 08)
Sam Wang, Princeton Univ Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life(Apr 08)
W. Patrick McCray, UCSB Citizen-Scientists and the Dawn of the Space Age(Jan 08)
Nathan Lewis, Caltech Challenges for Global Energy(Dec 07)
Robert Kirshner Einstein's Blunder Undone: The Discovery of Cosmic Acceleration(Apr 07)
Julian Nott Intellectual Courage and Scientific Ballooning-- Exploring Landscapes Near & Far(Feb 07)
Dr. Alain Karma, Northeastern Bringing Order to Chaotic Hearts(Jul 06)
Dr. John Preskill, Caltech Putting Weirdness to Work: Quantum Information Science(May 06)
Sir Michael Atiyah, University of Edinburgh The Nature of Space(Oct 05)
Dr. Daniel McCleese, NASA/JPL The Search for Habitable Environments in the Solar System(Jul 05)
Dr. Lawrence Badash, UCSB Albert Einstein the Peacenik(Apr 05)
Dr. Arnold Levine, IAS Genetic Predispositions for Cancers in Humans(Feb 05)
Dr. William Bialek, Princeton University From photons to perception: A physicist looks at the brain(Sep 04)
Dr. Charles Beichman, JPL/Caltech Finding Planets and Searching for Life: Worthy Goals for 21st Century Science(Mar 04)
Jean-Pierre Hébert, KITP The Interplay Between Art and Physics: Altering Perceptions of Reality(Sep 03)
Dr. Arnold Levine, IAS The Human Genome Project, Where Do We Go From Here?(Jun 03)
Dr. Boris Kayser, Fermilab Neutrinos Get Under Your Skin(Apr 03)
Shing-Tung Yau, Harvard Geometry: Its Charm and Application(Mar 03)
John Grunsfeld, NASA New Eyes for Space Exploration: Upgrading the Hubble Telescope(Oct 02)
Frank Wilczek, MIT The World's Numerical Recipe(Apr 02)
Don Eigler, Building Things with Atoms: A Report from the Small Frontier (Dec 01)
Geoffrey Marcy, You Say You Want a Revolution: Planetary Systems Different from our Own (Oct 01)
Melissa Franklin, This Particular Elegant Universe: How Do We Measure It? (Jan 01)
Steven Girvin, Mr. Feynman's Quantum Mechanics: A Field Guide for Curious Characters (Nov 00)
James Hartle, The Future of Gravity (Apr 00)
Peter Galison, Einstein's Clocks: High Theory and Lowly Technology (Nov 99)
Roger Penrose, Science and the Mind (May 99)
Kip Thorne, Spacetime Warps and the Quantum: A Glimpse of the Future (Feb 99)
Wolfgang Ketterle, A New Form of Matter: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser(Mar 98)
Edward Witten, Duality, Spacetime and Quantum Mechanics(Jan 98)
Robert Kirshner, Taking the Measure of the Universe: How Big? How Old? How Do We Know? (Nov 97)