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Chiara Daraio, Caltech
May 13, 2025 - 7:30pm
Kane 130
May 13, 2025 - 7:30pm
Kane 130
Past Events
- The Mystery of Dark Matter in the Universe: Katherine Freese, University of Texas Austin - October 22, 2024
- Opening the Infrared Treasure Chest with JWST: John C. Mather (2006 Nobel laureate in Physics), NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center - May 8, 2024
- More perfect than we imagined: A physicist’s view of life: William Bialek, Princeton University - October 17, 2023
- My Romance with the Warped Side of the Universe from Black Holes and Wormholes to Time Travel and Gravitational Waves: Kip Thorne (2017 Nobel laureate in Physics), California Institute of Technology - May 17, 2023
- University Faculty Lecture: Rocking the world of physics: David Hertzog, University of Washington - March 29, 2023
- Understanding our Universe from Deep Underground: Arthur B. McDonald (2015 Nobel Laureate in Physics), Queen’s University - November 8, 2022
- The Surprising Expansion History of the Universe: Adam Riess (2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics), Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute - July 20, 2022
- Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses: Dr. Donna Strickland (2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics), University of Waterloo - May 19, 2022
- Gravity: the biggest open question in fundamental physics: Eric Adelberger, Blayne Heckel, & Jens Gundlach (2021 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Winners), University of Washington - October 20, 2021
- A new Measure: the Revolutionary Quantum Reform of the Metric System: William D. Phillips (1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics), National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Maryland - May 18, 2021
- The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology - October 9, 2019
- What Really Happened 13.8 Billion Years Ago? : Dr. Paul Steinhardt - May 8, 2019
- Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: Lisa Randall, Harvard University - May 16, 2018
- Seeing Voices: Using Light to Restore and Preserve Early Recorded Sound: Dr. Carl Haber, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - March 20, 2018
- Optical Atomic Clocks: David Wineland, 2012 Nobel Laureate in Physics - December 5, 2017
- Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier: John Preskill, Caltech - May 11, 2017
- Gravitational Wave Astronomy, A New Way to Explore the Universe: Rainer Weiss, 2017 Nobel Laureate in Physics - October 25, 2016
- The Frontier of Fundamental Physics: David Gross, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics - May 25, 2016
- The Science of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Electro-Optics: Larry Dalton, University of Washington - November 6, 2015
- The Difference Between the Past and the Future: David Albert, University of Washington - October 27, 2015
- 50 Years of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: What We Have Learned, What Questions Remain : Jim Peebles, Nobel Laureate 2019 - May 19, 2015