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KITP Public Lectures 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) 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 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)