Aspen Center for Physics - Public Lectures
Come see visiting physicists give public talks, exploring cutting-edge ideas in ways non-scientists can understand! Summer lectures, which run on select Wednesdays June – August at 5:30pm at the Center, are presented in memory of Heinz R. Pagels, a Rockefeller University physics professor, and a twenty-year member of the Aspen Center for Physics. A part-time Aspen resident, Professor Pagels died here in a mountaineering accident in 1988. His family and friends instituted the lecture series in his honor because he devoted much of his life to disseminating scientific knowledge.
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June 24, 2026 | Through the Looking Glass: the Mystery of Antimatter
July 1, 2026 | Finding Baby Black Holes with James Webb
July 8, 2026 | How Aspen Changed the World of Science
July 15, 2026 | Pushed by Sound: Moving Objects Too Small to See
July 22, 2026 | Is Physics a Universal Language?
July 29, 2026 | How Your Immune System Learns
August 5, 2026 | Breaking the Rules that Matter: Superconductors and Strange Quantum Materials
August 12, 2026 | How Cells Discover Their World
August 19, 2026 | What is the Smallest Galaxy
August 26, 2026 | Why Your Knees Don't Wear Out (Until They Do)
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Upcoming Dates
- Wednesday, July 1
- Wednesday, July 8
- Wednesday, July 15
- Wednesday, July 22
- Wednesday, July 29
- Wednesday, August 5
- Wednesday, August 12
- Wednesday, August 19
- Wednesday, August 26
