Aspen Center For Physics' series of public physics talks are free and open to the community. 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.
Schedule:
June 25th | A Century of Quantum Mechanics: From Blacksmiths to Smartphones
July 2nd | The Invisible Universe: Higgs, Dark Matter, Gravity Waves
July 9th | Can Physics Stop Climate Change?
July 16th | How Bacteria Wage War to Survive in Your Microbiome
July 23rd | Galaxies in the Early Universe Bathed in Intergalactic Starlight
July 30th | Exploring the Quantum World with Ultracold Atoms
August 6th | A Galaxy-Sized Gravitational Wave Detector
August 13th | Untangling Electrons in Crystals
August 20th | Probing Visible Matter With Supercomputers
August 27th | Black Holes in Quantum Space-time
