Public Lectures Series
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Speakers in this series

Vincent Courtillot Université Paris 7, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, et Institut Universitaire de France.

Mass extinctions in the Phanerozoic: a single cause and if yes which?
Wed, 04 Dec 2002 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures

John Hennessy President, Stanford University

Perspectives on High Performance Computer Architecture: History and Challenges
Tue, 15 Apr 2003 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures

Svante Pääbo Director, Dept. of Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

Genomic Approaches to Human Origins
Wed, 15 Oct 2003 | Spencer Trask Lectures

Roger Penrose Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, University of Oxford, and Francis and Helen Pentz Visiting Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Penn State University

Faith, Fashion and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Fri, 17 Oct 2003 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lectures

Frans de Waal Emory University

How Close to the Apes? Human Behavior and Primate Evolution.
Wed, 19 Nov 2003 |

George Dyson Author, Western Washington University

Barricelli's Universe: Digital Computing in Princeton, 1945-1958
Tue, 05 Oct 2004 | Walter E. Edge Lecture

Vera Rubin Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Telling Stories about the Universe
Sat, 04 Dec 2004 | Stafford Little Lectures

Alex Filippenko University of California, Berkeley

Catastrophic Stellar Explosions: Celestial Firework Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Bursts: Birth Cries of Black Holes Einstein's Biggest Blunder? The Case for Cosmic "Antigravity"
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 | J. Edward Farnum Lectures

Brian Greene Columbia University

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time & the Texture of Reality
Wed, 06 Apr 2005 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Michael S. Gazzaniga Dartmouth University

Personal Identity, Neuroethics and the Human Brain
Thu, 14 Apr 2005 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Professor Lord Robert May Professor of Zoology at Oxford University President of the Royal Society Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government (1996-2000) Life Peer, House of Lords Knighted by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II

Hard Questions About Tomorrow’s World
Wed, 04 May 2005 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Dr. Matt Ridley Author, Founder of International Centre of Life

Nature and Nurture
Tue, 10 May 2005 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Paula Vogel National correspondent Atlantic Monthly

The Playworld and the Empire: The Twenty-first Century and the American Playwright
Tue, 25 Oct 2005 | Spencer Trask Lecture

Alan Walker Professor of Biological Anthropology, Penn State University

The Human Body as an Evolutionary Patchwork
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Marc Edwards Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Imminent Endangerment: "Lead" Astray by the EPA
Thu, 04 May 2006 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Elaine Oran Senior Scientist for Reactive Flow Physics U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC

Matchsticks, Scramjets, and Black Holes: Numerical Simulation Faces Reality
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Antonio Damasio Professor of Neuroscience and Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern California

Advances on the Neurobiology of Emotion: Taking Stock
Thu, 16 Nov 2006 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Peter Ward Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington

The Undesigned Universe
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 | Stafford Little Lecture

Avi Wigderson H. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study

A Worldview through the Computational Lens I
Tue, 13 Feb 2007 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture (cosponsored by Princeton University Press)

Avi Wigderson H. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study

A Worldview through the Computational Lens II
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture (cosponsored by Princeton University Press)

Avi Wigderson H. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics, Institute for Advanced Study

A Worldview through the Computational Lens III
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture (cosponsored by Princeton University Press)

Hendrik Lenstra Professor of Mathematics, University of Leiden

Escher and the Droste Effect (NOTE: McCosh Hall 10)
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture (cosponsored by the Department of Mathematics)

Nicholas Stern Author, Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change, and IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School of Economics

The Economics of Climate Change: Risk, Ethics, and a Global Deal
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 | Walter E. Edge Lecture, cosponsored by the Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy and the Princeton Environmental Institute

Marcia Angell Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; former editor-in-chief, New England Journal of Medicine

Reforming Our Health System: Why Neither Candidate Has the Answer
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Leonard Susskind Felix Bloch Professor of Physics, Stanford University and author of The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking To Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

The Black Hole War
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 | Cosponsored by the Louis Clark Vanuxem Fund and the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science

Nancy Hopkins Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mirages of Equality: Progress of Women in Science at MIT, 1971-2009 (webcast)
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture (Note: 5:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall 10)

Antonio Busalacchi Professor and Director, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland. Certified sommelier and member, Society of Wine Educators

The Impact of Climate Change on Global Viticulture (webcast)
Tue, 28 Apr 2009 | Cosponsored by Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture Fund, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Princeton Environmental Institute (Note: 5:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall 10)

Sean Carroll Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Wisconsin; author, The Making of the Fittest

Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (webcast)
Wed, 07 Oct 2009 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture (NOTE: Friend 101)

V. S. Ramachandran Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, and Adjunct Professor of Biology, the Salk Institute

What Neurology Can Tell Us about Human Nature (webcast)
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Marcelo Magnasco Professor and Head, Mathematical Physics Laboratory, Rockefeller University

Is an Eclipse Described in Homer’s Odyssey? (webcast)
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 | Cosponsored by the Department of Molecular Biology and the Louis Clark Vanuxem Fund (NOTE: McCosh Hall 10)

Martin Chalfie Professor and chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University

Green Fluorescent Protein: Lighting Up Life (webcast)
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Persi Diaconis Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, Stanford University

The Search for Randomness
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture

Eric Lander Founding director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; principal leader, Human Genome Project

Topic to be announced.
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 | Louis Clark Vanuxem Lecture