Lectures

Past Public Lectures

Airships: A New Horizon for Science
May 2, 2013

John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon
March 12, 2013

Exploring Mars, the Moon, Asteroids, and Comets with Rovers and Landers
February 20, 2013

Science and the New Space Race: Opportunities and Obstacles
January 10, 2013

Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission
May 2, 2012

Science in Cyberspace
December 13, 2011

Photons to Bits and Beyond: The Science and Technology of Digital Image Sensors
November 11, 2011

Moving An Asteroid
September 28, 2011

Many Suns, Many Worlds: The Galactic Quest for Exoplanets
October 4, 2010

Titan: A Strange Yet Familiar New World
May 26, 2010

Modern Methods of Observing Earthquakes: What We Have Learned about Haiti and Chile using Seismology and Space Observations
March 30, 2010

Monitoring Future Climate Treaties
March 2, 2010

The Human and Scientific Tale of Galileo
November 19, 2009

Past Open Lectures
(These lectures are more technical in nature. They are open to the Caltech and JPL communities and other interested parties.)

Venus: Earth's Evil Twin or Just Misunderstood?
November 5, 2012

CubeSat: An Unlikely Success Story
October 30, 2012

Quantum Experiments in Space - From Quantum Technology to Quantum Foundations
June 27, 2012

Landing on Mars (do not try this at home)
April 11, 2012

Seismology of the Sun and Stars
March 17, 2010

Single Photon Detectors - from A to B (from Astronomy to Biology, and Beyond)
January 26, 2010

The MSU Debate, Climate Auditing, and the Freedom of Information Act
September 3, 2009

The Darkest Galaxies
July 22, 2009

 

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