Lecture Archive Lectures 2019 January 19, 2019 – Biomedical Imaging Technologywith Prof. Stephen Connolly February 16, 2019 – Is there Anybody out there?with Dr. Dan Werthimer March 16, 2019 – Are red dwarf planets habitable?with Prof. Gibor Basri May 18, 2019 – Human caused climate change in US national parkswith Prof. Patrick Gonzalez June 15, 2019 – Mapping syntactic structure in the brainwith Dr. Lydia Majure July 21, 2019 – To see the unseen Overcoming the limitations of optics to visualize nano-structures, atoms and magnetic fieldswith Dr. Ella Lachman August 17, 2019 – Black Holes, Big and Small- A laser-guided adaptive optics viewwith Dr. Jessica Lu September 21, 2019 – Our Changing Atmosphere: Evidence that demands a verdict?with Prof. Jeffrey A. Reimer October 19, 2019 – Exploring the local universe with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopeswith Prof. Dan Weisz Dark Matter Day – Unraveling the Dark Matter Mystery: In Theory and Experimentwith Prof. Matt Pyle & Dr. Sinéad Griffin December 21, 2019 – How do you feel: Molecular & Cellular Mechanisms of Itch, Touch & Painwith Prof. Diana Bautista Lectures 2018 January 20, 2018 – Visualizing biological molecules with Prof. Eva Nogales February 17, 2018 – Cosmic Gold: Neutron Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and the Origin of the Heavy Elementswith Prof. Eliot Quataert March 17, 2018 – Unlocking the secrets of brain agingwith Prof. Daniela Kaufer May 19, 2018 – The Psychology of Confidencewith Prof. Don A. Moore June 16, 2018 – How CRISPR helps answer basic questions in biology: from crustacean limbs to butterfly wingswith Dr. Nipam Patel July 21, 2018 – Us and our microbiotas: mainly a gut reactionwith Dr. Michael Shapira August 18, 2018 – Controlling electron beams with lasers to reveal protein structurewith Dr. Osip Schwartz September 15, 2018 – Artificial Intelligence and the long-term future of humanitywith Prof. Stuart Russell October 21, 2017 – Leave election integrity to chancewith Prof. Philip B. Stark December 15, 2018 – Assessing the potential impact of super‐eruptions on society and the environmentwith Prof. Stephen Self Lectures 2017 January 21, 2017 – The really big one: Earthquakes in the Pacific Northwestwith Dr. Diego Melgar February 18, 2017 – The Fast Radio Burst An evolving cosmic mysterywith Dr. Casey Law March 18, 2017 – Water in Motion Mysteries from Northern Californiawith Dr. Inez Fung May 20, 2017 – Why we sleep?with Dr. Matthew Walker June 17, 2017 – Cars that coordinate with peoplewith Dr. Anca Dragan July 15, 2017 – Mapping how language is represented in the human brainwith Dr. Alex Huth August 19, 2017 – Not the God Particle: The Higgs Bosonwith Dr. Heather Gray September 16, 2017 – Mapping the Universewith Dr. K.G. Lee October 21, 2017 – Leave election integrity to chancewith Prof. Philip B. Stark November 18, 2017 – How to Find a Habitable Planetwith Dr. Courtney Dressing December 16, 2017 – Making the Largest 3D Maps of our Universewith Dr. Josh Dillon Lectures 2016 January 16, 2016 – From Puff-Ball Neptunes to Earth-sized Rocky planets: Exoplanets in the Kepler Erawith Dr. Howard Isaacson February 20, 2016 – Shining light on dark matter & dark energywith Prof. Holger Müller March 19, 2016 – Earthquakes and You: Be a Citizen Seismologist!with Dr. Peggy Hellweg May 21, 2016 – MyShake – Building a smartphone seismic networkwith Dr. Qingkai Kong June 18, 2016 – Breakthrough Listen-Expanding the Search for Life Beyond Earthwith Dr. Steve Croft July 16, 2016 – New Strategies for Cancer Treatment Using Chemically Modified Biomoleculeswith Dr. Matt Francis August 20, 2016 – What have we learned about exercise and physiology at Cal?with Dr. George A. Brooks September 17, 2016 – What really killed the dinosaurs?with Dr. Mark Richards October 15, 2016 – Human Evolutionwith Dr. Tim White November 19, 2016 – Probing the ocean carbon cycle with autonomous robotswith Prof. Jim Bishop December 17, 2016 – The Cosmic Microwave Background and the Search for Inflation at the Beginning of the Universewith Dr. Adrian Lee Lectures 2015 January 17, 2015 – Biofuels and DNA sequencing: two sides of the same coin?with Dr. Nadav Sorek February 21, 2015 – Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence: The Quest to Find Ourselves Among the Starswith Dr. Andrew Siemion March 21, 2015 – Exoplanet Surpriseswith Dr. Rebekah Dawson May 16, 2015 – Journey to the Center of Earthwith Prof. Raymond Jeanloz June 20, 2015 – Recent Advances in Stem Cell Researchwith Dr. David Schaffer & Dr. Kevin Whittlesey July18, 2015 – Jurassic Garden: Decoding how to grow prehistoric plantswith Jeffrey Benca August 15, 2015 – Black holes and neutron starswith Dr. Francois Foucart September 19, 2015 – Revealing the Identity of Type Ia Supernovaewith Dr. Ken Shen October 17, 2015 – Stardust: Analyses of cometary and interstellar dustwith Dr. Andrew Westphal November 21, 2015 – Genesis on the benchtop: how do we study the origin of life in the lab?with Dr. Itay Budin December 19, 2015 – How to be Really Good at Not Finding Dark Matterwith Prof. Bob Jacobson
