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Friedman Lectures
Friedman Lectures
These presentations are hosted by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and are funded largely by the Ronald M. and Susan J. Friedman Outreach Fund in Astronomy.
If you would like to suggest a speaker, you may send an email to rcm242@psu.edu.
Date | Name | Institution | Presentation |
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2/27/2020 | Maura McLaughlin | West Virginia University | Pulsars: Timekeepers of the Universe |
4/9/2019 | Randy McEntaffer | Penn State University | Watch: The Penn State NASA Suborbital Rocket Program for Astronomy |
4/10/2018 | Joseph Masiero | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Watch: You Can't Make a Solar System Without Breaking a Few Asteroids |
3/28/2017 | Pamela Gay | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | Cosmoquest: You Can Help Discover Our Universe |
11/10/2016 | Catherine Grier | Penn State University | The Monsters of the Universe: Supermassive Black Holes and their Masses |
4/28/2016 | Chad Hanna | Penn State University | The Dawn of Gravitational Wave Astronomy |
12/1/2015 | Jason Wright | Penn State University | Watch: Searching for Alien Megastructures: Hype vs. Reality |
4/28/2015 | Mike Brown | Caltech |
Watch: Tales from the Outer Solar System |
10/30/2014 | Ravi Kopparapu | Penn State University | Potential Habitable Worlds: How Common Are They? |
10/22/2013 | Brendan Mullan | Penn State University | Everything in the Universe is Terrible. Here's Why That's Awesome. |
4/9/2013 | Jill Tarter | Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute | Watch: Are We Alone? |
9/13/2012 | Heidi Hammel | Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) | Watch: James Webb Space Telescope: NASA's Next Great Observatory |
5/18/2011 | Karl Gebhardt | University of Texas in Austin | Walk Softly When Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe |
10/27/2010 | John Grunsfeld | Space Telescope Science Institute | A Hubble Story |
4/14/2007 | Carl Herrmann | Johns Hopkins University | Fire and Ice: Exploration of the Solar System |
11/7/2006 | Mercedes Richards, Darren Williams, Avi Mandell, Christopher Palma |
Penn State University | What is a Planet, Why not Pluto? |
11/20/2005 | John Nousek, David Burrows, Margaret Chester | Penn State University | Penn State in Space, The Swift Experience |
4/6/2005 | Max Tegmark | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Parallel Universes |
2/26/2005 | Eric Feigelson | Penn State University | Planets, Planets, Everywhere |
11/20/2003 | Christopher Palma | Penn State University | Galactic Cannibals |
3/27/2003 | Mario Livio | Space Telescope Science Institute | Beauty in an Accelerating Universe |
11/21/2002 | Michael Weinstein | Penn State University | Highlights from Hubble |
4/7/2002 | Lawrence Krauss | Case Western Reserve University | The Physics of Star Trek |
2/24/2002 | Michael Eracleous | Penn State University | Can a Bright Star Find Happiness in the Deadly Embrace of a Black Hole? |
11/11/2001 | Pablo Laguna | Penn State University | When Black Holes Collide |
10/21/2001 | Marc Millis | NASA Glenn Research Center | The Drive for Interstellar Travel |
7/14/2001 | Frank Drake | Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life |
4/28/2001 | Chuck Higgins | Penn State University | Parade of the Planets: Past, Present and Future |
3/24/2001 | Chris Churchill | Penn State University | From Stardust to Dinosaurs to Footprints on the Moon to Stardust Again |
2/25/2001 | Jane Charlton | Penn State University | A Brief History of the Universe |
11/12/2000 | Michael Weinstein | Penn State University | Was There a Big Bang? |
10/14/2000 | Charles Beichman | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | NASA's Search for Life |
7/14/2000 | Eric Feigelson | Penn State University | How to Make a Star |
4/25/2000 | John Nousek | Penn State University | Chasing Fireworks Across the Gamma-ray Sky: the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer |
3/19/2000 | Niel Brandt | Penn State University | X-raying the Environments of Supermassive Black Holes |
12/5/1999 | Gordon Garmire | Penn State University | Black Holes, Stellar Explosions, and Stellar Birth: Exploring the X-ray Universe with the Chandra X-ray Observatory |
10/24/1999 | David J. Helfand | Columbia University | How Superman Sees the Stars |
7/9/1999 | Darren Williams | Penn State University | Habitable Planets |
4/25/1999 | Daniel Weedman | Penn State University | NASA's Origins Program: Seeking Other Earths |
2/28/1999 | Alexander Wolszczan | Penn State University | The First Extrasolar Planets: Behind the Scenes of Discovery |
11/22/1998 | Lawrence Ramsey | Penn State University | Searching for Extra-Solar-System Planets: The Role of the New Generation of Large Ground-Based Telescopes |
9/27/1998 | Steven Squyres | Cornell University | Exploration of Mars |