Watson Lectures
By Caltech
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Description
Named for the late Earnest C. Watson, who founded the series in 1922, these lectures feature speakers from Caltech and JPL, speaking on cutting-edge research taking place at Caltech.
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The Quantum Internet (Jan. 21, 2009) | -- | 8/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring the Deep-Sea for Corals and Clues to Our Climatic Past (April 1, 2009) | -- | 6/5/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Exploring the Ultraviolet Universe (Oct. 14, 2009) | -- | 3/19/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Where the Wind Comes From, on Earth and Other Planets (Nov. 11, 2009) | -- | 3/19/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Remembrance of Financial Crises Past (Dec. 2, 2009) | -- | 3/24/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Physics at the Large Hadron Collider (Jan. 13, 2010) | -- | 3/22/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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DNA-Mediated Signaling (Jan. 27, 2010) | -- | 4/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Intersonic Earthquakes: What Laboratory Earthquakes Teach us About Real Ones (Feb. 17, 2010) | -- | 4/9/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Ancient California River and How it Carved Grand Canyon in the Age of T. Rex (Apr. 7, 2010) | -- | 6/1/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Newton's Cradle to New Materials (May 5, 2010) | -- | 6/1/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Neuronal Mechanisms of Memory Formation (May 19, 2010) | -- | 7/23/2010 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Rising Mountains and Sinking Oceans: Earthquakes That Shape the Earth (Oct. 27, 2010) | -- | 5/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Re-Creating the Great Fort Tejon Earthquake of 1857 (Nov. 17, 2010) | -- | 5/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Personalized Medicine, Molecular Diagnostics, and Cancer (Dec. 1, 2010) | -- | 5/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Enceladus: The Hottest Little Moon in the Solar System (Feb. 9, 2011) | -- | 5/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Revealing the Cold Universe (March 9, 2011) | -- | 5/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Good Vibrations Inside the Earth (April 13, 2011) | -- | 5/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Neural Plasticity: What Is It and What Can It Do For You? (April 27, 2011) | -- | 6/3/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Neuroeconomics: How Does Your Brain Make Decisions? (Oct. 12, 2011) | -- | 10/28/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Catching Comets Up Close - Cheaply! (Nov. 2, 2011) | -- | 12/13/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Design by Evolution: Engineering Biology in the 21st Century (Dec. 7, 2011) | -- | 12/21/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Electrons in Flatland (Jan. 18, 2012) | -- | 2/6/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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What Parents Want: Evidence from Child Adoption (Feb. 15, 2012) | -- | 2/23/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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The Isotope Time Machine (Feb. 29, 2012) | -- | 3/22/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Making Molecules (Mar. 14, 2012) | -- | 3/30/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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An Explosion of Explosions (April 25, 2012) | -- | 5/2/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Taming Turbulence (May 16, 2012) | -- | 5/24/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Engineering with Impact (Oct. 24, 2012) | -- | 11/12/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand (Nov. 28, 2012) | -- | 12/3/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Brain Control with Light (Dec. 5, 2012) | -- | 12/17/2012 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime, and the Universe (Jan. 9, 2013) | -- | 2/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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For Love or Money: Marriage and Economic Development in the Past (Jan. 30, 2013) | -- | 2/15/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine (Feb. 13, 2013) | -- | 2/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Quantum Entanglement and Quantum Computing (April 3, 2013) | -- | 4/12/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Curiosity's Mission at Gale Crater (Apr. 24, 2013) | -- | 5/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Decision Making and Quality Control in Early Moments of a Protein's Life (May 22, 2013) | -- | 6/5/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Let There Be Light: Finding the Earliest Galaxies (Oct. 16, 2013) | -- | 10/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Lab-on-a-Chip to Lab-in-the-Body: Nanotechnology in the Miniaturization of Medical Diagnostic Tools (Nov. 6, 2013) | -- | 11/19/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Spinning Black Holes to Exploding Stars: A New View of the Energetic Universe (Dec. 4, 2013) | -- | 12/6/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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1+1=3 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Holistic Circuits (Jan. 29, 2014) | -- | 2/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Everyone Starts Small: How Metals Learn to Behave (Feb. 12, 2014) | -- | 2/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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When Rocks Roll: How Sediment Transport Shapes Planetary Surfaces (Mar. 19, 2014) | -- | 3/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Say Hello to Your Little Friends: How Gut Bacteria Can Be Harnessed as Novel Therapies for Disease (Apr. 2, 2014) | -- | 4/15/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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From Nature to the Pharmacy: The Chemistry Behind Modern Medicines (May 7, 2014) | -- | 5/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Quantum States of Matter in Crystals (Oct. 15, 2014) | -- | 11/12/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Photosynthesis: A Planetary Revolution (Nov. 19, 2014) | -- | 12/5/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Controlling Light on a Chip at the Single-Photon Level (Dec. 17, 2014) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. © 2014 California Institute of Technology. | 1/16/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How Do You Make a Greasy Protein? (Jan. 7, 2015) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. © 2015 California Institute of Technology. | 1/14/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Size Matters: The Importance of Building Small Things (Jan. 21, 2015) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. © 2015 California Institute of Technology. | 1/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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How the Brain Learns from the Past and Makes Good Decisions for the Future: A Tour of Neural Reinforcement Learning (2/4/2015) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. © 2015 California Institute of Technology. | 2/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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A Molecular Arms Race: The Immune System Versus HIV (Apr. 1, 2015) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. © 2015 California Institute of Technology. | 4/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Searching for Vibrations from the Big Bang (May 6, 2015) | -- | 5/12/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Watching Paint Dry and Colors Fade: The Intersection of Art and Science (May 20, 2015) | -- | 5/27/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Back to the Beginning: The Rosetta Comet Rendezvous Mission (Oct. 14, 2015) | -- | 12/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Choosing the T-Cell Profession: Higher Education for Stem Cells (Nov. 18, 2015) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2015 California Institute of Technology | 12/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Complex Quantum Cosmos: Science Puzzles and Technology Solutions (Dec. 2, 2015) | -- | 12/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Listening to the Thunder of Gravity in the Cosmos (Mar. 9, 2016) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2016 California Institute of Technology | 3/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Algorithmic Magic: Behind the Scenes of Modern Computer Science (Jan. 20, 2016) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2016 California Institute of Technology | 3/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Chasing Extrasolar Space Weather (Feb. 10, 2016) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2016 California Institute of Technology | 3/11/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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DNA Origami: Folded DNA as a Building Material for Molecular Devices (May 25, 2016) | Caltech Watson Lecture Series. Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies. ©2016 California Institute of Technology | 6/17/2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
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