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On June 25, renowned physicist Gordon Baym delivered “A Century of Quantum Mechanics: From Blacksmiths to Smartphones” to a standing-room-only crowd in Flug Hall at the Aspen Center for Physics - the first public talk this summer for our Heinz Pagels Memorial Public Lecture Series

Legacy Conversations: Physicist Video Histories - YouTube The Oral History Project at the Aspen Center for Physics, initiated by Bernice Durand, is a valuable archival effort to preserve the stories, insights, and e...

🎙️ Legacy Conversations: Oral History Project of the Aspen Center for Physics by Bernice Durand, recorded from 1999-2006. Step into decades of science, community, and creativity—told by the people who built it. 🎥 Watch now: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
#LegacyConversations #AspenCenterForPhysics

Seconding thanks to the organisers & the center staff for this great @aspenphysics.bsky.social workshop. I have a stack of notes that I’m hoping to digest into some highlights to post on here 🔭

YouTube video by Aspen Physics The Glow of Distant Worlds with Zach Berta-Thompson

Watch "The Glow of Distant Worlds" with Zach Berta-Thompson on YouTube now! youtu.be/uKobwT3syDg
#exoplanets #astrophysics #publiclecture #nowstreaming

After an afternoon of skiing/tubing/co-working at Snowmass, we finished off Day 1 with Kimberly Paragas telling us about smashing rock samples and taking their spectra and Amélie Gressier showing the thermal emission from the NIRSpec phase curve of K2-141b. More rocky planets tomorrow for Day 2!

Starting off Day 2 in the winter wonderland of @aspenphysics.bsky.social with Renyu Hu telling us about the thermal emission of 55 Cancri e and Brandon Park Coy describing population-level hypothesis testing with rocky planet emission data.

After a snowy conference photo outside @aspenphysics.bsky.social, we continue with terrestrial planet atmospheric dynamics with talks by Christopher Wirth on day-night heat transport on hot rocky planets and Eric Wolf on GCMs of temperate terrestrial exoplanets.

Kicking off Wednesday morning @aspenphysics.bsky.social with Drake Deming presenting lessons from Spitzer and Hubble thermal emission and Joost Wardenier presenting the recently observed WASP-76b phase curve.

Loving the public lecture by Prof. Zach Berta-Thompson (UC Boulder) @aspenphysics.bsky.social on The Glow of Distant Worlds. I’m especially enthralled by the IR camera, projector spectrum, and terrarium demos!

Two high school students stand in the physics library at ACP with physicist Ganpathy Murthy.

Now accepting applications for our Summer Internship program for local Roaring Fork Valley high school students. Spread the word! Read more and apply at aspenphys.org/home/summer-...

🚀 Explore the Glow of Distant Worlds! Join us for a public lecture with Zach Berta-Thompson (CU Boulder) on 4/2, 5:30 PM. Learn how #JWST is revealing the atmospheres & climates of exoplanets—and how we might find signs of life beyond Earth. RSVP @ aspenphys.org/event/the-gl...

2025 Winter Public Lectures - YouTube Welcome to the 40th season of our winter public physics talks. The Nick and Maggie DeWolf Foundation has sponsored our winter public lecture series since its...

Check out our Nick & Maggie DeWolf Public Physics Talks on YouTube! #physics #publiclectures #quantum #neutrinos #blackholes #ai #quantumcomputers #quantummaterials #emergence
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🚀 Step into the Quantum Age with MIT’s Vladan Vuletić! Learn how laser-cooled atoms & light beam arrays are revolutionizing quantum computing. 📅 Wed, Mar 26 | ⏰ 5:00 PM📍Flug Forum, Aspen Center for Physics. Free & open to all! RSVP @ aspenphys.org/event/the-qu...

#throwbackthursday to Murray Gell-Mann working in the triple office he shared with Daniel Z. Freedman and Sidney Coleman. #physics #aspen

Radio Physics Radio Physics is for everyone! You don't have to be a scientist or even an aficionado to be fascinated by the questions and answers that you'll hear on KDNK. Radio Physics is a collaboration with top ...

Tune into KDNK radio tomorrow, 3/19 at 4:30pm MT to hear our latest Radio Physics interview with theoretical physicist Chiara Toldo, interviewed by high school student and ACP summer intern Audrey Woodrow. #physics #radiophysics #blackholes
www.kdnk.org/podcast/radi...

Wilson-Gerow Recognized With Aspen Center for Physics Honor - Mellon College of Science - Carnegie Mellon University Time and space can be bent and warped at the quantum level. Carnegie Mellon University’s Jordan Wilson-Gerow is learning to understand how.

Congratulations to Block Award winner Jordan Wilson-Gerow! www.cmu.edu/mcs/news-eve... @cmu.edu #physics #jordanwilsongerow

Check out our latest "On Physics" article in collab with
Aspen Daily News, "Searching the skies for clues to our origins" by Joan Najita from NOIRLab! #astronomy #astrophysics www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/on-p...

Irreligion: Schweitzer and Stranahan Many famous people visit Aspen. Some stay, some don’t. A couple of those are heroes of mine: Albert Schweitzer, who didn’t stay, and George Stranahan, who did stay. Both were brilliant, gifted, and mo...

George Stranahan’s vision turned Aspen into a hub for world-class physics. In 1962, he co-founded ACP, where thousands of scientists—including 66 Nobel laureates—have pushed the frontiers of knowledge. Now, ACP’s future hinges on solving Aspen’s housing crisis. www.aspentimes.com/opinion/irre...

YouTube video by Aspen Physics How to Catch a Ghost: Neutrinos, Dark Matter & More with Georgia Karagiorgi

Now Streaming! "How to Catch a Ghost: Neutrinos, Dark Matter & More" with Georgia Karagiorgi explores the invisible forces shaping our cosmos. From underground detectors to space observatories, discover the latest breakthroughs in this engaging lecture! #Physics #Neutrinos youtu.be/f2TvDb3OW8s

Join Georgia Karagiorgi from @columbiauniversity.bsky.social for a public lecture on how scientists detect some of the universe’s most elusive particles: "How to Catch a Ghost: Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and More" 📅 Wed, Mar 5 | Tea & cookies at 5pm, lecture at 5:30pm sharp #Neutrinos #DarkMatter

🔬✨ Join us for Meigan Aronson's public lecture on Quantum Phase Transitions—the hidden patterns in space & time at absolute zero! 🌌❄️ Wed, Feb 26 - tea & cookies at 5, talk at 5:30 sharp. RSVP here: aspenphys.org/event/quantum-phase-transitions-hidden-patterns-in-space-and-time/
#QuantumMaterials

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techhq.com/2025/02/micr... Congratulations to ACP President Matthias Troyer and Microsoft! #majorana #quantumphysics #quantumcomputing

We are at capacity for reservations for tomorrow night's public lecture "Artificial Intelligence and the Age of Emergence" with Dr. Roger Melko. We will be recording the lecture, and we recommend you catch it on our YouTube on Friday:
www.youtube.com/c/AspenPhysics
#AI #Quantum #Emergence #Physics

Astronomy from the Moon, coming soon? The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several landing craft have crashed or toppled over. With all the excitement...

🚀🌕🔭 Astronomy from the Moon is coming sooner than you think! Telescopes on the lunar surface could revolutionize our view of the cosmos, unlocking mysteries hidden from Earth. Scientists are paving the way for a new era of space-based discovery. #MartinElvis www.aspendailynews.com/opinion/astr...

It's been one full year since we started our partnership with
@AspenDailyNews, "On Physics" - if you missed any of the articles, we have them all here: aspenphys.org/home/in-the-...
#news #physics #science #aspendailynews

YouTube video by Aspen Physics Unraveling the Cosmic Melody of Black Holes with Jillian Bellovary

How do we listen to merging black holes? Find out! Watch Dr. Jillian Bellovary's public lecture from Wednesday, "Unraveling the Cosmic Melody of Black Holes" - now streaming! #gravitationalwaves #supermassiveblackholes #blackholes #astrophysics #physics #aspen
youtu.be/85oeuu9bvxI

Day 5: Suvi Gezari "stirs the pot" in the last keynote of the conference, highlighting key takeaways from GW170817, era of large surveys (MMA landscape) - UV/optical TDA 2030; dry vs wet mergers - NUCLEAR GAS / F_AGN in MASSIVE GAL! recoil SMBH as smoking guns; roadmap (PTA / Theory / AGN / MMA)

There may be roller skating...

landscape scene of snowy mountains and dramatic sky

building with snowy foreground, idyllic

Good morning Aspen! Excited for the start of what looks to be a fantastic conference on "The Era of Binary Supermassive Black Holes" here in @aspenphysics.bsky.social this week!

gwac.wvu.edu/aspen-physic...

And oh, it'll be my first #AstronomyOnTap #AoT debut tonight at Mi Chola 🍻

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