Nature’s Greatest Puzzles
Podcast of my keynote lecture at the 2004 SLAC Summer Institute. Click here for slides and video. Companion paper from the Proceedings.
The Nature of Science
Podcast of my keynote lecture at the May 22, 2006 Fermilab Symposium on the Nature of Science. Click here for slides.
Abstract: Science is one source and symbol for an imaginative, disciplined mind. In addition to giving us basic information we need to make sense of the natural world, the sciences teach us to identify and scrutinize our assumptions, to hone our powers of analysis, and to expand our capacity for synthesis. They impart great lessons for any vocation: to link cause with effect, to search for relevant evidence, and to seek the truth without self-deception. (Continue reading this entry…)
The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics
Podcast of my Fermilab Auditorium Lecture, January 18, 2008. Click for slides.
Companion article in the February 2008 Scientific American
Abstract: Next summer, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will advance the experimental frontier of particle physics to the heart of the Fermi scale, reaching energies around one trillion electron volts for collisions among the basic constituents of matter. We do not know what the new wave of exploration will find, but the discoveries we make and the new puzzles we encounter are certain to change the face of particle physics and echo through neighboring sciences.