The Institute for the Science of Origins – videos from the Origins Science Scholars Program!

During this unique program, members of the community engage with each other and with leading scholars of origins science to investigate cosmology, evolutionary theory, and more. Each evening begins with a presentation by a world-class researcher, followed by dinner and open discussion among all the participants. Below are links to videos of the individual talks alphabetical by presenter with broad topic, and below that, lectures arranged chronologically by season.

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Fall 2019 Oct 15 Lee Hall:”Sauropod Dinosaurs: Long Neck and Peculiar Claws” https://youtu.be/442r6ocCI_0 Oct 22 Ben Monreal: “How Giant Telescopes Will Find New Earths” https://youtu.be/4oREFrLoa0U Oct 29 Corbin Covault: “Intelligent Life on Other Planets: What are the Odds?” https://youtu.be/Z7MAANmiYaI Nov 5 Corbin Covault: “SETI and Beyond: What Comes Next?” https://youtu.be/3rCogIW3hL4 Nov 12 Ken Miller: “How Evolution Fashioned the Earth’s Most Extraordinary Creature” https://youtu.be/pjxLW-qp28c Nov 19 : “The Universe is Big, It’s Flat, So What Does This Mean About It’s Shape?” https://youtu.be/8nDLx0zDuM0 Nov 26 Lee Hall: “Underfoot Ancient Giants: Tracking Sauropod Dinosaurs” https://youtu.be/qSHq2WVWtM8
Spring, 2019 Laura Bernstein- Kurtyca 4/16/2019: “Smarter than the Average Bear?” Kaylin Tennant 4/23/2019: “Bringing Silver Back: The World of Gorillas” Patricia Princehouse 4/30/2019: “How Puppies Learn: An Evolutionary Perspective” Sarah Diamond 5/7/2019 “A Crystal Ball for Climate Change” Nita Sahai 5/14/2019 “The Potential Roles of Minerals in the Origins of Life” Carlos Crespo 5/21/2019 “Sunlight and the Molecular Origins of Life”
Fall, 2018 John Ruhl 10/2/2018:  “The Physics of Climate Change” Cynthia Beall 10/9/2018:  “Tracing Evolution:  Where modern human variation comes from and why” Isaiah Nengo 10/16/2018:  “The Human Race vs Races of Humans: Facts and Fantasies about Genes and Evolution” Patricia Princehouse 10/23/2018:  “Zombie DNA: Why do Vestigial Organs and Genes Persist?” Kathy Kash 10/30/2018:  “Let there be (Cheap and Efficient) Light: From Quantum Mechanics to Better Light Bulbs” Jesse Berezovsky 11/6/2018:  “Putting Spooky Quantum Reality to Work with Quantum Computers” Ken Singer 11/13/2018:  “Lighting the World of Big Data”
Spring 2018 Isaiah Nengo 4/17/2018:  “Finding Alesi: The Story of a New Infant Ancestor” Yohannes Haile-Selassie 4/24/18 “New Hominin Discoveries from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia” Nandini Trivedi 5/1/18 “The Quantum Dance of Matter: Pairing and Superconductivity” Harsh Mathur 5/8/18  “Understanding Extreme Materials” Peter Harte 5/15/18 Circadian Rhythm: Discovering the Rhythms of Life Kingman Strohl 5/22/18 Circadian Rhythm: Circadian Rhythms, and Your Health Fred Turek 5/29/18 Circadian Rhythm: Sleep and the Evolution of Circadian Rhythm
Glenn Starkman 10/24/2017 “What’s left to learn from particle accelerators?”	Cyrus Taylor 10/31/2017 “Particle Detectors: Modern Cathedrals”
Darin Croft 12/5/2017 “Climate Change Past and Present”	Mike Martens 11/7/2017 “Particle Accelerators: The World’s Largest Machines“

Roberto Galan 11/28/2017 “Making sense out of noise in neural circuits”	Morris Moscovitch 11/14/2017 “Memory and the Brain: Past, Present, and Future”
Mike Martens. 5/30/2017 “Where are the Magnets in Magnetic Resonance Imaging?”	Michael Lewicki  11/21/2017 “Is the Evolution of Perception Computational?”
Peter Faulhaber. 5/16/2017. “Advanced Medical Imaging Technologies”	Mark Griswold. 5/23/2017. “Using Holograms to Change How We Look at the World”
Ben Monreal on The Neutrino 5/2/2017 “The Elusive Neutrinos: 60 Years of Measuring the Least Interactive Particle”	Patricia Princehouse. 5/9/2017. “Extreme Evolution”
Starkman on Neutrinos. 4/18/2017. “Neutrino World”	Butler on Exoplanets. 4/25/2017. “Alien Worlds and the Origin of Science”

Burt on Human Evolution. 5/26/2015 Nicole Burt PhD “A Fine Kettle of Fish: Neandertahl Dietary Breadth”	De Rham on Physics.10/27/15 Claudia De Rham “Testing General Relativity”
Gates on Physics. 11/17/15 Evalyn Gates “Einstein’s Telescope”	Haile-Selassie on Human Evolution.. 5/7/2014 Yohannes Haile-Selassie PhD “Our Pliocene Ancestors”
Kukekova on Evolution. 11/10/15 Anna Kukekova, PhD “The Fox Domestication Project and the Genetics of Complex Behavior”	Latimer on Human Evolution. 5/19/2015 Bruce Latimer, PhD “Manot Cave, Israel: Looking for Our Beginnings”
Lynn on Physics. 5/5/2015 Bryan Lynn, PhD “The Neutrino Standard Model of Physics: The Most Accurate, Complete, Predictive and Successful Scientific Theory Known to Humans”	Princehouse on Evolution. 11/3/2015 Patricia Princehouse PhD “The Pawprints of History: Evolution and Dog Behavior”
Simpson on Human evolution. 5/12/2015 Scott W. Simpson, PhD  “Kissing Cousins: Who Were the Neanderthals?”	Starkman on Physics. . 4/28/2015 Glenn Starkman “The Standard Model: Do We Need More?:
Starkman on Physics. 4/16/2014 Glenn Starkman PhD “Predicting the Cosmic Microwave Background”	Steinmetz on Nanoscience. 10/6/15 Nicole F. Steinmetz, PhD “From Molecular Farming to Molecular Medicine”
Strangi on Nanoscience. 10/13/15 Guiseppe “Pino” Strangi “Light in the Nanoworld” f	Tolley on Physcis. 10/20/15  Andrew Tolley “From Newtonian Gravity to Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity”