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July 06, 2023

Watch: Bhargav Bhatt on Cohomology and Collaboration

March 08, 2023

Watch: How Emily Rauscher Maps an Exoplanet’s Atmosphere

December 07, 2022

Watch: Xie Chen on the Challenge and Promise of Quantum Information Systems

November 08, 2022

Watch: Jané Kondev and the Mathematics of Biology

August 08, 2022

Watch: Suzanne Staggs and the Signatures of the Primordial Universe

April 18, 2022

Watch: Andrea Alù on Controlling Light and Sound Using Metamaterials

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July 09, 2020

Michael Wolf and the Mathematics of Soap Films and Other Puzzling Surfaces

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June 08, 2020

Robbert Dijkgraaf on Why Today’s Science Will Be Remembered as Revolutionary

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April 17, 2020

Yanbei Chen Examines Gravitational Waves to Test Relativity

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April 09, 2020

How Lucy Colwell Finds Never-Before-Seen Proteins

April 03, 2020

Eric Kandel and the Joy of Studying the Mind

March 24, 2020

Rachel Rosen on Black Holes and Alternative Theories of Gravity

October 24, 2019

Watch: How SCOPE Discovers the Secret Life of Ocean Microbes

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July 24, 2019

Watch: Computer Scientist Constantinos Daskalakis on Tackling High-Dimensional Data

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July 10, 2019

Watch: Maarten de Hoop Turns the Earth Inside Out

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April 22, 2019

Watch: Alexei Kitaev and the Value of Toy Models

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March 06, 2019

Watch: Eva Silverstein on String Theory, Quantum Gravity and the History of the Universe

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February 11, 2019

Watch: Paul Steinhardt and the New Big Bounce Cosmology

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January 08, 2019

Watch: Simons Fellow Lisa Tran and the Future of Liquid Crystals

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November 28, 2018

Watch: Greg Gabadadze Discusses the Future of Physics at the Simons Foundation

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April 03, 2018

Watch: Madhu Sudan Studies How Complications Affect Computers When They Communicate

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March 21, 2018

Watch: Thomas Scanlon Discusses the Importance of Mathematical Logic

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March 12, 2018

Watch: Ashvin Vishwanath Talks About the Border of Quantum Physics and Material Properties

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March 05, 2018

Watch: Astrophysicist Eve Ostriker Talks About Spiral Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium

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February 23, 2018

Watch: Four Minutes With Terence Tao

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