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PHYSICS SEMINAR VIDEOS

(Last Updated: March 2, 2006)

This page is dedicated to my anonymous sponsor. Thank you very much and enjoy the knowledge.

Following is a list of sites which you can watch physics seminars by streaming video. It usually not known by most of the community that you can find so much seminars on the web free. You can schedule yourself a weekly colloquia. I would appreciate any contributions to this page.


UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS

MIT World: Continuously growing archive of seminars of any field, that held in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can sign up for updates mailing list or the RSS feed. 

NEW! Berkeley Webcast: Courses and talks from Berkeley. Very nice collection. 

Caltech Today: Streaming Lectures in every field, scientific ones are particularly good.

Princeton Lectures: Public seminar archive of Princeton, in any field.

Harvard@Home: Glimpses of Harvard research.

Stanford Seminars: Industry career oriented seminars. Requires free registration.

Cornell University Library: Short collection of the library, but do not miss the chaos demonstrations by Strogatz.

University of California Television: On demand videos from the university TV.

University of Washington Television: Another unoversity TV archive.


PHYSICS COLLOQUIA AND SEMINARS

Web Lecture Archive Project: This is collaboration of CERN, Fermilab and University of Michigan for online physics lectures. Note that there are America and Europe mirrors for faster access. CERN also has a wider project called Web University which contains some extra materials. Quick link to CERN Colloquium.

SPIRES Video Search: Ultimate high energy physics resource now archives links to seminar videos.

Nobel e-museum: This is the place for the highest quality colloquium. Unfortunately they only have online videos, since 1999. You can reach the texts of the previous Nobel lectures. See also MIT's Nobel Laureate Series and (NEW!) Nobel Laureates in Lindau.

Berkeley Physics Colloquia: A growing archive of departmental colloquia.

KITP Online: Almost anything happened at Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics. This is a very big and satisfying archive of lectures. See the subcategories for more content not listed on the main page.

Perimeter Institute: Many talks from the young Canadian fundamental physics institute.

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Colloquia: They have the video archive available since Fall 2004.

NASA Goddard Scientific Colloquium: Seminers from the Goddard Space Flight Center.

Rutgers Lectures: Theoretical Physics Seminars took place at the Rutgers University.

SLAC Online Videos: A big archive of High Energy Physics lectures.

JPL Videos: Jet Propulsion Laboratory's video archive. Besides lectures, there are fancy space animations.

Fermi Lab: Many lectures from the lab. See also here.

NEW! New High Energy Theory Center: Seminars from Rutgers University.

Brookhaven National Lab: Many popular level videos from the lab.

DESY WebCast: High energy physics talks from the German lab.

The Space Telescope Science Institute: Colloquia archive of the institute.

CGTP, Duke Univesity: Video archive of the Center for Geometry and Theoretical Physics, Duke University. These are quite professional level in the field of mathematical physics.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Physics Colloquium from the department.

University of North Carolina: Archives contain some string theory seminars.

University of Hawaii: A few astronomy talks.


COURSES AND DEMONSTRATIONS

OpenCourseWare: MIT's site for public course materials for hundreds of MIT courses. Best on the net, also Creative Commons licensed! There are even videos of the greatest freshman lectures since Feynman by Walter Lewin: OCW videos and a nice undergrad GR class. MIT is the dream institute for public knowledge.

Connexions: Rice University course archive. Creative Commons licensed as OpenCourseWare. I couldn't find any video lectures but worth to check.

Strogatz Chaos Lab: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos demonstrations from the famous author.

Physics Demonstration Videos: Very nice streaming archive at the freshmen level from the Wake Forest University.

UCSD courses: Undergraduate level courses from University of California San Diego.

UML courses: Undergraduate courses from University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

University of Iowa: Introductory fluid mechanics lectures with demonstrations. Browse the site for shorter pieces and stand alone demonstrations.

University of Virginia: Freshman physics course.

NEW! University of North Carolina: Freshman physics course by Russ Herman.

Physics Demonstrations: A few freshmen demos. More here, here and here.

Inverse Sprinkler: Famous problem of inverse sprinkler. Watch the video.


SCHOOLS, CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

SOLVAY CONFERENCE 1927: One conference to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them!

NEW! Gravity in the Quantum World and the Cosmos: SLAC 2005, one of the best summer schools. All lectures are online! Aimed at beginning graduate students. Past years are also available from SLAC archive. Let me give the direct links for your convenience: Nature's Greatest Puzzles 2004 Cosmic Connections 2003, Secrets of the B Meson 2002, Exploring Electroweak Symmetry Breaking 2001, Neutrinos 2000.

African Summer Theory Institute: Introductory lectures from many important physicists. Highly recommended for graduate students!

Kavli-CERCA Conference: Proceeding videos of the very successful cosmology conference held on October 10-12, 2003. There are also popular lectures. All the big minds of the cosmology were there, strongly recommended for anybody interested in the field.

NEW! SidneyFest: QFT & QCD Conference in honor of Sidney Coleman.

The Stephen Hawking 60th Birthday Scientific Workshop: A 2002 cosmology workshop with many famous faces.

NEW! 23rd Jerusalem Winter School: "String Theory: Symmetries and Dynamics" with many famous faces.

NEW! Quantum fields in and out of equilibrium: A summer school in Bielefeld University, Germany. 

APS Meetings: Video archives of several meetings.

Harvard Atomic Physics: Workshop Archives of Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics at Harvard.

Summer School on Strings, Gravity and Cosmology: An advanced string theory school.

NEW! Loops '05: Loop Quantum Gravity conference in Germany.

NEW! Cosmo '02: International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe, University of Chicago.

NEW! Einstein Symposium: Celebrating 100th anniversary of relativity in Zurich.

First Stars II 2003: Some of the talks are available online.

Lepton Photon 2001: XX. International Symposium on Lepton and Photon Interactions at High Energies.

Astrobiological problems for physicists: 8 -10 January 2004.

Astrobiological problems for physicists and biologists : 12 - 15 August 2004.

Cosmic Ray Dynamics: A 3-day workshop on `Cosmic ray dynamics: from turbulent to Galactic-scale magnetic fields' in Copenhagen, 2-4 September 2004

Nordita Days on Slim Disks: A few talks on slim disks in Kerr geometry.

2005 Einstein Year in Bern: A conference in honour of Annus Mirabilis.

PITP Showcase Conference: On various subjects in theoretical physics. Both technical and public lectures. (May 11-16 2005)

PITP Emergence Workshop: Great poster! Does anybody know the artist?

Lepton-Photon 2005: XXII International Symposium on Lepton-Photon Interactions at High Energy, June 30-July 5, Uppsala, Sweden.

NEW! Lectures on Neutrino Physics: A link collection from various sources. 


POPULAR AND PUBLIC LECTURES

Feynman Lectures: Four popular level QED lectures by Feynman himself.

NEW! Short Feynman: See him drumming or solving the Challenger case.

Bethe Lectures: Quantum physics lectures by Hans Bethe at the age of 93 for his neighbors. Matchless!

David Deutsch Lectures: Famous pioneer on quantum computation.

National Science Foundation: Good talks even for scientists.

NEW! Strings '05: Public lectures by Dijkgraaf and Susskind. See also the panel discussion on The Next Superstring Revolution.

The Elegant Universe series on Nova: Famous popular TV show on string theory by Brian Greene. You can find some many other documentary science recordings in the Nova site.

String Theatre: Some semi-popular pieces in string theory.

Capital Science Evenings: Very nice science lectures.

Vega Science Lectures: Various British public science lectures.

2001 Nobel Prize Press Conference: Cornell and Wieman is talking for the press.

2004 Nobel Prize Press Conference: Wilczek is talking for the press. Click here for the talk of Gross.

Discovery School: Lots of popular science pieces.

NEW! Boston Museum of Science: Videos of some public lectures are available here.

NEW! National Science Foundation: Science for the layman.

NEW! Smithsonian Associates: Vairous talks for the public.


MATHEMATICS

Clay Mathematics Institute: Short list of popular mathematics lectures from the "Million Dollar Math Problems Institute".

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: This is also in the high end of the professional mathematical science.

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences: A few lectures from Cambridge.

Duke University: Math video archive including some string theory.

University of Colorado at Denver: Mathematics Seminars from diverse topics.

Pacific Institute: Seminars from a Canadian mathematics institute. Applied seminars might be interesting for physicists.

Michigan State University: A few talks including a series by Atiyah.

The Practice of Mathematics: Introductory Lectures by famous mathematician Robert Langlands.

Lectures on Finite Mathematics: by John G. Kemeny of Dartmouth.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

NEW! Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: Legendary lectures by Sussman and Abelson. 

NEW! Applied Parallel Computing: MIT subject 6.338J.

NEW! MIT Media Lab Colloquium: Intersection of technology, media and society.

Computer Musings: Computer Science lectures by Donald Knuth at Stanford.

OTHER

The Library of Congress Webcasts: Short videos from the legendary library.

NEW! Pardee Distinguished Lectures: Talks on future at Boston University.

NEW! Gresham College: Lectures from an independent college in London.

NEW! TechRepublic Webcast: Information Technologies lectures.

MetEd: Atmospheric Physics and Meteorology educational videos.

Earthquake Hazards Program: Many seminars related to earthquakes.

Harvard School of Public Health: Health talks from Harvard.

K12 Resources: Many videos for K12 teachers.

NEW! Chemistry Demonstrations: Short demos for chemistry classes.

NEW! National Institute of Health: Medical talks for all levels.

NEW! WGBH: Several public lectures around Boston. 

Yahoo Video Search: Pretty good streaming video search engine. If you came so far but could not find what you are looking for, check here. Covers many of the above material.





Thanks to Bill Barry, Minki Jeong, Terri Yu, Jeff Murugan, Jim Babb, Russell Herman, Rich Hoeg, H. Rayner, Shantanu Desai and many nicknames in physics forums for contributions.

 

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