Lectures & Public Events

Summer Science Lecture Series

Summer Science Lecture Series

Since 2006, Stanford’s Summer Science Lecture Series provided four or five lectures each summer by Stanford’s most esteemed professors. The series is no longer offered but previous lectures can be downloaded on Stanford on iTunes. Thanks to our loyal supporters!

To locate a previous lecture on iTunes, the easiest way is to use the Stanford Power Search option, then enter a key word from the title of the talk into the Title field. To see the entire catalog of these talks, find the section on Featured Contributors,click the Show All link, then locate the Stanford Office of Science Outreach icon. After clicking on that icon, click on the tab for Outdoor Science Talks.

Past Lectures in this Series

Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution

July 28, 2011

Shark and Awe: The Extreme Life of the Sea

July 14, 2011

Using Fiberoptics and Genes from Algae to Solve Problems in Psychiatry

June 30, 2011

Fuels from Sunlight: Converting Solar Energy

June 16, 2011

The Next Wave in Wireless Technology

July 29, 2010

How are Drugs Developed and Why Is It So Expensive?

July 15, 2010

Stem Cells and the Future of Regenerative Medicine

July 1, 2010

Driving Safely Into the Future

June 17, 2010

Long Life in the 21st Century

August 13, 2009

State of Energy Address—Are We on the Right Track?

July 23, 2009

The Secret Life of Viruses

July 9, 2009

Who Owns Life?

June 25, 2009

Powering the Future with Sustainable Energy

August 21, 2008

Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates Interactions with People and Computers

August 7, 2008

Global Warming: Is the Science Settled Enough for Policy?

July 24, 2008

Why is Earthquake Prediction so Difficult?

July 10, 2008

Drugs: One Size Does Not Fit All

August 9, 2007

Cool Hands, Better Performance

July 26, 2007

Recent Advances in Heart Surgery

July 12, 2007

Regenerative Medicine: What is it? Where do we stand? Where are we going?

June 28, 2007

Embryonic Stem Cells: Science, Ethics, and Politics

August 31, 2006

Archmides: Ancient Text Revealed with X-ray Vision

August 3, 2006

100 Years After 1906: A Century of Progress in Understanding Earthquakes and Their Effects

July 20, 2006

Using Evolution to Understand Human Growth and Disease

July 6, 2006

Back to Life: The Rebirth of the Monterey Coast

June 22, 2006