The Bhaumik Lectures bring leading physicists to UCLA to speak about the frontiers of the field. The lectures are open to the public.
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Eduardo Fradkin University of Illinois
No recording available

Barry Barish Caltech
“Gravitational Waves: From Discovery to a New Science”
No recording available
2025



Stephen Shenker Stanford
“Quantum Chaos and Quantum Gravity”
No recording available
2024

David Spergel Simons Foundation
“Our Simple Strange Universe: New Data and New Physics”
No recording available

Ashoke Sen ICTS
“Some Results on Gravitational Waves”
No recording available
2023

Dam T. Son University of Chicago
“Quantum Fields in Condensed Matter”
No recording available

David Gross KITP / UC Santa Barbara
“Fifty Years of QCD: The Theory of the Strong Nuclear Force”
Public lecture

2021

Steven Weinberg UT Austin
2020
2019

Alessandra Buonanno Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
“High-Precision Gravitational-Wave Astrophysics”


Robert B. Laughlin Stanford
“The Brayton Battery”
No recording available

2018




Sir Roger Penrose Oxford
“New Cosmology View of Dark Matter, which Strangely and Slowly Decays”
2017

Edward Witten Princeton / IAS
“What Is New in Two-Dimensional Topological Gravity”
No recording available


Sudip Chakravarty UCLA
“Superconductivity!”
No recording available


Claudio Pellegrini Stanford & UCLA
“Exploring Matter at the Angstrom–Femtosecond Space and Time Scales with X-ray Free-Electron Lasers”
2016

Nima Arkani-Hamed Institute for Advanced Study
“Unification and Fundamental Physics: A Status Report”


