Some lectures by Kip Thorne for which the graphics are available on the Web
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"Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves"
Public lecture in Carnegie's Capital Science Lectures series (Washington DC, March 25, 2003)
- "Ph237, Gravitational Waves: A Web-Based Course"
A course of lectures, readings, problems and problem solutions organized by Thorne and graduate students Mihai Bondarescu and Yanbei Chen, and taught by Thorne and others (Caltech, January--May, 2002)
- "Gravitational waves: A status report"
Lecture at 9th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 25 May, 2001)
- "Breakdown of post-Newtonian templates for massive inspiraling binaries observed by LIGO-I: The necessity to expand the template family"
Presentation at LIGO Scientific Collaboration Meeting (Baton Rouge, LA, 16 March 2001)
- "Reducing thermoelastic noise in advanced LIGO interferometers by reshaping the light beams and test masses"
Presentation at LIGO Scientific Collaboration Meeting (Baton Rouge, LA, 16 March 2001)
- "LIGO-I and LIGO-II interferometers - Status and plans"
Lecture at 17th Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting (ITP, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, 10 March 2001)
- "LIGO-II and beyond: Thermal noises,
optical noises and quantum nondemolition"
Lecture at Workshop on Astrophysical Sources for Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
(Drexel University, 30 October 2000)
- "Quantum noise and quantum nondemolition in gravitational-wave interferometers"
CaJAGWR Seminar (Caltech - JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research; JPL, Pasadena, 13 October 2000)
- "Gravitational waves from compact body inspiral"
Lecture at Third Capra Ranch Meeting on Radiation Reaction (Caltech, 7 June 2000)
- "Some thoughts for young physicists, from an ancient colleague"
Opening address at a conference for young physicists, Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS (Moscow, Russia, October 11, 2018)
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| Lectures for the general public |
- Communicating Science to Nonscientists in Post-Election & Post-Pandemic America:
Talk by Kip Thorne followed by panel discussion with Brian Greene (moderator), Alan Alda, April Burke, and Cailin O'Connor
- The Power and Beauty of Collaborations between Scientists and Film Makers: from 2001 a Space Odysee to Interstellar, web-based lecture for Congreso Futuro, Chile, 19 January 2021.
- "2020 Nobel Prizes for black holes, my favorite science fiction movies, travel through wormholes, directions of time in Nolan's movie Tenet, the complexity of Nolan's movies, and advice to young people who aspire to become scientists", October 2020 Interview for Chinese Bilibili young peoples' Website: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ia411A7nz?from=search&seid=1007439475780662846
- A Brief History of Black Holes: From Oppenheimer to LIGO, 48th Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture (Los Angeles National Laboratory, May 8, 2019)
- "My romance with Caltech, and with black holes, wormholes, time travel, and gravitational waves"
Inaugural Robert F Christy Lecture at Caltech, 27 February 2019
- "My Life in Science"
Address to the Literary & Historical Society of the University College Dublin (Ireland) upon receipt of their James Joyce Award, 19 October 2016
- 56k modembroadband cable/DSL"Words Matter: Caltech Science Writing Symposium"
- Presentations and round-table discussion of science writing (Caltech, 21 January 2004). The panelists are
K.C. Cole, Los Angeles Times Science Writer; Kip Thorne; and Lord Robert Winston, Professor of Fertility
Studies at Imperial College, London. The moderator is Dr. Steven Youra, Faculty Associate in the Humanities,
Caltech. Thorne's presentation begins 28 minutes, 30 seconds into the video; the long panel discussion begins
1 hour, 3 minutes, 50 seconds into the video.
- "A new window on the Universe: The search for gravitational waves"
Lecture at the Centenary Meeting of the American Physical Society (Atlanta, GA, 23 March 1999)
- "Spacetime warps and the quantum:
A glimpse of the future"
Public lecture at University of California, Santa Barbara (24 February 1999)
- "Black holes: Predicted properties and behaviors"
Lecture at Secondary Physics Teachers' Educational Forum on Black Holes: Facts and Fiction
(ITP, Santa Barbara, CA, 6 February 1999)
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