| Lectures for physicists and/or astronomers |
- "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)
- "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)
- "Quantum noise and quantum nondemolition in gravitational-wave interferometers"
CaJAGWR Seminar (Caltech - JPL Association for Gravitational-Wave Research; JPL, Pasadena, 13 October 2000)
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| Lectures for the general public |
- ''Einstein's General Relativity, from 1905 to 2005: Warped Spacetime, Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and the Accelerating Universe"
Watson Lecture and Einstein Centennial Lecture (Caltech, 16 November 2005).
- Gravity Probe B Pre Launch Briefing, NASA Headquarters, Washington DC, April 2, 2004. A panel
discussion of Gravity Probe B: a space mission in which superconducting gyroscopes are testing
Einstein's general relativity in important new ways. In this video, Thorne and the other
panelists discuss the nature and scientific significance of Gravity Probe B.
The url for the streaming video is:
rtsp://vstream1.ksc.nasa.gov/odv/ma/gp-b/hq_040204_gpbpress.rm; there is also
a link at
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/elvnew/gpb/index.htm.
- "Words Matter: Caltech Science Writing
Symposium"
[ 56k modem]
[ broadband]
[ cable/DSL] 87 minutes
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.
- Probing the Universe with Gravitational Waves"
Public lecture in Carnegie's Capital Science Lectures series (Washington DC, March 25, 2003)
- "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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