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Professor Joel R. Primack

Joel R. Primack

Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus
Director, University of California systemwide High-Performance Astro-Computing Center, 2010-2015
Princeton University A.B. 1966 Physics, (summa cum laude, valedictorian)
Ph.D. Stanford University, 1970 Physics
Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, 1970-73
A. P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1974
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), and of the California Academy of Sciences
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Award, 1999
American Physical Society Leo Szilard Lectureship Award, 2016
President-Elect, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, 2017
Chair-Elect, Forum on Physics and Society of the American Physical Society, 2017

 


Office: Room 318 Interdisciplinary Science Building (ISB)
Phone: (831) 459-2580
FAX: (831) 459-3043
e-mail: joel@ucsc.edu

 

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Research Interests

Dr. Joel R. Primack specializes in the formation and evolution of galaxies and the nature of the dark matter that makes up most of the matter in the universe. After helping to create what is now called the "Standard Model" of particle physics, Primack began working in cosmology in the late 1970s, and he became a leader in the new field of particle astrophysics.  His 1982 paper with Heinz Pagels was the first to propose that a natural candidate for the dark matter is the lightest supersymmetric particle.  He is one of the principal originators and developers of the theory of Cold Dark Matter, which has become the basis for the standard modern picture of structure formation in the universe.  With support from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Energy, he has been using supercomputers to simulate and visualize the evolution of the universe and the formation of galaxies under various assumptions, and comparing the predictions of these theories to the latest observational data. He organized and led the University of California systemwide Center for High-Performance AstroComputing (UC-HiPACC) 2010-2015.

Primack shared the APS Forum on Physics and Society Award in 1977 with Frank von Hippel of Princeton for their book Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena (Basic Books, 1974; New American Library, 1976).  Primack was made a Fellow of the APS in 1988 "for pioneering contributions to gauge theory and cosmology."  He was elected to the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Astrophysics 2001-2002.  He was a member of the APS Panel on Public Affairs 2002-2004, and chaired the APS Forum on Physics and Society in 2005. In 2004 he chaired the APS committee on NASA funding for astronomy. He has served on numerous advisory panels to DOE, NASA, and NSF. In 2006-07 he served on the Beyond Einstein study of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 1995 Primack was made a Fellow of the AAAS "for pioneering efforts in the establishment of the AAAS Congressional Science Fellows Program and for dedication to expanding the use of science in policymaking throughout government".  He has served on the board of the Federation of American Scientists and was a founder of the Union of Concerned Scientists.  His popular articles on efforts to protect the near-Earth space environment have appeared in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Science, Scientific American, and Technology Review. He was a member of the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, and helped to establish the AAAS Science and Human Rights program.  He also served as an adviser to and participant in the Science and the Spiritual Quest project, and as chairman of the advisory committee for the AAAS Program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion 2000-2002. 

Primack was one of the main advisors for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's 1996 IMAX film Cosmic Voyage, and he has worked with leading planetariums to help make the invisible universe visible.  In addition to more than 200 refereed technical articles in professional journals, Primack has written a number of articles aimed at a more popular audience.  These include articles in the World Book Encyclopedia and in publications such as Astronomy, Beam Line, California Wild, IEEE Spectrum, Science, Scientific American, Sky and Telescope, and in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and the Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics. With Nancy Abrams, he is the co-author of The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (Riverhead/Penguin, 2006) and The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Yale University Press, 2011), both of which are also available in foreign editions.

Scientific Biography

Joel R. Primack, Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus, UCSC

Research: I think of myself as a theoretical physicist with broad interests, which have included plasma physics, nuclear physics, particle physics, and astrophysics.  I am best known for my research on cosmology and galaxy formation.

My Princeton senior thesis under Gerald E. Brown's supervision was the first modern theory of nuclear fission (Primack 1966).  Although it overturned the liquid drop model of Niels Bohr and John Wheeler (1939), Wheeler gave it highest marks and I graduated as the valedictorian of Princeton’s class of 1966.  As an undergraduate I also published papers on plasma fluid dynamics based on research as a summer employee at Jet Propulsion Lab.

I worked on theoretical particle physics as Sid Drell’s grad student at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) 1966-70, as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows 1970-73, and in my first decade at UCSC (1973-1983).  Drell suggested that I figure out what was wrong with the apparent failure of the Drell-Hearn sum rule applied to nuclei, so Stan Brodsky and I wrote fundamental papers (1968-69) on how to treat the electromagnetic interactions of composite systems such as nuclei.  Tom Appelquist and I studied form factors in quantum field theory (1970-72).  Appelquist, Helen Quinn, and I wrote some of the first papers on the SU(2)xU(1) electroweak theory (1972-73).  With Ben Lee and Sam Trieman I did the first calculation of the mass of the charmed quark (1973), and Abraham Pais and I (1973) showed that CP violation arises in the cross term between first and second order perturbation theory.  Sam Berman and I (1974) showed that polarized electron scattering allows a high-precision test of SU(2)xU(1), which resulted in the SLAC experiment whose success helped justify the Nobel Prize for Glashow, Salam, and Weinberg. My first grad student Sander Bais and I did the first precise calculation of the mass of the 't Hooft- Polyakov monopole (1976).  Richard Brandt and I showed (1978) how the spin-statistics connection arises for particles with both electric and magnetic charge (dyons).  My grad student Jean-Luc Cambier, my postdoc Marc Sher, and I did the first full finite temperature field theory calculation of neutron decay (1982), a process relevant to Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.  My subsequent research on modern cosmology has sometimes included relevant particle physics.

I am probably best known for helping to create the modern cosmological standard model, LCDM.  I was the first to propose that the lightest supersymmetric partner is a natural candidate for the dark matter particle (Pagels & Primack 1982), which led to warm dark matter (Blumenthal, Pagels, & Primack 1982).  George Blumenthal and I worked out the cold dark matter (CDM) power spectrum and began to study its implications for galaxy formation (Primack & Blumenthal 1983).  This led to the successful comparison of the cold dark matter theory of structure formation with the first galaxy redshift survey (“Formation of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure with Cold Dark Matter,” Blumenthal, Faber, Primack, & Rees 1984), a fundamental paper that I led.  In it we considered both Wm=1.0 and Wm=0.2, and concluded that the observations favored the lower value.  I wrote up my lectures on CDM cosmology at the 1984 Varenna summer school in a preprint (Primack SLAC-PUB-3387, 1984, 176 pages) that was very widely circulated; it provided the introduction to dark matter cosmology for many astronomers.  I finished the CDM paper and the Varenna lecture notes during my sabbatical in 1984 at SLAC, where all the figures were prepared. 

In subsequent years my colleagues and I did various theoretical studies of the dark matter universe, including
contraction of dark matter galactic halos due to baryonic infall (Blumenthal, Faber, Flores, & Primack 1986)
how to discover dark matter (Primack, Seckel, & Sadoulet, Annual Reviews of Nuclear & Particle Physics 1988)
calculations of linear power spectra for many CDM variants (John Holtzman’s 1989 dissertation based on Blumenthal's and my 1983 code, and comparison with observations Holtzman & Primack 1993)
dynamical effects of a cosmological constant, including on the growth rate of structure (Lahav, Lilje, Primack, & Rees 1991)
cosmological structure formation simulations on CDM variants Cold + Hot Dark Matter (Klypin et al. 1993, Primack et al. 1995) and LCDM (Klypin, Primack, & Holtzman 1996) compared with observations
conflicts between steep central dark matter halo profiles in dark matter simulations vs. observations of dwarf galaxies and galaxy clusters (Flores & Primack 1994, based on Ricardo Flores dissertation research with me)
improvements in semi-analytic modeling of the galaxy population (Rachel Somerville’s thesis paper Somerville & Primack 1999; also Somerville, Primack & Faber 2001 and many subsequent papers including “Galaxy properties from the ultraviolet to the far-infrared: ΛCDM models confront observations” (Somerville et al. 2012) and papers based on Lauren Porter's dissertation research with Somerville and me (2014)
semi-analytic modeling of damped Lya systems (Ari Maller’s dissertation papers with Prochaska, Somerville, and me 2000-2002)
dark matter halo concentration evolution and angular momentum distribution (James Bullock's dissertation papers with Avishai Dekel, Anatoly Klypin, and me 2001)
dark matter halo assembly history and angular momentum evolution (my grad student Risa Wechsler’s dissertation papers with Avishai Dekel, Anatoly Klypin, and me 2002)
halo occupation distribution and predicted evolution of the galaxy two-point correlation function (Kravtsov et al. 2004)
Gini-M20 non-parametric classification of galaxy images (Lotz, Primack, & Madau 2004 and many subsequent papers, including observability timescales for morphological indications of galaxy mergers (Lotz, Jonsson, Cox, and Primack 2008, 2011ab) used for measurement of galaxy merger rates compared with theory (Lotz et al. 2011)
feedback in simulations of disk galaxy major mergers (2006, based on T. J. Cox’s dissertation and subsequent collaboration with me)
shapes of dark matter halos (Brandon Allgood's dissertation paper with me, 2006)
the Sunrise code for producing images from galaxy simulations including the effects of stellar evolution and dust scattering, absorption, and re-emission of light (Patrik Jonsson’s dissertation and postdoc research with me, 2002-2010)
high-resolution Bolshoi cosmological simulations compared with observations (Klypin, Trujillo-Gomez, & Primack 2011, Trujillo-Gomez, Klypin, Primack, Romanowsky 2011, Prada et al. 2012, with analyses by Peter Behroozi, Mike Busha, Risa Wechsler et al. 2012, and the Klypin-Primack Bolshoi-Planck simulations 2016)
high-resolution hydrodynamic cosmological galaxy simulations, including roles of cold streams and violent disk instabilities, compared with HST CANDELS survey (papers with Daniel Ceverino, Avishai Dekel, Sandra Faber, Anatoly Klypin, et al. 2010-)

Another main interest of mine has been extragalactic background light and gamma-ray attenuation by primack_bio_1, starting with “Probing the Era of Galaxy Formation via TeV Gamma Ray Absorption by the Near Infrared Extragalactic Background” (MacMinn & Primack 1996, based on Donn MacMinn’s senior thesis research with me).  Key recent papers include GeV gamma-ray attenuation and the high-redshift UV background (Gilmore et al. 2008), Modeling GRBs (Gilmore, Prada, & Primack 2010), EBL and Gamma-ray Attenuation (Primack et al. 2011), EBL Inferred from AEGIS Galaxy-SED-type Fractions (Dominguez et al. 2011), Semi-analytic Modeling of the EBL and Gamma-ray Attenuation (Gilmore et al. 2012), IACT observations of gamma-ray bursts: prospects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array (Gilmore et al. 2013), “Detection of the Cosmic Gamma-ray Horizon from Multiwavelength Observations of Blazars” (Dominguez et al. 2013), based on dissertation research with me by Rudy Gilmore and Alberto Dominguez and our subsequent collaborations.  We published a popular article about all this in the June 2015 Scientific American, and Dominguez and I are writing a review of the EBL for Reports of Progress in Physics.

Scientific leadership: Since 2003 I have hosted the annual Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop.  I led the University of California systemwide High-Performance AstroComputing Center (UC-HiPACC), for which I wrote the successful proposal in 2009, and which I directed from when it began in January 2010 through 2015, with an annual UC budget of $350,000 plus funds raised through grants and gifts.  I supervised UC-HiPACC’s part-time staff of four (administrator Sue Grasso, writer Trudy Bell, visualizers Nina McCurdy and Alex Bogert, webmaster Steven Zaslaw), and organized conferences, workshops, a small grants program, and outreach activities (see the HiPACC website), and an International Summer School on AstroComputing in which students from around the world attended lectures in the morning and used supercomputer accounts to learn to use relevant codes in hands-on afternoon sessions.  The UC-HiPACC summer school topics were galaxy formation at UCSC in 2010, explosive astrophysics at UCB/LBNL in 2011, astro-informatics at UCSD in 2012, star and planet formation at UCSC in 2013, and nuclear astrophysics in 2014 at UCSD (with slides and videos of all lectures online). I am co-I of the UCSC astronomical computing center and PI of our new PetaByte AstroData storage and server system.  I am also director of the new UCSC 3D Astronomical Visualization Lab.

With my UCSC colleague Piero Madau, I also initiated the Assembling Galaxies of Resolved Anatomy (AGORA) project (papers: Ji-hoon Kim et al. 2014, 2016).   The goal of AGORA is to improve our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution by running high-resolution galaxy simulations starting from the same zoom-in cosmological initial conditions and as much as possible using the same physics and the same volumetric data analysis and visualization code (yt), and comparing these simulations to each other, to fundamental theory for verification, and to observations for validation.  I led a successful National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) Data Intensive Computing Pilot Program proposal to support AGORA, which provides at least 100TB of data storage and NERSC supercomputer time for analysis and visualization of the outputs from the many AGORA simulations starting in January 2014.

I have been continuously supported by NSF and/or NASA grants ever since coming to UCSC in 1973, and I have administered an active research group.  I have for many years been a major user of NASA’s supercomputers at NASA Ames Research Center and DOE supercomputers at NERSC, and I have received allocations of supercomputer time often totaling more than 10M cpu-hours per year.  I have participated as a Co-I in three proposals, all successful, for Major Research Instrumentation grants from NSF to acquire astrophysics computing hardware at UCSC. 

I have also helped to start many other institutions related to science and technology.  This began with the Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues (SWOPSI), which I initiated in my last year as a graduate student at Stanford in fall 1969, along with student body co-president Joyce Kobayashi and my fellow Princeton valedictorian and Sid Drell grad student Bob Jaffe. SWOPSI lasted 20 years and led to many new initiatives at Stanford, including the Center for International Security and Arms Control (which grew out of the 1970 SWOPSI course on Arms Control and Disarmament co-taught by SLAC Director Wolfgang Panofsky).  In the SWOPSI course on science and technology in government that I co-organized with Jaffe, Martin Perl, and Frank von Hippel, I led the focus on science and technology policy in Congress, including a questionnaire of Senate and House members in collaboration with then California Senator Alan Cranston and Representative Jeffrey Cohelan.  That led in turn to my leadership in 1972-73 in creating the Congressional Science and Technology Fellowship program, both in the American Physical Society (APS) and in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  I designed the program working with AAAS officers (especially treasurer Bill Golden) and members of Congress and their staffs, recruited first year Congressional Fellows, and raised the initial funds.  AAAS has coordinated the program ever since.  It now includes up to 50 scientists per year who serve on the staffs of Senators, Representatives, and Congressional Committees.  This was the beginning of the AAAS Fellowships program, which now places about 250 scientists in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government.  In 1972-73 I proposed the name of the APS Forum on Physics and Society (FPS) and helped to bring it into existence; I later served as chairman of the FPS (2005).  I also led the effort to organize the first APS studies on public policy issues, beginning with the study on nuclear reactor safety for which Freeman Dysan and I wrote the proposal and I led the fund raising (1973-74).  Frank von Hippel and I wrote Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena (Basic Books 1974), and we worked with Senator Ted Kennedy in 1976-78 to create the NSF Science for Citizens Program.  As a charter member of the AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility (1976-80), I initiated and organized the AAAS Science and Human Rights program, which has become a major AAAS activity that has rescued many scientists and non-scientists.  In 1987-89 I led the Federation of American Scientists Space Nuclear Power Arms Control project, which helped to end the USSR’s space nuclear reactor program.  As a member 2002-04 of the APS Panel on Public Affairs (POPA), I led an APS study on the negative effects on science of President Bush’s 2004 Vision for Space Exploration, and our hard-hitting report was endorsed by the APS Council.  Then-NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe resigned shortly after our report was released, and the next NASA Administrator Michael Griffin reversed many of O’Keefe’s decisions. 

Teaching and education, including public education: At UCSC I have taught at every level from introductory undergraduate courses through advanced graduate courses on quantum field theory, group theory, and cosmology.  I have also supervised all or part of the research of 45 graduate students and 11 postdocs, many of whom have gone on to distinguished careers.  In academic year 2013-14, my last year before I retired from teaching, my UCSC courses were Physics 5D Thermodynamics in Fall 2013, Physics 129 Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (a new upper division course that I initiated) and Physics 205 Introduction to Research (for beginning grad students) in Winter 2014, and Physics 224 Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (for grad students in physics and astrophysics) in Spring 2014.  In 2013 I also lectured at four schools for advanced graduate students and postdocs: the Jerusalem Winter School on Galaxy Formation in January (where my lectures included the opening and closing talks), the Institute for Cosmology and Philosophy (which I co-organized) and the UC-HiPACC school on Star and Planet Formation at UCSC in July, and the School on AstroParticle and Underground Physics at Asilomar in September.  I have held visiting positions at 18 universities and research centers around the world.  I have also given many public lectures at universities, including as the Lansdowne Lecturer at the University of Victoria, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecturer at Los Alamos, and the Buhl Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University. 

At UCSC I have developed many new courses, including a sequence of freshman honors introductory physics courses and a popular course on Cosmology and Culture that I co-taught in 1996-2009 with my wife, historian and philosopher of science Nancy Ellen Abrams.  This course won awards from the John Templeton Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies, and was the basis for our first book, The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (Penguin/Riverhead 2006), also published in several foreign editions (see http://viewfromthecenter.com/).  Nancy and I have given many public lectures on modern cosmology and its implications including the Sackler Lecture at Berkeley and public lectures at other universities including Cambridge, Columbia, Harvard, Oxford, Peking, Princeton, and Stanford, and at other venues around the world including the keynote talk at the 2008 Army Science Conference, the Benjamin Dean Lecture at the California Academy of Sciences, and the Frontiers of Astrophysics Lecture at the Hayden Planetarium of the American Museum of Natural History, New York (for a 2006-2013 list see http://new-universe.org/pastevents.html).  At Yale University in October 2009 we gave the Terry Lectures, which became the basis for The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Yale University Press, 2011, with associated website http://new-universe.org; Spanish edition El nuevo universo y el futuro de la humanidad: Cómo la nueva ciencia del cosmos transformará el mundo (Barcelona: Antoni Bosch, 2013) http://www.el-nuevo-universo.com/). 

Along with the books and lectures just mentioned, I have devoted much additional effort to public outreach.  I was one of the main advisors to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum IMAX film Cosmic Voyage (1995) and I co-organized with Owen Gingerich the AAAS Cosmic Questions conference at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History (1999).  I have provided visualizations and advice for Adler, Hayden, and Morrison planetarium shows about cosmology (2010-2015) and I have explained and visualized the modern theory of the universe in TV documentaries such as National Geographic TV’s Inside the Milky Way (2010), where I also led a tour of NASA’s supercomputers at NASA Ames Research Center.  I have also given keynote talks about the research opportunities and computational challenges of modern cosmology and astrophysics at industrial conferences including the 2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference in Big Sky, Montana, the 2012 Huawei Cloud Congress in Shanghai, and the 2013 Vail Computer Elements Workshop.  My recent popular articles include “Universe on Fast Forward,” the cover article in the July 2012 Sky & Telescope, coauthored with Trudy Bell, and “The Cosmological Supercomputer,” IEEE Spectrum October 2012.  A coauthored article about the CANDELS survey is the cover article in the June 2014 Sky & Telescope.   An article about measuring all the light in the universe using gamma rays by my former PhD student Alberto Dominguez, me, and Trudy Bell is in the June 2015 issue of Scientific American.  I am also working on a popular book about computer simulations and big data in science, emphasizing cosmology and astrophysics.

 

 

 

Books

  • Joel R. Primack and Frank von Hippel, Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena (New York: Basic Books, 1974; New American Library, 1976) http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Advice_and_Dissent.pdf
  • Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (New York: Riverhead/Penguin, 2006; London: HarperCollins, 2006; Paris: Laffont, 2008; and other foreign editions)  http://viewfromthecenter.com/
  • Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack, The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Yale University Press, 2011; Barcelona: Bosch, 2013) http://new-universe.org/http://www.el-nuevo-universo.com

 

Magazine Articles

Dark Matter Is Our Friend, Nautilus, February 2017

How Can Physicists Help the Public Make Better Decisions About Science and Technology?, APS: The Back Page, July 2016

How Physicists Can Help the Public Make Better Decisions About Science and Technology – Historical Background, Physics and Society, July 2016

All the Light There Ever Was, Scientific American, June 2015

Staring Back to Cosmic Dawn, Sky and Telescope cover article, June 2014

The Universe in a Supercomputer, IEEE Spectrum, October 2012

Universe in a Box: From the Big Bang to Now, Sky&Telescope cover article, July 2012

 

Publications with Nancy Abrams

View from the Center of the Universe by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack

Papers on Cosmology and Culture by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack

Dwight H. Terry Lectures: Cosmic Society: The New Universe and the Human Future by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack

The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack

 

Joel R. Primack  (refereed paper h-index: 70)

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications (in chronological order)

Supersymmetry, cosmology, and new physics at teraelectronvolt energies 1982, Phys. Rev. Letters 48, 223. Pagels, Heinz, and Primack, Joel R. (458 citations in NASA Astrophysics Data System as of 19 October 2016)

Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure with cold dark matter 1984, Nature 311, 517. Blumenthal, G. R., Faber, S. M., Primack, J. R., Rees, M. J. (1126 ADS cites)

Contraction of dark matter galactic halos due to baryonic infall 1986, ApJ 301, 27. Blumenthal, G. R., Faber, S. M., Flores, R., Primack, J. R. (866 ADS)

Detection of cosmic dark matter 1988, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Phys. 38, 751. Primack, J. R., Seckel, D., Sadoulet, B. (364 ADS)

Dynamical effects of the cosmological constant 1991, MNRAS 251, 128. Lahav, Ofer, Lilje, Per B., Primack, Joel R., Rees, Martin J. (538 ADS)

Observational and theoretical constraints on singular dark matter halos 1994, ApJ 427, 1.  Flores, Ricardo A., Primack, Joel R. (469 ADS) *

Semi-analytic modeling of galaxy formation: the local Universe 1999, MNRAS 310, 1087. Somerville, Rachel S., Primack, Joel R. (804 ADS) *

The nature of high-redshift galaxies 2001, MNRAS 320, 504. Somerville, Rachel S.; Primack, Joel R., Faber, S. M. (559 ADS) *

Profiles of dark haloes: evolution, scatter and environment 2001, MNRAS 321, 559. Bullock, J. S., Kolatt, T. S., Sigad, Y., Somerville, R. S., Kravtsov, A. V., Klypin, A. A., Primack, J. R., Dekel, A. (1617 ADS) *

A Universal Angular Momentum Profile for Galactic Haloes 2001, ApJ 555, 240. Bullock, J. S., Dekel, A. Kolatt, T. S., Kravtsov, A. V., Klypin, A. A., Porciani, C., Primack, J. R. (514 ADS) *

Concentrations of dark halos from their assembly histories 2002, ApJ 568, 52. Wechsler, R. H., Bullock, J. S., Primack, J. R., Kravtsov, A. V., Dekel, A. (737 ADS) *

A New Non-Parametric Approach to Galaxy Morphological Classification 2004, AJ 128, 163-182. Jennifer M. Lotz, Joel Primack, and Piero Madau (332 ADS)

The shape of dark matter halos 2006, MNRAS 367, 1781. Allgood, B., Flores, R., Primack, J., Kravtsov, A., Wecsler, R., Faltenbacher, A., Bullock, J. (332 ADS) *

Feedback in Simulations of Disk Galaxy Major Mergers 2006, MNRAS 373, 1013. T. J. Cox, Patrik Jonsson, Joel R. Primack, and Rachel S. Somerville (225 ADS) *

Simulations of Dust in Interacting Galaxies I: Dust Attenuation 2006, ApJ 637, 255. Patrik Jonsson, T. J. Cox, Joel R. Primack, Rachel S. Somerville (64 ADS) *

GeV Gamma-Ray Attenuation and the High-Redshift UV Background 2009, MNRAS 402, 565. R.C. Gilmore, P. Madau, J. R. Primack, R. S. Somerville, F. Haardt (131 ADS) *

Extragalactic background light inferred from AEGIS galaxy-SED-type fractions 2011, MNRAS 410, 2556, A. Dominguez, J. R. Primack, et al. (226 ADS) *

Halos and galaxies in the standard cosmological model: results from the Bolshoi simulation 2011, ApJ 740, 102. A. Klypin, S. Trujillo-Gomez, J. Primack (451 ADS)

* These papers are based on PhD dissertation research supervised by Joel Primack

 

 

 

Talks thru 2017

 

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Joel Primack - Scientific and Public Lectures

 

2017               New Insights on Galaxy Formation from Comparing Simulations and Observations, seminar at Google, Mountain View, CA, May 30 slides: http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/GoogleTalk-Primack-30May2017.pdf  video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpTs2eLS07I

 

Structural Evolution in the Galaxy-Halo Connection, and Halo Properties as a Function of Density and Web Environment, Galaxy-Halos conference, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, May 17Slides &Video:  http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/galhalo_c17/primack/

 

Constraining the Galaxy-Halo Connection: Star Formation Histories, Galaxy Mergers and Structural Properties, UCSC Cosmology Seminar, February 27.                                                            Slides: GalaxyHaloConnectionPaper-Cosmoclub-27Feb2017.pdf

ΛCDM cosmology: successes, challenges, and opportunities for progress, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, February 16

 

New Insights on Galaxy Formation from Comparing Simulations and Observations, Physics Colloquium, Duke University, February 1

 

2016               President election speech, Sigma Xi Annual Meeting, Atlanta, December 11

Dark Matter: Visualizing the Invisible Universe, Deepak Chopra Sages & Scientists symposium, Beverly Wilshire Hotel, September 9

 

CANDELS Theory/Motivation, CANDELS meeting, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, August 24

 

Galaxy Formation: Simulations vs. Observations, Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop, UCSC, August 12

 

Discovering the Invisible Universe, COSMOS Discovery Lecture for high school students, UCSC, August 1

 

Dark Matter, Dark Energy, the Formation of Galaxies, and the Evolution of the Universe, SCIPP Reunion, UCSC, June 25

 

New Insights on Galaxy Formation by Comparing Simulations and Observations, Laboratorio Interinstitucional de e-Astronomia, Brazil (by Skype), June 23

 

Formation of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure in the Universe, Concept Exchange, Santa Cruz, CA, June 5

 

Measuring All the Light in the Universe, Physics Colloquium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, April 19                                               Slides: http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-EBL-Utah.pdf                                                                                             

How Can Physicists Help the Public Make Better Decisions About Science and Technology, Leo Szilard Lecture, American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, April 17                                Slides: http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-SzilardLecture-Text&Slides.pdf

 

New Insights on Galaxy Formation by Comparing Simulations and Observations, Distinguished Lecture, Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, April 15 Slides:  http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-GalSimsvsObs-SCI-April2016.pdf Video: https://vimeo.com/album/2690857/video/169121636

 

What New Data + Simulations Teach Us About Cosmic Structure Formation, Opening Lecture, Dark Matter 2016 conference, UCLA, February 17.  Slides: https://conferences.pa.ucla.edu/dm16/talks/primack.pdf

 

2015               Astronomy Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, November 17

 

Discovering How Galaxies Form: Comparing Simulations with Hubble Images, NASA Presentation, Supercomputing 2015 (SC15), November 17

 

The View from the Center of the Universe, Clemson University, September 24 (with Nancy Abrams)

 

Formation of Galaxies and Large-Scale Structure in the Universe, Renaissance Weekend, Monterey, September 5

 

Cosmology & Culture: It’s About Time, Renaissance Weekend, Monterey, September 4

 

The View from the Center of the Universe, Renaissance Weekend, Monterey, September 3 (with Nancy Abrams)

 

Dark Matter: History & Cosmology, LAMAT lecture, UCSC, June 25

 

How Does the Big Bang Overlap with Kabbalah?  Moment Magazine symposium, Palo Alto Jewish Community Center, April 12

 

2014               Comparing Observed and Simulated Galaxies, Carnegie Observatories Colloquium, Pasadena, CA, November 25

 

Measuring Extragalactic Background Light Using Gamma Rays, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Colloquium, Pasadena, CA, November 24

 

Cosmological Structure Formation, International Conference - The Philosophy of Cosmology, Tenerife, Canary Islands, September 13

 

The New Universe and the Human Future (with Nancy Abrams), Aspen Chapel, Aspen, CO, September 7

State of the Universe Report, Deepak Chopra’s Sages & Scientists Conference, Carlsbad, CA, August 22

AGORA High-resolution Galaxy Simulation Comparison Project, Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop and AGORA meeting, UCSC, August 16

 

The New Universe and the Human Future (with Nancy Abrams), plenary talk, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science 60th anniversary meeting, Star Island, NH, August 3

 

The New Universe and the Human Future (with Nancy Abrams), Glencoe Union Church, Glencoe, IL, July 13

 

The New Universe and the Human Future (with Nancy Abrams), Keynote talk for Neutrino Day celebration, Lead, SD, July 12

 

Supercomputing the Universe, Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society, Walnut Creek, CA, June 24

 

The New Universe and the Human Future (with Nancy Abrams), Osher Lifelong Learners meeting, UCSC, April

27

 

GalaxyZoo and the Zooniverse of Citizen Science, Interrogating Methodologies: Exploring Boundaries in Art & Science, UCSB, April 18

 

Simulating Galaxies and the Universe, Interrogating Methodologies: Exploring Boundaries in Art & Science, UCSB, April 18

 

AGORA high-resolution galaxy simulation comparison project, Computational Astrophysics: Approaching Exascale 2014-2020 conference, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, March 22

 

Welcome talk about UC-HiPACC, Computational Astrophysics: Approaching Exascale 2014-2020 conference, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, March 21

 

ΛCDM cosmology: successes, challenges, possible detection of dark matter, opportunities for progress, Astronomy Colloquium, New Mexico State University, March 14

 

ΛCDM cosmology: successes, challenges, and opportunities for progress, Opening Lecture, Dark Matter 2014, UCLA, February 26

 

Tensions in Galaxy Simulations, Near-Field Deep-Field Connections Conference, UC Irvine, February 14

 

2013            Supercomputing the Universe, Physics Colloquium, UCSC, October 31.

 

Cosmic Evolution: A Scientific Creation Myth Like No Other, at California Academy of Sciences, October 12, with David Morrison, Eugenie Scott, Jill Tarter

 

Measuring All the Light Since the Big Bang with Gamma Rays,

       Astronomy Seminar, University of Waterloo, September 18.

 

LCDM Large Scale Triumphs and Small Scale Challenges, Cosmology   Seminar, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, September 17.

 

Supercomputing the Universe, Physics Colloquium, York University,                        

       Toronto, September 16.

 

*Supercomputing the Universe, Exascale Computing in Astrophysics                      

        conference, Ascona, Switzerland, September 8-13.

 

Two Lectures on Modern Cosmology, School on Astroparticle and   Underground Science, Asilomar, September 4.

 

Simulations for CANDELS, CANDELS Team Meeting, University of

       Kentucky, August 27.

 

*The AGORA Project - Introduction and Rationale, Santa Cruz Galaxy

       Workshop and AGORA Workshop, August 16.

 

*Star Formation and Feedback in the AGORA Galaxy Simulation Comparison Project, lecture at the UC-HiPACC International Summer School on Astro-Computing 2013 on Star and Planet Formation, UCSC, July 23.

  History of Dark Matter, Introduction to Cosmology, Simulating the Universe - Lectures at the Institute for the Philosophy of Cosmology,

       UCSC, July 1,2,4. 

       Slides: http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect1-LCDM_History.pdf

         http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect2-Cosmology-Intro.pdf

         http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect3SuperComputing_the_Universe.pdf

         Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUsBZDATBpg

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUsBZDATBpg

       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwjz0s-K6OU

 

*Supercomputing the Universe, Keynote talk, Vail Computer Elements     

        Conference, Vail, Colorado, June 23.

 

*Assembling Galaxies of Resolved Anatomy (AGORA) Simulation

      Comparison Project, Galaxies within the Cosmic Web conference,

       University of Chicago, June 20.

 

*Supercomputing the Universe, Los Alamos National Laboratory PT

       Colloquium, May 9.

 

 Extragalactic Background Light and Gamma-ray Attenuation, Seminar,

      Los Alamos National Laboratory, May 8.

*Art and Science at UC-HiPACC, invited presentation at UC Institute for

      Research in the Arts Conference, UC Riverside, March 21-23.

 

Three Lectures on Challenges of Modern Cosmology, Jerusalem Winter

     School, December 30, 2012 - January 10, 2013.

 

2012              Invited lecture on Extragalactic Background Light, Conference on      Exploring the Non-Thermal Universe with Gamma Rays, Barcelona, November 7

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, lecture at Science and Non-Duality Conference, San Rafael, CA (with Nancy Abrams), October 26

 

Cosmology with CDM and Dark Energy: Large-Scale Triumphs and Small-Scale Challenges, Physics Colloquium, Rutgers U, October 17

 

 The New Universe and the Human Future, lecture at Rutgers University (with Nancy Abrams), October 15

 

 Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium William Eddy Lecture at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT (with Nancy Abrams), October 11

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, lecture at Peking University (with Nancy Abrams), September 18

 

ΛCDM: Recent Simulations and Semi-Analytic Models, Large-Scale Triumphs, and Small-Scale Challenges, Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University, September 14

 

LCDM: Bolshoi Sims, Large Scale Triumphs, and Small Scale Tribulations, National Astronomical Observatory China (NAOC), September 10

 

The Bolshoi Simulations of the Large-Scale Structure and the New High-Resolution Galaxy Simulation Comparison Project, Invited lecture at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China COSMO12 Conference, Beijing, September 10

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, lecture at Shanghai Jiao-Tong  University (with Nancy Abrams), September 7

 

ΛCDM: Large-Scale Triumphs and Small-Scale Challenges, Physics Colloquium, Shanghai Jiao-Tong  University, September 6

 

Keynote Talk: Simulating and Visualizing the Universe, and afternoon talk Exascale IT Requirements in Astronomy, Huawei HCC Conference, Shanghai, China, September 5

 

The Bolshoi Simulations and Semi-Analytic Models Compared with Observations, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, September 4

 

Introduction and Rationale of the Galaxy Simulation Comparison Project, Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop, August 17

 

Modern Cosmology Issues, Philosophy of Cosmology Conference, La Pietra Villa, Florence, Italy, July 24

 

I. Astrocomputing Challenges and Cosmological Visualizations, II. Simulating Galaxies and the Universe, lectures at International Summer School on Astrocomputing, San Diego Supercomputer Center, July 9 & 10

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, lecture at Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA (with Nancy Abrams), May 9

 

Art and Cosmology, Arts Dean’s Lecture Series, UCSC (with Nancy Abrams), April 12

 

ΛCDM: Triumphs and Tribulations, Stanford Astrophysics Colloquium, March 15

 

Keynote Lecture, Simulating Galaxies and the Universe, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 8

 

Consciousness of the Cosmos, Invited Lecture, Sages and Scientists Symposium, La Costa Resort, Carlsbad, CA, March 3

 

ΛCDM: Triumphs and Tribulations, Opening Lecture, UCLA Dark Matter 2012 Conference, Marina Del Rey, CA, February 22

 

2011              The History of Dark Matter, Avishai Dekel 60th Birthday Symposium, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, December 14

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, Symposium on the New Human Story, Esalen Institute (with Nancy Abrams), December 5

 

Simulating and Visualizing the Universe, 2011 Technology Horizons Conference, Cavallo Point, CA, October 27

 

Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Why Is There Anything Conference, Yale University, October 7

 

 The New Universe and the Human Future, Orcas Island, WA (with Nancy Abrams), September 18

 

 The New Universe and the Human Future, Seattle Town Hall, Seattle, WA (with Nancy Abrams), September 14

 

The Bolshoi Simulations and Their Implications, Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop, August 12

 

 The Bolshoi Cosmological Simulations and Their Implications, Galaxy Formation Conference, Durham University, England, July 18

 

Radiation Fields in the Universe: Extragalactic Background Light and Gamma-ray Attenuation, Dublin School on High-Energy Astrophysics, Dublin College, Ireland, July 14

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL (with Nancy Abrams), July 8

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, Bookshop Santa Cruz, CA (with Nancy Abrams), July 5

 

Dark Matter Cosmology, Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics Conference, Asilomar, CA, April 23

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, Benjamin Dean Lecture, California Academy of Sciences, San

Francisco (with Nancy Abrams), April 4

 

Science and Religion: Conflict or Concord – Jewish Perspective, Jain Temple, Milpetas, CA, March 26

 

The New Universe and the Human Future, Contra Costa Jewish Community Center (with Nancy Abrams), January 18

 

Simulating and Visualizing the Universe, CANDELS Meeting, STScI, Baltimore, MD, February 3

 

2010                Invited Plenary Lecture, Extragalactic Background Light and Gamma-ray Attenuation, 25th Anniversary Texas Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, December 6-10.

 

                        Simulating and Visualizing the Universe, Astronomy Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, October 22.

 

                        Simulating and Visualizing the Universe, BINRDI Seminar (with Nina McCurdy and Chris Henze), Advanced Studies Laboratories, NASA Ames Research Center, September 20.

 

                        Astrophysics with the Bolshoi Simulation, Opening Lecture, Santa Cruz Galaxy Workshop, August 16.

                        Cosmology and UC-HIPACC, Lecture at AstroComputing School, UCSC, July 26.

 

                        Lecture, Cosmology with Supercomputers, for NASA High End Computing Study, NASA Ames Research Center, June 29.

          

                        TV Interview by Mary Evelyn Tucker for Journey of the Universe project, June 19.

                        Informal lecture, Movie Industry Salon, Burton Chase Park, Marina del Rey, CA (with Nancy Abrams), April 18.

 

                        The Cosmic Context for the Human Future, Multimedia Keynote Lecture for In2Thinking Network 2010 Forum, Rocketdyne Leadership & Learning Center, Woodland Hills, CA (with Nancy Abrams), April 16.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Extragalactic Background Light with Gamma Ray Bursts and Blazars, The View from 5 AU conference, UC Irvine, March 25.

 

                        Invited Opening Lecture, Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe, Marina del Rey, CA, February 24.

 

2009                Invited Lecture on University of California AstroComputing Institute, Supercomputer Simulations, and Using GPUs for Computation, SLAC Conference on Computational Astrophysics, November 30.

 

                        Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, Yale University, Cosmic Society: The New Universe and the Human Future (four lectures during two weeks, with Nancy Abrams), October 20, 21, 27, 28.

 

                        Astronomy Colloquium, A Brief History of Dark Matter, Yale University, October 22.

 

                        Multimedia Lecture, A Cosmic View of the Human Future, All Souls Unitarian Church, Manhattan (with Nancy Abrams), October 15

.

                        Multimedia Lecture, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (with Nancy Abrams), August 25.

 

                        Multimedia Keynote Lecture, Metanexus Conference on Cosmos, Nature, and Culture, Phoenix, AZ (with Nancy Abrams), July 19.

 

                        Lecture, A Brief History of Dark Matter, Keck Institute for Space Sciences Dark Matter Workshop, Caltech, July 13.

 

                        Participation in two panel discussions, Legacy of Galileo Public Symposium, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, June 18-19.

 

                        Cosmological Supercomputer Simulation and Visualization, Astro-Viz 2009 Conference, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, May 7.

 

                        Lectures on Galaxies and Dark Matter at Annual School on Astronomy, National Observatory of Brazil, Rio de Janiero, October 27, 28, 30, 31.

 

                        Book Group Lecture, Bookshop Santa Cruz (with Nancy Abrams), April 23.

 

                        Multimedia Lecture on Cosmology, Sons in Retirement, Portuguese Hall, Santa Cruz, April 1.

 

2008              Banquet Lecture, U.S. Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL (with Nancy Abrams), December 4.

 

                        Multimedia Lecture, Chicago Humanities Festival (with Nancy Abrams), November 8.

 

                        Multimedia Lecture, Staerkel Planetarium, Champaign, IL (with Nancy Abrams), November 6.

 

                        Lecture, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (with Nancy Abrams), November 5.

 

                        Multimedia Lecture on Cosmology at National Observatory of Brazil, Rio de Janiero (with Nancy Abrams), October 31.

 

                        Lectures on Galaxies and Dark Matter at Annual School on Astronomy, National Observatory of Brazil, Rio de Janiero, October 27, 28, 30, 31.

 

                        Multimedia Lecture on Cosmology at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, with simultaneous Portuguese translation (with Nancy Abrams), October 29.

 

                        Multimedia Lecture on Cosmology at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago (with Nancy Abrams), October 15.

 

                        Opening Plenary Lecture; Joint Closing Lecture (with Nancy Abrams), Cosmology Across Cultures Conference, Granada, Spain, September 8-12.

 

                        Lectures, Public conference in Oslo to launch the Norwegian edition of View from the Center of the Universe (with Nancy Abrams), Oslo, Norway, September 5-6.

 

                        The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos, public lecture at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 22.    

                                           Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Bb4sMMn18

 

                        The Public Lecture of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society, May Hall, St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO (with Nancy Abrams), April 14.

 

                        Public Lecture in The Center for Science and Spirituality Distinguished Lecture Series, “What it Means to be Human: Science, Consciousness and Our Place in the Universe," (with Nancy Abrams), March 27.

 

                        Public Lecture, sponsored by Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, Ohio State University (with Nancy Abrams), March 24.

 

                        Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture, Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA (with Nancy Abrams), January 23.

 

                        Luau Evening Lecture, Evolutionary Epic Conference, Makaha Resort, Oahu, Hawaii (with Nancy Abrams), January 6.

                       

2007                Teaching about cosmology at inner city high school YELLAW program, Oakland, CA (with Nancy Abrams), December 16 and 18.

 

                        Banquet Lecture, American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, November 14.

 

                        Public Lecture, State University of New York, Geneseo, NY (with Nancy Abrams), October 18.

 

                        Lecture for Core Course, University of California, Merced (with Nancy Abrams), September 21.

 

                        Public Lecture, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada (with Nancy Abrams), September 13.

 

                        Public Lecture, Science North, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (with Nancy Abrams), September 10.

 

                        Colloquium, Santa Fe Institute (with Nancy Abrams), July 19.

 

                        Keynote Lecture, International Society for the Study of Time Conference, Asilomar (with Nancy Abrams), July 19.

 

                        Public Lecture, St. Johns College, Santa Fe, NM (with Nancy Abrams), July 17.

 

                        J. Robert Oppenheimber Memorial Lecture, Los Alamos, NM, July 16.

 

                        Invited Lecture, The Future of the Universe May Depend on Us, The Future of Intelligence in the Cosmos workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, June 30.

 

                        Keynote Lecture, Epic and Futures Mini-Conference, The Presidio, San Francisco (with Nancy Abrams), June 16.

 

                        Public Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (with Nancy Abrams), April 15.

 

                        Public Lecture, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, Ann Arbor, MI (with Nancy Abrams), April 9.

 

                        Public Lecture, Princeton Club of Northern California, San Francisco (with Nancy Abrams), March 1.  

      

                        Lecture, Feast of Jewish Learning, Temple Beth Am, Los Altos (with Nancy Abrams), January 27.

 

Public  Lecture, University of Texas, Austin (with Nancy Abrams), January 26. 

                                           

2006                Sigma Xi and Teilhard Society Lecture, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (with Nancy Abrams), November 17.

 

                        What Physicists Do Colloquium, Sonoma State University (with Nancy Abrams), November 13.

 

                        Lecture on Cosmology, Advanced Imaging Conference, San Jose, November 11.

 

                        Public Lecture on Cosmology, Cambridge University (with Nancy Abrams), October 18.

 

                        Public Lecture on Cosmology, Institute for Advanced Studied, Dublin (with Nancy Abrams), October 16.

 

                        Public Lecture on Cosmology, Miller’s Academy, London (with Nancy Abrams), October 12.

 

                        Public Lecture on Cosmology, Oxford University (with Nancy Abrams), October 11.

 

                        Public Lecture on Cosmology, Queen Mary University of London (with Nancy Abrams), October 10.

 

                        Public Lecture on Cosmology, University College, London (with Nancy Abrams), October 9.

 

                        Congregation Etz Chayim Yom Kippur presentation and study group (with Nancy Abrams), Palo Alto, CA, October 2.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Google NYC (with Nancy Abrams), August 25.

 

                        Closing summary lecture, UCSC Workshop on Galaxy Formation, August 10.

 

                        Invited lecture, IEEE Conference on Space Mission Challenges, Pasadena Conference Center, “Supercomputing for Cosmology,” July 18.

 

                        Keynote Lecture, Evolutionary Salon on Transformational Philanthropy, Gold Lake Mountain Resort, Colorado, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), June 25.

 

                        Opening Lecture, conference at UC Irvine on Complementarity Between Dark Matter Searches and Collider Experiments, “Dark Matter: What Do We Know from Cosmology?” June 10, and invited talk, “Gamma Rays from Galactic Center,” and Closing Panel Discussion on “Cosmology 2010-2020” June 11.

 

                        Lecture, Metanexus Conference on Continuity and Change, University of Pennsylvania, “World Views in Cosmology,” June 4, and Keynote Lecture “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), June 6.

 

                        Public lecture, Princeton University, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), June 2 (during Reunion festivities, attended especially by my 1966 classmates and their families).

 

                        Public lecture, Rittenhouse Astronomical Society, at Franklin Institute Fels Planetarium, Philadelphia, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), May 31.

 

                        Radio interview by Alan Cheuse for NPR “All Things Considered” announcement that The View from the Center of the Universe is one of their ten summer 2006 reading selections (with Nancy Abrams), May 31.

 

                        Live 40 minute radio interview by Leonard Lopate on WNYC-FM (NPR) (with Nancy Abrams), May 19.

 

                        Invited lecture, Sackler Black Hole Conference, Harvard University, “Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and AGN,” May 17.

 

                        Public lecture and booksigning, Harvard Observatory, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), May 16.

 

                        TV interview by Smoki Bacon and Dick Concannon, “The Literati Scene,”

                              BNNTV Boston (with Nancy Abrams), May 16.

 

                        TV interview by Barry Kibrick (with Nancy Abrams) for “Between the Lines” half-hour show, at KLCS-TV Los Angeles (also subsequently broadcast on many other PBS-TV stations), May 12.

 

                        Radio interview (with Nancy Abrams) on Wisconsin PBS nationally syndicated radio program “To the Best of Our Knowledge,” at PBS Culver City, CA, studio, May 12.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UC Irvine, “Successes and Potential Problems of LCDM,” May 11.

 

                        Public lecture, UC Irvine, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), May 10.

 

                        Public lecture, UCSC Media Theater, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), May 9.

 

                        Radio interview (with Nancy Abrams) “Focus 580” WILL-FM (NPR) Urbana, IL, May 9.

 

                        Booksigning, Bookshop Santa Cruz, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), May 8.

 

                        Radio interview by Seth Shostak (with Nancy Abrams) for “Are We Alone?” program on SETI Institute/Discovery Radio Channel, May 8.

 

                        Meet with faculty and students to discuss research, UC Berkeley, May 5.

 

                        Astrophysics seminar, UC Davis, “Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and Active Galactic Nuclei,” May 4.

 

                        Public lecture, University of California, Davis, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), May 3.

 

                        Live radio interview (with Nancy Abrams), “Insight,” KXJZ-FM (NPR), Sacramento, May 3.

 

                        Sackler Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), May 2.

 

                        Astrophysics seminar, UC Berkeley, “Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and Active Galactic Nuclei,” May 2.

 

                        Public lecture, Field Museum, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 29.

 

                        Booksigning, Transitions Books, Chicago, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 28.

 

                        Seminar, Kavli Institute of Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago, “Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and Active Galactic Nuclei,” Apr. 28.

 

                        Radio interview (with Nancy Abrams) with Jerry Kay for “ENN Radio” (environmental news network), Apr. 28.

 

                        Live two hour radio interview (with Nancy Abrams) with Milt Rosenberg, Extension 720, WGN, Chicago, Apr. 27.

 

                        Public Lectures, California Academy of Sciences Boardroom, San Francisco, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 25.

 

                        Radio interview (with Nancy Abrams) “Berkeley Grocks,” KALX-FM, Berkeley, Apr. 25.

 

                        Radio interview (with Nancy Abrams) with Moira Gunn, NPR “Technation” program, KQED, Apr. 25.

 

                        Invited lecture, “Evolution of the Universe,” American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Apr. 24.

 

                        Radio interview (with Nancy Abrams) with Bill Thompson for Metro Source Network “Eye on Books” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 21.

 

                        Photoshoot at National Air and Space Museum for Smithsonian magazine, Apr. 21.

 

                        Lecture and booksigning, Princeton Alumni of DC, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 20.

 

                        Treasury Executive Seminar and booksigning, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 20.

 

                        Booksigning, Border’s, Vienna, VA, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 19.

 

                        Seattle Science Lecture, Seattle Town Hall, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 18.

 

                        Radio interviews, KMPS-FM, KUOW-FM (NPR), KBSG-AM, Seattle, Apr. 18.

 

                        Booksigning, Powell’s Books, Portland, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 17.

 

                        Seminar, Reed College, “Galaxy Collisions,” and Colloquium, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 17.

 

                        Booksigning, Cody’s Books, Berkeley, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 14.

 

                        Frontiers of Science Lecture, University of Utah, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 12.

 

                        Radio interview, KCPW, Salt Lake City, Apr. 12.

 

                        Booksigning, Capitola BookCafe, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 11.

 

                        Radio interviews, with Michio Kaku for “Explorations in Science” (on WBAI in New York, KPFA in Berkeley, and many other stations) and with John Batchelor for ABC Talk Radio, Apr. 11.

 

                        Public Lecture, Stanford University Physics Department, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 10.

 

                        Institute on Strings, Astrophysics, and Cosmology (ISCAP) seminar, Columbia University, “Galaxy Mergers: Simulations, Observations, and Active Galactic Nuclei,” Apr. 7.

 

                        Public Lecture, Columbia University Observatory, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 6 (publication day).

 

                        UCSC Halliday Lecture, University Inn and Conference Center, “The View from the Center of the Universe” (with Nancy Abrams), Mar. 9.

 

                        Invited talk, Santa Cruz chapter, National Writers Union, at Santa Cruz Public Library, “Writing About Cosmology” (with Nancy Abrams), Mar. 2.

 

                        Invited Opening Lecture, Conference on Sources of Dark Matter and Dark Energy (DM06), Marina del Rey, CA, “Precision Cosmology,” Feb. 12.

 

 

2005                Lecture for UCSC Alumni at NASA Ames Laboratory in conjunction with

                              Inauguration of UCSC Chancellor Denton, “The Composition and

                              Evolution of the Universe,” Oct. 19.     

   

                        Nearly Normal Galaxies in a LCDM Universe -- Conference in Honor of 60th Birthdays of George Blumenthal, Sandy Faber, and me -- Invited Closing Talk, “Cold Dark Matter Comes of Age,” Aug. 12.

 

                        Chair, Forum on Physics and Society Executive Committee meeting, Awards Session and Business Meeting, American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Tampa, Apr. 15-18.

 

                        Invited Closing Summary Talk, Conference on Dynamics of Galaxies: Baryons and Dark Matter, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Mar. 13.

 

2004                Interview, Columbia radio CARACOL, Dec. 18.

 

                        Invited Opening Lecture, symposium on The Big Bang to You and Me,

                              American Geophysical Society annual meeting, San Francisco,

                              “The Origin, Evolution, and Composition of the Universe,” Dec. 16.

     

                        NPR “All Things Considered” interview by David Kestenbaum on American Physical Society report on NASA Moon-Mars program, Nov. 19.

 

                        Invited Lecture/Colloquium, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics,

                              Santa Barbara, program on Galaxy-Intergalactic Medium Interactions,

                              “Galaxy Mergers: New Insights from New Simulations,” Nov. 4.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Brown University, “Galaxies and Gamma-Ray Cosmology,” Oct. 18.

 

                        Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, Canada, Colloquium:

                              “Gamma Ray Cosmology,” Seminar: “Galaxy Mergers,” Public Lecture: “Cosmology and 21st Century Culture,” Sept. 21-23.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Conference on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy,

                              Heidelberg, Germany, “Gamma-Ray Cosmology,” July 27.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Pasadena Conference Center, From Spitzer to Herschel and Beyond: The Future of Far-IR Space Astrophysics conference,

                              “Predictions from Galaxy Modeling,” June 8.

 

                        Invited Remarks and Panel Chair, 30th Anniversary Celebration of AAAS

                              Congressional Fellowship Program, Carnegie Institution of Washington, May 14.

 

                        Temple Beth El, Aptos, Panel Discussion with Scientists, Apr. 26.

 

                        UCSC SCIPP seminar, ``Writing About Physics,'' Apr. 5.

 

                        UCSC Friday Lunch Astronomy Seminar Hour, ``The Status of Cosmology,'' Feb. 13.

 

                        Opening Lecture (and two other lectures), Jerusalem Winter School on the Origin of Galaxies, Dec. 29. 

                                                                                                                   

                        DEEP meeting, lecture on Galaxy Interactions, Dec. 17.

 

                        Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) Colloquium, “Cosmology and Dark Matter,” Nov. 19.

 

                        Carmel Valley Rotary Club, “State of the Universe Report,” Dec. 9.

 

                        Institute on Geophysics and Planetary Physics Colloquium, LLNL, “Probing Galaxy Formation with Gamma Rays,” Dec. 5.

 

 Invited Public Lecture (with Nancy Abrams), Seattle Pacific University,“Cosmology and 21st Century Culture,” Dec. 1 (also met with groups of faculty and students Dec 1-2).

 

                        University of Washington Physics colloquium, “Probing Galaxy Formation with Gamma Rays,” Dec. 1 (also met with cosmology group Dec. 2).

 

                     Invited Lectures on “Dark Matter Halo Shapes: Simulations, Analytic  Models, and Observational Implications,” and “A Non-Parametric Approach to Galaxy Morphological Classification,” Banff Workshop on Galaxy Formation: A Herculean Challenge, Nov. 1-6.

 

                        Invited Presenter and Session Chairman, Kavli Institute Kickoff Meeting, SLAC, Oct. 18.

 

                        Invited Keynote Speaker, “Status of Cosmology,” Institute on Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (INPAC) meeting, UCSD, Oct. 3.

 

                        Cosmology Seminar, Harvard  Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, “Faint End of the Luminosity Function,” Aug. 26.

 

                        Session Moderator and Summarizer, “How serious are the problems faced by Cold Dark Matter?  Central density cusps, thin disks and dark halo substructure,” International Astronomical Union Symposium 220, Dark Matter in Galaxies, Sydney, Australia, July 22.

 

                        Invited Review Lecture, “The Origin and Distribution of Angular Momentum in Galaxies,” International Astronomical Union Symposium 220, Dark Matter in Galaxies, Sydney, Australia, July 24.

 

                        Invited lecturer and organizer, Workshop on Galaxy Formation, Institute for Advanced Studies of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, June 8-21.

 

                        Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, “Galaxy Formation and the Faint End of the Luminosity Function,” June 3.

 

Invited Review Lecture on “Galaxy Formation and the Faint End of the Luminosity Function,”Conference on Satellites and Tidal Streams, La Palma, Canary Islands, May 25-31.

 

                        Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, “Galaxy Formation,                                           Extragalactic Background Light, and Gamma Ray Absorption,” May 13.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Bonn, Germany, “Galaxy Formation, Extragalactic Background Light, and Gamma Ray Absorption,” May 2.

 

                        Invited Lecture, VERITAS Symposium on TeV Astrophysics, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, “Galaxy Formation, Extragalactic Background Light, and Gamma Ray Absorption,” Apr. 25.

 

                        Lecture for UCSC Student Pugwash Group, “Space Weapons and Space Debris,” Mar 3.

 

                        Seminar, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford, Feb. 11.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Conference on God and Physical Cosmology, Notre Dame University, Jan. 31.

 

2002

                        Invited Closing Panel Speaker, Conference on Challenges to the Standard Paradigm: Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, National Academy of Sciences Beckman Center, UC Irvine, Nov. 3.

 

                        Invited Lecture, COSPAR Conference, Houston, “Probing Galaxy  Formation with Gamma Rays,” Oct. 11.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Space Policy Seminar, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, “Debris and Future Space Activities,” Sept. 12.

 

                        Invited Closing Speaker, Conference on Small-Scale Issues in Dark Matter, University of Chicago, Aug. 2.

 

                        Invited Lecture, New Dimension in Astroparticle Physics Conference, Gran Sasso Laboratory, Italy, “Status of Cold Dark Matter Cosmology,” July 15.

 

                        Invited Public Lecture, Making Light of Gravity Conference, Cambridge University, “Status of Cold Dark Matter,” July 12.

 

                        Invited Public Lecture, Ronald Hoffmann Science Cabaret at Cornelia St. Café (with Nancy Abrams), New York, June 2.

 

                        Seminar, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton, “Debris and Future Space Activities,” May 31.

 

                        Invited Keynote Lecture, Conference on Future Security in Space, New Place (near Southampton, England), “Debris and Future Space Activities,” May 28.

 

                        Astronomy Colloquium, Oxford, “The Nature of Dark Matter,” May. 27

 

                        Public Lecture, New College, Oxford, “Space Debris and Star Wars,” May 27.

 

                        RPM Lecture, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, “Space Debris and Star Wars,” May 23.

 

                        Colloquium, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, “The Nature of Dark Matter,” May 17.

 

                        Colloquium, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, “Nature of Dark Matter,” May 7.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Science and the Quest for Meaning, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, “Star Wars Forever? – A Cosmic Perspective,” Apr. 19.

 

                        Invited Opening Speaker, 5th International UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Marina del Ray, “Status of Cold Dark Matter Cosmology,” Feb. 20.

 

                        Physics Seminar, Caltech, “Probing Galaxy Formation with High Energy Gamma Rays,” Feb. 19.

 

                        IPAC Seminar, Caltech, “Masses and Other Properties of High-Redshift Galaxies,” Feb. 19

 

                        Astronomy Colloquium, University of Texas, Austin, “The Nature of Dark Matter,” Jan. 29

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UCSC,  “The Nature of Dark Matter,” Jan. 3

                       

2001                Invited Speaker, AAAS Public Forum with Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, Washington, DC, Nov. 29.

 

                        Gravity Group Seminar, Princeton Physics Department, “ Masses of LBGs,” Nov. 16.

 

                        Invited Lecture, H.E.S.S. Meeting at Ringberg Castle, “Dark Matter Cosmology,” Nov. 19

 

                        Invited Lecture and Participant in Closing Panel Discussion, ESO Conference on the Mass of Galaxies at Low and High Redshift, Venice, “Lyman Break Galaxy Masses,” Oct. 24-26.

 

                        Theory Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, “Lyman Break Galaxy Masses,” Oct. 23.

 

                        Invited Talk/Concert (with Nancy Abrams), Deutsches-Americkanisheh-Institut Heidelberg, Oct. 17.

 

                        Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, “Lyman Break Galaxy Masses,” Oct. 23.

 

                        Invited Lecturer, International School of Space Science, L’Aquila, Italy, “The Nature of Dark Matter” and “Probing Galaxy Formation with High Energy Gamma Rays,” Oct. 2-4.

 

                        Invited Plenary Lectures on dark matter and gamma ray astronomy, Snowmass workshop on particle astrophysics, July 18.

 

                        Taping for Austrian TV documentary, Apr. 20; interview by Hideki Miyamoto, producer of NHK Japanese TV show on astronomy, May 7.

 

                        BBC Science Radio interview by Molly Bentley, Mar. 30.

 

                        Invited Speaker, Symposium on The Historical Sciences and Their Importance in Public Education at AAAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, “The History of the University,” Feb. 19.

 

                        Participant, Discussion on Cosmology at Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Workshop, Berkley, Jan. 5

                       

2000                Physics Colloquium, Stanford, “State of the Universe Report: Cold Dark Matter and All That,” Nov. 7.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Department of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, “Is Cold Dark Matter in Trouble?” Oct. 27.

 

                        Popular Lecture, Cambridge University, “Science and the Spiritual Imagination” (with Nancy Abrams), Oct. 25.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA, “God and the Big Bang” (with Nancy Abrams), Oct. 25.

 

                        Popular Lecture, Queen Mary College, London, “Science and the Spiritual Imagination” (with Nancy Abrams), Oct. 23.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Queen Mary College, London, “Is Cold Dark Matter in Trouble?” Oct. 23

 

                        Invited Opening Lecture, “Cold Dark Matter Cosmology: Status and Open Questions,” Sept. 4.

 

                        Invited Lecture, World Congress of the Systems Sciences, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, “Can There Be a Reconciliation Between Science and Religion,” July 21.

 

                        Invited Lecturer, Iceland 2000: Faith in the Future Conference, July 6.

 

                        Invited Lecturer, NATO Advanced Study Institute on Recent Developments in Particle Physics and Cosmology, Cascais, Portugal, “Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure: I.  Cosmological Parameters; II.  Cold Dark Matter Cosmology: Status and Open Questions; III.  Probing Galaxy Formation with High Energy Gamma-Rays,” July 3-4.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Gamma2000: Second Heidelberg workshop on High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy, “Probing Galaxy Formation with High Energy Gamma-Rays,” June 27.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Vatican Conference Galaxies Disks and Disk Galaxies, “Evolution of Mass Distribution in CDM Halos,” June 14.

 

                        Colloquium, European Southern Observatory, “The Extragalactic Background Light from UV to Far-IR,” June 8.

                        Invited Lecture, State of the World Forum, NY, “Cosmology and Culture” (with Nancy Abrams), June. 8.

 

                        Colloquium, Potsdam Astrophysics Institute, “Lambda CDM Cosmology Overview: Successes vs. Possible Problems, “ June 7.

 

                        Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, “Parameters and Open Questions of Cosmology,” May 30.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich, “State of the Universe Report,” May 25.

 

                        Colloquium, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England, “The Extragalactic Background Light from Galaxies: Semi-Analytic Calculations vs. Observations from UV to Far-IR,” Apr. 28.

 

                        Seminar, Queen Mary College, London, “The Extragalactic Background Light from Galaxies: Semi-Analytic Calculations vs. Observations from UV to Far-IR,” Apr. 28.

 

                        Invited Lecture, North American Montessori Teachers Association meeting, “The Emerging Universe Perspective and Its Implications” (with Nancy Abrams), Apr. 1.

 

                        Invited talk on galaxy rotation curves, Galaxy Formation Conference at Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, Mar.15.

 

                        Astronomy Seminar, Princeton, Feb. 25.

 

                        Invited Opening Lecture, DM2000: 4th International Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter in the Universe, Marina del Rey, California, “Cosmological Parameters 2000,” Feb. 20.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Western Oregon University, “Cosmology and Culture” (with Nancy Abrams), Jan. 21.

 

                        Invited INPA talk at LBL, “Observational and Theoretical Constraints on Omega matter,” Jan. 17.

 

                        Participant, Discussion on Cosmology at Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Workshop, Berkley, Jan. 15.

                       

1999                Spokesperson, International Advisory Committee for Large Scale Structure, and Lecture, "Measuring Omega‑matter", Conference on Particles, Strings, and Cosmology (PASCOS99), Granlibakken Conference Center, North Lake Tahoe, Dec. 10‑16.

 

                        Lecture on Cosmology at SCIPP Conference for Santa Cruz area high school science teachers, Nov. 13.

 

                        TV interview for "What’s Up with the Universe," documentary for Public Broadcasting System, Oct. 9.

 

                        TV interview for documentary on Astronomy, Shanda Productions (Montreal‑based science documentary producers), Oct. 5.

 

                        Guest Lecture, History 80A, "Origins of the Universe", Sept. 28.

 

                        Forchheimer Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Sept. 10‑20.

 

                        Opening Speaker, "Cosmological Parameters", 6th Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP99), College de France, Paris, Sept. 5.

 

                        Co‑Organizer (with S. Faber), UCSC Summer Workshop on Cosmology and Galaxy Formation, Aug.

                        Opening Speaker and session chair, International Conference on Cosmic Flows, “Status of Cosmological Parameters”, University of Victoria, British Columbia, July 13‑18.

 

                        Participant and session chair, "Hy z Universe" Conference, UC Berkeley, June 21‑24.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Annual Meeting of AAAS Pacific Division, San Francisco State University, "State of the Universe", June 21.

 

                        Co‑Organizer and Opening Speaker, Cosmic Questions Conference, at Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, April 14‑16.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Maryland, "State of the Universe Report", Apr. 13.

 

                        Astronomy Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, "Galaxy Formation and the Nature of High Redshift Galaxies", Apr. 12.        

 

                        Astronomy Seminar, Princeton University, "Probing Galaxy Formation with TeV Gamma Ray Absorption", April 12.

 

                        Talk, "State of the Universe Report", Anritsu Engineering Excellence Forum, Chaminade, April 6.

 

                        Talk, "State of the Universe Report", for Peninsula Astronomical Society, Foothill College, Mar. 12.

 

                        Colloquium, Stanford University Center for Space Science and Astrophysics, "Galaxy Formation and the Nature of High‑Redshift Galaxies", Feb. 24.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Stanford Presidential Symposium on Cosmologies and Worldviews, Feb. 19.

 

                        Astronomy Seminar, "Nature of the Earliest Galaxies", Arizona State University, Feb. 12‑14.

 

                        Invited lecturer and discussant, Shabbaton on Judaism and Science, Arizona State University, Feb. 12‑14.

 

                        UCSC Hillel Lecture Series talk with (Nancy Abrams), "Cosmology and Culture", Feb. 9.

 

                        Lecturer and co‑organizer, "Before the Beginning" symposium AAAS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, Jan. 24.

 

                        Invited Lecture, "Cosmology and Culture", Conference on Science and Judaism, Palais de Luxembourg, Paris, Jan. 16.

 

                        Astronomy Seminar, Inst. d’Astrophysique, Paris, “The Extragalactic Background Light and Implications for TeV Gamma-Ray Absorption,” Jan. 14.

                             

1998                Invited Lecture, "Galaxy Formation and the Nature of High Redshift Galaxies", and member of Scientific Organizing Committee, COSM098 conference, Asilomar, Nov. 15‑20.

 

                  Courant Institute, NYU, Numerical Analysis Seminar, "Cosmological Simulations: Successes, Limitations, Future Directions", Oct. 30.

 

                        Colloquium, Physics Department, NYU, "Possible Role of Neutrinos in Cosmological Structure Formation," Oct. 29

 

                        Seminar, Physics Department, Harvard University, "Possible Role of Neutrinos in Cosmological Structure Formation, Oct. 28.

 

                  Seminar, "Semi‑Analytic Modelling of Galaxy Formation", Harvard‑Smithsonian

                        Center for Astrophysics, Oct. 16.

 

                  Invited Lecture, "Probing Galaxy Formation with TeV Gamma Ray Absorption", and member of Scientific Organizing Committee, VERITAS Workshop on TeV Astrophysics of Extragalactic Sources, Harvard College Observatory, Oct. 23‑24.

 

                  Forchheimer Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Sept. 20-Oct. 22.

 

                  Lecture "Structure Formation in the Universe with Light Neutrinos", Workshop on Relic Neutrinos (RELINCNU98), International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Sept. 17.

 

                  Participant in Grace Cathedral Forum on Science and the Spiritual Quest with RealAudio webcast, San Francisco, Sept. 13.

 

                  Joint Physics‑Computer Science Colloquium, University of San Francisco, "State of the Universe Report", Sept. 10.

 

                  Co‑organizer (with S. Faber), UCSC Workshop on Galaxy Formation and Evolution, August, with conference Aug. 20.

 

                  Invited Lecture: "Is There More to the Universe Than We Observe?" at Wonderfest 98, Stanford University, Aug. 16.

 

                  Galaxy Dynamics meeting at Rutgers, invited speaker with support, Aug. 8‑11; invited lecture: "Formation of Dark Matter Halos"

 

                  Visiting Scientist, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, July 5‑12.

 

                  Invited Lectures, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter After SuperKamiokandae" and "The Star Formation History in a Hierachical Universe". Xth Rencontres De Blois: The Birth of Galaxies, Blois, France, July 3.

 

                  Lecture "Cosmology and Culture", Science and the Spiritual Quest Conference, UC Berkeley, June 8.

 

                  Los Alamos P/T Colloquium, "Status of the Universe", and seminar, "TeV Gamma Ray Absorption", April 30.

 

                  Invited participant and speaker, meeting on Current Problems in Cosmology, New Mexico State University, April 26‑28.

 

                  Astronomy Seminar, Princeton University, "Nature of High Redshift Galaxies", April 23.

 

                  Invited Talk, "TeV Gamma Ray Absorption", in Symposium on High Energy Gamma Ray Probes of Cosmic Particles and Fields, American Physical Society meeting, Columbus, Ohio, April 18.

 

                  Invited lecture at Sources of Dark Matter conference, Santa Monica, "Galaxy Formation with Various Sorts of Dark Matter", Feb. 19.

 

                  Keynote Speaker, Templeton Awards Luncheon, AAAS annual meeting, Philadelphia, Feb. 15.

 

                        Lockheed Martin Colloquium, "Status of Universe", Feb. 5.

                       

1997                Lecturer, Jerusalem Winter School on Cosmology, Dec. 29, 1997-Jan. 7, 1998.

 

                        Participant, Science and the Spiritual Quest Cosmology meeting, Menlo Park, Dec. 12‑15.

 

                        Talk on "Cosmology and Culture", to the UCSC Lifelong Learning Group, Nov. 16.

 

                        Opening Speaker, "Cosmic Origins: Evolution on the Grand Scale", Epic of Evolution Conference, sponsored by AAAS at the Field Museum, Chicago, Nov. 12‑14.

 

                        Seminar, Fermilab, "Galaxy Formation and Evolution", Nov. 11.

 

                        Invited Lecture in Oddessy series at California State University, Long Beach, "Cosmology and Culture", Oct. 28.

 

                        Stanford Physics Colloquium: "Status Report on the Universe", Oct. 14.

 

                        Guest Lecture in UCSC Course, Global History, 80A, Sept. 29.

 

                        Invited Lecture, COSM097 Conference, Lancaster, UK, "Status of Cosmological Parameters", Sept. 15‑19.

 

                        Lecturer, "D. Chalonge" 6th Astrofundamental Physics School, Erice, Italy, Sept. 6‑13.

 

                        International Conference on Computational Physics, UCSC‑Chair, session on "Particles and Astrophysics", Aug. 26.

 

                        Participant, Galaxy Halos Meeting, UCSC, Aug. 11‑15.

 

                        Invited Lecture at Clusters Conference, Ruidoso, New Mexico, May 27 ‑ June 1, "Clusters in CDM‑type Models".

                        Participant, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) on Science and the Spiritual Quest (SSQ) conferences of cosmologists and physicists, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, May 3‑8.

 

                        Lecture on TeV Gamma Rays at Institute on Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics (INPAC) General Meeting at LBL, May 3.

 

                        UCSC representative to UCOP Conference on Physics, LBL, April 4‑5.

 

                        Lecture on Careers in Astrophysics at UCSC careers Conference, Mar. 8.

 

                        Invited Lecture, "The Beginning of Time", symposium on The Nature of Time, American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, Seattle, Feb. 16.

 

                        UCSC Physics Colloquium, "Inflation", Feb 6.

 

Talk at Santa Cruz Mid‑County Exchange Club, "Dark Matter", Jan. 14.

                       

1996                KUSP radio interview by Eric Scheck, Dec. 30.

 

                        Invited Lecture on "Status Report on the Universe" at National Science Teachers Association Global Summit, San Francisco, Dec. 29.

 

 

                        Lecture in Physics 10: "DM in the Universe", Nov. 12.

                        Lecture on "The Origin of the Universe" in UCSC course History 80A "Big History", Fall Quarter.

 

                        Participant in conference on Dark Matter in Astro‑ and Particle Physics, Heidelberg, Sept. 16‑20. Invited Lectures: "Cold + Hot and Other Dark Matter Cosmological Models vs. Observations" and "Current Status of the Cosmological Parameters."

 

                        Invited Lectures, D. Chalonge School on Advances in Astro-Fundamental Physics, Erice, Sicily, “The Cosmological Parameters” and “Dark Matter and Structure Formation: CHDM vs. LCDM,” Sept. 7‑14.

 

                        Lecture, Lick Observatory Music of the Spheres series, "From Smallest to Largest: Connections Across the Universe," July 20 (with Nancy Abrams).

 

                        Invited Lecture, Princeton University 250th Anniversary Conference: Critical Dialogs in Cosmology, "The Best Theory of Cosmic Structure Formation is Cold + Hot Dark Matter (CHDM)," June 26

 

                        XVII International Conference in Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 96), Helsinki, Finland, "Cosmological Structure Formation With and Without Hot Dark Matter," June 18.

 

                        Presentation in Suresh Lodha's course on CyberArt, Porter College, May 13.

 

                        Ylem Forum presentation, Exploratorium, San Francisco, "The New Big Bang: Cultural Repercussions of the Revolution in Cosmology," May 8.

 

                        Colloquium, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, "What is the Dark Matter? A Status Report on Current Cosmology," May 1.

 

                        Invited Lecture, UC System-wide INPAC Meeting, Irvine, "Status of the Cosmological Parameters," Apr. 26.

 

                        Presentation at Temple Shir Hadash, Los Gatos: "Cosmology and Kabbalah," Mar. 16 (with Nancy Abrams).

 

                        Seminar at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, "What is the Recipe for Dark Matter?" Feb. 22.

 

                        Invited Presentation, DOE SAGENAP Meeting, Washington, D.C., "Active Galactic Nuclei as Laboratories for High Energy Physics," Feb. 22.

 

                        Second UCLA Conference on Sources of Dark Matter, Organizing Committee and Invited Lecture, "Dark Matter and Structure Formation: CHDM vs. ACDM," Feb. 15.

 

                        Radio interview about cosmology on Quirks & Quarks, Canadian Broadcasting Co., Jan. 31.

 

                        Radio interview with Justin Warner, AAAS Science Update/Why is it? about the "Big Bang," Jan. 30.

 

                        Seminar speaker and organizer, Workshop on Formation of Structure in the Universe, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Jan. 7‑19.

                       

1995                Jerusalem Winter School on Formation of Structure in the Universe, Lecture series on "Dark Matter and Structure Formation in the Universe" including opening lecture of the school, Dec. 27, 1995 ‑ Jan. 5, 1996.

 

                        Astronomy Seminar, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, "Low‑Omega CDM with a Cosmological Constant: Too Much Small Scale Power," Nov. 14.

 

                        Science Table, Crown College, "Cosmology and Culture" (with Nancy Abrams), Oct. 18.

 

                        Lecture at Temple Kol Shofar, Tiburon: "The New Big Bang: Cultural Repercussions of the Revolution in Cosmology" (with Nancy Abrams), Oct. 7.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Arizona, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter and Other Theories of Cosmic Structure Formation," Sept. 18.

 

                        Lecture Series, European Community Theoretical Astroparticle Network (TAN) Summer School and Workshop in Astroparticle Physics, Vigso, Jutland, Denmark, "Dark Matter," Aug. 14‑19.

 

                        Invited Plenary Lecture, 14th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR14), Florence, Italy, "Dark Matter, Observation & Theory," Aug. 9

 

                        Co‑Director, Italian Physics Society "Enrico Fermi" School on Dark Matter, Varenna, Italy, July 24‑Aug. 5; Opening Lecture: "Status of Cosmological Parameters: Can W=1?" July 25; Lecture: "Improved Ways of Comparing Simulations to Data," Aug. 2.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Perugia, Italy, "Cold + Dark Matter, July 19.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Milan, Italy, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter," July 10.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Workshop on Science and Religion Courses, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley: "Modern Cosmology and Medieval Jewish Mysticism."

                        Invited Plenary Lecture, International Symposium on Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclei (WEIN'95), Osaka, "Neutrinos as Dark Matter," June 13.

 

                        Interview and filming session, Australian Broadcasting Corp., QUANTUM Science TV news program, with grad students Romeel Dave, Michael Gross, and Rachel Somerville, and collaborators Nancy Abrams and Richard Nolthenius, UCSC, May 11.

 

                        Invited Lecture, UCLA workshop on neutrinos, "Status of Cold + Hot Dark Matter, May 12.

 

                        Lecture, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, "The New Big Bang: Cultural Repercussions of the Revolution in Cosmology," April 25 (with Nancy Abrams).

 

                        CfPA Seminar, UC Berkeley, "Testing Cold + Dark Matter (CHDM) and Flat Low‑92 CDM (ACDM): New Statistics and New Methods," April 25

.

                        Colloquium, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter" (with video), April 11.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Moriond Astrophysics Meeting, Les Arcs, French Alps, "Better Methods for Comparing Simulations to Data" (with video), Mar. 16.

 

                        Colloquium, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, "Cosmological Implications of Light Neutrinos: Cold + Hot Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure" (with video), Mar. 10.

 

                        Astroparticle Seminar, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, "Hot Dark Matter Candidates?," Mar. 10.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, CMB workshop, "Status of Cold + Hot Dark Matter Cosmologies," Feb. 23.

 

                        Lecture, Santa Cruz Astronomy Club, "What is the Dark Matter: Status Report on Current Cosmology," Feb. 16.

 

                        Invited talk, Aspen Winter Conference on Particle Physics, "Status of Hot/Cold Dark Matter," Jan. 6.

                       

1994                NASA Ames Space Science Division Seminar, "Status Report on the Universe: Visualizing Large Scale Structure and Dark Matter," Nov. 29.

 

                        Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, Fermilab, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter," (with video), Oct. 25.

 

                        Lecture, Chicago Center for Religion and Science, "The New Big Bang: Cultural Repercussions of the Revolution in Cosmology" (with Nancy Abrams), Oct. 24.

 

                        Astronomy Seminar, University of Michigan, "How Can Ω(1h‑1Mpc)=0.2 in Simulations?", Oct. 21.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Michigan, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter, Oct. 19.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Conference on TeV Gamma‑Ray Astronomy, Heidelberg, "Probing the Era of Galaxy Formation via TeV gamma Ray Absorption by the Near Infrared Extragalactic Background," Oct. 7.

 

                        Astronomy Colloquium, UC Berkeley, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter, Oct. 1

 

                        Invited Lecture, Nobel Symposium on Trends in Astroparticle Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter," Sept. 24.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Racah Institute, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, "Implications of Possible Discovery of Neutrino Mass," Sept. 24.

 

                        Lecturer, SLAC Summer Institute: three Lectures on " Dark Matter and Large‑Scale Structure, " Aug. 10‑ 12.

 

                        Chairman, Sessions on Cosmology, American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields Annual Meeting, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; Introductory Talk, "Status of Cosmological Parameters," August 5.

 

                        Invited Plenary Lecture, Snowmass Workshop on Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Cosmology in the Next Millenium, "Status of the Cosmological Parameters," July 16.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Meeting on Jewish Philosophy of the Natural World, Pawling, NY, "Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah," May 22.

 

                        Astronomy Colloquium, UCLA, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter, April 12.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, San Francisco State University, "Cosmology after COBE," March 14.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Explorer Scout Science and Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, "Cosmology," March 5.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Missouri, St. Louis, "Cosmology with Cold + Hot (Neutrino) Dark Matter, March 3.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Ohio State University, "Cosmology with Cold + Hot (Neutrino) Dark Matter," March 1.

 

                        Invited Lecture, AAAS Annual Meeting, "Cosmology and Culture, Feb. 23.

 

                        Invited Lecture, CfpA Conference on Low Background Detectors, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter" (with video), Feb. 21.

 

                        Invited Lecture, UCLA Conference on Sources of Dark Matter, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter" (with video), Feb. 17.

 

                        Space Sciences Seminar, UC San Diego, "Cosmology with Cold + Dark Matter" (with video), Feb. 15.

 

                        Astronomy Colloquium, New Mexico State University, "Cold + Hot Dark Matter" (with video), Jan. 24.

                             

1993                UCSC Physics Colloquium: "Cosmology with Cold + Hot (Neutrino) Dark Matter", Dec. 2.

 

                        Lecture at end of Shabbat service, Temple Beth‑El, Santa Cruz: "The Religious Significance of Big Bang Cosmology" (with Nancy Abrams), Nov. 12.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Stanford University: "Cosmology After COBE: Cold + Hot Dark Matter and Alternatives", Oct. 12.

 

                        Colloquium, Istituto Astrofisica Andalusia, Granada, Spain: "Extended Spiral Galaxy Rotation Curves: Theory and Data", Oct. 8.

 

                        Invited Lecture and Seminar at International School on Cosmological Dark Matter, Valencia: "Structure Fon‑nation in the Universe," "Cold + Hot Dark Matter and Alternatives", Oct. 5.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Universita Autonoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain: "Cosmology with Cold + Hot (Neutrino) Dark Matter", Oct. 4.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Exploring the Universe lecture series, Morrison Planetarium, San Francisco: "Dark Matter and the Origin and Fate of the Universe" (with Nancy Abrams), Sept. 28.

 

                        Heinz Pagels Memorial Lecture, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies: "Cosmology and Culture: Implications of Recent Cosmological Discoveries" (with Nancy Abrams), Aug. 25.

 

                        Senior Participant, Workshop on Cosmology, Aspen Center for Physics; Lecture and video presentation, Aug. 25: "Cold + Hot Dark Matter", Aug. 16‑27.

 

                        Organizer, UCSC Workshop on Cold + Hot Dark Matter, July 27.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Oregon: "Cosmology After COBE: Cold + Hot Dark Matter and Alternatives, April 15.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Symposium on the Religious Significance of Big‑Bang Cosmology, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston: "Quantum Cosmology, Eternal Inflation, and God", Feb. 14.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, MIT: "Cosmology After COBE: Cole + Hot Dark Matter and Alternatives, Feb. 11.

 

                        Lecture Series, BCSPIN International School on Particles and Cosmology, Puri, India: "Dark Matter, Galaxies, and Large Scale Structure in the Universe", Jan. 2‑8.

                       

1992                Invited Lecture at the Inauguration of the Inter‑University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India: "Cold + Hot Dark Matter", Dec. 27.

 

                        Invited Opening Lecture, X DAE Symposium on High Energy Physics, Tata Institute, Bombay, India: "Cosmology After COBE: Review for High Energy Physicists", Dec. 26.

 

                        Colloquium, IBM Almaden Research Center: "The Early Universe ‑‑‑ A Status Report", Oct. 30.

 

                        Colloquium at Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena: "Cosmology After COBE.

                        Physics Colloquium at Centre d'Etudes Nuclearires de Saclay, France: "Cosmology After COBE", July 30.

 

                        IV Recontre de Blois (Chateau de Blois, France): Invited Conference Summary Lecture, June 20.

 

                        IV Recontre de Blois Seminar: "Cluster Correlations Favor Cold plus Hot Dark Matter", June 19.

 

                        UCSC Physics Colloquium: "Cosmology After COBE", May 21.

 

                        SLAC Theoretical Physics Seminar: "Cosmology After COBE", May 20.

 

                        Invited lecture, 2nd UCLA Conference on High Energy Neutrino and Gamma Ray Cosmology: "Cluster Correlations in Hot + Cold Dark Matter and Other Models", Feb. 13.

                       

1991                University of Florida Physics Seminar: "Cosmology After COBE", Dec. 10.

 

                        Sonoma State University "What Physicists Do" Colloquium: "The Beginning and End of Time" (videotaped and also shown at Chico State, etc.) March 25.

 

1990                UCSC Physics Colloquium: "Dark Matter: WIMPs and MACHOs" October 18.

 

                        CfPA Seminar, UC Berkeley: "Large‑Scale Periodicity: Is There Anything to It" September 18.

 

                        Kyoto University Astrophysics Seminar: "Periodicity of Large Scale Structure?" September 11.

 

                        Tokyo IUPAP Conference on Primordial Nucleo‑synthesis and the Evolution of the Early Universe: invited talk on "Non‑Zeldovich Fluctuations from Inflation" September 6.

 

                        Oxford Conference on Galaxies at High Redshift: Invited talk on "The Formation of Galactic Disks" August 2.

 

                        Oxford University Physics Seminar: "Search for Dark Matter" July 27.

 

                        Durham University Astrophysics Seminar: "Models for Periodicity of the Galaxy Distribution" July 12.

 

                        Durham University Physics Colloquium: "Search for Dark Matter" July 11.

 

                        Conference on Large Scale Structure in the Universe, Institute for Advanced Studies of Hebrew University: invited talk on "Periodicity of Large Scale Structure" and concluding talk on "Status of Cold Dark Matter" June 4‑8.

 

                        Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem: popular talk "Beginning and End of Time" July 4

 

                        Hebrew University Institute for Advanced Studies seminar on "Non‑Gaussian Fluctuations" May 17.

 

                        Tel Aviv University Physics and Astrophysics Seminar: "Dark matter detection: Searching for MACHOs and WIMPs" May 10.

 

                        Hebrew University Physics Seminar: "Searching for MACHOs" May 1

 

                        Co‑organizer, CfPA Workshop on Baryonic Dark Matter, UC Berkeley, March 26.

 

                        WNYC Radio interview on current cosmological controversies, February 14.

 

                        Lecture in UCLA Extension course on Time: "The Beginning and End of Time" January 30.

                       

1989                Conference on Low‑Background Detectors and Signatures of Dark Matter, UC Berkeley: opening speaker, December 11‑ 14.

 

                        CfPA Conference on Signatures of Dark Matter: Opening talk on "Detection of particle dark matter" December 13.

 

                        CfPA Seminar, UC Berkeley: "What Can We Learn from Cluster Correlations?" September 26.

 

                        UC Berkeley, Center for Particle Astrophysics seminar: "What Can We Learn from Cluster Correlations", September 26.

 

                        Watsonville Rotary Club meeting, Watsonville Elks' Club Lodge, talk on

                              Space Reactor Arms Control, August 16.

 

                        Rio conference, session introduction: "Motivations for Studying Nonstandard Fluctuations from Inflation", May 25.

 

                        Conference on Large Scale Structure and Streaming Motions in the Universe, Hotel Copacabana Palace, Rio de Janeiro, invited talk: "Cluster Correlations", May 24.

 

                        Israel Physical Society Annual Meeting, Plenary Talk, Bar Ilan University: "Dark Matter Detection", April 17.

 

                        Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel, Physics Colloquium:   "Dark Matter Detection", April 13

 

Physics Colloquium, UCSB: "Space Reactors, Gamma‑Ray Astronomy, and SDI Arms Control", March 14 

                     

                        Peninsula Astronomical Society, Foothill College, popular talk on dark matter, January 13

                       

1988                Invited talk, Conference on Cosmology and Particle Physics, UC Berkeley: "Cluster Correlations", December 9   

  

                        Workshop on Cosmology and Quantum Gravity, NSF Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB; talk, November 28: "Cluster‑Cluster Correlations",

                        UCLA conference, talk: "Orbiting Reactors: Signals and Backgrounds" November 4

 

                        Conference on High‑Resolution Gamma Ray Cosmology, UCLA, invited talk: "Dark Matter Detection: Overview", November 2

 

Physics Colloquium, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: "Dark Matter", October 30.

 

Observatory, Toravere, Estonia, colloquium: "Dark Matter and Large Scale Structure in the Universe", September 21.

 

                        Soviet Space Research Institute (IKI), colloquium: "Dark Matter Detection", September 14.

 

                        Steinberg Institute, Moscow State University, cosmology colloquium:

                              "Cluster‑Cluster Correlations", September 12.

 

                        Aspen Center for Physics, cosmology workshop, seminar: "Status of the                  

                              Cosmological Constant Problem", June 17.

 

                        UCSC Physics Colloquium: "Proposed Ban on Reactors in Orbit", June 2.

 

                        Crown College Science Table: "What is the Universe Mostly Made Of?",

                              January 27.

 

1987                Santa Cruz Astronomy Club monthly meeting, popular talk on cosmology

                              and dark matter, November 19.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins University: "Dark Matter and Cosmology", November 6.

 

                        Invited lecture, American Physical Society Washington Meeting, Symposium

                              on The Early Universe: "Cold Dark Matter, Galaxy Formation, and Large

                              Scale Structure", April 21.

 

                        Invited lecture, American Association for the Advancement of Science

Annual Meeting, Chicago, Symposium on Particle Physics and Cosmology:"What Formed the Galaxies and the Immense Galaxy Clusters and Voids?"; also several radio interviews (BBC, DBC, etc.), February 16.

 

Fermilab Astrophysics Group seminar: "Cold Dark Matter, Galaxy Formation, and Large Scale Structure", February 13.

 

                        UCLA Extension course on The Origin and Evolution of the Universe, popular lecture on "The Early Universe and the Role of Dark Matter", January 22

 

                        Caltech, Physics seminar on dark matter, January 26.

                       

1986                Co‑organizer, Santa Cruz Astrophysics Workshop on Nearly Normal Galaxies, July 21 ‑ August 1.

 

                        Director, 3d Theoretical Advanced Study Institute on Elementary Particle Physics (TASI‑86), UCSC, June 23 ‑ July 18.

 

                        Seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Particle Candidates for Dark Matter in Galaxy Halos, and the Latest News on WIMPs", April 30.

 

                        Seminar, Very Large Array, Socorro, New Mexico, on Dark Matter and Galaxies, April 29.

 

                        Invited review lecture, 2nd ESO/CERN Symposium on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, Garching bei Munchen, "Particle Dark Matter",

                              March 19.

 

                        Seminar, Stanford Physics Department, "Cosmic Strings", February 18

 

                        Lecture in UCLA Extension Course on Challenging Scientific Problems, on Dark Matter and the Structure of the Universe, February 8

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UCSC, "Omega, Dark Matter, and Modem Cosmology", January 30.

 

                        Invited talk, Conference on Galaxy Distances and Deviations from Universal

                        Expansion, Kona, Hawaii, "Dark Matter, Cosmic Strings, and Large Scale Structure", January 15.

 

     

1985                Participant, Workshop on Dark Matter, Aspen Center for Physics, August 6‑24; invited introductory lecture for the workshop jointly with George Blumenthal), August 7; informal seminar on supersymmetry and WIMPs

                        Participant, International Astronomical Union Symposium 117, Dark Matter in the Universe", Princeton University, June 24‑28.

 

                        Popular lecture for UCSC Affiliates, Santa Cruz Library, "Changing Views of the Cosmos", April 2.

 

                        Participant, Dark Matter Workshop, Berkeley, March 28‑29.

 

                        Physics Seminar, University of Washington, "Cold Dark Matter and the Origin of Galaxies", March 20.

                       

1984                Physics Seminar, Brandeis, Cold Dark Matter and the Origin of Galaxies,

                              November 12.

 

                        Talk at AAPT of Northern California meeting, UCSC, on Computer Simulations for Teaching Relativity, November 3.

 

                        Four Lectures, Enrico Fermi Summer School, Varenna, Italy, "Galaxies and Large Scale Structures for Particle Physicists," June 26‑July 3.

 

                        Invited Talk, Johns Hopkins Workshop on Particles and Gravity, Baltimore, "Galaxy and Cluster Formation in a Universe Dominated by Cold Dark Matter," June 20.

 

                        Invited Talk, Workshop on Early Universe, NSF‑ITP, Santa Barbara, "Can Statistics Explain Dressler's Correlation between Galaxy Morphology and Number Density?" June 13.

 

                        Inaugural Lecture, UCSC, "Microphysics and the Macrouniverse, " May 10.

 

                        Theoretical Physics Seminar, Los Alamos National Lab., "Galaxy and Large Scale Structure in a Cold Dark Matter Universe," March 25.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, San Francisco State University, "Dark Matter and the Origin of Galaxies, Clusters and Voids," March 19.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, NSF‑ITP, "Galaxy and Large Scale Structure in a Cold Dark Matter Universe," March 7 (+ follow‑up seminar, March 8).

 

                        Participant, Workshop on Galaxy Formation, NSF‑ITP, Santa Barbara, Jan. 26-28.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Lawrence Livermore Lab., "Dark Matter, Particle Physics

                              and Galaxy Formation," Jan. 24.

                       

1983                Physics Colloquium, University of Oregon, "What is the Universe Made Of: Particle Physics and Galaxy Formation," Nov. 17.

 

Physics Colloquium, Stanford University, "Dark Matter ‑ What is the Universe Made Of?  

Physics Colloquium, UCSC, "What Is the Universe Mostly Made Of?" Oct. 20.

 

                        Contributed Talk, Conference on Clusters and Groups of Galaxies, ICTP, Trieste, "Growth of Fluctuations Between Horizon Crossing and Matter Dominance: Implications for Galaxy Formation," Sept. 15.

 

                        Invited Talk, First Workshop on Kaluza‑Klein Unification, University of

                        Bologna, Italy, "Cosmological Evidence for Dark Matter or Exotic Gravitational Force Law," Sept. 12.

 

                        Physics Seminar, University of Rome, "Dark Matter, Particle Physics, and Galaxy Formation," Sept. 9.

 

                        Physics Seminar, University of Utrecht, Holland, "Particle Physics of Galaxy Formation," August 10.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics, Munich, "The Particle Physics of Galaxy Formation," July 19.

 

                        Physics Seminar, ETH, Zurich, "What is the Universe Mostly Made Of?" July 5.

 

Physics Seminar, University of Bern, "What is the Universe Mostly Made Of?" July 4.

 

                        Physics Seminar, SLAC, "What is the Dark Matter?" May 11.

 

                       Astrophysics Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany, "What is the Dark Matter?‑Implications for Galaxy Formation," June 27.

 

Invited Talk, 4th Workshop on Grand Unification, University of Pennsylvania,"Dark Matter Galaxies, Superclusters, Voids," April 22.

 

                        Invited Talk, Moriand Conferences on Lepton Physics and on Astrophysics, La Plagne, France, "What is the Dark Matter ‑ Implications for Galaxy Formation and Particle Physics," March 14.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UC Berkeley, "What Is the Dark Matter ‑ and Why Does It Matter?" March 7.

                       

1982                Physics Seminar, NSF Institute for Theoretical Physics‑UCSC "Supersymmetry and Cosmology," Oct. 29.

 

Physics Seminar, SLAC, "Finite Temperature Corrections to Weak Processes and Nucleosynthesis," Sept. 22.

 

Lectures, Aspen Center for Physics Workshop on the Large Scale Universe, "Introduction to Supersymmetry for Cosmologists," June 10 and 16.

 

                        Physics Theory Seminar, Los Alamos National Lab., Gravitinos and Galaxies, May 5.

 

                        Physics Theory Seminar, UCLA, "Gravitinos and Galaxies," Feb. 26.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UC Riverside, "Gravitinos and Galaxies," Feb. 25.

 

                        Physics Theory Seminar, UC Berkeley, "Gravitinos and Galaxies," Feb.1.

 

                        Physics Seminar, Schlumberger‑Doll Research Corporation, Ridgefield, CT, "Gravitinos and Galaxies," Jan. 15.

 

                        Physics Seminar, SLAC, "Supersymmetry and Cosmology," Jan. 6.

                       

1981                Physics Colloquium, Harvey Mudd College, "Supersymmetry and Cosmology," Dec. 1.

 

                        Physics Seminar, New York University, "Supersymmetry, Gravitinos, and the Origin of Galaxies," Nov. 2.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UCSC, "Supersymmetry and Cosmology," Oct. 15; several

                              lectures on supersymmetry to UCSC high energy theory graduate students and faculty, September‑October.

 

                        "Testing the Standard Model," American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields annual conference, UCSC, Sept. 9‑11, member of the organizing committee.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Banff Summer Institute on Particles and Fields, "Supersymmetry and Cosmology," Aug. 24.

     

1980                Physics Colloquium, UCSC, "Monopoles in the Early Universe," Oct. 16.

 

                        Physics Seminar, New York University, "Solid State Ideas in Gauge Theory Pions as Spin Waves, and Possible Photon Mass at Low Temperature," Sept. 22.

 

                        Physics Seminar, University of Sussex, Brighton, England, "Gauge Symmetry Breaking at Low Temperatures and on the Lattice," Sept. 8.

 

                        Physics Seminar, UCSC, "Pions as Spin Waves," May 27.

                       

1978                Joint lecture series, Ecole Normale Superieure and University of Paris VI,

"Review of Monopoles" (a series of 4 lectures by Richard Brandt and Joel Primack),

 June 5, 7, 12, 14.

 

                        Guest Lectureship, University of Leuven, Belgium, "Monopoles in

                              Electrodynamics and in Nonabelian Gauge Theories" (a series of 8  

                           lectures), Feb. 7‑ 10 and May 9‑12.

 

1977                Physics Seminar, UCI, "Monopoles," Feb. 17.

 

                        Dirac Monopole Conference, New York University, "Fermions from Bosons with Monopoles," Nov. 18.

 

                        Physics Seminar, Los Alamos National Lab, "Spin and Statistics with Monopoles," August 18.

 

                        Physics Seminar, Aspen Center for Physics, "Classical Action for Charges and Monopoles," July 29.

 

                        "Secret Seminar," LBL, "Overriding Dirac's Veto," April 14.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, "Monopoles Old and New," April 1.

                       

1976                Physics Seminar, UCSC, "Overriding Dirac's Veto," Nov. 23.

 

                        Physics Seminar, UCSC, "Spin‑Statistics Connection for Dyons," Oct. 19.

 

                        International Conference on Non‑Perturbative Phenomena in Quantum Field

                              Theory, CERN, Geneva, invited talk, "Introduction to Monopole Solutions in

                              Gauge Theories" and participant in afternoon panel, July 28.

 

                        Physics Seminar, Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics, Munich,

                              "Nonsingular Monopole Solutions in Nonabelian Gauge Theories," July 22.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Munich Technical University, Garsching, "How Far Can

                              QED Be Tested," July 7.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UCD, "Monopoles Old and New," May 27.

 

                        Physics Seminar, UCLA, "'t Hooft Monopole and Generalizations," Feb. 13.

                       

1975                Research Progress Meeting, LBL, "Theoretical Introduction to Magnetic                  

                              Monopoles," Nov. 20.

 

                        Division of Natural Sciences Colloquium, UCSC, "Properties and Possible Significance of New Particles," Nov. 11.

 

                        Third International Workshop on Weak Interactions at High Energies, Columbus, Ohio, "Searching for Neutral Currents with Charged Leptons," Sept. 10.

 

                        Third International Workshop on Weak Interactions at High Energies, Columbus, Ohio, "Weak Interactions at Superhigh Energies" (speaker and discussion leader), Sept. 9.

 

                        French Physical Society Meeting, Dijon, France, "Psi and Charm Production," July 1.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Max Planck Institute, Munich, "An Introduction to

                        Monopoles in Gauge Theories," June 27.

 

                        Conference on Extended Solutions in Field Theory , Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, "Integral Equation Techniques for Numerical Solution of Soliton Equations," June 19.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Louvain‑la‑Neuve, "Psi ‑ Data and Theory," June 12.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Louvain, Belgium, "An Introduction to Monopoles in Gauge Theories," June 10.

 

                        Physics Department Seminar, MIT, "Monopole Solutions in Gauge Theories," May 21.

 

                        Physics Seminar, New York University, "Monopole Solutions in Gauge

                              Theories," May 19.

 

                        Physics Seminar, UC Riverside, "Charm," Jan. 17.

 

1974                "RPM," Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, "Charrn," Dec. 9.

 

"Secret Seminar," Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, "Is the Psi a Ring State?" (with R. Brower), Dec. 9.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, San Francisco State College, "What's New in Weak

                              Interactions," Nov. 11.

 

Physics Colloquium, San Francisco State College, "Introduction to the New Unified Theories of Weak & Electromagnetic Interactions," Nov. 9.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UC Irvine, "Charm," Nov. 5.

 

Physics Colloquium, UC Irvine, "Current Status of Gauge Theories of Weak Interactions," Oct. 29.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, University of Washington, "How to Search for Charm," Sept. 20.

 

                        Physics Seminars, Aspen Center for Physics, Gell‑Mann workshop on quarks, currents, and gauge theories, "Dirac's and 't Hooft's Magnetic Monopoles" and "The Current Status of Charm," Aug. 13 & 15.

 

Physics Colloquium, University of Oregon, "Introduction to Gauge Theories of Weak Interactions," Jan. 11.

 

Physics Colloquium, University of Washington, "Everyman's Guide to Gauge Models of Weak Interactions," Jan. 14.

                             

1973                Physics Colloquium, UC Berkeley, "The New Theory of Weak Interactions," Nov. 14.

 

Physics Colloquium, UCSC, "The New Theory of Weak Interactions," Nov. 13.

 

                      Summer Schools at UCSC, SLAC, and McGill, Summer 1973 (see publications).

 

 

Participation in Public Lectures or Forums on Science and Society

 

1992                Participant in MacArthur Foundation Symposium Preserving the Space Environment, University of Chicago; invited lecture: "Protecting the Space Environment for Science", June 25‑26.

 

1991                Participant, first American Physical Society Congressional Day, April 25.

 

                        Organizer and chairman of Symposium on "Protecting the Space Environment" at annual Washington, D.C., meeting of the American Physical Society; invited talk: "Protecting the Space Environment: Overview," April 24.

 

                        College of William and Mary Physics Department Colloquium: "Space Reactors, Gamma‑ray Astronomy, and Arms Control" April 12.

 

                        Session Co‑chairman, IGCC Conference on Space and Security, San Diego, Jan.9.

                       

1990                Chairman, UCSC Forum on the Weapons Labs, April 12.      Berkeley Physics Department Colloquium: "Space Reactors, Gamma‑ray Astronomy, and Arms Control," March 7.

 

                        UCSC Crown College Science Table: "Protecting the Space Environment" March 6.

                       

1989                Stanford Workshops on Political and Social Issues (SWOPSI) 20th Anniversary Celebration, invited speaker on SWOPSI's origins and early years, October 14.

 

                        Watsonville Rotary Club talk on Space Reactor Arms Control, August 16.

 

                        Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Physics Colloquium: "Protecting the Space Environment", April.

                        Physics Colloquium, UCSB: "Space Reactors, Gamma‑Ray Astronomy, and SDI Arms Control", March 14.

 

                        Physicians for Social Responsibility Annual Meeting, Palo Alto, invited talk on Space Reactor Arms Control, March 10.

 

                        UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Conference, UC Davis, invited talk on US‑Soviet Cooperative Studies on Space Reactor Arms Control, March 3.

 

                        American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, San Francisco Hilton, invited talk: "Banning Orbiting Reactors"; also several radio interviews, January 18.

                       

1988                UCLA Conference on High‑Resolution Gamma Ray Cosmology, talk: "Orbiting Reactors: Signals and Backgrounds", November 4

 

                        Soviet Space Research Institute (IKI), FAS‑CSS Meeting on Banning Orbiting Reactors, participant, September 7‑9, overview talk September 8

 

                        Soviet Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, USSR, FAS‑CSS Meeting on US‑Soviet Space Cooperation, participant, September 5‑6

 

                        FAS Congressional Briefing on Space Nuclear Power, Russell Senate Office Bldg Hearing Room, organizer and chairman, July 25.

 

                        Colloquium, Stanford Center for Arms Control and International Security: "Verifying a Ban on Orbiting Reactors" Jointly with David Haferneister), July 19.

 

                        Scotts Valley Kiwanis Club: "Strategic Defense", May 25 Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, workshop on Protecting the Space Environment, invited presentation on orbiting reactors, July 12‑15

 

                        National Press Club, Washington D.C., FAS‑CSS Press Conference proposing ban on orbiting reactors (background briefer), May 13

                       

1984                Session organizer, UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation conference on peace research, Asilomar, Nov. 14‑16; paper: "Building Transnational Constituencies for World Order"

 

                        Invited talk, Mini‑conference on Star Wars, NSF‑ITP workshop on Early Universe, Santa Barbara, "Teaching About Arms Control and Peace," June 14.

                       

1983                Radio debate on Nuclear Power with John Gofman and Leonard Sagan, KQED radio, May 9.

 

1982                Aptos Assembly ‑ Biblical Adventist Church, participation in panel on the nuclear arms race, Oct. 2.

 

                        32nd Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (25th Anniversary), Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 26‑31, member, working group on arms control and disarmament, papers: "International Convocation on the Threat of Nuclear War," November 1982 and "The Russell‑Einstein Manifesto ‑ and Sakharov."

 

                        Scotts Valley Lions Club speaker, "Are Nuclear Power Plants Safe?" Mar. 2.

 

                        Science Fiction and Fantasy Conference, UC Riverside, member of panel discussing BBC documentary film "The War Game," Feb. 27.

 

                        Lecture, UCLA course CED 118, Energy Alternatives and Public Policy, Daniel Hirsch, instructor, "Energy Conservation," Feb. 24.

 

                        Colloquium on Science, Technology, and Society, UCSC, discussant after Charles Perrow's talk, Feb. 3.

 

                        Faculty seminar on the implications of recombinant DNA (with Charles Weiner), UCSC, discussant, Jan. 28.

 

                        Colloquium, Schlumberger Doll Research Corp., Ridgefield, CT, "The Future of Nuclear Power," Jan. 15.

                       

1981                Faculty lunch seminar on science, technology, and public policy, Claremont Graduate School, "Advice and Dissent Revisited," Dec. 1; special colloquium series, Harvey Mudd College, "Science and Public Issues: Debate Prematurely Foreclosed?" Dec. 1.

 

                        31st Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Aug. 27‑Sept. 1, member, working group on security in the developing world,

                              lecture on nuclear proliferation, paper: "A Unilateral Arms Control Measure: Abolition of the U.S. Air Force."

 

                        Lunch speaker, Santa Cruz Exchange Club, talk on avoiding nuclear war (with William Epstein), Feb. 4.

                       

1980                Invited lecturer, Symposium on Scholarly Freedom and Human Rights, Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Manchester, England, "Science and Human Rights: Uruguay and the Southern Cone," Sept. 2. BBC Radio and British scientific journalist interviews.

 

                        Co‑organizer, Public Session, DOE‑ACEEE Conference on Energy Efficient Buildings, UCSC, Aug. 22.

 

                        Lecture, UCSC Univ. Extension Advanced Course on English as a Foreign Language, "What's Wrong with Breeder Reactors," July 17; repeated Nov. 5.

 

                        Radio interviews on nuclear reactor safety with several local stations, a syndicated radio program, and station CHUM in Toronto, Canada, May 13.

 

                        Lecture in Symposium at Stanford Medical School on The Medicine of Acute Radiation Exposure, April 12: "Scenario: A Meltdown Accident in a Large Nuclear Power Plant."

 

                        Lecture at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, March 7, "Science, Technology & Politics."

 

                        Principal Speaker, Forum on "The Effects of Limited Resources on Our Energy & Ecology in the 1980's," sponsored by Yavi College and the Arizona Humanities Council, Prescott, Arizona, Feb. 25.

 

                        Invited Lecture, Annual Meeting of the APS, Chicago, Jan 23: "The Three Mile Island Accident: A Critical Perspective."

 

                        Chairnan, Symposium: "What Special Rights and Responsibilities Do Scientists and Engineers Have?" and Chair, Business Meeting of the Clearinghouse on Science & Human Rights, Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, Jan. 4.

                       

1979                Lecture at General Research Corp., Santa Barbara, Dec. 12, Lectures: "Nuclear Power."

 

                        Forum on "Our Energy Future" sponsored by the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, SLAC Auditorium, Nov. 8 ‑ talk on nuclear energy and conservation.

 

                        UCSC Course ES 1, taught by Robert Curry, Oct. 30, lecture on scientists & nuclear policy issues.

 

                        Philips Fund Distinguished Visitor, Haverford College; lectures Sept. 19, "Technology in a Democracy" (with Nancy Abrams) and Sept. 20, "Technological & Political Implications of the Three Mile Island Accident."

 

                        San Diego Natural History Museum, participant in debate on nuclear energy sponsored by the San Diego Chapter of the Sierra Club, June 22.

 

                        Student Pugwash Conference, UC San Diego, Plenary Session on Science and Politics, speaker on "Technology in a Democracy," June 21.

 

                        UCSC course on Environmental Law (ES 143), taught by Gerald Bowden, talk on scientists and politics, especially nuclear issues.

 

                        Forum on "Science and Your Responsibility," Oakes College, UCSC ‑ talk: "Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena," May 21.

 

                        Chairman, Workshop of the AAAS Clearinghouse on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights, Brookings Institution, Washington, D. C., May 10.

 

                        Lecture at Crown College, UCSC, "Implications of the Three Mile Island Accident" (with D. Dorfan), May 3.

 

                        Moderator, "The Great Debate" (on U.S. strategic weapons policy and the weapons labs), UCSC Quarry, Apr. 21.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UCSC, "The Implications of the Three Mile Island Accident" (with D. Dorfan), Apr. 17.

 

                        Balancing Acts: Explorations in Decision Making, San Francisco Exploratorium, participation in symposium on Environmental Planning, Apr. 10. (Broadcast May 7 by KPFA, Berkeley.)

 

                        Radio interviews on reactor safety and the Three Mile Island accident:

                              KZSC (Santa Cruz), Mar. 30; KFAT (Gilroy) and KPFA (Berkeley), Apr. 5; WPLJ (ABC‑FM, New York), Apr. 8 and May 12.

 

                        Oakes College Science Table speaker (with Nancy Abrams) on the 1978 Pugwash Conference, Jan. 31.

 

                        Co‑organizer, Symposium on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility in the International Arena, AAAS Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, Jan. 5.

                       

1978                Physics Colloquium, Cal State Sacramento, "Scientists and the Politics of Nuclear Power, Dec. 7.

 

                        UCSC rally, talk about UC weapons labs and the Comprehensive Text Ban Treaty, Nov. 15.

 

                        UCSC course, Environmental Issues (ESI), taught by Paul Niebanck, Nov. 28, lecture on scientists and nuclear issues.

 

                        28th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Problems, Varna, Bulgaria, talks on "Better Alternatives to Plutonium Recycling and the Fast Breeder Reactor" and "A U.S. View of Scientific Freedom in the International Arena," Sept. 1‑5.

 

                        AAAS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, Symposium on Human Rights and Scientific Freedom, "The AAAS Committee's Experience: the Situation in Argentina as an Example."

                       

1977                Lecture in Stanford Law School course, taught by John Barton, "Scientific Freedom and Human Rights," Dec. 13.

 

                        Science and Society Colloquium, UC Santa Barbara, "Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena," Dec. 11.

 

                        UCSC Class on Natural Resources (ES. 22), taught by Dick Cooley, "U.S. Electricity Supply and Demand," Nov. 2.

 

                        Santa Cruz chapter of the Sierra Club, "Do We Need Breeder Reactors," Oct. 14.

 

                        Co‑organizer, AAAS Workshop on Human Rights and Scientific Freedom, Washington, D.C., June 6.

 

                        UCSC course on Energy Alternatives, taught by Peter Scott, "Nuclear Energy Issues," May 25.

 

                        Moderator, Scientists' Institute for Public Information Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 29.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UCI, "New Developments in Science Policy," Feb. 18.

                       

1976                Lecture in Stanford University undergraduate seminar taught by Perry Wilson, "Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena," Nov. 9.

 

                        UCSC class on Natural Resources (ES. 22), taught by Dick Cooley, "U.S. Electricity Supply and Demand," Oct. 27.

 

                        Graduate Student Seminar, UCSC, talk on reactor safety, June 1.

 

                        Symposium of the Science‑Humanities Convergence Program on "Science, Education, and Public Policy," Cal. State University, San Francisco: presented talk on "Public Interest Science in the Classroom" and participated in panel (with Gerald Holton, Theodore Roszak, and Jacob Needleman), May 6.

 

                        Meeting of the Sons in Retirement, Santa Cruz chapter, luncheon talk on the California Nuclear Initiative. Apr. 7.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Cal. State University, San Jose, "Nuclear Reactor Safety," March 19.

 

                        Cabrillo College energy seminar series, "Nuclear Safety," March 15.

 

                        Meeting of the Rotary Club of Scotts Valley, luncheon talk on the California Nuclear Initiative, March 15.

 

                        Hearing on National Science Foundation Authorization Legislation for 1976, US Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, Special Subcommittee on the NSF, "Federal Support for Public Interest Science: NSF's Science for Citizens Program," March 3. (At the request of Sen. Kennedy, who chairs the NSF subcommittee, I organized and participated in a panel to testify on Science for Citizens Program.)

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UCLA, "Nuclear Reactor Safety," Feb. 12.

 

                        Meeting at Stanford Physics Department of San Francisco Bay Area Junior college physics teachers, organized by Walter Meyerhof and Jean Fetter, "Public Interest Science in the Classroom," Jan. 17.

                       

1975                Crown College student‑organized discussion on nuclear reactor safety, Nov. 20.

 

                        UCSC class on Land and Resources Law (ES 144) taught by Jerry Bowden, talk on nuclear energy issues, Nov. 18.

 

                        Stanford University/Lilly Foundation Program for Faculty Renewal "Revolutions in Physics" Conference for Physics Teachers, "Nuclear Reactor Safety," Palo Alto, California, Nov. 9. (I also moderated a debate between Michael Peevey, director of California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance, and David Pesonen, author of California Nuclear Initiative.)

 

                        TV interview on California Nuclear Initiative, station KVIA, Sacramento (for California educational TV stations), Sept. 24.

 

                        International Conference on Environmental Sensing and Assessment, Las Vegas, "Public Interest Science," Sept. 16.

 

                        Physics Department Special Seminar, Princeton University, "Nuclear Reactor Safety," May 12.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Rockefeller University, "Nuclear Reactor Safety," May 7.

 

                        Seminar, Carleton College, "Advice and Dissent: the SST," May 2.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, Carleton College, "Nuclear Reactor Safety," May 1.

 

                        American Physical Society Meeting, Washington, D. C., Organizer, Symposium on Nuclear Reactor Safety, April 30.

 

                        Seminar, MIT, Center for Science and Society, Public Interest Science," April 8.

 

                        23rd National Convention, National Science Teachers Association, Los Angeles, "The Nuclear Reactor Safety Controversy," March 21.

 

                        American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "Advice and Dissent: Teaching About Political Activities of Scientists," Jan. 31.

 

                        American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Anaheim, Panel on APS Public Activities (with M. Casper, W. K. H. Panofsky), Jan. 29.

 

                        Physics Colloquium, UC Riverside, "Public Controversies on Technical Issues: Nuclear Safety," Jan. 16.

                       

1974                Session of AAAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, "Scientists in the Public Interest" (session of "The Role of Professional Societies in Meeting Environmental Problems"), March 1.

 

                        AAAS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, organizer and chairman of symposium, "Independent Scientists and the Energy Crisis," Feb. 27.

 

                        SLAC Energy Seminar, SLAC, "Primer on Nuclear Fission: Facts and Issues," Feb. 19.

 

                        Physics Department Seminar, University of Washington, "Progress Report on Nuclear Reactor Safety," Jan. 15.

 

                        TV Interview on Energy (with Peter Scott), Santa Cruz cable TV station, Jan.

           

1973                Conference on Scientists in the Public Interest: The role of Professional Societies (sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Scientists, Western Center, and the University of Utah, Alta, Utah; co‑organizer of the Conference, chairman of two sessions and of a task force, editor or author of reports of the Report of the Conference (available from the Physics Department, University of Utah). (Note: the June 1974 special issue of Physics Today on "Public Interest Science" was a direct outgrowth of this conference.) Sept. 7‑9. American Physical Society Meeting, Berkeley, chairman of session on "Energy," Dec. 27.

 

 

 

 

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Joel R. Primack

Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
Office Phone: (831) 459-2580, Fax: -3043; Cell: 831 345-8960; Email: 
joel@ucsc.edu

Education: Princeton University A.B. 1966 Physics (Summa cum Laude, Valedictorian); Stanford University PhD 1970 Physics

Academic Positions: Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University 1970-73 Assistant Professor of Physics, UCSC 1973-1977; Associate Professor of Physics, UCSC, 1977-1983; Professor of Physics, UCSC 1983-present; Distinguished Professor 2007-; Emeritus 2014-; Chair, UCSC Committee on Educational Policy, 1992-94; Chair, UCSC Committee on Computing and Telecommunications, 2008- 2011; Chair, University Committee on Computing and Communications, 2010-12; Director, University of California systemwide High-Performance Astro-Computing Center (UC-HiPACC), 2010-2015

Advice (partial list): SAGENAP advisory panel to DOE/NSF 2000-2001; NSF Astronomy Theory Review Panel 2000; DOE Lehman Review of SNAP Proposal 2001; Chair, NASA Cosmology panel on LTSA and ADP 2001; Cosmology Panel, Hubble Space Telescope Time Allocation Committee 2003; Ed Board, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics 2003-06; National Academy Beyond Einstein panel, 2006-07; National Academy Review of NASA Technology Roadmap, 2010-11

American Physical Society activities (partial list): Executive Committee, APS Division of Astrophysics, 2000-2002; APS Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) 2002-2004; Chair, POPA Task Force on Moon-Mars Program and Funding for Astrophysics 2004; Chair, APS Forum on Physics and Society 2005; Chair, APS Sakharov Prize committee 2009; Chair-Elect, APS Forum on Physics and Society, 2017

Outreach (partial list): Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Advisory Committee on Cosmic Voyage IMAX film, 1994-1996. Co-organizer, "Cosmic Questions" Conference, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, April 14-16, 1999. Over 100 public lectures on cosmology, including Sackler Lecture (UC Berkeley, 2006); J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture (Los Alamos, 2007); APS Public Lecture (St. Louis, 2008); Terry Lectures (with Nancy Abrams, Yale, 2009)

Honors (partial list): A. P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1974-1978
American Physical Society Forum on Physics and Society Award, 1977; Fellow, 1988
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, 1995
Humboldt Senior Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 1999
California Academy of Sciences, Fellow, 2009                                                
Spirit of Rustum Roy Award, Chopra Foundation, 2012
Leo Szilard Lectureship Award of the American Physical Society, 2016

Books

  • Joel R. Primack and Frank von Hippel, Advice and Dissent: Scientists in the Political Arena (New York: Basic Books, 1974; New American Library, 1976) http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Advice_and_Dissent.pdf
  • Joel R. Primack and Nancy Ellen Abrams, The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos (New York: Riverhead/Penguin, 2006; London: HarperCollins, 2006; Paris: Laffont, 2008; and other foreign editions) http://viewfromthecenter.com/
Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack, The New Universe and the Human Future: How a Shared Cosmology Could Transform the World (Yale University Press, 2011; Barcelona: Antoni Bosch, 2013) http://new-universe.org/; http://www.el-nuevo-universo.com/

 

Videos

Popular Lectures (solo)

Sages & Scientists 2012

Introductory popular lecture on modern cosmology by Joel Primack in Jerusalem

Inside the Milky Way (National Geographic TV documentary featuring Joel)

 

Popular lectures (with Nancy Abrams)
TEDxSantaCruz 2014 Changing the World with a Shared Cosmology

Introductory popular lectures by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack (Terry lectures at Yale 2009) :

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akQfew1EGXY
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0AKR-zawY8
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSdsT9Zx2Zg
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRX6GdUz-Yw

 

Army Science Conference 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxZjl3xob_k

 

Scientific Lectures

New Insights on Galaxy Formation from Observations and Simulations
video: https://vimeo.com/album/2690857/video/169121636

slides: http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-GalSimsvsObs-SCI-April2016.pdf

Structure Formation in the Universe 2014
video:https://goo.gl/0NlTo5

slides:http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Tenerife.pdf

History of Dark Matter 2013
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJVgC9tUBqM

slides:http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect1-LCDM_History.pdf

Introduction to Cosmology 2013
video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUsBZDATBpg

slides:http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect2-Cosmology-Intro.pdf

Simulating the Universe 2013
video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwjz0s-K6OU

slides:http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect3SuperComputing_the_Universe.pdf

 

Popular interviews

Deepak Chopra audio Dark Matter interview March 2016 http://bit.ly/1UKIWd2

Deepak Chopra Curious Minds interview 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT0RTsTAbbY

Cosmic Questions Conference (Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 1999, but still interesting)  http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/jpr-frame.html

Videos

Popular Lectures (solo)

Sages & Scientists 2012

Introductory popular lecture on modern cosmology by Joel Primack in Jerusalem

Inside the Milky Way (National Geographic TV documentary featuring Joel)

 

Popular lectures (with Nancy Abrams)
TEDxSantaCruz 2014 Changing the World with a Shared Cosmology

Introductory popular lectures by Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack (Terry lectures at Yale 2009) :

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akQfew1EGXY
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0AKR-zawY8
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSdsT9Zx2Zg
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRX6GdUz-Yw

 

Army Science Conference 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxZjl3xob_k

 

Scientific Lectures

New Insights on Galaxy Formation from Observations and Simulations
video: https://vimeo.com/album/2690857/video/169121636

slides: http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-GalSimsvsObs-SCI-April2016.pdf

Structure Formation in the Universe 2014
video:https://goo.gl/0NlTo5

slides:http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Tenerife.pdf

History of Dark Matter 2013
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJVgC9tUBqM

slides:http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect1-LCDM_History.pdf

Introduction to Cosmology 2013
video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUsBZDATBpg

slides:http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect2-Cosmology-Intro.pdf

Simulating the Universe 2013
video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwjz0s-K6OU

slides:http://physics.ucsc.edu/~joel/Primack-Lect3SuperComputing_the_Universe.pdf

Popular interviews

Deepak Chopra audio Dark Matter interview March 2016 http://bit.ly/1UKIWd2

Deepak Chopra Curious Minds interview 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT0RTsTAbbY

Cosmic Questions Conference (Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 1999, but still interesting)  http://www.counterbalance.org/cqinterv/jpr-frame.html

 

 

 

 

 

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