The M.E.L. Oakes Undergraduate Lecture Series
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Previous Oakes Lecturers

"Rememebering Richard Feynman"
David L. Goodstein, Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology (Spring 2013)

"Biological Physics is Exciting and Challenging"
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Spring 2012)

"Energy in the 21st Century: The Economy, Security, and the Environment"
Burton Richter, Stanford University, SLAC (Spring 2011)

"Rare Earth?"
Donald E. Brownlee, University of Washington (Spring 2009)

"Relativity and Geometry"
N. David Mermin, Boston University (Fall 2006)

"Einstein's Oddyssey"
John Stachel, Boston University (Spring 2006)

Einstein: A Stage Portrait
Tom Schuch, SPOLI Productions (Fall 2005)

Einstein's Biggest Blunder? A Cosmic Mystery
Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University (Spring 2005)


The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin