The Eddington Lectures 


2009-03-12 16:30: Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics (Andrea Ghez, UCLA)

2010-03-11 16:30: Searching for Life on Mars (Peter Smith, Lunar and Planetary Lab, University of Arizona)

2011-03-10 16:30: Astronomy: A Subject on the Cusp (Shri Kulkarni, Caltech)

2012-03-08 16:30: Galaxies Viewed as Collections of Individual Stars (Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington)

2013-03-07 16:30: The Turbulent Environment of Planet Formation (Phil Armitage (Colorado))

2014-02-13 16:30: Galaxy Evolution in 3-D (Professor Lisa Kewley (ANU))

2015-03-12 16:30: Ghostly Galaxies: exploring the universe with the Dragonfly Telescope (Pieter Van Dokkum (Yale))

2016-03-10 16:00: Kepler, the Architectures of Exoplanet Systems & Implications for Planet Formation (Eric Ford (Penn State University))

2017-03-09 16:00: Physical Manifestations of Evolution, Regularity and Chaos In and Around Our Galaxy (Kathryn Johnston (Columbia University))

2018-03-08 16:00: The Chemistry of Planet Formation and the Making of Habitable Planets (Karin I. Öberg (Harvard University))

2019-03-07 16:00: Heavy elements in red giant stars (Amanda Karakas (Monash))

2022-02-10 16:00: A chemical survey of planets in our galaxy (Giovanna Tinetti (UCL))

2023-03-09 16:00: The Grand Challenge Questions of Solar Wind Physics  (Nicholeen Viall (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center))

2024-03-07 16:00: The Dawn of Galaxy-scale Gravitational Wave Astronomy (Stephen Taylor, Vanderbilt University)

2025-03-13 16:00: Reconstructing the History of the Milky Way Galaxy Using Stars (Melissa Ness, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics (RSAA), Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)

2026-03-12 16:00: Black holes and revelations: unseen companions in stellar binaries (Kareem El-Badry, Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the California Institute of Technology)