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  1. Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces

    Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek discusses his work and his life in science.

    This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival.

    Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at MIT and recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been pushing the limits of what we know about particle physics and exploring what holds our universe together since he was 21, and contributing to the definition of gluons, which hold atomic nuclei together. Throughout a storied career in physics he has not only been at the forefront of his field but also an able and enthusiastic public communicator, helping to connect recent developments in fundamental physics to the general public, most recently in his book the The Lightness of Being.

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  2. Tyler Jacks: Genetics of Cancer

    Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, talks about his research on cancer and his career in genetics.

    This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival.

    Tyler Jacks is the David H. Koch Professor of Biology and a leading researcher in the genetics of cancer. Jacks was named the 2005 Simon M. Shubitz Lecturer and Award recipient, and shared the 2005 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research awarded by the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

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  3. Slavoj Zizek: The Monstrosity of Christ

    Slavoj Zizek discusses his new book, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?, and explains how the Christian concept of the "toxic neighbor" impacts political, economic, sexual, and cultural thought.

    This event is presented by the Harvard Book Store, in cooperation with the Brattle Theatre and the MIT Press.

    Slavoj Zizek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and has been a visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton, and The New School. He is the author of more than 30 books and is the subject of the documentary, Zizek!. His own critically acclaimed documentary, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, was the subject of a film retrospective in 2007 at the Museum of Modern Art.

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  4. Lunch with a Luminary: Angela Belcher

    Bioengineer Angela Belcher discusses her research at MIT, which has applications for new battery technologies, understanding cancer, and new medical diagnostics.

    This lecture is part of the 2009 Cambridge Science Festival.

    Angela Belcher is the Germehausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering and winner of a 2004 MacArthur Fellowship Award. She has appointments in the MIT Department of Material Science and Engineering, and the Center for Cancer Research; and she has expertise in biomaterials, at the intersection of chemistry, nanotechnology, biological engineering, and biology.

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  5. The Widow Clicquot: The Champagne Empire

    The Widow Cliquot tells the story of Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, a young woman, newly widowed during the chaotic years of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, who became one of the richest women in France by her late thirties. She assumed the reins of the fledgling wine business she and her husband started, and steered it though huge political and financial reversals to become the legendary veuve (widow) of Veuve Clicquot champagne. An inventor and daring businesswoman, she took champagne from marginal to mainstream and made it synonymous with style. Dr. Tilar Mazzeo, a professor at Colby College, was granted access to the Historical Resources collection at Veuve Clicquot in Reims, France.

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