Bunyan Lectures

• 30th Annual Bunyan Lecture, Steven Chu, Stanford Univ
  "Dr. Chu Goes to Washington" - Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - 7:30pm,  Braun Auditorium
  
• 29th Annual Bunyan Lecture, Andrea Ghez, UCLA
  “Unveiling the Pulse of our Galaxy” - Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 7:30pm, Braun Auditorium
  
• 28th Annual Bunyan Lecture, Natalie M. Batalha, Associate Professor, San Jose State University, Deputy Science Team Lead of Kepler Mission
  "Light and Shadow: Kepler’s Search for Habitable Worlds" [YouTube] - Thursday, March 10, 2011 @ 7:30pm, Braun Auditorium
  
• 27th Annual Bunyan Lecture, Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley
  “Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe” - Monday, May 4, 2009 @ 7:30 p.m., Braun Auditorium
  
• 26th Bunyan Lecture (2007-8): Steven W. Squyres, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University
  Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet, 2008 Feb 6, 7:30pm, Hewlett Teaching Center 201
• 25th Bunyan Lecture (2006-7): Michael Brown, Professor of Planetary Astronomy at Caltech
  Pluto, Eris and the Dwarf Planets of the Solar System
• 24th Bunyan Lecture (2005-6): David Spergel, Princeton University
  Taking the Baby Picture of the Universe
• 23rd Bunyan Lecture (2003): Christopher Chyba, Director of the Center for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute
  The 21st Century Search for Extraterrestrial Life
• 22nd Bunyan Lecture (2002): Kim Stanley Robinson, Nebula and Hugo award winning science fiction author
  Mars as a Tool of Human Thought
• 21st Bunyan Lecture (2001): Loren Acton, University of Montana
  The Magnetic Personality of the Universe
• 20th Bunyan Lecture (2000): Charles Townes, UC Berkeley
  Logic and Uncertainty in Science and Religion
• 19th Bunyan Lecture (1999): Paul Davies, Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London; now Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University
  The Origins of Life
• 18th Bunyan Lecture (1998): Frank Drake, SETI Institute
  The Search for Extragalactic Intelligent Life
• 17th Bunyan Lecture (1997): Geoff Marcy, San Francisco State University
  First Reconnaissance of Planets Orbiting Other Stars
• 16th Bunyan Lecture (1996): Ron Bracewell, Stanford University
  The Destiny of Man
• 15th Bunyan Lecture (1995): Robert Williams, Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute
  The Universe as Seen by the Hubble Space Telescope
• 14th Bunyan Lecture (1994): Eugene Shoemaker, US Geological Survey, Arizona
  Cosmic Bullets, Craters and Catastrophe
• 13th Bunyan Lecture (1993): Carl Sagan, Cornell University
  Is There Intelligent Life on Earth?
• 12th Bunyan Lecture (1992): Sandra Faber, University of California, Santa Cruz
  The Giant Keck Telescope
• 11th Bunyan Lecture (1991): Fang Li Zhi, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton
  Science, Cosmology, and Democracy in China
• 10th Bunyan Lecture (1989): Edwin Salpeter, Cornell University
  Stars Older than the Universe?
• 9th Bunyan Lecture (1988): Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics
  Death of a Star: Supernova of a Lifetime
• 8th Bunyan Lecture (1987): P.J.E. Peebles, Princeton University
  The Large Scale Structure of the Universe
• 7th Bunyan Lecture (1986): Joseph Veverka, Cornell University
  Halley's Comet
• 6th Bunyan Lecture (1985): Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  Crisis vs Aesthetics in Copernican Revolution
• 5th Bunyan Lecture (1984): Martin Rees, Cambridge University, Institute of Astronomy
• 4th Bunyan Lecture (1982): Kip Thorne, Caltech
  Black Holes, White Holes, Wormholes, and Tunnels through Hyperspace
• 3rd Bunyan Lecture (1981): Edward Stone, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  The Voyager Encounters with Saturn
• 2nd Bunyan Lecture (1980): Philip Morrison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  The Rude Law of the Frontier: Recent Results
• 1st Bunyan Lecture (1979): Dennis Sciama, Oxford University
  The Origin of the Universe

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