Kavli-CERCA Video Archive

The Kavli-CERCA Conference and the related public lectures by Stephen Hawking were captured and encoded by Case's MediaVision group. All these events were webcast live thanks to MediaVision. MediaVision also edited and encoded the Weinberg lecture (which was not webcast).

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Public Events

The Origin of the Universe

This talk by Steven Weinberg was the first CERCA public lecture.

(There are problems w/the video and audio source for the encoding of this talk. Great effort was put forth during the encoding to ameliorate these, but you will notice that the video/audio quality is lesser than other events archived here.)

URL: mmst://Mv-helix1.cwru.edu/a/physics/kavli_cerca_weinberg_lecture.wmv

Recorded: Oct 9, 2003

Brane New World

This talk by Stephen Hawking was the 2003 Michelson-Morley Award Lecture, and the 2nd CERCA public lecture.

URL: mms://mv-helix1.cwru.edu/a/2003/cerca_conference/michelson_morley_award.wmv

Recorded: Oct 13, 2003

NPR's Science Friday: Questions in Cosmology

Ira Flatow talked cosmology with participants at the Kavli-CERCA Conference. Questions were also taken from the local audience and radio audience.

Guests: Krauss, Bahcall, Turner, Weinberg

URL: mmst://Mv-helix1.cwru.edu/a/physics/kavli_cerca_npr.wmv

Recorded: Oct 10, 2003

Conference Sessions

Overview / CMB

Overview: Krauss

Moderator: Ruhl: Talk: Hu; Talk: Meyer; Panel: Hinshaw, Bond, Page, Holzapfel, Staggs, Kamionkowski

URL: mmst://Mv-helix1.cwru.edu/a/physics/kavli_cerca_session_1.wmv

Recorded: Oct 10, 2003

Dark Energy

Moderator: Turner: Talk: Perlmutter; Panel: Kirshner, Riess, Perlmutter, Wilczek, Weinberg, Linde, Dvali, Carlstrom, White

The Riess talk has been excised from this video per his request. The stream will be re-encoded including his talk after he publishes his results announced at the conference.