Rittenhouse Lectures
The Rittenhouse Lecture is an endowed distinguished speaker series with a long tradition of inviting world class scholars to share their groundbreaking research with the Penn community. It is named in honor of “America's First Astronomer” and Philadelphia native David Rittenhouse and sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy.
A selection of past lectures include:
2019-2020
Lars Hernquist
2018-2017
George Efstathiou
The Planck Legacy: Inflation and the Origin of Structure in the Universe
2017-2018
Daniel Holz (Enrico Fermi Institute and Kavli Institute for Cosmology, U of Chicago) hosted by Bhuvnesh Jain
2016-2017
Dr. Scott Bolton, Southwest Research Institute
2015-2016
Adam Riess (JHU/STScI) Hosted by Adam Lidz
Expansion Of The Universe Seen By Hubble
2014-2015
Dr. Natalia Batahla (NASA)
Towards A Reliable Determination Of Eta-earth With Kepler
2013-2014
Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study
2012-2013
Scott Ransom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)
2011-2012
Richard Ellis (Caltech)
2010-2011
David Charbonneau
2007 - 2008
Mike Brown, spring 2008.
2002-2003
Claude Canizares (MIT)
2001-2002
Saul Perlmutter
1999-2000
Geoffrey Marcy
1998-1999
Wendy Freedman
1997-1998
Roger Blandford
Upcoming Rittenhouse Lectures
There are no scheduled upcoming events in this category.