May

May 23
Received Honoray Degree
Chapman University
Orange, CA

May 5-7
Space Telescope Science Institute May Symposium
NASA by AURA
Baltimore, MD

May 4
Andrew Camberlin Lecture
Cambridge
Cambridge, UK

April

April 20-24
Main Lecturer
Fifth International School on Field Theory & Graviation
Cuiaba, Brazil

April 18
E.T. Where are you? Life Beyond Earth
Big Arts Lecture
Sanibel, FL

April 3-6
ASU's Origins Symposium
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ

March

March 19-21, 2009:
Sundance Dialog Retreat
StoneBrick Group
Sundance Resort, Utah

+Events Calendar 2008

February

February 26-28: Confronting complexity: cancer at the intersection of physics and biology, National Cancer Institute, Integrating and Leveraging the Physical Sciences to Open a New Frontier in Oncology, Washington, DC.

February 29: Distinguished Lecture in Physics: Quantum mechanics and the principle of equivalence, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

February 29:Distinguished Lecture in Physics: How to build a time machine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

March

March 3: The origin of the universe, private presentation and discussion

March 28: Why the universe is so well suited for life, Inaugural "Agora" international meeting on globalization, Scottsdale, Arizona.

April

April 10: The Architectureof the Universe, Linus Pauling Memorial Lectures, Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy, Oregon.

May

May 12: Confronting complexity, the Future Summit of the Australian Davos Connection, Hilton Hotel, Sydney.

May 27-30: Teaching on "God & the laws of nature", Venice Summer School on Science and religion, Venice, Italy. Details at http://vssr.info/details.php

October

October 4, 2008: 9:30-10:15 Pacific Time
The Origin of the “Fine-tuned” Laws of Nature
Lecture to Skeptics Society Conference
Beckman Auditorium, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

October 15, 2008:
Are the laws of nature fine-tuned for life?
Lecture
New Visions 400 Conference
Yingjie Exchange Center, Peking University, Beijing, China

October 31, 2008:
“What are the laws of physics?” and “Quantum weak measurements: a generalizion of the exponential decay law”
Lectures
NIST, Gaithersburg Maryland

November

November 4, 2008:
Invited Science & Religion Lecture
Hampshire College
Amherst, Massachusetts

+Events Calendar 2007

February

February 13: How to Build a Time Machine, Carson Ballroom at Old Main, Arizona State University, 6 pm.

February 23: Seeking evidence for a second genesis on earth, University of Arizona, LAPLACE Astrobiology group meeting, 12.30 pm, room N505, Steward Observatory.

March

March 2: BEYOND workshop: Life as an emergent phenomenon”

March 7: Distinguished Speaker's Lecture "Did Life Come from Mars?"

March 8: Physics Colloquium "The Arrow of Time."

April

April 10: 10:15 a.m. "Searching for life on Earth as we don't know it", and "Emerging Vistas: the New Golden age of Exploration" Biodesign Institute Auditorium, B Building, ASU Tempe Campus.
In addition, the Annual Shoemaker Memorial Award Lecture by Harrison Schmitt is at 7:30 p.m.

April 16: Cosmic Jackpot Tour 7:00PM. Changing Hands Bookstore, 6428 S. McClintock Dr., Tempe, AZ 85283

April 18: Cosmic Jackpot: Why the universe is just right for life 3:00pm. George Mason University, Washington DC. For details visit Center for the Arts. The lecture will be given in honor of Yakir Aharonov.

April 19: Cosmic Jackpot Tour, 7:30pm. University of Washington Bookstore Science Series, speaking event at Town Hall

April 21: Cosmic Jackpot Tour, Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum-Chicago, Astronomy Day Events, April 21, 11am-3pm - his talk will be at 2 pm, with booksigning after.

April 22: Prof. Davies is participating in a panel discussion “Our Place in the Universe” to be held from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. in the Irene P. Flinn IMAX Theatre (seating capacity of 290) at the Arizona Science Center, 600 E. Washington Street in downtown Phoenix.

April 24: Cosmic Jackpot Tour, 7:30pm. Barnes & Noble, Santa Monica

May

May 3: evening: Can the universe engineer its own bio-friendliness? The Royal Society, Carlton House Terrace, London. The launch of the book "Universe or multiverse?" edited by Bernard Carr

May 9: Cosmic Jackpot Tour, 7 PM: New York Academy of Sciences. Lecture and book signing.

May 11: Cosmic Jackpot Tour, 12 noon. Philadelphia Free Library (Co-sponsored by the Templeton Foundation)

May 14: Cosmic Jackpot Tour, Harvard Bookstore (COOP), Cambridge, MA

June

June 3: Cosmic Jackpot Tour, 7:30pm. Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025

June 4: Cosmic Jackpot Tour, 7:30pm. Morrison Planetarium, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Dean Lecture, sponsored by the California Academy of Science

June 8: Public lecture, "How to build a time machine", at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.

July

July 1: Lecture “The ultimate limits of technology” at workshop on “Future of Intelligence in the Cosmos” NASA Ames Research Center, June 30 – July 1.

July 15: Lecture “The Implications of a Cosmological Information Bound for Complexity, Quantum Information and the Nature of Physical Law,” Burlington, Vermont, at “A New Kind of Science: NKS 2007 conference.”

July 24: Lecture "Seeking evidence for a second genesis on Earth"

August

Aug 18: “Where do the laws of physics come from?” at “Science, Reason and Truth” symposium, San Marino, Aug 17-19

Aug 20: Panelist with Enrico Bombieri and Xavier Le Pichon at the Rimini Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples, Aug 19 – 25

Aug 28: Panelist on “Life in the universe” at SPIE conference “Optics and Photonics”, San Diego, Aug 26-30.

Aug 29: Lecture “Searching for an alternative form of life on Earth,” SPIE conference (as above)

September

Sept 2: Public lecture, “What are the laws of physics?” The Royal Society, London, opening address of PAQ07 “Photons, Atoms and Qubits” conference, Sept 2-5

Sept 4: Public lecture, “The Goldilocks Enigma” Imperial College London

Sept 5: Public lecture, “Aliens under our noses” International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne.