+ Lectures

Paul Davies gives many public lectures in Australia, the United States and Europe. Details of forthcoming lectures can be found to the right.

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Click here to view an archive of some recent special lectures and presentations.

Lecture Topics

Popular

• The origin and end of the universe
• The origin of life
• Did life come from Mars?
• Black holes and wormholes
• Time travel
• The arrow of time
• The future of space exploration
• The search for extraterrestrial intelligence
• Einstein's greatest mistake
• Dark forces of the cosmos
• The state of the universe
• The architecture of the universe
• The multiverse: how many universes are there?
• The mystery of consciousness
• Why is the universe bio-friendly?
• Menace of the killer asteroids

Technical

• Cosmological horizon entropy
• Multiverse cosmological models and the anthropic principle
• Quantum clocks and the foundations of relativity

Recent lectures

• Texas A & M University, College Station
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• European Commission, Brussels
• Future Summit, Sydney, Australia
• Leadership Retreat, Hayman Island
• Royal Astronomical Society, London

Special events and festivals

Presentations at:

• Adelaide Festival
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• British Association
• Cheltenham Festival (UK)
• Edinburgh Science Festival
• Hay-on-Wye Festival (UK)
• Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples, Rimini (Italy)
• Melbourne Writers Festival
• Northern Rivers Writers Festival, Byron Bay, Australia
• Salamanca Writers Festival, Hobart
• Science Week (Australia)
• Spoleto Festival (Italy)
• State of the World Forum (USA)
• Sydney Writers Festival
• World Economic Forum (Davos)

Named lectures

Abdus Salam Lecture (Trieste, Italy)
Benjamin Meaker Lecture (Bristol)
Bunyan Lecture (Stanford)
Davies Lecture (Tacoma, WA)
Faraday Prize Lecture
McNair lecture (North Carolina)
Medlin lecture (Adelaide)
Templeton Lecture (Sydney)
Templeton Prize Lecture (London)
Trotter Prize Lecture
Whitrow lecture (Royal Astronomical Society, London)
Witherspoon lecture (Charlotte)

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