Welcome to Caltech's Streaming Theater

This site houses streaming video of lectures and public events featuring Caltech faculty, students, or distinguished visiting speakers from 1999-early 2010.

Streaming Theater videos have been organized into three categories.

• Science and Technology includes (among many other topics) the popular Watson Lecture Series and the Everhart graduate student lectures, as well as the informative "Earthquakes 101."
• Campus Life showcases campus events such as Caltech's annual commencement ceremonies and Mechanical Engineering 72 competitions.
• Society and Culture encompasses varied topics including documentary filmmaking, voting technology, national defense, and diversity in science education.

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Many Watson Lectures are available for purchase on DVD. To request a copy, fill out the DVD Order Form (PDF).

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Featured on the Streaming Theater:

	Thanos Siapas: Neuronal Mechanisms of Memory Formation 5/19/2010 [broadband] [cable/DSL] [Real audio] [MP3 audio] 50 minutes In an Earnest C. Watson lecture, Caltech's Athanassios (Thanos) Siapas, associate professor of computation and neural systems and a Bren Scholar in the Division of Biology, explains how neuronal activity in the hippocampus area of the brain is organized and how these activity patterns may support learning and memory formation.
	Brian Wernicke: The Ancient California River and How it Carved Grand Canyon in the Age of T. Rex 4/7/2010 [broadband] [cable/DSL] [Real audio] [MP3 audio] 50 minutes A long-held consensus is that the Grand Canyon is six million years old and was carved by the Colorado River. In an Earnest C. Watson lecture, Caltech's Chandler Family Professor of Geology Brian Wernicke explains how data collected over the last three years suggest instead that the canyon was incised between 70 and 80 million years ago by a river flowing in the opposite direction to the modern Colorado.
	Sally Bane: Spark-Ignited Explosions: The Intersection of Chemistry, Fluid Mechanics, and Electrodynamics 5/18/2010 [broadband] [cable/DSL] [Real audio] [MP3 audio] 53 minutes Sally Bane, a student in the Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT), discusses her work examining the statistical nature of spark ignition of flammable mixtures that are of interest in aviation safety testing.