Welcome to Caltech's Streaming Theater page.

This site houses streaming video of many of the programs that were available to the Caltech community from 1999 to the present. Most of these events took place on campus in Beckman Auditorium, and feature Caltech faculty, students, or distinguished visiting speakers.

For browsing ease, the offerings have been sorted into three general 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.

To view webcasts offered by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), please see their Events site. To view webcasts offered by the Spitzer Space Telescope and NASA TV, please see the News Room site.

To view these streams you will need to download Real Player. For help deciding which version of Real Player is best for your system, please see our help page.

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

Recent additions:

	Commencement 2009 6/12/2009 [view videos] 118 minutes These tribal rites have a very long history. They go back to the ceremony of initiation for new university teachers in medieval Europe. It was then customary for students, after an appropriate apprenticeship to learning and the presentation of a thesis as their masterpiece, to be admitted to the Guild of Masters of Arts and granted the license to teach.
	Gwyneth Card: Making an Escape: Neural Control and Biomechanics of Flight Initiation in Drosophila 5/14/2009 [56k modem] [cable/DSL] [high resolution] 56 minutes Gwyneth Card, a postdoctoral scholar in bioengineering at Caltech, explained how she and her colleagues have used high-speed videography to capture sequences of flight initiation by fruit flies. The group has discovered two types of Drosophila flight initiation, each resulting in a different type of flight performance once the fly is airborne. Their findings indicate a sophisticated motor program—evidence for a form of rapid, visually mediated motor planning in a genetically accessible model organism.
	John Bryson: Energy and Climate Policy: The Decade Ahead 5/27/2009 [56k modem] [broadband] [high resolution] 95 minutes In a talk called "Energy and Climate Policy: The Decade Ahead," John Bryson discussed how California's distinctive approach to clean energy systems may help guide the United States and other countries in their efforts to lower carbon emissions. Bryson is a commissioner of the National Commission on Energy Policy and the former chairman, CEO, and president of Edison International, the parent company of Southern California Edison.