Brad Marston, Physics Professor and Director of the Brown Theoretical Physics Center Providence, Rhode IslandÂ
Can physics save the planet from climate change? No single solution will work, but this talk will explore how physks can help us fight climate change in the present and future. Physics helps us understand climate change. It also guides the design of energy sources that don't pollute the air as much as fossil fuels, like wind and solar power, and nuclear fusion. The physical science behind removing carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere gives us some hope that we can eventually fix the damage we ve done. More radical schemes to cool the Earth will also be mentioned.
 Brad Marston is a professor of physics at Brown University, and Director of the Brown Theoretical Physics Center. A graduate of Caltech, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1989 and did postdoctoral work at Cornell University as an IBM Fellow. He has been a visiting professor at MIT, a visiting associate at Caltech, a visiting professor at ENS-Lyon, and a General Member of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at UC Santa Barbara. Marston is an Alfred P. Sloan fellow and a recipient of a National Young Investigator Award. In 2008 he was designated a NSF American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellow, and in 2010 an American Physical Society (APS) Outstanding Referee. Marston is a fellow and lifetime member of the American Physical Society (APS). He has chaired the Advisory Board of the KITP, and was a Councilor for the APS Division of Condensed Matter Physics (DCMP). He is the elected president of the APS for 2026.
Host:Â Victor Yakovenko