# Lectern (lectern.tv) — Full Academic Catalog Reference

> Ad-free, peer-curated academic video index of 2,900+ full-length university courses, departmental colloquia, and research seminars from MIT, Yale, Stanford, Oxford, IAS, and Perimeter Institute.

## 1. Taxonomy: 10 Academic Disciplines & 56 Subfields

### Computer Systems & Software (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science)
Distributed systems, databases, operating systems, compilers, programming languages, malleable media, and computer architecture.

- **Distributed Systems** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Distributed%20Systems): Consensus protocols, replication, fault tolerance, distributed transactions, and cluster dataflow.
- **Database Systems** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Database%20Systems): Storage engines, B+ and LSM trees, query optimization, MVCC concurrency control, and ACID recovery.
- **Programming Languages** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Programming%20Languages): Compilers, type systems, functional programming, runtime memory management, and language semantics.
- **Operating Systems** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Operating%20Systems): Kernel architecture, virtual memory, threads, synchronization primitives, file systems, and systems programming.
- **Computer Architecture** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Computer%20Architecture): Processor pipelines, cache hierarchies, SIMD/GPU execution, instruction set design, and hardware performance.
- **Computer Networks & Cloud** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Computer%20Networks%20%26%20Cloud): Internet architecture, TCP/IP congestion control, routing protocols, datacenter networking, and SRE.
- **Systems Security** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Systems%20Security): Memory safety, vulnerability analysis, sandboxing, privilege separation, and network/web security.
- **Software Design & HCI** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Software%20Design%20%26%20HCI): Software architecture, data abstraction, human-computer interaction, and programming media.
- **Malleable Computing & Dynamic Media** (https://lectern.tv/topics/computer-science?subtopic=Malleable%20Computing%20%26%20Dynamic%20Media): Tools for thought, dynamic/spatial media, local-first software, CRDTs, Smalltalk, hypermedia, and interactive graphics.

### Algorithms & Theoretical CS (https://lectern.tv/topics/algorithms-theory)
Algorithms, data structures, computational complexity, zero-knowledge cryptography, formal verification, and algorithmic information theory.

- **Algorithms & Data Structures** (https://lectern.tv/topics/algorithms-theory?subtopic=Algorithms%20%26%20Data%20Structures): Dynamic programming, graph algorithms, divide and conquer, randomized algorithms, and data structures.
- **Computational Complexity** (https://lectern.tv/topics/algorithms-theory?subtopic=Computational%20Complexity): Complexity classes, P vs NP, reductions, Turing machines, circuit complexity, and PCP theorems.
- **Cryptography** (https://lectern.tv/topics/algorithms-theory?subtopic=Cryptography): Zero-knowledge proofs, post-quantum and elliptic-curve cryptography, multiparty computation, and differential privacy.
- **Formal Methods & Type Theory** (https://lectern.tv/topics/algorithms-theory?subtopic=Formal%20Methods%20%26%20Type%20Theory): Lambda calculus, dependent and homotopy type theory, formal specification (TLA+), proof assistants, and logic.
- **Algorithmic Information & Coding Theory** (https://lectern.tv/topics/algorithms-theory?subtopic=Algorithmic%20Information%20%26%20Coding%20Theory): Kolmogorov complexity, Solomonoff induction, minimum description length, error-correcting codes, and information complexity.

### AI & Machine Learning (https://lectern.tv/topics/artificial-intelligence)
Deep learning, language models, reinforcement learning, mechanistic interpretability, active inference, cybernetics, and world models.

- **Language Models & NLP** (https://lectern.tv/topics/artificial-intelligence?subtopic=Language%20Models%20%26%20NLP): Transformer architectures, large language models, tokenization, pretraining, alignment (RLHF), and linguistics.
- **Deep Learning** (https://lectern.tv/topics/artificial-intelligence?subtopic=Deep%20Learning): Neural network architectures, backpropagation, automatic differentiation, diffusion and generative models.
- **Computer Vision & Graphics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/artificial-intelligence?subtopic=Computer%20Vision%20%26%20Graphics): Convolutional networks, visual recognition, 3D geometry, rendering, and computational imaging.
- **Reinforcement Learning** (https://lectern.tv/topics/artificial-intelligence?subtopic=Reinforcement%20Learning): Markov decision processes, value iteration, Q-learning, policy gradients, exploration, and planning.
- **Statistical Learning & Causality** (https://lectern.tv/topics/artificial-intelligence?subtopic=Statistical%20Learning%20%26%20Causality): Generalization bounds, VC dimension, kernel methods, Bayesian inference, and causal inference.
- **Mechanistic Interpretability, Alignment & World Models** (https://lectern.tv/topics/artificial-intelligence?subtopic=Mechanistic%20Interpretability%2C%20Alignment%20%26%20World%20Models): Mechanistic interpretability, sparse autoencoders, neural circuits, AI alignment, scalable oversight, and world models.
- **Active Inference, Cybernetics & Artificial Life** (https://lectern.tv/topics/artificial-intelligence?subtopic=Active%20Inference%2C%20Cybernetics%20%26%20Artificial%20Life): Free Energy Principle, predictive processing, Bayesian brain, second-order cybernetics, cellular automata, and artificial life.

### Mathematics (https://lectern.tv/topics/mathematics)
Linear algebra, analysis, topology, differential geometry, probability, number theory, category theory, and foundations of mathematics.

- **Linear Algebra** (https://lectern.tv/topics/mathematics?subtopic=Linear%20Algebra): Vector spaces, Gaussian elimination, eigenvalues and spectral theory, SVD, and matrix factorizations.
- **Calculus & Analysis** (https://lectern.tv/topics/mathematics?subtopic=Calculus%20%26%20Analysis): Single and multivariable calculus, real and complex analysis, measure theory, Fourier analysis, and ODEs/PDEs.
- **Topology & Geometry** (https://lectern.tv/topics/mathematics?subtopic=Topology%20%26%20Geometry): Point-set and algebraic topology, smooth manifolds, Riemannian and symplectic geometry, and algebraic geometry.
- **Probability & Information Theory** (https://lectern.tv/topics/mathematics?subtopic=Probability%20%26%20Information%20Theory): Probability distributions, limit theorems, stochastic processes, Markov chains, martingales, and Shannon entropy.
- **Combinatorics & Graph Theory** (https://lectern.tv/topics/mathematics?subtopic=Combinatorics%20%26%20Graph%20Theory): Enumerative and extremal combinatorics, generating functions, spectral graph theory, and discrete mathematics.
- **Number Theory & Abstract Algebra** (https://lectern.tv/topics/mathematics?subtopic=Number%20Theory%20%26%20Abstract%20Algebra): Groups, rings, fields, Galois theory, prime distributions, modular forms, and the Langlands program.
- **Category Theory, Topos Theory & Set Foundations** (https://lectern.tv/topics/mathematics?subtopic=Category%20Theory%2C%20Topos%20Theory%20%26%20Set%20Foundations): Categories, functors, natural transformations, adjunctions, topos theory, Yoneda lemma, forcing, and Gödelian set foundations.

### Physics & Cosmology (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics)
Quantum mechanics, relativity, quantum foundations, emergent spacetime, condensed matter, plasma fusion, biophysics, and cosmology.

- **Quantum Mechanics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Quantum%20Mechanics): Wave functions, Schrödinger equation, operator formalism, entanglement, Bell inequalities, and quantum information.
- **Relativity & Cosmology** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Relativity%20%26%20Cosmology): Special and general relativity, curved spacetime, black holes, gravitational waves, cosmic inflation, and dark matter.
- **Classical & Statistical Mechanics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Classical%20%26%20Statistical%20Mechanics): Newtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian mechanics, symmetries, thermodynamics, and statistical ensembles.
- **Electromagnetism, Waves & Optics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Electromagnetism%2C%20Waves%20%26%20Optics): Maxwell's equations, electrodynamics, electromagnetic waves, oscillations, and geometric/wave optics.
- **Condensed Matter & Materials** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Condensed%20Matter%20%26%20Materials): Solid-state physics, electronic band structure, superconductivity, topological phases, and atomic/chemical physics.
- **Quantum Field Theory & Strings** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Quantum%20Field%20Theory%20%26%20Strings): Quantum electrodynamics, gauge theories, the Standard Model, Feynman diagrams, string theory, and AdS/CFT.
- **Quantum Foundations & Emergent Spacetime** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Quantum%20Foundations%20%26%20Emergent%20Spacetime): Quantum measurement, decoherence, Everettian many-worlds, pilot-wave theory, loop quantum gravity, and emergent spacetime.
- **Plasma Physics, Fusion & High-Energy Astrophysics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Plasma%20Physics%2C%20Fusion%20%26%20High-Energy%20Astrophysics): Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), tokamak and stellarator fusion, plasma turbulence, stellar nucleosynthesis, and compact objects.
- **Biophysics, Active Matter & Nonequilibrium Physics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/physics?subtopic=Biophysics%2C%20Active%20Matter%20%26%20Nonequilibrium%20Physics): Nonequilibrium statistical physics, stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems, active matter, and molecular biophysics.

### Engineering, Control & Robotics (https://lectern.tv/topics/engineering-control)
Control theory, dynamical systems, convex optimization, robotics, Earth & planetary climate systems, bioengineering, and nanotechnology.

- **Control & Dynamical Systems** (https://lectern.tv/topics/engineering-control?subtopic=Control%20%26%20Dynamical%20Systems): State-space feedback control, PID and LQR, Kalman filtering, Lyapunov stability, chaos, and fluid dynamics.
- **Convex Optimization** (https://lectern.tv/topics/engineering-control?subtopic=Convex%20Optimization): Convex sets and functions, Lagrangian duality, KKT optimality, interior-point methods, and linear/semidefinite programming.
- **Signal Processing & Robotics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/engineering-control?subtopic=Signal%20Processing%20%26%20Robotics): Digital signal processing, compressed sensing, robot kinematics, underactuated dynamics, and aerospace systems.
- **Complex Systems & Scaling** (https://lectern.tv/topics/engineering-control?subtopic=Complex%20Systems%20%26%20Scaling): Scaling laws, emergence, network science, self-organization, cellular automata, and collective dynamics.
- **Earth, Planetary Science & Climate Dynamics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/engineering-control?subtopic=Earth%2C%20Planetary%20Science%20%26%20Climate%20Dynamics): Geophysics, atmospheric and ocean dynamics, paleoclimate, plate tectonics, glaciology, and planetary habitability.
- **Bioengineering, Neural Interfaces & Biomechanics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/engineering-control?subtopic=Bioengineering%2C%20Neural%20Interfaces%20%26%20Biomechanics): Brain-computer interfaces (BCI), neural prosthetics, optogenetic engineering, tissue engineering, and biomechanics.
- **Materials Science, Nanotechnology & Photonics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/engineering-control?subtopic=Materials%20Science%2C%20Nanotechnology%20%26%20Photonics): Semiconductor fabrication, metamaterials, nanophotonics, crystallography, battery electrochemistry, and quantum materials.

### Biology & Neuroscience (https://lectern.tv/topics/biology-neuroscience)
Cognitive neuroscience, behavioral biology, genetics, morphogenesis & bioelectricity, origin of life, longevity, and consciousness science.

- **Neuroscience & Cognition** (https://lectern.tv/topics/biology-neuroscience?subtopic=Neuroscience%20%26%20Cognition): Systems and cognitive neuroscience, sensory perception, synaptic transmission, memory, and psychology.
- **Behavioral & Evolutionary Biology** (https://lectern.tv/topics/biology-neuroscience?subtopic=Behavioral%20%26%20Evolutionary%20Biology): Natural selection, behavioral ecology, neuroendocrinology, evolutionary psychology, and earth/ecological systems.
- **Genetics & Molecular Biology** (https://lectern.tv/topics/biology-neuroscience?subtopic=Genetics%20%26%20Molecular%20Biology): Genomics, DNA replication and transcription, CRISPR genome editing, protein biochemistry, and epidemiology.
- **Morphogenesis, Bioelectricity & Origin of Life** (https://lectern.tv/topics/biology-neuroscience?subtopic=Morphogenesis%2C%20Bioelectricity%20%26%20Origin%20of%20Life): Bioelectric patterning, regenerative morphogenesis, xenobots, synthetic biology, abiogenesis, RNA world, and astrobiology.
- **Longevity, Cellular Senescence & Immunology** (https://lectern.tv/topics/biology-neuroscience?subtopic=Longevity%2C%20Cellular%20Senescence%20%26%20Immunology): Biology of aging, epigenetic reprogramming, cellular senescence, mitochondrial bioenergetics, and adaptive/innate immunology.
- **Consciousness Science, Sleep & Computational Psychiatry** (https://lectern.tv/topics/biology-neuroscience?subtopic=Consciousness%20Science%2C%20Sleep%20%26%20Computational%20Psychiatry): Neural correlates of consciousness, Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace, sleep neurobiology, and computational psychiatry.

### Economics, Game Theory & Finance (https://lectern.tv/topics/economics-finance)
Game theory, mechanism design, macro & microeconomics, financial markets, complexity economics, ergodicity, and economic history.

- **Game Theory & Mechanism Design** (https://lectern.tv/topics/economics-finance?subtopic=Game%20Theory%20%26%20Mechanism%20Design): Nash equilibria, extensive-form games, backward induction, auction theory, mechanism design, and social choice.
- **Financial Theory & Markets** (https://lectern.tv/topics/economics-finance?subtopic=Financial%20Theory%20%26%20Markets): Asset pricing, CAPM, portfolio optimization, corporate valuation, options pricing, and market microstructure.
- **Micro & Macroeconomics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/economics-finance?subtopic=Micro%20%26%20Macroeconomics): Consumer and producer theory, general equilibrium, monetary and fiscal policy, public finance, and development.
- **Complexity Economics, Economic History & Institutions** (https://lectern.tv/topics/economics-finance?subtopic=Complexity%20Economics%2C%20Economic%20History%20%26%20Institutions): Non-ergodic economics, agent-based markets, increasing returns, institutional economic history, and technological revolutions.

### Philosophy & Ethics (https://lectern.tv/topics/philosophy)
Moral and political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, existentialism, phenomenology, continental thought, and philosophy of science.

- **Moral & Political Philosophy** (https://lectern.tv/topics/philosophy?subtopic=Moral%20%26%20Political%20Philosophy): Utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, virtue ethics, social contract theory, distributive justice, and political legitimacy.
- **Metaphysics, Mind & Mortality** (https://lectern.tv/topics/philosophy?subtopic=Metaphysics%2C%20Mind%20%26%20Mortality): Consciousness, philosophy of mind, personal identity, free will, epistemology, skepticism, and mortality.
- **Philosophy of Science & Logic** (https://lectern.tv/topics/philosophy?subtopic=Philosophy%20of%20Science%20%26%20Logic): Scientific realism, foundations of physics and mathematics, philosophy of language, and formal epistemology.
- **Existentialism, Phenomenology & Continental Thought** (https://lectern.tv/topics/philosophy?subtopic=Existentialism%2C%20Phenomenology%20%26%20Continental%20Thought): Existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and critical theory.

### History & Humanities (https://lectern.tv/topics/history-humanities)
Ancient and modern history, comparative mythology & folklore, historical linguistics & philology, architecture, art history, and literature.

- **Ancient & Classical History** (https://lectern.tv/topics/history-humanities?subtopic=Ancient%20%26%20Classical%20History): Ancient Greece and Rome, Late Antiquity, Bronze Age civilizations, classical historiography, and medieval empires.
- **Modern History & Geopolitics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/history-humanities?subtopic=Modern%20History%20%26%20Geopolitics): Modern European and global history, revolutions, constitutional history, Cold War, and contemporary geopolitics.
- **History of Science & Literature** (https://lectern.tv/topics/history-humanities?subtopic=History%20of%20Science%20%26%20Literature): History of mathematics and science, literary theory, classical rhetoric, poetry, and intellectual history.
- **Linguistics, Philology & Historical Decipherment** (https://lectern.tv/topics/history-humanities?subtopic=Linguistics%2C%20Philology%20%26%20Historical%20Decipherment): Theoretical syntax, phonology, semantics, Indo-European comparative philology, ancient script decipherment, and language evolution.
- **Comparative Mythology, Folklore & History of Religion** (https://lectern.tv/topics/history-humanities?subtopic=Comparative%20Mythology%2C%20Folklore%20%26%20History%20of%20Religion): Comparative mythology, folklore, ritual studies, Celtic and pagan traditions, biblical history, Gnosticism, and esotericism.
- **Art History, Architecture, Music Theory & Aesthetics** (https://lectern.tv/topics/history-humanities?subtopic=Art%20History%2C%20Architecture%2C%20Music%20Theory%20%26%20Aesthetics): Architectural history and urbanism, classical and Renaissance art history, iconography, music theory, counterpoint, and aesthetics.

## 2. Complete University Courses & Syllabi

### ME 565: Optimization Bootcamp: Convex Optimization for ML & Control
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/uw-me-optimization-bootcamp-brunton
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=uw-me-optimization-bootcamp-brunton
- Institution: University of Washington
- Instructor: Steve Brunton
- Scope: 9 lectures · ~3h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Steve Brunton's intensive optimization sequence covering mathematical problem formulation, convex sets, convex functions, vector norms, Jensen's inequality, global optimality guarantees, and applications across machine learning, inverse problems, and control theory.

### LAW-CONST2: Yale LAW: America's Unwritten Constitution
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-law-america-s-unwritten-constitution
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-law-america-s-unwritten-constitution
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Akhil Reed Amar
- Scope: 19 lectures · ~8h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Philosophical and jurisprudential inquiry into constitutional interpretation beyond explicit text, examining precedent, foundational norms, natural rights traditions, and democratic legitimacy.

### 18.06: MIT 18.06: Linear Algebra
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-06-linear-algebra-strang
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-06-linear-algebra-strang
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Gilbert Strang
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~16h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Gilbert Strang's gold-standard MIT undergraduate course building geometric and algebraic intuition for systems of equations, vector spaces, orthogonality, determinants, and eigenvalues.

### NN-Z2H: Neural Networks: Zero to Hero
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/karpathy-neural-networks-zero-to-hero
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=karpathy-neural-networks-zero-to-hero
- Institution: Independent / Eureka Labs
- Instructor: Andrej Karpathy
- Scope: 11 lectures · ~20h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: From scalar autograd and backpropagation in pure Python up to modern Transformer language models built line-by-line from scratch.

### BIO 150: Stanford BIO 150: Human Behavioral Biology
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-bio-150-human-behavioral-biology-sapolsky
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-bio-150-human-behavioral-biology-sapolsky
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Robert Sapolsky
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~32h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Interdisciplinary exploration of the biological underpinnings of behavior—integrating evolutionary game theory, kin selection, molecular genetics, behavioral genetics, endocrinology, and neurobiology.

### IAS-PITP: IAS Theoretical Physics: Celestial Holography and Scattering Amplitudes
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ias-theoretical-physics-celestial-holography-and-scattering-amplitudes
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ias-theoretical-physics-celestial-holography-and-scattering-amplitudes
- Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
- Instructor: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Sabrina Pasterski & Lance Dixon
- Scope: 18 lectures · ~23h total · research
- Synopsis: Advanced theoretical physics lecture sequence at the Institute for Advanced Study exploring asymptotic symmetries, soft theorems, celestial conformal field theory, and flat-space holography.

### CST-DS: Cambridge CST: Distributed Systems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cambridge-distributed-systems-martin-kleppmann
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cambridge-distributed-systems-martin-kleppmann
- Institution: University of Cambridge
- Instructor: Martin Kleppmann
- Scope: 16 lectures · ~6h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Martin Kleppmann's concise Cambridge lecture sequence on physical and logical clocks, causality, broadcast protocols, Raft consensus, replication, CRDTs, and distributed transactions.

### LAW-CONST1: Yale LAW: America's Written Constitution
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-law-america-s-written-constitution
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-law-america-s-written-constitution
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Akhil Reed Amar
- Scope: 16 lectures · ~6h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Systematic historical and textual examination of the United States Constitution, tracing its eighteenth-century ratification, structural separation of powers, and Reconstruction amendments.

### 14.41: MIT 14.41: Public Finance and Public Policy
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-14-41-public-finance-and-public-policy
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-14-41-public-finance-and-public-policy
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Jonathan Gruber
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~25h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Microeconomic analysis of government fiscal policy, examining market failures, externalities, public goods, social insurance design, optimal taxation, and empirical policy evaluation.

### HIST 234: Yale HIST 234: The Making of Modern Ukraine
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-hist-234-making-of-modern-ukraine-snyder
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-hist-234-making-of-modern-ukraine-snyder
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Timothy Snyder
- Scope: 21 lectures · ~17h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Timothy Snyder explores a millennium of European state formation, empire, nationhood, language politics, and historical methodology through the history of Ukraine.

### CS50: Harvard CS50: Introduction to Computer Science
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/harvard-cs50-computer-science-malan
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=harvard-cs50-computer-science-malan
- Institution: Harvard University
- Instructor: David J. Malan
- Scope: 13 lectures · ~28h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Harvard's flagship introduction to algorithmic thinking and systems programming: C pointers and memory layout, data structures, Asymptotic complexity, Python, SQL relational schemas, and web security.

### LIT-CAP1: Yale LIT: Reading Marx's Capital, Volume 1 — Critical Political Economy
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-lit-marx-s-capital-volume-1-critical-political-economy
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-lit-marx-s-capital-volume-1-critical-political-economy
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Paul North
- Scope: 18 lectures · ~15h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Close textual and theoretical seminar on Karl Marx's Capital, Volume 1, analyzing the commodity form, theories of value and surplus labor, primitive accumulation, and classical political economy.

### 6.824: MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-824-distributed-systems-morris
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-824-distributed-systems-morris
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Robert Morris
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~26h total · graduate
- Synopsis: MIT's flagship graduate distributed systems course examining MapReduce, RPC, Google File System, primary-backup replication, Raft consensus, ZooKeeper, and distributed transactions.

### 14.12: MIT 14.12: Economic Applications of Game Theory
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-14-12-economic-applications-of-game-theory
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-14-12-economic-applications-of-game-theory
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Ian Ball & Muhamet Yildiz
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~26h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Formal analysis of strategic interaction in economic environments, developing static and dynamic games of complete and incomplete information, signaling, bargaining, and auction theory.

### 6.006: MIT 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-006-introduction-to-algorithms
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-006-introduction-to-algorithms
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Erik Demaine & Srini Devadas
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~19h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Foundational MIT algorithms course covering asymptotic complexity, divide-and-conquer, hashing, balanced search trees, graph search, shortest paths, and dynamic programming.

### 6.832: MIT 6.832: Underactuated Robotics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-832-underactuated-robotics-tedrake
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-832-underactuated-robotics-tedrake
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Russ Tedrake
- Scope: 24 lectures · ~32h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Nonlinear dynamics, phase-portrait geometry, dynamic programming, trajectory optimization, Lyapunov sum-of-squares verification, legged locomotion, and contact-rich manipulation.

### 9.35: MIT 9.35: Sensation and Perception in Cognitive Neuroscience
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-9-35-sensation-and-perception-in-cognitive-neuroscience
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-9-35-sensation-and-perception-in-cognitive-neuroscience
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Josh McDermott
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~22h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Neurobiological and psychophysical investigation of sensory processing, covering retinal circuitry, primary visual cortex, spatial frequency channels, color constancy, auditory localization, and attention.

### SIMONS-TCS-ML: Simons Institute: Theoretical Foundations of Modern Machine Learning
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/simons-institute-theoretical-foundations-of-modern-machine-learning
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=simons-institute-theoretical-foundations-of-modern-machine-learning
- Institution: UC Berkeley
- Instructor: Leslie Valiant, Ron Rivest & Jon Kleinberg
- Scope: 19 lectures · ~12h total · research
- Synopsis: Simons Institute research symposium investigating the algorithmic and complexity-theoretic foundations of non-convex optimization, overparameterized generalization, and statistical-computational gaps.

### PHY 1964: The Character of Physical Law (Messenger Lectures)
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cornell-messenger-lectures-character-of-physical-law-feynman
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cornell-messenger-lectures-character-of-physical-law-feynman
- Institution: Cornell University
- Instructor: Richard Feynman
- Scope: 7 lectures · ~6h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Richard Feynman's landmark seven-part Messenger Lecture series delivered at Cornell University in 1964, examining gravitation, the relation of mathematics to physics, conservation principles, symmetry, the arrow of time, quantum probability, and the discovery of new laws.

### 15-799: CMU 15-799: Query Optimization in Modern Database Systems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-15-799-query-optimization-in-modern-database-systems
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-15-799-query-optimization-in-modern-database-systems
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Andy Pavlo
- Scope: 14 lectures · ~17h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Advanced systems course on relational query optimization, analyzing System R bottom-up dynamic programming, Volcano/Cascades top-down rule engines, cardinality estimation, and join ordering.

### OXF-MATH: Oxford Mathematics: Undergraduate Student Lectures
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/oxford-mathematics-undergraduate-lectures
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=oxford-mathematics-undergraduate-lectures
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Instructor: Vicky Neale
- Scope: 14 lectures · ~11h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Authentic Mathematical Institute lectures at the University of Oxford introducing rigorous proof construction, real analysis, linear algebra, groups, and applied differential equations.

### 6.7960: MIT 6.7960: Deep Learning
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-7960-deep-learning
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-7960-deep-learning
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Phillip Isola & Sara Beery
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~25h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Rigorous graduate treatment of modern deep learning foundations at MIT, covering optimization dynamics, representation learning, sequence modeling, generative architectures, and generalization theory.

### 6.172: MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-172-performance-engineering-leiserson
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-172-performance-engineering-leiserson
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Charles Leiserson & Julian Shun
- Scope: 21 lectures · ~27h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Systematic engineering of fast software: Bentley optimization rules, bit hacks, compiler vectorization, Cilk work-span parallelism, cache-oblivious algorithms, memory allocators, and lock-free synchronization.

### 18.200: MIT 18.200: Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-200-principles-of-discrete-applied-mathematics
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-200-principles-of-discrete-applied-mathematics
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Ankur Moitra & Peter Shor
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~25h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Combinatorial and algebraic methods in applied mathematics, covering generating functions, probabilistic method, extremal graph theory, linear programming duality, and error-correcting codes.

### IAS-BH: IAS Workshop: Quantum Aspects of Black Holes and Spacetime
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ias-workshop-quantum-aspects-of-black-holes-and-spacetime
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ias-workshop-quantum-aspects-of-black-holes-and-spacetime
- Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
- Instructor: Juan Maldacena
- Scope: 19 lectures · ~14h total · research
- Synopsis: Research workshop investigating black hole information, replica wormholes, generalized gravitational entropy, von Neumann algebras in quantum gravity, and holographic spacetime emergence.

### 14.73: MIT 14.73: The Challenge of World Poverty
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-14-73-challenge-of-world-poverty-duflo
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-14-73-challenge-of-world-poverty-duflo
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~25h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee analyze poverty traps, randomized controlled trials, nutrition, preventive health, education incentives, microcredit, insurance, and institutional governance.

### IAS-HODGE: IAS Mathematics: Hodge Theory and O-Minimality in Algebraic Geometry
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ias-mathematics-hodge-theory-and-o-minimality-in-algebraic-geometry
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ias-mathematics-hodge-theory-and-o-minimality-in-algebraic-geometry
- Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
- Instructor: Jonathan Pila, Jacob Tsimerman & Thomas Scanlon
- Scope: 15 lectures · ~15h total · research
- Synopsis: School of Mathematics seminar series on period mappings, variations of Hodge structure, tame geometry via o-minimal structures, and applications to the Zilber-Pink conjectures.

### 252-0028: ETH Zürich: Digital Design and Computer Architecture
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ethz-digital-design-computer-architecture-mutlu
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ethz-digital-design-computer-architecture-mutlu
- Institution: ETH Zürich
- Instructor: Onur Mutlu
- Scope: 21 lectures · ~34h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: From CMOS transistors, combinational logic, and sequential state machines up through instruction set architectures, pipelining, out-of-order execution, caches, DRAM controllers, and hardware accelerators.

### 14.01: MIT 14.01: Principles of Microeconomics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-14-01-principles-of-microeconomics-gruber
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-14-01-principles-of-microeconomics-gruber
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Jonathan Gruber
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~17h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Constrained utility maximization, demand elasticity, production functions, competitive equilibrium, welfare theorems, monopoly pricing, oligopoly, externalities, and asymmetric information.

### 6.851: MIT 6.851: Advanced Data Structures
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-851-advanced-data-structures-demaine
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-851-advanced-data-structures-demaine
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Erik Demaine
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~30h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Persistent data structures, retroactive structures, geometric range queries, dynamic optimality, splay trees, van Emde Boas trees, fusion trees, cache-oblivious structures, and succinct representations.

### 15-721: CMU 15-721: Advanced Database Systems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-15-721-advanced-database-systems-pavlo
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-15-721-advanced-database-systems-pavlo
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Andy Pavlo
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~27h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Graduate systems seminar on modern OLAP execution engines: columnar compression, Parquet/Arrow formats, vectorized SIMD execution, JIT query compilation, worst-case optimal joins, and cloud lakehouses.

### CRYPTO-101: Introduction to Cryptography
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/rub-introduction-to-cryptography-paar
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=rub-introduction-to-cryptography-paar
- Institution: Ruhr University Bochum
- Instructor: Christof Paar
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~31h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Stream ciphers, DES, AES and finite-field arithmetic, block cipher modes, RSA, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, elliptic curve cryptography, hash functions, and digital signatures.

### 18.404J: MIT 18.404J: Theory of Computation
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-404j-theory-of-computation-sipser
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-404j-theory-of-computation-sipser
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Michael Sipser
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~28h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Michael Sipser's definitive course on finite automata, context-free grammars, Turing machines, decidability, reducibility, time and space complexity, NP-completeness, and interactive proofs.

### 9.13: MIT 9.13: The Human Brain
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-9-13-the-human-brain-kanwisher
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-9-13-the-human-brain-kanwisher
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Nancy Kanwisher
- Scope: 17 lectures · ~20h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Nancy Kanwisher charts functional organization of the human cortex through lesion neuropsychology, fMRI, diffusion tractography, visual object recognition, navigation, number, language, and theory of mind.

### PHY 503: Lectures on Modern Classical Dynamics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/princeton-phy-503-modern-classical-dynamics-polyakov
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=princeton-phy-503-modern-classical-dynamics-polyakov
- Institution: Princeton University
- Instructor: Alexander Polyakov
- Scope: 12 lectures · ~15h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Alexander Polyakov's graduate physics lectures at Princeton University exploring modern classical dynamics, Hamiltonian mechanics, adiabatic invariants, fluid turbulence, shock waves, and renormalization group methods.

### 6.046J: MIT 6.046J: Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-046j-design-and-analysis-of-algorithms-demaine
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-046j-design-and-analysis-of-algorithms-demaine
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Erik Demaine & Srini Devadas
- Scope: 18 lectures · ~23h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: MIT's upper-level algorithms sequence advancing into divide-and-conquer FFT, amortized analysis, randomized algorithms, network flow, linear programming, NP-completeness, and approximation.

### RLST 145: Yale RLST 145: Introduction to the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-rlst-145-old-testament-hayes
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-rlst-145-old-testament-hayes
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Christine Hayes
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Historical, literary, and archaeological study of the Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Near Eastern context: Mesopotamian myth, covenant law, prophecy, wisdom literature, and canon formation.

### EE364a: Stanford EE364a: Convex Optimization I
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-ee364a-convex-optimization-boyd
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-ee364a-convex-optimization-boyd
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Stephen Boyd
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~27h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Stephen Boyd's classic Stanford graduate sequence on convex sets, convex functions, duality, KKT conditions, interior-point methods, and engineering/ML modeling.

### HIST 119: Yale HIST 119: The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845–1877
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-hist-119-civil-war-blight
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-hist-119-civil-war-blight
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: David W. Blight
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Pulitzer Prize historian David Blight examines the causes, military turning points, emancipation, constitutional remaking, and contested memory of the American Civil War and Reconstruction.

### CLCV 205: Yale CLCV 205: Introduction to Ancient Greek History
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-clcv-205-ancient-greek-history-kagan
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-clcv-205-ancient-greek-history-kagan
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Donald Kagan
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~26h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Donald Kagan traces Greek civilization from the Bronze Age collapse and rise of the polis through Athenian democracy, the Persian Wars, and Thucydides' Peloponnesian War.

### 18.065: MIT 18.065: Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-065-matrix-methods-data-analysis-strang
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-065-matrix-methods-data-analysis-strang
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Gilbert Strang
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~17h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Gilbert Strang bridges numerical linear algebra and modern machine learning: singular value decomposition, low-rank approximations, Eckart-Young theorem, randomized linear algebra, and stochastic gradient descent.

### 15-859: CMU 15-859: Analysis of Boolean Functions
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-15-859-analysis-of-boolean-functions
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-15-859-analysis-of-boolean-functions
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Ryan O'Donnell
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~26h total · research
- Synopsis: Research-level course developing Fourier analysis over the Boolean hypercube, hypercontractivity, noise stability, invariance principles, and applications to hardness of approximation and social choice.

### 8.286: MIT 8.286: The Early Universe
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-8-286-the-early-universe-alan-guth
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-8-286-the-early-universe-alan-guth
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Alan Guth
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~28h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Cosmological inflation pioneer Alan Guth develops Friedmann-Robertson-Walker dynamics, cosmic microwave background physics, big-bang nucleosynthesis, dark energy, and inflationary cosmology.

### 6.S081: MIT 6.S081: Operating System Engineering
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-s081-operating-system-engineering
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-s081-operating-system-engineering
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Frans Kaashoek & Robert Morris
- Scope: 21 lectures · ~31h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Dissects UNIX operating system design around xv6 on RISC-V: page tables, traps, system calls, interrupts, locking, thread scheduling, crash-safe file systems, and virtual memory.

### 18.01SC: MIT Calculus Revisited: Single Variable Calculus
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-01sc-calculus-revisited-single-variable-gross
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-01sc-calculus-revisited-single-variable-gross
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Herbert Gross
- Scope: 12 lectures · ~7h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Herbert Gross's classic MIT blackboard series developing single-variable calculus from foundational analytic geometry and rigorous epsilon-delta limits through differentiation, induction, and infinitesimal approximations.

### ETH-GENOMICS: ETH Zürich: Algorithms and Architectures for Computational Genomics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/eth-zurich-algorithms-and-architectures-for-computational-genomics
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=eth-zurich-algorithms-and-architectures-for-computational-genomics
- Institution: ETH Zürich
- Instructor: Onur Mutlu & Can Firtina
- Scope: 17 lectures · ~11h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Cross-disciplinary course at ETH Zürich examining high-throughput genome sequence analysis, read mapping algorithms, graph genomes, and hardware acceleration for bioinformatics.

### 15-855: CMU 15-855: Graduate Computational Complexity Theory
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-15-855-graduate-computational-complexity-theory
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-15-855-graduate-computational-complexity-theory
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Ryan O'Donnell
- Scope: 18 lectures · ~24h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Intensive PhD-level complexity theory sequence examining circuit complexity, randomized computation, interactive proofs, PCP theorem foundations, pseudorandomness, and hardness amplification.

### 15-455: CMU 15-455: Undergraduate Complexity Theory
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-15-455-undergraduate-complexity-theory
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-15-455-undergraduate-complexity-theory
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Ryan O'Donnell
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~27h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Rigorous introduction to computability and complexity theory, covering Turing machines, diagonalization, NP-completeness, space complexity, Savitch's theorem, and the polynomial hierarchy.

### ECON 159: Yale ECON 159: Game Theory
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-econ-159-game-theory-polak
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-econ-159-game-theory-polak
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Ben Polak
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~26h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Rigorous undergraduate introduction to strategic reasoning: dominance, Nash equilibrium, backward induction, subgame perfection, evolutionary games, asymmetric information, and auctions.

### SIMONS-ECON: Simons Institute: Prediction, Incentives & Causal Intervention
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/simons-institute-prediction-incentives-causal-intervention
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=simons-institute-prediction-incentives-causal-intervention
- Institution: UC Berkeley
- Instructor: Kosuke Imai, Stefan Wager & Aaron Roth
- Scope: 18 lectures · ~10h total · research
- Synopsis: Interdisciplinary research sequence at the interface of economics, causal inference, and algorithmic decision-making, studying performative prediction, strategic classification, and mechanism design.

### IAS-SOC: IAS Social Science: Critical Inquiry as a Form of Life
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ias-social-science-critical-inquiry-as-a-form-of-life
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ias-social-science-critical-inquiry-as-a-form-of-life
- Institution: Institute for Advanced Study
- Instructor: Didier Fassin
- Scope: 7 lectures · ~11h total · research
- Synopsis: Institute for Advanced Study colloquium series examining moral economy, political epistemology, humanitarian ethics, and the philosophical foundations of social critique.

### IGI-CRISPR: IGI Workshop: CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Engineering & Ethics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/uc-berkeley-igi-crispr-genome-engineering-doudna
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=uc-berkeley-igi-crispr-genome-engineering-doudna
- Institution: UC Berkeley
- Instructor: Jennifer Doudna & Jonathan Weissman
- Scope: 9 lectures · ~10h total · graduate
- Synopsis: UC Berkeley Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) lecture series led by Jennifer Doudna and Jonathan Weissman covering the molecular mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas9, dCas9 transcriptional regulation (CRISPRi/CRISPRa), stem cell and clinical therapeutics, model organisms, and bioethics.

### MIT 8.04: Quantum Physics I
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/quantum-physics-i
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=quantum-physics-i
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Barton Zwiebach
- Scope: 12 lectures · ~3h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: This course introduces the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, covering wave-particle duality, the photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, and entanglement. Topics include the mathematical formalism of quantum systems and their application to phenomena such as interaction-free measurement and interferometry.

### 252-0200: ETH Zürich 252-0200: Graduate Computer Architecture
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ethz-252-0200-graduate-computer-architecture-mutlu
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ethz-252-0200-graduate-computer-architecture-mutlu
- Institution: ETH Zürich
- Instructor: Onur Mutlu
- Scope: 6 lectures · ~16h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Onur Mutlu and the SAFARI Research Group's graduate Computer Architecture lectures at ETH Zürich examining DRAM latency reduction, memory controllers, memory contention & QoS scheduling, on-chip interconnects, and network-on-chip router microarchitecture.

### MAE 5790: Cornell MAE 5790: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cornell-mae-5790-nonlinear-dynamics-chaos-strogatz
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cornell-mae-5790-nonlinear-dynamics-chaos-strogatz
- Institution: Cornell University
- Instructor: Steven Strogatz
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~27h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Flows on the line and circle, saddle-node and pitchfork bifurcations, two-dimensional phase planes, limit cycles, Hopf bifurcations, Lorenz equations, strange attractors, and fractals.

### CS 188: UC Berkeley CS 188: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/berkeley-cs188-artificial-intelligence-abbeel
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=berkeley-cs188-artificial-intelligence-abbeel
- Institution: UC Berkeley
- Instructor: Pieter Abbeel
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~31h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Uninformed and A* heuristic search, constraint satisfaction, adversarial minimax/expectimax games, Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning, Bayes nets, and particle filtering.

### 15-859BB: CMU 15-859BB: Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-15-859bb-quantum-computation-and-quantum-information
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-15-859bb-quantum-computation-and-quantum-information
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Ryan O'Donnell
- Scope: 17 lectures · ~23h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Mathematical development of quantum circuits, entanglement, quantum query complexity, phase estimation, Shor's factoring algorithm, quantum channels, and quantum error correction.

### 18.S096: MIT 18.S096: Topics in Mathematics with Applications in Finance
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-s096-mathematics-applications-finance
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-s096-mathematics-applications-finance
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Peter Kempthorne, Jake Xia & Vasily Strela
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~29h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Linear regression, time-series econometrics, stochastic calculus, Itô's lemma, Black-Scholes option pricing, portfolio optimization, volatility modeling, and risk management.

### 8.04: MIT 8.04: Quantum Physics I
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-8-04-quantum-physics-i-adams
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-8-04-quantum-physics-i-adams
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Allan Adams
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~30h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Allan Adams's celebrated MIT Spring 2013 lecture sequence introducing quantum superposition, Bell's inequalities, wavefunctions, Hermitian operators, uncertainty relations, and the Schrödinger equation.

### CS231n: Stanford CS231n: Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-cs231n-computer-vision-fei-fei-li
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-cs231n-computer-vision-fei-fei-li
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Fei-Fei Li, Justin Johnson & Serena Yeung
- Scope: 16 lectures · ~20h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Linear classifiers, computational graphs, backpropagation, convolutional architectures, batch normalization, training dynamics, object detection, semantic segmentation, and generative visual models.

### MIT 6.100L: Introduction to Computer Science and Programming using Python
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-using-python
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-using-python
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Ana Bell
- Scope: 17 lectures · ~17h total · introductory
- Synopsis: This course introduces fundamental concepts of computation and programming using Python 3, targeting students with no prior programming experience. It covers problem-solving methodologies through computational thinking, enabling students to develop basic programming skills for practical applications.

### 15-445: CMU 15-445/645: Intro to Database Systems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-15-445-database-systems-pavlo
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-15-445-database-systems-pavlo
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Andy Pavlo
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~28h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Inside modern relational and analytical DBMS internals: relational algebra, slotted-page storage, log-structured merge trees, columnar compression, buffer pool management, and hash/B+Tree indexes.

### 12.742: MIT 12.742: Marine Chemistry and Global Biogeochemical Cycles
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-12-742-marine-chemistry-and-global-biogeochemical-cycles
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-12-742-marine-chemistry-and-global-biogeochemical-cycles
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Scott Doney, Karen Casciotti & Edward Boyle
- Scope: 11 lectures · ~15h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Quantitative study of chemical equilibria and biological cycling in the oceans, analyzing carbonate chemistry, trace metal biogeochemistry, isotopic tracers, and the global carbon cycle.

### HUMS 411: The Purposes of College Education
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-hums-411-purposes-of-college-education
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-hums-411-purposes-of-college-education
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Norma Thompson & Bryan Garsten
- Scope: 14 lectures · ~11h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: A 14-session Yale Humanities seminar examining the philosophical and historical foundations of liberal education through Plato's Republic, the founding of Yale College, the American Revolution, and democratic citizenship.

### PLSC 114: Yale PLSC 114: Introduction to Political Philosophy
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-plsc-114-political-philosophy-smith
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-plsc-114-political-philosophy-smith
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Steven B. Smith
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~16h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Close philosophical reading of foundational political texts on regime, sovereignty, liberty, and citizenship: Plato's Republic, Aristotle's Politics, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville.

### 6.858: MIT 6.858: Computer Systems Security
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-858-computer-systems-security-zeldovich
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-858-computer-systems-security-zeldovich
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Nickolai Zeldovich
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~30h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Graduate-caliber engineering study of buffer overflows, privilege separation, capabilities, sandboxing, OS kernel isolation, web security models, network attacks, and side channels.

### PSI-QFT: Quantum Field Theory
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/perimeter-quantum-field-theory-david-tong
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=perimeter-quantum-field-theory-david-tong
- Institution: Perimeter Institute
- Instructor: David Tong
- Scope: 14 lectures · ~19h total · graduate
- Synopsis: David Tong's celebrated Perimeter Scholars International blackboard course covering classical fields, canonical quantization, interacting scalar theories, Wick's theorem, Feynman diagrams, Dirac spinors, and QED.

### ER22: Harvard ER22: Justice
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/harvard-er22-justice-michael-sandel
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=harvard-er22-justice-michael-sandel
- Institution: Harvard University
- Instructor: Michael Sandel
- Scope: 13 lectures · ~12h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Michael Sandel's landmark moral and political philosophy course examining Bentham, Mill, Nozick, Locke, Kant, Rawls, and Aristotle through live Socratic courtroom and policy dilemmas.

### ECON 1152: Harvard ECON 1152: Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/harvard-econ-1152-big-data-economic-problems-chetty
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=harvard-econ-1152-big-data-economic-problems-chetty
- Institution: Harvard University
- Instructor: Raj Chetty
- Scope: 18 lectures · ~21h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Applies administrative tax, education, and census datasets to intergenerational mobility, neighborhood effects, innovation, health disparities, and tax policy.

### OXF-INTRO: Oxford Mathematics: Introduction to University Mathematics (2026)
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/oxford-intro-university-mathematics-2026-munro
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=oxford-intro-university-mathematics-2026-munro
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Instructor: James Munro
- Scope: 7 lectures · ~9h total · introductory
- Synopsis: James Munro's seven-part Oxford Mathematics foundational sequence bridging pre-university calculus and algebra with rigorous university proof construction, set theory, equivalence relations, functions, and formal quantifier logic.

### 6.042J: MIT 6.042J: Mathematics for Computer Science
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-042j-mathematics-for-cs-leighton
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-042j-mathematics-for-cs-leighton
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Tom Leighton
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~29h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Discrete mathematical foundations for theoretical computer science: proof techniques, well-ordering, number theory, RSA cryptography, graph theory, recurrences, generating functions, and discrete probability.

### EEB 122: Yale EEB 122: Principles of Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-eeb-122-evolution-ecology-behavior-stearns
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-eeb-122-evolution-ecology-behavior-stearns
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Stephen C. Stearns
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~17h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Natural selection, neutral evolution, phylogenetic reconstruction, speciation, life-history optimization, evolutionary medicine, coevolution, behavioral ecology, and ecosystem dynamics.

### MATH 53: MATH 53: Multivariable Calculus
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/uc-berkeley-math-53-multivariable-calculus-frenkel
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=uc-berkeley-math-53-multivariable-calculus-frenkel
- Institution: UC Berkeley
- Instructor: Edward Frenkel
- Scope: 12 lectures · ~16h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Edward Frenkel's UC Berkeley course on multivariable calculus: parametric curves in 2D and 3D space, polar coordinates, vector geometry in R3, limits, partial derivatives, differentials, directional derivatives, and multivariable optimization.

### TM-GR: The Theoretical Minimum: General Relativity
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-theoretical-minimum-general-relativity-susskind
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-theoretical-minimum-general-relativity-susskind
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Leonard Susskind
- Scope: 10 lectures · ~18h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Equivalence principle, Riemannian metric geometry, covariant derivatives, Christoffel symbols, Riemann curvature tensor, Einstein field equations, Schwarzschild black holes, and gravitational waves.

### CS 156: Caltech CS 156: Learning From Data
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/caltech-cs156-learning-from-data-abu-mostafa
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=caltech-cs156-learning-from-data-abu-mostafa
- Institution: Caltech
- Instructor: Yaser Abu-Mostafa
- Scope: 18 lectures · ~24h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Yaser Abu-Mostafa's famed Caltech course on statistical learning theory: Hoeffding's inequality, VC dimension, bias-variance tradeoff, regularization, support vector machines, and neural nets.

### EE263: Stanford EE263: Introduction to Linear Dynamical Systems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-ee263-linear-dynamical-systems-boyd
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-ee263-linear-dynamical-systems-boyd
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Stephen Boyd
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~24h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Stephen Boyd develops applied linear algebra and matrix exponential dynamics: least-squares estimation, singular value geometry, autonomous state trajectories, controllability, and LQR design.

### GIFFORD: The Gifford Lectures: The Conversions of Christianity
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/edinburgh-gifford-lectures-conversions-of-christianity-fredriksen
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=edinburgh-gifford-lectures-conversions-of-christianity-fredriksen
- Institution: University of Edinburgh
- Instructor: Paula Fredriksen
- Scope: 6 lectures · ~9h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Paula Fredriksen's six-part Gifford Lecture series at the University of Edinburgh tracing the social, theological, and political transformations of early Christianity across the Mediterranean world.

### MAS 3105: Linear Algebra: Systems, Matrices & Transformations
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/fiu-mas-3105-linear-algebra-valerie-hower
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=fiu-mas-3105-linear-algebra-valerie-hower
- Institution: Florida International University
- Instructor: Valerie Hower
- Scope: 12 lectures · ~9h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Full undergraduate classroom sequence on linear algebra by Valerie Hower covering systems of linear equations, Gauss-Jordan elimination, matrix algebra, geometric linear transformations, and invertible operators.

### 18.02SC: MIT Calculus Revisited: Multivariable & Vector Calculus
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-02sc-calculus-revisited-multivariable-gross
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-02sc-calculus-revisited-multivariable-gross
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Herbert Gross
- Scope: 13 lectures · ~7h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Herbert Gross's MIT lecture sequence covering vector algebra in R3, dot and cross products, lines and planes, vector-valued functions, polar kinematics, n-dimensional vector spaces, partial differentiation, and complex numbers.

### HIST 116: Yale HIST 116: The American Revolution
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-hist-116-american-revolution-freeman
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-hist-116-american-revolution-freeman
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Joanne B. Freeman
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~16h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Joanne Freeman reconstructs the political, social, and ideological upheaval of British North America from imperial crisis and street protest through independence, war, and constitutional founding.

### CHEM 125a: Yale CHEM 125a: Freshman Organic Chemistry I
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-chem-125a-freshman-organic-chemistry-mcbride
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-chem-125a-freshman-organic-chemistry-mcbride
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: J. Michael McBride
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Grounds organic chemistry in quantum mechanics and experimental history—from force laws, wavefunctions, and X-ray diffraction to stereochemistry, conformational strain, and reaction mechanisms.

### STAT 110: Harvard STAT 110: Probability
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/harvard-stat-110-probability-blitzstein
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=harvard-stat-110-probability-blitzstein
- Institution: Harvard University
- Instructor: Joe Blitzstein
- Scope: 21 lectures · ~17h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Harvard's celebrated probability sequence building story proofs, conditioning, Bayes' theorem, indicator random variables, continuous distributions, moment generating functions, and Markov chains.

### TM-QM: The Theoretical Minimum: Quantum Mechanics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-theoretical-minimum-quantum-mechanics-susskind
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-theoretical-minimum-quantum-mechanics-susskind
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Leonard Susskind
- Scope: 10 lectures · ~18h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Leonard Susskind builds quantum mechanics from two-state spin systems: complex vector spaces, Hermitian operators, tensor products, quantum entanglement, Bell inequalities, and wavefunctions.

### 15-859Q: Quantum Computer Programming in 100 Easy Lessons
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-quantum-programming-100-lessons-odonnell
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-quantum-programming-100-lessons-odonnell
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Ryan O'Donnell
- Scope: 7 lectures · ~2h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Ryan O'Donnell's Carnegie Mellon lecture sequence on quantum algorithms, rotation planes, phase estimation in superposition, Shor's quantum factoring algorithm, the Hadamard transform, and Grover's search algorithm.

### ME 564: Control Bootcamp: Linear Systems & Optimal Control
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/uw-control-bootcamp-steve-brunton
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=uw-control-bootcamp-steve-brunton
- Institution: University of Washington
- Instructor: Steve Brunton
- Scope: 8 lectures · ~3h total · graduate
- Synopsis: State-space dynamical systems, stability eigenvalues, controllability, observability, Linear Quadratic Regulators (LQR), and Kalman filtering derived for modern control engineering.

### PHIL 181: Yale PHIL 181: Philosophy and the Science of Human Nature
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-phil-181-philosophy-human-nature-gendler
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-phil-181-philosophy-human-nature-gendler
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Tamar Szabó Gendler
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~17h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Pairs Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hobbes, Kant, and Mill with contemporary cognitive science, behavioral economics, and moral psychology on flourishing, habit, and justice.

### PSYC 110: Yale PSYC 110: Introduction to Psychology
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-psyc-110-introduction-to-psychology-bloom
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-psyc-110-introduction-to-psychology-bloom
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Paul Bloom
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~19h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Paul Bloom's comprehensive Yale survey of mind and behavior: neural foundations, perception, language acquisition, cognitive development, emotion, morality, and social psychology.

### MATH 131: Harvey Mudd Math 131: Real Analysis
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/harvey-mudd-math-131-real-analysis-francis-su
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=harvey-mudd-math-131-real-analysis-francis-su
- Institution: Harvey Mudd College
- Instructor: Francis Su
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~25h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Dedekind cuts construction of the reals, metric space topology, compactness, Heine-Borel theorem, connected sets, Cauchy sequences, uniform continuity, and function spaces.

### CS223A: Stanford CS223A: Introduction to Robotics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-cs223a-introduction-to-robotics-khatib
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-cs223a-introduction-to-robotics-khatib
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Oussama Khatib
- Scope: 16 lectures · ~19h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Spatial descriptions, Denavit-Hartenberg forward and inverse kinematics, manipulator Jacobians, Lagrangian dynamics, trajectory generation, and operational-space force control.

### CS 285: UC Berkeley CS 285: Deep Reinforcement Learning
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/berkeley-cs285-deep-reinforcement-learning-levine
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=berkeley-cs285-deep-reinforcement-learning-levine
- Institution: UC Berkeley
- Instructor: Sergey Levine
- Scope: 11 lectures · ~4h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Imitation learning, policy gradients, actor-critic algorithms, value-function Q-learning, model-based RL, offline reinforcement learning, exploration, and inverse RL.

### COMP0089: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/deepmind-ucl-reinforcement-learning-david-silver
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=deepmind-ucl-reinforcement-learning-david-silver
- Institution: Google DeepMind
- Instructor: David Silver
- Scope: 10 lectures · ~16h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Foundational reinforcement learning course taught by AlphaGo lead researcher David Silver: Markov Decision Processes, Bellman optimality, dynamic programming, Monte Carlo, TD learning, and function approximation.

### EECS 16A: EECS 16A: Designing Information Devices and Systems I
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/uc-berkeley-eecs-16a-designing-information-devices
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=uc-berkeley-eecs-16a-designing-information-devices
- Institution: UC Berkeley
- Instructor: Bernhard Boser & Gireeja Ranade
- Scope: 10 lectures · ~14h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: UC Berkeley's foundational Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences course integrating linear algebra, circuit analysis, resistive networks, nodal analysis, and real-world information-sensing systems.

### AI-DYN: Exploring System Dynamics in the Natural World with AI
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ut-austin-exploring-system-dynamics-natural-world-ai
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ut-austin-exploring-system-dynamics-natural-world-ai
- Institution: UT Austin
- Instructor: William Gilpin & Nikola Kovachki
- Scope: 7 lectures · ~5h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Interdisciplinary scientific machine learning symposium exploring neural operators, chaotic dynamical systems forecasting, climate modeling, and physics-informed AI in the natural sciences.

### OXF-PHIL: Oxford Philosophy: General Philosophy
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/oxford-general-philosophy-millican
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=oxford-general-philosophy-millican
- Institution: University of Oxford
- Instructor: Peter Millican
- Scope: 8 lectures · ~2h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Oxford's foundational undergraduate philosophy sequence covering skepticism, knowledge, induction, mind and body, personal identity, free will, and early modern metaphysics.

### 16.885J: MIT 16.885J: Aircraft Systems Engineering (The Space Shuttle)
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-16-885j-aircraft-systems-space-shuttle-hoffman
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-16-885j-aircraft-systems-space-shuttle-hoffman
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Jeffrey Hoffman & Aaron Cohen
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~40h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Systems engineering case study of the Space Shuttle taught by NASA's former Space Shuttle program manager and astronauts: main engines, thermal protection tiles, avionics, aerodynamics, and Columbia/Challenger lessons.

### PHIL-20C: The Self Under Siege: Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/rick-roderick-self-under-siege-philosophy
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=rick-roderick-self-under-siege-philosophy
- Institution: Duke University
- Instructor: Rick Roderick
- Scope: 8 lectures · ~6h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Celebrated lecture series examining Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, Heidegger, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Habermas, Foucault, Derrida, and Baudrillard on modernity and human agency.

### 6.001: MIT 6.001: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-001-sicp-abelson-sussman
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-001-sicp-abelson-sussman
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Hal Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman
- Scope: 2 lectures · ~2h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Hal Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman's landmark MIT 6.001 lectures introducing computational thinking, Lisp, procedural abstraction, linear recursion versus iteration, and the substitution model of evaluation.

### SFI-CX: Santa Fe Institute: Foundations of Complex Systems
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/sfi-complexity-science-colloquia
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=sfi-complexity-science-colloquia
- Institution: Santa Fe Institute
- Instructor: David Krakauer, Melanie Mitchell & Steven Strogatz
- Scope: 21 lectures · ~30h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Interdisciplinary lectures exploring emergence, scaling laws, algorithmic information, network dynamics, biological computation, and collective intelligence across physical and social systems.

### FINC-UB: NYU Stern: Corporate Valuation
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/nyu-stern-undergraduate-valuation-damodaran
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=nyu-stern-undergraduate-valuation-damodaran
- Institution: New York University
- Instructor: Aswath Damodaran
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~29h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Intrinsic discounted cash flow valuation, equity risk premiums, cost of capital, growth estimation, terminal value, relative multiples, and valuing private and distressed firms.

### 24.900: MIT 24.900: Introduction to Linguistics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-richards
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-24-900-introduction-to-linguistics-richards
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Norvin Richards
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~25h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Morphology, phonetics, phonology, generative syntax, compositional semantics, pragmatics, historical language change, and universal structural constraints across human languages.

### 14.02: MIT 14.02: Principles of Macroeconomics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-14-02-principles-of-macroeconomics-caballero
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-14-02-principles-of-macroeconomics-caballero
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Ricardo Caballero
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~16h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: National income accounting, IS-LM equilibrium, central bank monetary policy, inflation expectations, labor markets, Solow long-run growth, open-economy exchange rates, and financial crises.

### 7.016: MIT 7.016: Introductory Biology
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-7-016-introductory-biology-imperiali
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-7-016-introductory-biology-imperiali
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Barbara Imperiali & Adam Martin
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Chemical building blocks of life, protein folding, enzymatic catalysis, DNA replication, transcription, translation, Mendelian and molecular genetics, cell signaling, and developmental biology.

### The Character of Physical Law
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/the-character-of-physical-law
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=the-character-of-physical-law
- Institution: Cornell University
- Instructor: Richard Feynman
- Scope: 4 lectures · ~4h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: This series explores fundamental principles governing physical phenomena, examining concepts such as gravitation, symmetry, and the arrow of time. The lectures culminate in a discussion of the methodologies employed in the discovery and formulation of new physical laws.

### 5.111SC: MIT 5.111SC: Principles of Chemical Science
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-5-111sc-principles-chemical-science-drennan
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-5-111sc-principles-chemical-science-drennan
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Catherine Drennan
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~16h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Atomic orbitals, molecular orbital theory, VSEPR geometry, thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, acid-base titration, electrochemistry, transition metals, and reaction kinetics.

### ECON 252: Yale ECON 252: Financial Markets
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-econ-252-financial-markets-shiller
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-econ-252-financial-markets-shiller
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Robert Shiller
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~27h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Nobel laureate Robert Shiller examines the theory, history, and behavioral foundations of risk management, portfolio diversification, efficient markets, real estate, banking, and regulation.

### 8.05: MIT 8.05: Quantum Physics II
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-8-05-quantum-physics-ii-zwiebach
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-8-05-quantum-physics-ii-zwiebach
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Barton Zwiebach
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~31h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Dirac bra-ket formalism, spin-1/2 precession, unitary time evolution, coherent states, orbital and spin angular momentum addition, tensor products, and entanglement.

### CRYPTO: Applied & Post-Quantum Cryptography
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/rub-applied-and-post-quantum-cryptography-paar
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=rub-applied-and-post-quantum-cryptography-paar
- Institution: Ruhr University Bochum
- Instructor: Christof Paar
- Scope: 5 lectures · ~7h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Christof Paar's cryptography lectures covering hash-based post-quantum signatures, Merkle signature schemes, message authentication codes (MAC/HMAC), symmetric key establishment with Kerberos, and PKI certificates.

### Clojure/Conj 2026 Conference Talks
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/clojure-conj-2026-conference-talks
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=clojure-conj-2026-conference-talks
- Institution: Griffin Financial Technology
- Instructor: Allen Rohner
- Scope: 5 lectures · ~3h total · research
- Synopsis: This collection presents advanced topics and research contributions from the Clojure/Conj 2026 conference. Lectures cover specialized areas such as parallel compilation, JVM performance optimization, functional programming pedagogy, infrastructure development, and data modeling with Datomic.

### 18.100A: MIT 18.100A: Real Analysis
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-100a-real-analysis-rodriguez
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-100a-real-analysis-rodriguez
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Casey Rodriguez
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~26h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Rigorous proof-based analysis of the real numbers, completeness, metric compactness, continuity, uniform convergence, differentiation, and the Riemann integral.

### Category Theory for Programmers
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/category-theory-for-programmers
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=category-theory-for-programmers
- Institution: Independent Scholar
- Instructor: Bartosz Milewski
- Scope: 16 lectures · ~11h total · graduate
- Synopsis: This course introduces the fundamental concepts of category theory, emphasizing its applications and relevance within computer science and programming paradigms. Topics include categories, functors, natural transformations, and monads, developed with a focus on their formal properties and practical implications for software design.

### CS25: Stanford CS25: Transformers United
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-cs25-transformers-united
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-cs25-transformers-united
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Ashish Vaswani, Lucas Beyer & William Fedus
- Scope: 9 lectures · ~10h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Research seminar examining self-attention architectures across language modeling, multimodal reasoning, robotics, biology, and scaling laws with leading industry and academic pioneers.

### HIST 210: Yale HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-hist-210-early-middle-ages-freedman
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-hist-210-early-middle-ages-freedman
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Paul Freedman
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~17h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Traces late Roman transformation, Christianization, Byzantium, the rise of Islam and the Abbasid Caliphate, monasticism, Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire, and Viking expansion.

### PHYS 200: Yale PHYS 200: Fundamentals of Physics I
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-phys-200-fundamentals-of-physics-shankar
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-phys-200-fundamentals-of-physics-shankar
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Ramamurti Shankar
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~26h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Ramamurti Shankar derives Newtonian mechanics, conservation laws, rotational dynamics, special relativity, waves, and thermodynamics from first principles on the blackboard.

### PHIL 176: Yale PHIL 176: Death
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-phil-176-death-shelly-kagan
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-phil-176-death-shelly-kagan
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Shelly Kagan
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Rigorous analytic metaphysics and moral philosophy examining personal identity, mind-body dualism vs. physicalism, Plato's Phaedo, immortality, and whether being dead can harm a person.

### The Character of Physical Law: Messenger Lectures
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/the-character-of-physical-law-messenger-lectures
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=the-character-of-physical-law-messenger-lectures
- Institution: Cornell University
- Instructor: Richard Feynman
- Scope: 5 lectures · ~5h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: This series explores fundamental principles governing physical laws, emphasizing their mathematical character and underlying symmetries. Topics include gravitation, conservation principles, and the distinction between past and future, presented for a general academic audience.

### 15-750: CMU 15-750: A Theorist's Toolkit
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/cmu-cs-theory-toolkit-odonnell
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=cmu-cs-theory-toolkit-odonnell
- Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
- Instructor: Ryan O'Donnell
- Scope: 18 lectures · ~9h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Essential mathematical machinery for theoretical computer science research: asymptotic tail bounds, spectral graph theory, expanders, linear and semidefinite programming duality, and Fourier analysis.

### 15.401: MIT 15.401: Finance Theory I
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-15-401-finance-theory-i-andrew-lo
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-15-401-finance-theory-i-andrew-lo
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Andrew Lo
- Scope: 20 lectures · ~25h total · graduate
- Synopsis: Andrew Lo's foundational financial economics sequence covering framework of financial analysis, present value relations, yield curves, fixed-income securities, equities, portfolio theory, and market efficiency.

### ENGL 300: Yale ENGL 300: Introduction to Theory of Literature
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-engl-300-theory-of-literature-fry
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-engl-300-theory-of-literature-fry
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Paul H. Fry
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~19h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Surveys modern literary theory from Russian formalism, hermeneutics, semiotics, structuralism, and deconstruction to psychoanalysis, New Historicism, and postcolonial criticism.

### HSHM 202: Yale HSHM 202: Epidemics in Western Society Since 1600
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-hshm-202-epidemics-western-society-snowden
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-hshm-202-epidemics-western-society-snowden
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Frank M. Snowden
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Traces how bubonic plague, smallpox, cholera, tuberculosis, yellow fever, influenza, and HIV reshaped state power, urban sanitation, medical science, and social order.

### SOCY 151: Yale SOCY 151: Foundations of Modern Social Theory
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-socy-151-modern-social-theory-szelenyi
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-socy-151-modern-social-theory-szelenyi
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Iván Szelényi
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~17h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Close reading of Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, and Émile Durkheim.

### 18.02: MIT 18.02: Multivariable Calculus
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-02-multivariable-calculus-auroux
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-02-multivariable-calculus-auroux
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Denis Auroux
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Vector geometry, matrices, partial derivatives, Lagrange multipliers, multiple integrals, line and surface integrals, Green's theorem, Stokes' theorem, and the divergence theorem.

### 18.03: MIT 18.03: Differential Equations
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-18-03-differential-equations-mattuck
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-18-03-differential-equations-mattuck
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Arthur Mattuck
- Scope: 21 lectures · ~17h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Direction fields, first-order and second-order linear ODEs, complex exponentials, resonance, Fourier series, Laplace transforms, Dirac delta impulses, and linear systems.

### HIST 202: Yale HIST 202: European Civilization, 1648–1945
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-hist-202-european-civilization-merriman
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-hist-202-european-civilization-merriman
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: John Merriman
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~17h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Absolutism, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, industrialization, urban life, nationalism, imperial rivalry, World War I, the Russian Revolution, and World War II.

### 252-0206: ETH Zürich 252-0206: Seminar in Computer Architecture
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ethz-252-0206-seminar-computer-architecture-mutlu
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ethz-252-0206-seminar-computer-architecture-mutlu
- Institution: ETH Zürich
- Instructor: Onur Mutlu
- Scope: 3 lectures · ~5h total · research
- Synopsis: ETH Zürich research seminar led by Onur Mutlu dissecting recent systems papers on in-DRAM bulk bitwise execution (MIMDRAM), function-centric DRAM, RowHammer physical vulnerability mitigations, and fleet-scale memory reliability.

### TM-CM: The Theoretical Minimum: Classical Mechanics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/stanford-classical-mechanics-leonard-susskind
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=stanford-classical-mechanics-leonard-susskind
- Institution: Stanford University
- Instructor: Leonard Susskind
- Scope: 10 lectures · ~17h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Classical mechanics taught from the perspective of a modern theoretical physicist: phase-space determinism, the principle of stationary action, Euler-Lagrange equations, symmetries, Noether's theorem, and Hamiltonians.

### RLST 152: Yale RLST 152: Introduction to the New Testament History and Literature
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-rlst-152-new-testament-martin
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-rlst-152-new-testament-martin
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Dale B. Martin
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Historical-critical study of early Christian texts within Greco-Roman and Second Temple Jewish society, from Pauline letters and synoptic Gospels to apocalyptic literature.

### HSAR 252: Yale HSAR 252: Roman Architecture
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-hsar-252-roman-architecture-kleiner
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-hsar-252-roman-architecture-kleiner
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Diana E. E. Kleiner
- Scope: 21 lectures · ~25h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Concrete vaulting, urban forums, Pompeii, imperial palaces, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, Hadrian's Villa, and architectural engineering across the Roman provinces.

### IHES-CFT: Fuzzy Sphere Meets Conformal Field Theory
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/ihes-fuzzy-sphere-conformal-field-theory-yin-chen-he
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=ihes-fuzzy-sphere-conformal-field-theory-yin-chen-he
- Institution: Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)
- Instructor: Yin-Chen He
- Scope: 4 lectures · ~6h total · research
- Synopsis: Yin-Chen He's four-part research mini-course at IHES introducing fuzzy sphere regularization for 3D Conformal Field Theories, the 3D Ising transition, fermions, and emerging gauge theories.

### ASTR 160: Yale ASTR 160: Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/yale-astr-160-frontiers-astrophysics-bailyn
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=yale-astr-160-frontiers-astrophysics-bailyn
- Institution: Yale University
- Instructor: Charles Bailyn
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~18h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Exoplanet detection, orbital mechanics, stellar collapse and black holes, general relativistic tests, Hubble expansion, dark matter, and accelerating cosmic expansion.

### PHIL 241: A History of Western Philosophy
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/wheaton-history-of-western-philosophy-holmes
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=wheaton-history-of-western-philosophy-holmes
- Institution: Wheaton College
- Instructor: Arthur Holmes
- Scope: 22 lectures · ~21h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Comprehensive historical survey from Pre-Socratic cosmology, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, and Aquinas through Descartes, Spinoza, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and analytic philosophy.

### MIT 21L.601J: Old English and Beowulf
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/old-english-and-beowulf
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=old-english-and-beowulf
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Arthur Bahr
- Scope: 4 lectures · ~3h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: This course provides an intensive introduction to Old English, focusing on its grammar through short prose texts and poetry. The curriculum culminates in the study of selections from the epic poem Beowulf, emphasizing translation and linguistic analysis.

### 6.034: MIT 6.034: Artificial Intelligence
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-6-034-artificial-intelligence-winston
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-6-034-artificial-intelligence-winston
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Patrick Winston
- Scope: 3 lectures · ~3h total · undergraduate
- Synopsis: Patrick Winston's classic MIT 6.034 lectures on symbolic artificial intelligence, heuristic search algorithms, knowledge representations, trajectories and transitions, and cognitive architectures from GPS and SOAR to Minsky's Society of Mind.

### RES.16-9960: MIT RES.16-9960: Effective Technical & Research Communication
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/mit-res-16-9960-technical-communication
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=mit-res-16-9960-technical-communication
- Institution: MIT
- Instructor: Dave Custer
- Scope: 3 lectures · ~1h total · graduate
- Synopsis: MIT AeroAstro Communication Lab modules led by Dave Custer guiding graduate researchers on formulating rigorous engineering research questions, structuring faculty advisor meetings, and writing competitive fellowship proposals.

### CHEM 1A: CHEM 1A: General Chemistry
- URL: https://lectern.tv/courses/uc-berkeley-chem-1a-general-chemistry-marsden
- RSS: https://lectern.tv/feed.xml?course=uc-berkeley-chem-1a-general-chemistry-marsden
- Institution: UC Berkeley
- Instructor: Peter Marsden
- Scope: 3 lectures · ~3h total · introductory
- Synopsis: Selected UC Berkeley CHEM 1A lectures by Peter Marsden exploring chemical thermodynamics, equilibrium, electrochemistry, and molecular structure.

## 3. Guided Study Paths & Curricula

### Electromagnetism, Waves & Optics: From Classical Fields to Quantum Light
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/electromagnetism-waves-optics-from-classical-fields-to-quantum-light
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path begins with the classical foundations of oscillations and the wave-particle duality of light, progressing to the relativistic framework of electromagnetism. It culminates in an introduction to Quantum Electrodynamics, bridging classical field theory with the quantum realm.
  1. [Simple Harmonic Motion](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-17-simple-harmonic-motion-phys-200) — Ramamurti Shankar · Yale University · 1:14:00
  2. [Wave-Particle Duality of Light](https://lectern.tv/watch/3-wave-particle-duality-of-light) — Catherine Drennan · MIT · 45:51
  3. [Introduction to Relativity](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-12-introduction-to-relativity-phys-200) — Ramamurti Shankar · Yale University · 1:11:22
  4. [Important Trends in AI: How Did We Get Here, What Can We Do Now, and Where Are We Headed?](https://lectern.tv/watch/mach-zehnder-interferometers-and-beam-splitters) — Barton Zwiebach · MIT · 15:32
  5. [Quantum Dynamics III: Squeezed Vacuum States & Uncertainty Evolution](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-15-quantum-dynamics-continued-8-05) — Barton Zwiebach · MIT · 1:25:30
  6. [Quantum Electrodynamics: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Part 1](https://lectern.tv/watch/quantum-electrodynamics-the-strange-theory-of-light-and-matter-part-1) — Richard Feynman · Caltech · 1:17:58

### Relativity & Cosmology: From Spacetime to Quantum Gravity
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/relativity-cosmology-from-spacetime-to-quantum-gravity
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path begins with the foundational principles of spacetime and its classical implications, progressing through the computational tools that model cosmic evolution. It culminates in advanced theoretical frameworks that probe the quantum nature of gravity and the universe's earliest moments.
  1. [The Future of Fundamental Physics: Spacetime and Quantum Amplitudes](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-future-of-fundamental-physics-spacetime-and-quantum-amplitudes) — Nima Arkani-Hamed · Cornell University · 7:17:30
  2. [The Universe in a Box: Astrophysical Simulation and Supercomputing](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-universe-in-a-box-astrophysical-simulation-and-supercomputing) — Andrew Pontzen · Perimeter Institute · 53:02
  3. [Asymptotic Symmetries and Detectors: Part 2](https://lectern.tv/watch/asymptotic-symmetries-and-detectors-part-2-ias-pitp) — Sabrina Pasterski · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:20:08
  4. [de Sitter Quantum Cosmology: Part 1](https://lectern.tv/watch/de-sitter-quantum-cosmology-part-1-ias-pitp) — Jordan Cotler · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:17:36
  5. [de Sitter Quantum Cosmology: Part 2](https://lectern.tv/watch/de-sitter-quantum-cosmology-part-2-ias-pitp) — Jordan Cotler · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:11:27
  6. [On the Hilbert Space of Quantum Gravity from the Gravitational Path Integral](https://lectern.tv/watch/on-the-hilbert-space-of-quantum-gravity-from-the-gravitational-path-integral-ias) — Luca Iliesiu · Institute for Advanced Study · 49:11

### Mechanistic Interpretability, Alignment & World Models
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/mechanistic-interpretability-alignment-world-models
- Difficulty: research · 6 steps
- Overview: This path explores the internal workings of AI, progressing from foundational concepts of neural network training and interpretability to advanced topics in AI alignment and world models. It culminates in discussions on scalable oversight and governance, bridging technical understanding with societal impact.
  1. [The Deep Learning Revolution (Turing Award Lecture)](https://lectern.tv/watch/geoffrey-hinton-the-deep-learning-revolution-turing-award-lecture) — Geoffrey Hinton · Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · 32:28
  2. [Transformer Circuits, Induction Heads, In-Context Learning](https://lectern.tv/watch/stanford-cs25-v1-i-transformer-circuits-induction-heads-in-context-learning) — Ashish Vaswani, Lucas Beyer & William Fedus · Stanford University · 59:34
  3. [Objective-Driven AI: World Models that Learn, Remember, Reason, and Plan](https://lectern.tv/watch/objective-driven-ai-world-models-that-learn-remember-reason-and-plan) — Yann LeCun · Harvard University · 1:16:53
  4. [Atomic Facts to Structured Knowledge: Rethinking Unlearning & Jailbreaking in Large Language Models](https://lectern.tv/watch/atomic-facts-to-structured-knowledge-rethinking-unlearning-jailbreaking-in-large) — Rongzhe Wei · Google Research & TechTalks · 56:22
  5. [AI and Safety](https://lectern.tv/watch/ai-and-safety-simons-tcs-ml) — Ron Rivest · UC Berkeley · 29:26
  6. [Governance at the Technological Frontier: Translating AI Research into Oversight Policy](https://lectern.tv/watch/talk-by-inioluwa-deborah-raji-uc-berkeley) — Inioluwa Deborah Raji · UC Berkeley · 39:55

### Foundations and Frontiers of Modern Cryptography
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/foundations-and-frontiers-of-modern-cryptography
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path navigates the theoretical underpinnings of modern cryptography, beginning with computational hardness and interactive proof systems. It then progresses to advanced topics like zero-knowledge proofs, post-quantum cryptography, and the efficiency limits of secure computation, culminating in cutting-edge research.
  1. [Mathematics and Computation: The Landscape of P vs. NP](https://lectern.tv/watch/mathematics-and-computation-the-landscape-of-p-vs-np) — Avi Wigderson · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:02:49
  2. [Proofs, Knowledge, and Computation: Zero-Knowledge Interactive Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/proofs-knowledge-and-computation-zero-knowledge-interactive-systems) — Silvio Micali · MIT · 1:03:26
  3. [IP = PSPACE](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-17-ip-pspace-15-855) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:18:47
  4. [What Can the Theory of Cryptography Tell Us About AI Verification?](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-can-the-theory-of-cryptography-tell-us-about-ai-verification) — Shafi Goldwasser · Simons Institute (UC Berkeley) · 1:02:15
  5. [Introduction to Hash-based Post-quantum Cryptography (PQC)](https://lectern.tv/watch/introduction-to-hash-based-post-quantum-cryptography-pqc) — Christof Paar · Ruhr University Bochum · 1:40:59
  6. [Secure Computation and Low-Complexity Cryptography](https://lectern.tv/watch/secure-computation-and-low-complexity-cryptography) — Yuval Ishai · UC Berkeley · 1:06:15

### Topology & Geometry: From Manifolds to Moduli Spaces
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/topology-geometry-from-manifolds-to-moduli-spaces
- Difficulty: research · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path begins with the foundational concepts of geometric analysis and low-dimensional topology, establishing the tools for understanding the structure of manifolds. It then progresses to advanced topics in algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic geometry, exploring deep conjectures and modern research frontiers.
  1. [Ricci Flow After Perelman](https://lectern.tv/watch/ricci-flow-after-perelman) — Bruce Kleiner · Clay Mathematics Institute · 45:35
  2. [3-Manifolds After Perelman: Topology, Geometry, and Effective Rigidity](https://lectern.tv/watch/3-manifolds-after-perelman-topology-geometry-and-effective-rigidity) — Jeff Brock · Brown University · 59:52
  3. [The Great Wild Manifold Rodeo: Dennis Sullivan in Algebraic Topology](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-great-wild-manifold-rodeo-dennis-sullivan-in-algebraic-topology) — Michael J. Hopkins · Harvard University · 48:13
  4. [The Hodge Conjecture: Geometry and Analysis](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-hodge-conjecture-geometry-and-analysis) — Burt Totaro · Clay Mathematics Institute · 51:25
  5. [Hodge Theory of p-adic Varieties: Faltings' Legacy](https://lectern.tv/watch/hodge-theory-of-p-adic-varieties-faltings-legacy) — Wiesława Nizioł · CNRS · 48:14
  6. [Matroids and the Integral Hodge Conjecture for Abelian Varieties](https://lectern.tv/watch/matroids-and-the-integral-hodge-conjecture-for-abelian-varieties-ias-hodge) — Philip Engel · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:06:12

### The Cryptographic Revolution: From Zero-Knowledge to Post-Quantum Frontiers
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/the-cryptographic-revolution-from-zero-knowledge-to-post-quantum-frontiers
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path traces the intellectual arc of modern cryptography, beginning with the theoretical underpinnings of computational hardness and interactive proofs. It then progresses through the practical construction of secure systems, culminating in an examination of cutting-edge research in post-quantum cryptography and its implications for future security.
  1. [Mathematics and Computation: The Landscape of P vs. NP](https://lectern.tv/watch/mathematics-and-computation-the-landscape-of-p-vs-np) — Avi Wigderson · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:02:49
  2. [Proofs, Knowledge, and Computation: Zero-Knowledge Interactive Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/proofs-knowledge-and-computation-zero-knowledge-interactive-systems) — Silvio Micali · MIT · 1:03:26
  3. [IP = PSPACE](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-17-ip-pspace-15-855) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:18:47
  4. [What Can the Theory of Cryptography Tell Us About AI Verification?](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-can-the-theory-of-cryptography-tell-us-about-ai-verification) — Shafi Goldwasser · Simons Institute (UC Berkeley) · 1:02:15
  5. [SHA-3 Hash Function](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-22-sha-3-hash-function-crypto-101) — Christof Paar · Ruhr University Bochum · 1:38:17
  6. [Introduction to Hash-based Post-quantum Cryptography (PQC)](https://lectern.tv/watch/introduction-to-hash-based-post-quantum-cryptography-pqc) — Christof Paar · Ruhr University Bochum · 1:40:59

### The Cryptographic Landscape: From Zero-Knowledge to Post-Quantum Frontiers
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/the-cryptographic-landscape-from-zero-knowledge-to-post-quantum-frontiers
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path navigates the core principles of cryptography, beginning with the foundational concepts of computational hardness and interactive proofs. It then progresses to advanced topics such as zero-knowledge systems, elliptic-curve cryptography, and the emerging field of post-quantum security, equipping learners with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary cryptographic theory and practice.
  1. [Mathematics and Computation: The Landscape of P vs. NP](https://lectern.tv/watch/mathematics-and-computation-the-landscape-of-p-vs-np) — Avi Wigderson · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:02:49
  2. [Proofs, Knowledge, and Computation: Zero-Knowledge Interactive Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/proofs-knowledge-and-computation-zero-knowledge-interactive-systems) — Silvio Micali · MIT · 1:03:26
  3. [IP = PSPACE](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-17-ip-pspace-15-855) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:18:47
  4. [The Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture: A Millennium Prize Problem at 25](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-birch-swinnerton-dyer-conjecture-a-millennium-prize-problem-at-25) — Chris Skinner · Clay Mathematics Institute · 52:16
  5. [Introduction to Hash-based Post-quantum Cryptography (PQC)](https://lectern.tv/watch/introduction-to-hash-based-post-quantum-cryptography-pqc) — Christof Paar · Ruhr University Bochum · 1:40:59
  6. [What Can the Theory of Cryptography Tell Us About AI Verification?](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-can-the-theory-of-cryptography-tell-us-about-ai-verification) — Shafi Goldwasser · Simons Institute (UC Berkeley) · 1:02:15

### Software Design & Human-Computer Interaction: From First Principles to Future Paradigms
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/software-design-human-computer-interaction-from-first-principles-to-future-parad
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This path begins with fundamental computational models and the critical analysis of software complexity, progressing to the historical evolution and future of programming paradigms. It culminates in a forward-looking perspective on notation, design, and the human-computer interface.
  1. [Procedures and Processes: The Substitution Model, Recursion & Iteration](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1b-procedures-and-processes-substitution-model-sicp) — Hal Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman · MIT · 58:22
  2. [Simple Made Easy](https://lectern.tv/watch/simple-made-easy-rich-hickey-strange-loop) — Rich Hickey · Strange Loop Conference · 1:01:23
  3. [Hammock Driven Development](https://lectern.tv/watch/hammock-driven-development-rich-hickey) — Rich Hickey · Clojure/conj · 39:49
  4. [The Future of Programming](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-future-of-programming-bret-victor) — Bret Victor · DBX Conference · 32:55
  5. [On Notation: Principles and Impact in Computing](https://lectern.tv/watch/on-notation-principles-and-impact-in-computing) — Pat Hanrahan · Stanford University · 1:10:12
  6. [Critiquing CS Education and Reinventing Programming](https://lectern.tv/watch/critiquing-cs-education-and-reinventing-programming) — Alan Kay · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:20:48

### Algorithms & Data Structures: From Foundations to Frontiers
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/algorithms-data-structures-from-foundations-to-frontiers
- Difficulty: graduate · 5 steps
- Overview: This study path begins with core algorithmic thinking and dynamic programming, establishing foundational problem-solving techniques. It then progresses to advanced data structures and synchronization methods, culminating in research-level insights into performance optimization and persistent data structures.
  1. [Algorithmic Thinking & Peak Finding in 1D and 2D](https://lectern.tv/watch/mit-6-006-algorithmic-thinking-peak-finding-srini-devadas) — Srini Devadas · MIT · 53:21
  2. [Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-19-dynamic-programming-i-fibonacci-shortest-paths-6-006) — Erik Demaine · MIT · 51:47
  3. [Synchronization Without Locks](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-17-synchronization-without-locks-6-172) — Charles Leiserson · MIT · 1:20:10
  4. [Persistent Data Structures](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-persistent-data-structures) — Erik Demaine · MIT · 1:23:43
  5. [Optimizing Clojure: Leveraging Modern JVM for Performance](https://lectern.tv/watch/optimizing-clojure-leveraging-modern-jvm-for-performance) — Chris Nuernberger · Griffin Financial Technology · 33:48

### The Architecture of Thought: From Programming Primitives to Human-Computer Interaction
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/the-architecture-of-thought-from-programming-primitives-to-human-computer-intera
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path navigates the intellectual landscape of Software Design and HCI, beginning with the fundamental models of computation and progressing through the critical examination of programming paradigms and the cognitive aspects of design. It culminates in a forward-looking perspective on how notation and AI shape our interaction with computing systems, preparing learners to innovate at the research frontier.
  1. [Procedures and Processes: The Substitution Model, Recursion & Iteration](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1b-procedures-and-processes-substitution-model-sicp) — Hal Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman · MIT · 58:22
  2. [Simple Made Easy](https://lectern.tv/watch/simple-made-easy-rich-hickey-strange-loop) — Rich Hickey · Strange Loop Conference · 1:01:23
  3. [Hammock Driven Development](https://lectern.tv/watch/hammock-driven-development-rich-hickey) — Rich Hickey · Clojure/conj · 39:49
  4. [The Future of Programming](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-future-of-programming-bret-victor) — Bret Victor · DBX Conference · 32:55
  5. [On Notation: Principles and Impact in Computing](https://lectern.tv/watch/on-notation-principles-and-impact-in-computing) — Pat Hanrahan · Stanford University · 1:10:12
  6. [AI's Impact on Programming: An Epistemological Perspective](https://lectern.tv/watch/ai-s-impact-on-programming-an-epistemological-perspective-from-felienne-hermans) — Felienne Hermans · Domain-Driven Design Europe · 48:26

### Computer Architecture: From Pipelines to Parallelism
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/computer-architecture-from-pipelines-to-parallelism
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path systematically builds understanding of computer architecture, starting with fundamental compiler interactions and processor optimizations. It progresses through memory management, cache hierarchies, and advanced branch prediction, culminating in the exploration of GPU-native execution and specialized AI hardware architectures.
  1. [What Compilers Can and Cannot Do](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-9-what-compilers-can-and-cannot-do-6-172) — Tao B. Schardl · MIT · 1:18:46
  2. [A Practical Guide to Data-Oriented Design](https://lectern.tv/watch/a-practical-guide-to-data-oriented-design) — Andrew Kelley · Zig Software Foundation · 46:40
  3. [Cache-Oblivious Algorithms](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-15-cache-oblivious-algorithms-6-172) — Julian Shun · MIT · 1:21:47
  4. [Advanced Branch Prediction](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-16-advanced-branch-prediction-spring-2025) — Onur Mutlu · ETH Zürich · 1:50:47
  5. [Sirius: A GPU-Native SQL Engine](https://lectern.tv/watch/sirius-a-gpu-native-sql-engine) — Xiangyao Yu · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:07:27
  6. [Mojo: Modular's Unified Device Accelerator Language](https://lectern.tv/watch/mojo-modular-s-unified-device-accelerator-language) — Chris Lattner · GPU MODE · 2:13:36

### The Architecture of Programming Languages: From Abstraction to Optimization
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/the-architecture-of-programming-languages-from-abstraction-to-optimization
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: This study path systematically unpacks the core concepts of programming languages, beginning with symbolic abstraction and immutable data. It then progresses through type systems and compiler internals, culminating in advanced optimization strategies and native compilation techniques.
  1. [Overview and Introduction to Lisp: Procedural & Symbolic Abstraction](https://lectern.tv/watch/overview-and-introduction-to-lisp) — Hal Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman · MIT · 1:12:56
  2. [Persistent Data Structures](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-persistent-data-structures) — Erik Demaine · MIT · 1:23:43
  3. [Decidability, Type Systems, and the Limits of Open Source Trust](https://lectern.tv/watch/decidability-type-systems-and-the-limits-of-open-source-trust) — 15:21
  4. [What Compilers Can and Cannot Do](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-9-what-compilers-can-and-cannot-do-6-172) — Tao B. Schardl · MIT · 1:18:46
  5. [Optimizing Clojure: Leveraging Modern JVM for Performance](https://lectern.tv/watch/optimizing-clojure-leveraging-modern-jvm-for-performance) — Chris Nuernberger · Griffin Financial Technology · 33:48
  6. [The Jank Dialect: Native Clojure on LLVM with Seamless C++ Interop](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-jank-dialect-native-clojure-on-llvm-with-seamless-c-interop) — Jeaye Wilkerson · Clojure/conj · 40:11

### Sensory Psychophysics, Cortical Circuits & Computational Genomics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/sensory-psychophysics-and-computational-genomics
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 5 steps
- Overview: Bridges MIT 9.35 Sensation and Perception (Jeremy Wolfe) with ETH Zürich Computational Genomics (Onur Mutlu) across biological signal processing and molecular sequence reconstruction.
  1. [Introduction to Perception](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-introduction-to-perception-9-35) — Josh McDermott · MIT · 1:05:10
  2. [Frequency Selectivity and Nonlinearity in Hearing](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-2-frequency-selectivity-and-nonlinearity-in-hearing-9-35) — Josh McDermott · MIT · 1:17:23
  3. [Sound Localization, Pitch, Timbre, and Loudness / Psychophysical Methods](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-3-sound-localization-pitch-timbre-and-loudness-psychophysical-methods-9-) — Josh McDermott · MIT · 38:49
  4. [Introduction to Genome Analysis](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-2-introduction-to-genome-analysis-eth-genomics) — Can Firtina · ETH Zürich · 55:39
  5. [From Molecules to Data: An Overview of DNA Sequencing Technologies](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-3-from-molecules-to-data-an-overview-of-dna-sequencing-technologies-eth-) — Can Firtina · ETH Zürich · 50:00

### Constitutional Structure, Strategic Incentives & Public Finance
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/constitutional-structure-incentives-and-public-finance
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Brings Yale Law School's Akhil Reed Amar into conversation with MIT Economics (Muhamet Yildiz and Jonathan Gruber) on how constitutional rules and fiscal institutions align incentives.
  1. [Course Introduction: Reading America's Written Constitution](https://lectern.tv/watch/course-introduction-reading-america-s-written-constitution-law-const1) — Akhil Reed Amar · Yale University · 22:59
  2. [Congressional Powers, Part 1](https://lectern.tv/watch/congressional-powers-part-1-law-const1) — Akhil Reed Amar · Yale University · 22:21
  3. [Reading Between the Lines, Part 1](https://lectern.tv/watch/reading-between-the-lines-part-1-law-const2) — Akhil Reed Amar · Yale University · 23:35
  4. [Introduction to Individual Decision-Making](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-introduction-to-individual-decision-making-14-12) — Ian Ball · MIT · 57:16
  5. [Why Study Public Finance?](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-01-why-study-public-finance-14-41) — Jonathan Gruber · MIT · 53:19
  6. [Externalities in Theory](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-02-externalities-in-theory-14-41) — Jonathan Gruber · MIT · 1:17:13

### Deep Representation Learning & Approximation Theory
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/deep-representation-learning-and-approximation
- Difficulty: graduate · 5 steps
- Overview: Pairs MIT 6.7960 Deep Learning (Isola & Beery) with CMU 15-799 Query Optimization (Pavlo) to contrast learned continuous representations with algebraic cost-based execution engines.
  1. [Introduction to Deep Learning](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-01-introduction-to-deep-learning-6-7960) — Sara Beery · MIT · 1:00:51
  2. [How to Train a Neural Net](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-02-how-to-train-a-neural-net-6-7960) — Sara Beery · MIT · 1:19:34
  3. [Approximation Theory](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-03-approximation-theory-6-7960) — Jeremy Bernstein · MIT · 1:22:42
  4. [SQL Optimization Background](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-sql-optimization-background-15-799) — Andy Pavlo · Carnegie Mellon University · 53:57
  5. [History of Query Optimizers ft. IBM System R](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-2-history-of-query-optimizers-ft-ibm-system-r-15-799) — Andy Pavlo · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:10:40

### Boolean Fourier Analysis to Quantum Complexity
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/boolean-fourier-analysis-to-quantum-complexity
- Difficulty: research · 6 steps
- Overview: Connects Ryan O'Donnell's CMU sequences on Analysis of Boolean Functions and Quantum Computation to reveal how multilinear polynomials govern both classical property testing and quantum interference.
  1. [The Fourier Expansion and Basic Formulas](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-the-fourier-expansion-and-basic-formulas-15-859) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:11:25
  2. [Probability Densities and BLR Linearity Testing](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-2-probability-densities-and-blr-linearity-testing-15-859) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:12:46
  3. [Social Choice and Influences](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-3-social-choice-and-influences-15-859) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:17:33
  4. [10^500 Parallel Universes](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-10-500-parallel-universes-15-859bb) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:08:48
  5. [Rotate, Compute, Rotate](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-2-rotate-compute-rotate-15-859bb) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:20:24
  6. [Understanding and Measuring One Qubit](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-3-understanding-and-measuring-one-qubit-15-859bb) — Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:21:29

### Chemical Principles, Bioenergetics & Morphogenesis
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/chemical-bonds-bioenergetics-and-morphogenesis
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 5 steps
- Overview: Follows physical chemistry at MIT and Yale into Nick Lane's bioenergetic origins of life, Michael Levin's cellular bioelectricity, and Svante Pääbo's Neanderthal paleogenomics.
  1. [The Importance of Chemical Principles](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-the-importance-of-chemical-principles) — Catherine Drennan · MIT · 21:19
  2. [How Do You Know?](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-how-do-you-know) — J. Michael McBride · Yale University · 46:40
  3. [The Bioenergetic and Electrical Origins of Life](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-bioenergetic-and-electrical-origins-of-life) — Nick Lane · Royal Institution · 1:03:54
  4. [Bioelectric Networks and the Collective Intelligence of Morphogenesis](https://lectern.tv/watch/bioelectric-networks-and-the-collective-intelligence-of-morphogenesis) — Michael Levin · Tufts University · 58:47
  5. [Nobel Lecture: The Neanderthal Genome and Human Evolution](https://lectern.tv/watch/nobel-lecture-the-neanderthal-genome-and-human-evolution) — Svante Pääbo · Max Planck Society · 59:11

### Behavioral Choice, Upward Mobility & Labor Economics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/behavioral-economics-mobility-and-labor
- Difficulty: introductory · 5 steps
- Overview: Unites Nobel lectures by Daniel Kahneman, Richard Thaler, and Claudia Goldin with Raj Chetty's Harvard big-data empirical research on economic opportunity.
  1. [Thinking, Fast and Slow: Heuristics, Biases, and Judgment Under Uncertainty](https://lectern.tv/watch/thinking-fast-and-slow-heuristics-biases-and-judgment-under-uncertainty) — Daniel Kahneman · Princeton University · 1:02:26
  2. [Nobel Lecture: From Cashews to Nudges — The Evolution of Behavioral Economics](https://lectern.tv/watch/nobel-lecture-from-cashews-to-nudges-the-evolution-of-behavioral-economics) — Richard H. Thaler · University of Chicago · 49:45
  3. [The Geography of Upward Mobility in America](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-01-the-geography-of-upward-mobility-in-america) — Raj Chetty · Harvard University · 1:12:47
  4. [Causal Effects of Neighborhoods](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-02-causal-effects-of-neighborhoods) — Raj Chetty · Harvard University · 1:09:15
  5. [Nobel Lecture: An Evolving Economic Force — Women in the Labor Market](https://lectern.tv/watch/nobel-lecture-an-evolving-economic-force-women-in-the-labor-market) — Claudia Goldin · Harvard University · 31:17

### Bronze Age Collapse, Ancient Near East & Imperial Rome
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/ancient-near-east-bronze-age-and-rome
- Difficulty: introductory · 6 steps
- Overview: Brings together Irving Finkel, Eric Cline, Yale's Christine Hayes and Diana Kleiner, and Cambridge's Mary Beard to reconstruct three millennia of ancient Mediterranean civilization.
  1. [The Ark Before Noah: Deciphering Ancient Mesopotamian Cuneiform](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-ark-before-noah-deciphering-ancient-mesopotamian-cuneiform) — Irving Finkel · British Museum · 58:19
  2. [1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed](https://lectern.tv/watch/1177-b-c-the-year-civilization-collapsed) — Eric H. Cline · George Washington University · 1:10:17
  3. [The Parts of the Whole](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-the-parts-of-the-whole) — Christine Hayes · Yale University · 45:46
  4. [The Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting: Biblical Religion in Context](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-2-the-hebrew-bible-in-its-ancient-near-eastern-setting-biblical-religion) — Christine Hayes · Yale University · 46:12
  5. [SPQR: Confronting the Myths of Ancient Rome](https://lectern.tv/watch/spqr-confronting-the-myths-of-ancient-rome) — Mary Beard · University of Cambridge · 59:57
  6. [Introduction to Roman Architecture](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-introduction-to-roman-architecture) — Diana E. E. Kleiner · Yale University · 42:31

### Quantum Fields, Cosmic Inflation & the Arrow of Time
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/quantum-fields-cosmic-inflation-and-time
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Moves from David Tong's Perimeter quantum field theory lectures into Alan Guth's inflationary cosmology, Jocelyn Bell Burnell's pulsar discovery, and Carlo Rovelli on thermodynamic time.
  1. [Introductory remarks on quantum field theory and classical field theory](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-01-introductory-remarks-on-quantum-field-theory-and-classical-field-theo) — David Tong · Perimeter Institute · 1:17:28
  2. [Noether's theorem and the energy momentum tensor](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-02-noether-s-theorem-and-the-energy-momentum-tensor) — David Tong · Perimeter Institute · 1:12:18
  3. [Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-inflationary-cosmology-is-our-universe-part-of-a-multiverse-part-i) — Alan Guth · MIT · 1:10:23
  4. [Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse, Part II](https://lectern.tv/watch/2-inflationary-cosmology-is-our-universe-part-of-a-multiverse-part-ii) — Alan Guth · MIT · 1:17:15
  5. [The Discovery of Pulsars](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-discovery-of-pulsars) — Jocelyn Bell Burnell · Royal Institution · 1:05:12
  6. [The Physics and Philosophy of Time](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-physics-and-philosophy-of-time) — Carlo Rovelli · Royal Institution · 54:54

### Operating Systems, UNIX & Systems Craft
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/operating-systems-unix-and-storage-internals
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Pairs MIT 6.S081 kernel engineering with first-person systems design lectures from Kernighan & Ritchie, Linus Torvalds, D. Richard Hipp, and Brendan Gregg.
  1. [The UNIX Operating System: Pipes, Files, and Composable Tools](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-unix-operating-system-pipes-files-and-composable-tools) — Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie · Bell Labs · 27:27
  2. [Operating System Engineering: Introduction and Examples](https://lectern.tv/watch/6-s081-fall-2020-lecture-1-introduction-and-examples) — Frans Kaashoek & Robert Morris · MIT · 1:19:57
  3. [OS Organization and System Calls](https://lectern.tv/watch/6-s081-fall-2020-lecture-3-os-organization-and-system-calls) — Frans Kaashoek & Robert Morris · MIT · 1:20:47
  4. [The Architecture and Bytecode Virtual Machine of SQLite](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-architecture-and-bytecode-virtual-machine-of-sqlite) — D. Richard Hipp · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:07:07
  5. [Distributed Version Control and the Design of Git](https://lectern.tv/watch/distributed-version-control-and-the-design-of-git) — Linus Torvalds · Linux Foundation · 1:10:15
  6. [Linux Systems Performance Analysis: Methodologies and Tracing](https://lectern.tv/watch/linux-systems-performance-analysis-methodologies-and-tracing) — Brendan Gregg · USENIX · 43:56

### Computability, Zero-Knowledge & Differential Privacy
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/computability-zero-knowledge-and-privacy
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Connects Michael Sipser's MIT theory of computation and Christof Paar's cryptography foundations with Turing Award lectures by Silvio Micali, Leslie Valiant, and Cynthia Dwork.
  1. [Introduction, Finite Automata, Regular Expressions](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-introduction-finite-automata-regular-expressions) — Michael Sipser · MIT · 1:00:34
  2. [Nondeterminism, Closure Properties, Conversion of Regular Expressions to FA](https://lectern.tv/watch/2-nondeterminism-closure-properties-conversion-of-regular-expressions-to-fa) — Michael Sipser · MIT · 1:03:27
  3. [Introduction to Cryptography](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-introduction-to-cryptography-by-christof-paar) — Christof Paar · Ruhr University Bochum · 1:17:24
  4. [Proofs, Knowledge, and Computation: Zero-Knowledge Interactive Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/proofs-knowledge-and-computation-zero-knowledge-interactive-systems) — Silvio Micali · MIT · 1:03:26
  5. [What Needs to Be Added to Machine Learning? PAC Learning and Reasoning](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-needs-to-be-added-to-machine-learning-pac-learning-and-reasoning) — Leslie Valiant · Harvard University · 54:36
  6. [Differential Privacy: Fundamentals to Forefront I](https://lectern.tv/watch/differential-privacy-fundamentals-to-forefront) — Cynthia Dwork · UC Berkeley · 59:33

### Markets, Political Institutions & Global Development
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/markets-institutions-and-global-development
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Combines MIT microeconomics and macroeconomics with Nobel-winning research by Daron Acemoglu and Esther Duflo on why nations prosper or remain in poverty traps.
  1. [Introduction and Supply & Demand](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-introduction-and-supply-demand) — Jonathan Gruber · MIT · 34:47
  2. [Preferences and Utility Functions](https://lectern.tv/watch/2-preferences-and-utility-functions) — Jonathan Gruber · MIT · 41:23
  3. [Introduction to 14.02 Principles of Macroeconomics](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-introduction-to-14-02-principles-of-macroeconomics) — Ricardo Caballero · MIT · 29:30
  4. [Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty](https://lectern.tv/watch/why-nations-fail-inclusive-vs-extractive-political-institutions) — Daron Acemoglu · MIT · 1:10:50
  5. [What is a Poverty Trap?](https://lectern.tv/watch/2-what-is-a-poverty-trap) — Esther Duflo & Abhijit Banerjee · MIT · 1:23:50
  6. [Field Experiments and the Fight Against Global Poverty (Nobel Lecture)](https://lectern.tv/watch/field-experiments-and-the-fight-against-global-poverty-nobel-lecture) — Esther Duflo · MIT · 35:00

### Polis, Empire & Constitutional Revolutions
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/polis-empire-and-constitutional-founding
- Difficulty: introductory · 6 steps
- Overview: Synthesizes Yale ancient, medieval, revolutionary, and political-philosophy courses to trace how republics, empires, and constitutions rise and fracture.
  1. [The Polis & the Greek Achievement: Foundations of Ancient Greek History](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-introduction-9frhg) — Donald Kagan · Yale University · 33:03
  2. [Socratic Citizenship: Plato's Apology](https://lectern.tv/watch/2-socratic-citizenship-plato-s-apology) — Steven B. Smith · Yale University · 45:35
  3. [Course Introduction: Rome's Greatness and First Crises](https://lectern.tv/watch/01-course-introduction-rome-s-greatness-and-first-crises) — Paul Freedman · Yale University · 40:08
  4. [Constantine and the Early Church](https://lectern.tv/watch/03-constantine-and-the-early-church) — Paul Freedman · Yale University · 45:17
  5. [Introduction: Freeman's Top Five Tips for Studying the Revolution](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-introduction-freeman-s-top-five-tips-for-studying-the-revolution) — Joanne B. Freeman · Yale University · 40:23
  6. [Being a British Colonist](https://lectern.tv/watch/2-being-a-british-colonist) — Joanne B. Freeman · Yale University · 39:29

### Curved Spacetime, Black Holes & Holographic Quantum Gravity
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/spacetime-relativity-and-quantum-gravity
- Difficulty: graduate · 5 steps
- Overview: Follows general relativity and quantum mechanics to their modern frontier with Feynman, Kip Thorne, Roger Penrose, Leonard Susskind, Juan Maldacena, and Nima Arkani-Hamed.
  1. [From the Big Bang to Black Holes and Gravitational Waves](https://lectern.tv/watch/from-the-big-bang-to-black-holes-and-gravitational-waves) — Kip Thorne · Caltech · 1:10:52
  2. [Singularity Theorems, Black Holes, and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology](https://lectern.tv/watch/singularity-theorems-black-holes-and-conformal-cyclic-cosmology) — Roger Penrose · University of Oxford · 56:22
  3. [ER = EPR: Wormholes, Horizon Firewalls, and Entanglement](https://lectern.tv/watch/er-epr-wormholes-horizon-firewalls-and-entanglement) — Leonard Susskind · Stanford University · 1:47:53
  4. [The Meaning of Spacetime: Black Holes and Quantum Entanglement](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-meaning-of-spacetime-black-holes-and-quantum-entanglement) — Juan Maldacena · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:14:07
  5. [The Future of Fundamental Physics: Spacetime and Quantum Amplitudes](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-future-of-fundamental-physics-spacetime-and-quantum-amplitudes) — Nima Arkani-Hamed · Cornell University · 7:17:30

### From Molecular Genetics & Evolution to the Human Cortex
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/molecules-evolution-and-cortical-cognition
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Spans biological scales from MIT biochemistry and Nobel-winning RNA therapeutics through Yale evolutionary ecology to MIT cognitive neuroscience.
  1. [Structures of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins](https://lectern.tv/watch/3-structures-of-amino-acids-peptides-and-proteins) — Barbara Imperiali & Adam Martin · MIT · 51:40
  2. [RNA-Guided Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9](https://lectern.tv/watch/rna-guided-genome-engineering-with-crispr-cas9) — Jennifer Doudna · UC Berkeley · 48:26
  3. [Developing mRNA for Therapy (Nobel Prize Lecture in Medicine)](https://lectern.tv/watch/developing-mrna-for-therapy-nobel-prize-lecture-in-medicine) — Katalin Karikó · Karolinska Institutet · 42:16
  4. [The Nature of Evolution: Selection, Inheritance, and History](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-the-nature-of-evolution-selection-inheritance-and-history) — Stephen C. Stearns · Yale University · 43:05
  5. [Introduction to the Human Brain](https://lectern.tv/watch/1-introduction-to-the-human-brain) — Nancy Kanwisher · MIT · 1:19:56
  6. [Neuroanatomy](https://lectern.tv/watch/2-neuroanatomy) — Nancy Kanwisher · MIT · 50:18

### Probability, Primes & Computational Hardness
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/probability-randomness-and-computational-hardness
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Unites MIT discrete mathematics, Harvard STAT 110 probability, Terence Tao on structure vs. randomness in the primes, and IAS/Simons complexity theory.
  1. [Introduction and Proofs](https://lectern.tv/watch/lec-1-mit-6-042j-mathematics-for-computer-science-fall-2010) — Tom Leighton · MIT · 44:09
  2. [Probability and Counting](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-probability-and-counting-statistics-110) — Joe Blitzstein · Harvard University · 46:29
  3. [Story Proofs, Axioms of Probability](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-2-story-proofs-axioms-of-probability-statistics-110) — Joe Blitzstein · Harvard University · 45:40
  4. [Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers](https://lectern.tv/watch/structure-and-randomness-in-the-prime-numbers) — Terence Tao · UCLA · 47:51
  5. [Mathematics and Computation: The Landscape of P vs. NP](https://lectern.tv/watch/mathematics-and-computation-the-landscape-of-p-vs-np) — Avi Wigderson · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:02:49
  6. [What Can the Theory of Cryptography Tell Us About AI Verification?](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-can-the-theory-of-cryptography-tell-us-about-ai-verification) — Shafi Goldwasser · Simons Institute (UC Berkeley) · 1:02:15

### Linear Dynamics, Optimal Control & Underactuated Robotics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/dynamical-systems-control-and-robotics
- Difficulty: graduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Progresses from Stanford EE263 linear dynamical systems and UW state-space control into MIT 6.832 nonlinear phase-portrait control for agile robots.
  1. [Course Overview: Applied Linear Algebra & Linear Dynamical Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-1-introduction-to-linear-dynamical-systems) — Stephen Boyd · Stanford University · 1:16:46
  2. [Linear Functions, Superposition & Matrix Representations](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-2-introduction-to-linear-dynamical-systems) — Stephen Boyd · Stanford University · 1:05:52
  3. [Linear Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/linear-systems-control-bootcamp) — Steve Brunton · University of Washington · 24:47
  4. [Stability and Eigenvalues](https://lectern.tv/watch/stability-and-eigenvalues-control-bootcamp) — Steve Brunton · University of Washington · 19:30
  5. [Robot Dynamics and Model-Based Control](https://lectern.tv/watch/6-8210-spring-2024-lecture-1-robot-dynamics-and-model-based-control) — Russ Tedrake · MIT · 1:25:07
  6. [Nonlinear Dynamics](https://lectern.tv/watch/spring-2023-6-8210-lecture-2-nonlinear-dynamics) — Russ Tedrake · MIT · 1:12:48

### Silicon Gates to High-Performance Analytical Engines
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/silicon-to-software-performance
- Difficulty: graduate · 7 steps
- Overview: Connects ETH Zürich hardware architecture (Mutlu), MIT 6.172 software performance engineering (Leiserson), C++ value semantics (Stroustrup), and CMU vectorized OLAP engines (Pavlo).
  1. [Digital Design and Computer Architecture - L1: Intro: Fundamentals, Transistors, Gates](https://lectern.tv/watch/digital-design-and-computer-architecture-l1-intro-fundamentals-transistors-gates) — Onur Mutlu · ETH Zürich · 1:44:24
  2. [Digital Design and Computer Architecture - L2: Combinational Logic](https://lectern.tv/watch/digital-design-and-computer-architecture-l2-combinational-logic-spring-2025) — Onur Mutlu · ETH Zürich · 1:48:06
  3. [Introduction and Matrix Multiplication](https://lectern.tv/watch/mit-6-172-performance-engineering-matrix-multiplication-leiserson) — Charles Leiserson · MIT · 1:00:20
  4. [Bentley Rules for Optimizing Work](https://lectern.tv/watch/2-bentley-rules-for-optimizing-work) — Charles Leiserson & Julian Shun · MIT · 1:20:10
  5. [The Essence of C++: Zero-Overhead Abstraction](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-essence-of-c-zero-overhead-abstraction) — Bjarne Stroustrup · University of Edinburgh · 1:39:10
  6. [Modern OLAP Database Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/s2024-01-modern-olap-database-systems-cmu-advanced-database-systems) — Andy Pavlo · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:09:05
  7. [Data Formats & Encoding Part 1](https://lectern.tv/watch/s2024-02-data-formats-encoding-part-1-cmu-advanced-database-systems) — Andy Pavlo · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:23:08

### Mind, Personhood & Moral Philosophy
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/mind-personhood-and-moral-philosophy
- Difficulty: introductory · 5 steps
- Overview: Places Yale metaphysics of personal identity in dialogue with Stanford neurobiology and Harvard political philosophy.
  1. [The Nature of Persons — Mind-Body Dualism vs. Physicalism](https://lectern.tv/watch/yale-phil-176-death-lec-2-dualism-vs-physicalism-kagan) — Shelly Kagan · Yale University · 41:38
  2. [Inference to the Best Explanation & Arguments for Immaterial Mind](https://lectern.tv/watch/yale-phil-176-death-lec-3-inference-to-best-explanation-kagan) — Shelly Kagan · Yale University · 45:48
  3. [Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology](https://lectern.tv/watch/human-behavioral-biology-introduction-robert-sapolsky-stanford) — Robert Sapolsky · Stanford University · 57:14
  4. [Justice: The Moral Side of Murder & Cannibalism](https://lectern.tv/watch/justice-the-moral-side-of-murder-michael-sandel-harvard) — Michael Sandel · Harvard University · 54:56
  5. [This Land Is My Land — John Locke on Natural Rights, Labor & Consent](https://lectern.tv/watch/harvard-justice-ep-4-john-locke-property-and-consent) — Michael Sandel · Harvard University · 54:58

### Strategic Reasoning, Equilibrium & Social Choice
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/strategic-reasoning-and-social-choice
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 5 steps
- Overview: Synthesizes Yale Game Theory, Stanford Behavioral Biology, and Harvard moral philosophy to examine incentives, coordination failures, and welfare trade-offs.
  1. [Best responses in soccer and business partnerships](https://lectern.tv/watch/4-best-responses-in-soccer-and-business-partnerships) — Ben Polak · Yale University · 1:12:05
  2. [Nash Equilibrium: Bad fashion and bank runs](https://lectern.tv/watch/5-nash-equilibrium-bad-fashion-and-bank-runs) — Ben Polak · Yale University · 1:09:14
  3. [Nash Equilibrium: Dating and Cournot](https://lectern.tv/watch/6-nash-equilibrium-dating-and-cournot) — Ben Polak · Yale University · 1:12:06
  4. [Behavioral Evolution I — Prisoner's Dilemma & Kin Selection](https://lectern.tv/watch/sapolsky-bio-150-lec-2-behavioral-evolution-i) — Robert Sapolsky · Stanford University · 1:36:57
  5. [Putting a Price Tag on Life — Cost-Benefit Analysis & John Stuart Mill](https://lectern.tv/watch/harvard-justice-ep-2-putting-a-price-tag-on-life-sandel) — Michael Sandel · Harvard University · 55:10

### Action Principles to Quantum Mechanics
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/action-principles-to-quantum-mechanics
- Difficulty: undergraduate · 6 steps
- Overview: Bridges Stanford's Theoretical Minimum with MIT 8.04 so Hamiltonian classical mechanics flows naturally into Hilbert spaces, Hermitian observables, and the Schrödinger equation.
  1. [Principle of Stationary Action & Euler-Lagrange Equations](https://lectern.tv/watch/susskind-classical-mechanics-lec-3-least-action-euler-lagrange) — Leonard Susskind · Stanford University · 1:49:46
  2. [Legendre Transforms, Hamilton's Equations & Liouville's Theorem](https://lectern.tv/watch/susskind-classical-mechanics-lec-6-hamiltonian-mechanics-liouville) — Leonard Susskind · Stanford University · 1:48:02
  3. [Introduction to Quantum Superposition](https://lectern.tv/watch/mit-8-04-lec-1-introduction-to-superposition-allan-adams) — Allan Adams · MIT · 1:16:06
  4. [Experimental Facts of Life — Photoelectric Effect, Double Slit & Bell](https://lectern.tv/watch/mit-8-04-lec-2-experimental-facts-of-life-allan-adams) — Allan Adams · MIT · 1:20:12
  5. [States, Logic & Complex Vector Spaces](https://lectern.tv/watch/quantum-entanglements-part-1-leonard-susskind-stanford) — Leonard Susskind · Stanford University · 1:35:35
  6. [Linear Operators, Eigenfunctions & The Schrödinger Equation](https://lectern.tv/watch/mit-8-04-lec-5-operators-and-schrodinger-equation-allan-adams) — Allan Adams · MIT · 1:23:14

### Distributed Consensus, Clocks & Storage Engines
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/distributed-consensus-and-storage
- Difficulty: graduate · 7 steps
- Overview: Pairs MIT 6.824, Cambridge Distributed Systems, and CMU Database Internals to show how distributed consensus protocols and local storage engines cooperate under partial failure.
  1. [Introduction & MapReduce](https://lectern.tv/watch/mit-6-824-distributed-systems-introduction-robert-morris) — Robert Morris · MIT · 1:19:35
  2. [Remote Procedure Calls (RPC), Idempotence & Marshalling](https://lectern.tv/watch/distributed-systems-1-3-rpc-remote-procedure-call) — Martin Kleppmann · University of Cambridge · 19:44
  3. [Physical Time, Clock Skew, NTP & Monotonic Clocks](https://lectern.tv/watch/distributed-systems-3-1-physical-time) — Martin Kleppmann · University of Cambridge · 20:47
  4. [Clock Synchronization, Cristian's Algorithm & NTP](https://lectern.tv/watch/distributed-systems-3-2-clock-synchronisation) — Martin Kleppmann · University of Cambridge · 15:57
  5. [Raft Log Compaction, Persistence & Linearizability (Part 2)](https://lectern.tv/watch/mit-6-824-lec-7-fault-tolerance-raft-part-2) — Robert Morris · MIT · 1:17:36
  6. [The Relational Model & Relational Algebra](https://lectern.tv/watch/cmu-15-445-lec-1-relational-model-and-algebra-andy-pavlo) — Andy Pavlo · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:16:43
  7. [Buffer Pool Managers, LRU-K Eviction & Direct I/O](https://lectern.tv/watch/cmu-15-445-lec-6-buffer-pool-memory-management-andy-pavlo) — Andy Pavlo · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:22:44

### Mathematical Foundations of Machine Learning
- URL: https://lectern.tv/paths/mathematical-foundations-of-ml
- Difficulty: graduate · 7 steps
- Overview: A cross-institution sequence tracing how column-space geometry (MIT), convex optimization and KKT duality (Stanford), statistical generalization bounds (Caltech), and activation/gradient dynamics form one coherent mathematical edifice.
  1. [The Geometry of Linear Equations](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-geometry-of-linear-equations-strang-mit-18-06-lec-1) — Gilbert Strang · MIT · 39:49
  2. [Transposes, Permutations & Vector Spaces R^n](https://lectern.tv/watch/transposes-permutations-vector-spaces-strang-mit-18-06-lec-5) — Gilbert Strang · MIT · 47:41
  3. [Convex Functions — First/Second-Order Conditions & Epigraphs](https://lectern.tv/watch/stanford-ee364a-lec-3-convex-functions-stephen-boyd) — Stephen Boyd · Stanford University · 1:17:14
  4. [Saddle-Point Interpretation, KKT Conditions & Perturbation](https://lectern.tv/watch/stanford-ee364a-lec-6-kkt-optimality-conditions-boyd) — Stephen Boyd · Stanford University · 1:09:19
  5. [The Learning Problem](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-01-the-learning-problem) — Yaser Abu-Mostafa · Caltech · 1:21:27
  6. [Is Learning Feasible?](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-02-is-learning-feasible) — Yaser Abu-Mostafa · Caltech · 1:16:48
  7. [Building makemore Part 3: Activations, Gradients, Kaiming Init & BatchNorm](https://lectern.tv/watch/karpathy-makemore-part-3-activations-gradients-batchnorm) — Andrej Karpathy · Independent / Eureka Labs · 1:55:57

## 4. Partner Universities & Research Institutes

- [MIT](https://lectern.tv/institutions/mit): 42 courses, 819 lectures (923h)
- [Stanford University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/stanford-university): 9 courses, 172 lectures (225h)
- [Yale University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/yale-university): 26 courses, 550 lectures (471h)
- [UC Berkeley](https://lectern.tv/institutions/uc-berkeley): 8 courses, 132 lectures (126h)
- [Harvard University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/harvard-university): 4 courses, 86 lectures (110h)
- [Institute for Advanced Study](https://lectern.tv/institutions/institute-for-advanced-study): 4 courses, 78 lectures (83h)
- [University of Oxford](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-oxford): 3 courses, 47 lectures (43h)
- [Carnegie Mellon University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/carnegie-mellon-university): 9 courses, 178 lectures (205h)
- [Caltech](https://lectern.tv/institutions/caltech): 1 courses, 37 lectures (45h)
- [University of Cambridge](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-cambridge): 1 courses, 30 lectures (20h)
- [Cornell University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/cornell-university): 4 courses, 45 lectures (59h)
- [Princeton University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/princeton-university): 1 courses, 20 lectures (24h)
- [Santa Fe Institute](https://lectern.tv/institutions/santa-fe-institute): 1 courses, 34 lectures (42h)
- [Perimeter Institute](https://lectern.tv/institutions/perimeter-institute): 1 courses, 48 lectures (55h)
- [ETH Zürich](https://lectern.tv/institutions/eth-zurich): 4 courses, 55 lectures (80h)
- [New York University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/new-york-university): 1 courses, 41 lectures (46h)
- [Royal Institution](https://lectern.tv/institutions/royal-institution): 0 courses, 15 lectures (13h)
- [University of Washington](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-washington): 2 courses, 23 lectures (10h)
- [Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/association-for-computing-machinery-acm): 0 courses, 8 lectures (5h)
- [Simons Institute (UC Berkeley)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/simons-institute-uc-berkeley): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [University of Chicago](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-chicago): 0 courses, 20 lectures (24h)
- [UCLA](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ucla): 0 courses, 6 lectures (5h)
- [Bell Labs](https://lectern.tv/institutions/bell-labs): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Gresham College](https://lectern.tv/institutions/gresham-college): 0 courses, 38 lectures (30h)
- [Ruhr University Bochum](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ruhr-university-bochum): 2 courses, 27 lectures (38h)
- [Harvey Mudd College](https://lectern.tv/institutions/harvey-mudd-college): 1 courses, 26 lectures (29h)
- [Google Research & TechTalks](https://lectern.tv/institutions/google-research-techtalks): 0 courses, 23 lectures (19h)
- [Wheaton College](https://lectern.tv/institutions/wheaton-college): 1 courses, 22 lectures (21h)
- [Independent Scholar](https://lectern.tv/institutions/independent-scholar): 1 courses, 16 lectures (11h)
- [3Blue1Brown](https://lectern.tv/institutions/3blue1brown): 0 courses, 13 lectures (7h)
- [Tufts University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/tufts-university): 0 courses, 13 lectures (11h)
- [Independent / Eureka Labs](https://lectern.tv/institutions/independent-eureka-labs): 1 courses, 12 lectures (24h)
- [Google DeepMind](https://lectern.tv/institutions/google-deepmind): 1 courses, 12 lectures (18h)
- [Florida International University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/florida-international-university): 1 courses, 12 lectures (9h)
- [Clay Mathematics Institute](https://lectern.tv/institutions/clay-mathematics-institute): 0 courses, 10 lectures (9h)
- [London Mathematical Society](https://lectern.tv/institutions/london-mathematical-society): 0 courses, 10 lectures (8h)
- [Columbia University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/columbia-university): 0 courses, 9 lectures (9h)
- [IWM Vienna](https://lectern.tv/institutions/iwm-vienna): 0 courses, 9 lectures (11h)
- [Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/institut-des-hautes-etudes-scientifiques-ihes): 1 courses, 8 lectures (9h)
- [University of Edinburgh](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-edinburgh): 1 courses, 8 lectures (13h)
- [UT Austin](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ut-austin): 1 courses, 8 lectures (6h)
- [Duke University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/duke-university): 1 courses, 8 lectures (6h)
- [Devoxx](https://lectern.tv/institutions/devoxx): 0 courses, 8 lectures (6h)
- [University of Alberta (Amii)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-alberta-amii): 0 courses, 7 lectures (7h)
- [JuliaCon Global](https://lectern.tv/institutions/juliacon-global): 0 courses, 7 lectures (2h)
- [University of Toronto](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-toronto): 0 courses, 6 lectures (5h)
- [Jane Street](https://lectern.tv/institutions/jane-street): 0 courses, 6 lectures (9h)
- [JuliaCon Global 2026](https://lectern.tv/institutions/juliacon-global-2026): 0 courses, 6 lectures (3h)
- [Griffin Financial Technology](https://lectern.tv/institutions/griffin-financial-technology): 1 courses, 5 lectures (3h)
- [Texas A&M University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/texas-a-m-university): 0 courses, 5 lectures (6h)
- [Microsoft Research](https://lectern.tv/institutions/microsoft-research): 0 courses, 5 lectures (5h)
- [TU Wien Informatics](https://lectern.tv/institutions/tu-wien-informatics): 0 courses, 5 lectures (7h)
- [Domain-Driven Design Europe](https://lectern.tv/institutions/domain-driven-design-europe): 0 courses, 5 lectures (4h)
- [The John Adams Institute](https://lectern.tv/institutions/the-john-adams-institute): 0 courses, 5 lectures (7h)
- [Clojure/conj](https://lectern.tv/institutions/clojure-conj): 0 courses, 4 lectures (3h)
- [Los Alamos National Laboratory](https://lectern.tv/institutions/los-alamos-national-laboratory): 0 courses, 4 lectures (4h)
- [Nobel Prize Outreach](https://lectern.tv/institutions/nobel-prize-outreach): 0 courses, 4 lectures (3h)
- [USENIX](https://lectern.tv/institutions/usenix): 0 courses, 4 lectures (2h)
- [American Academy in Berlin](https://lectern.tv/institutions/american-academy-in-berlin): 0 courses, 4 lectures (5h)
- [CNRS](https://lectern.tv/institutions/cnrs): 0 courses, 3 lectures (3h)
- [University College London](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-college-london): 0 courses, 3 lectures (2h)
- [University of Michigan](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-michigan): 0 courses, 3 lectures (3h)
- [Intel](https://lectern.tv/institutions/intel): 0 courses, 3 lectures (4h)
- [University of Austin (UATX)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-austin-uatx): 0 courses, 3 lectures (3h)
- [Code BEAM Europe](https://lectern.tv/institutions/code-beam-europe): 0 courses, 3 lectures (2h)
- [Monktoberfest](https://lectern.tv/institutions/monktoberfest): 0 courses, 3 lectures (2h)
- [Chalmers University of Technology](https://lectern.tv/institutions/chalmers-university-of-technology): 0 courses, 3 lectures (2h)
- [Oracle](https://lectern.tv/institutions/oracle): 0 courses, 3 lectures (3h)
- [National Capital Area Skeptics (NCAS)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/national-capital-area-skeptics-ncas): 0 courses, 3 lectures (4h)
- [NTNU](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ntnu): 0 courses, 3 lectures (1h)
- [Computer History Museum](https://lectern.tv/institutions/computer-history-museum): 0 courses, 3 lectures (4h)
- [Strange Loop Conference](https://lectern.tv/institutions/strange-loop-conference): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [University of New South Wales](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-new-south-wales): 0 courses, 2 lectures (1h)
- [Imperial College London](https://lectern.tv/institutions/imperial-college-london): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [Virginia Tech](https://lectern.tv/institutions/virginia-tech): 0 courses, 2 lectures (3h)
- [University of Minnesota](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-minnesota): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [University of Colorado Boulder](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-colorado-boulder): 0 courses, 2 lectures (3h)
- [University of Pittsburgh](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-pittsburgh): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [Naval Postgraduate School](https://lectern.tv/institutions/naval-postgraduate-school): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [Oxide Computer Company](https://lectern.tv/institutions/oxide-computer-company): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [University of Virginia](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-virginia): 0 courses, 2 lectures (3h)
- [University of Strasbourg (IRMA)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-strasbourg-irma): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [Max Planck Institute for Informatics](https://lectern.tv/institutions/max-planck-institute-for-informatics): 0 courses, 2 lectures (1h)
- [U.S. Naval War College](https://lectern.tv/institutions/u-s-naval-war-college): 0 courses, 2 lectures (3h)
- [George Washington University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/george-washington-university): 0 courses, 2 lectures (3h)
- [Code Sync](https://lectern.tv/institutions/code-sync): 0 courses, 2 lectures (1h)
- [Northwestern University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/northwestern-university): 0 courses, 2 lectures (3h)
- [Kernel Recipes](https://lectern.tv/institutions/kernel-recipes): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [Zig SHOWTIME](https://lectern.tv/institutions/zig-showtime): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [Indiana University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/indiana-university): 0 courses, 2 lectures (1h)
- [ThorCon](https://lectern.tv/institutions/thorcon): 0 courses, 2 lectures (3h)
- [Software You Can Love](https://lectern.tv/institutions/software-you-can-love): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [Ghent University (VVN)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ghent-university-vvn): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [The Julia Programming Language](https://lectern.tv/institutions/the-julia-programming-language): 0 courses, 2 lectures (1h)
- [University College Dublin](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-college-dublin): 0 courses, 2 lectures (1h)
- [London School of Economics](https://lectern.tv/institutions/london-school-of-economics): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [Chicago Humanities](https://lectern.tv/institutions/chicago-humanities): 0 courses, 2 lectures (2h)
- [DBX Conference](https://lectern.tv/institutions/dbx-conference): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-california-san-francisco-ucsf): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Bristol](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-bristol): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [ICMS Edinburgh](https://lectern.tv/institutions/icms-edinburgh): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Brown University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/brown-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Johns Hopkins University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/johns-hopkins-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
- [GPU MODE](https://lectern.tv/institutions/gpu-mode): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
- [Mind-Body Solution Colloquia](https://lectern.tv/institutions/mind-body-solution-colloquia): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [UC Irvine & UCL](https://lectern.tv/institutions/uc-irvine-ucl): 0 courses, 1 lectures (3h)
- [TigerBeetle / Systems Distributed '26](https://lectern.tv/institutions/tigerbeetle-systems-distributed-26): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Stockholm University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/stockholm-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Tsinghua University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/tsinghua-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Institute of Physics (IOP)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/institute-of-physics-iop): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Uppsala University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/uppsala-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Chaos Computer Club (CCC)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/chaos-computer-club-ccc): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [VCF Midwest](https://lectern.tv/institutions/vcf-midwest): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Terrance Carney](https://lectern.tv/institutions/terrance-carney): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Max Planck Society](https://lectern.tv/institutions/max-planck-society): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [IMPA](https://lectern.tv/institutions/impa): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Maryland](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-maryland): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Amsterdam](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-amsterdam): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [LPTHE Paris](https://lectern.tv/institutions/lpthe-paris): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Paderborn University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/paderborn-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Federal University of Rio de Janeiro](https://lectern.tv/institutions/federal-university-of-rio-de-janeiro): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Zig Software Foundation](https://lectern.tv/institutions/zig-software-foundation): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [UC San Diego](https://lectern.tv/institutions/uc-san-diego): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [RE//verse Conference](https://lectern.tv/institutions/re-verse-conference): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Inria Rennes](https://lectern.tv/institutions/inria-rennes): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory](https://lectern.tv/institutions/slac-national-accelerator-laboratory): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Utah](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-utah): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Vermont](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-vermont): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
- [Berggruen Institute](https://lectern.tv/institutions/berggruen-institute): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Tel Aviv University and Google Research](https://lectern.tv/institutions/tel-aviv-university-and-google-research): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [IEEE / CVF CVPR](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ieee-cvf-cvpr): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Scala Days Conferences](https://lectern.tv/institutions/scala-days-conferences): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Radboud University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/radboud-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
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- [Karolinska Institutet](https://lectern.tv/institutions/karolinska-institutet): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [MILA, Université de Montréal](https://lectern.tv/institutions/mila-universite-de-montreal): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad](https://lectern.tv/institutions/indian-institute-of-technology-palakkad): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Shanghai Jiao Tong University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/shanghai-jiao-tong-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Ochanomizu University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ochanomizu-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Auckland](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-auckland): 0 courses, 1 lectures (6h)
- [FZI Research Center for Information Technology](https://lectern.tv/institutions/fzi-research-center-for-information-technology): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Georgia Institute of Technology](https://lectern.tv/institutions/georgia-institute-of-technology): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Trinity College Dublin](https://lectern.tv/institutions/trinity-college-dublin): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
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- [Max Planck Institute for Mathematics](https://lectern.tv/institutions/max-planck-institute-for-mathematics): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
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- [University of Copenhagen](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-copenhagen): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Wrocław](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-wroc-aw): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Computational Complexity](https://lectern.tv/institutions/computational-complexity): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Lund University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/lund-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [İstanbul University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/istanbul-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
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- [ElixirConf US](https://lectern.tv/institutions/elixirconf-us): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
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- [University of Notre Dame](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-notre-dame): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
- [University of Maryland, Baltimore County](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-maryland-baltimore-county): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
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- [Michigan State University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/michigan-state-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
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- [Oregon State University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/oregon-state-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [IFISC (UIB-CSIC)](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ifisc-uib-csic): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [IIT Madras](https://lectern.tv/institutions/iit-madras): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [CUSEC Colloquium](https://lectern.tv/institutions/cusec-colloquium): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [The Haskell Foundation](https://lectern.tv/institutions/the-haskell-foundation): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Missouri-Kansas City](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-missouri-kansas-city): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
- [Infosys Foundation USA](https://lectern.tv/institutions/infosys-foundation-usa): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Modal Labs](https://lectern.tv/institutions/modal-labs): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [European Lisp Symposium](https://lectern.tv/institutions/european-lisp-symposium): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Vanderbilt University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/vanderbilt-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Jagiellonian Quantum Information Team](https://lectern.tv/institutions/jagiellonian-quantum-information-team): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [BlackRock](https://lectern.tv/institutions/blackrock): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Systems Engineering Workshop](https://lectern.tv/institutions/systems-engineering-workshop): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
- [University of California, San Francisco](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-california-san-francisco): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
- [Kraken Tech](https://lectern.tv/institutions/kraken-tech): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [KDE Community](https://lectern.tv/institutions/kde-community): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Computerphile](https://lectern.tv/institutions/computerphile): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Boston Public Library](https://lectern.tv/institutions/boston-public-library): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology](https://lectern.tv/institutions/workshop-on-open-source-eda-technology): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Jyväskylä](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-jyvaskyla): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Birmingham](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-birmingham): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Regent University School of Law](https://lectern.tv/institutions/regent-university-school-of-law): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [College of the Atlantic](https://lectern.tv/institutions/college-of-the-atlantic): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [MQ Summit](https://lectern.tv/institutions/mq-summit): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Duckbill](https://lectern.tv/institutions/duckbill): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Massachusetts Peace Action](https://lectern.tv/institutions/massachusetts-peace-action): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Active Group, Germany](https://lectern.tv/institutions/active-group-germany): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Goldsmiths, University of London](https://lectern.tv/institutions/goldsmiths-university-of-london): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Handmade Systems Seminar](https://lectern.tv/institutions/handmade-systems-seminar): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Lannan Foundation](https://lectern.tv/institutions/lannan-foundation): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [NASA Goddard Space Flight Center](https://lectern.tv/institutions/nasa-goddard-space-flight-center): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Kapor Institute](https://lectern.tv/institutions/kapor-institute): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Emerson College](https://lectern.tv/institutions/emerson-college): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo](https://lectern.tv/institutions/pontifical-catholic-university-of-sao-paulo): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [McMaster University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/mcmaster-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Drexel University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/drexel-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [ISAS-NUS](https://lectern.tv/institutions/isas-nus): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Claremont McKenna College](https://lectern.tv/institutions/claremont-mckenna-college): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [SPOKE Arts Inc.](https://lectern.tv/institutions/spoke-arts-inc): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Central Washington University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/central-washington-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Institute for Strategic Dialogue](https://lectern.tv/institutions/institute-for-strategic-dialogue): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [RustConf](https://lectern.tv/institutions/rustconf): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [AT&T](https://lectern.tv/institutions/at-t): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [PlanetScale](https://lectern.tv/institutions/planetscale): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [JCCSF](https://lectern.tv/institutions/jccsf): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [University of Scranton](https://lectern.tv/institutions/university-of-scranton): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Capgemini](https://lectern.tv/institutions/capgemini): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Cal Poly San Luis Obispo](https://lectern.tv/institutions/cal-poly-san-luis-obispo): 0 courses, 1 lectures (2h)
- [ING](https://lectern.tv/institutions/ing): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Wilfrid Laurier University](https://lectern.tv/institutions/wilfrid-laurier-university): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Endava](https://lectern.tv/institutions/endava): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)
- [Coastline Community College](https://lectern.tv/institutions/coastline-community-college): 0 courses, 1 lectures (1h)

## 5. Distinguished Faculty & Speakers

- [Richard Feynman](https://lectern.tv/speakers/richard-feynman) (Caltech, Cornell University, University of Auckland): 3 courses, 23 lectures
- [Erik Demaine](https://lectern.tv/speakers/erik-demaine) (MIT): 3 courses, 47 lectures
- [Akhil Reed Amar](https://lectern.tv/speakers/akhil-reed-amar) (Yale University): 2 courses, 35 lectures
- [Onur Mutlu](https://lectern.tv/speakers/onur-mutlu) (ETH Zürich): 4 courses, 32 lectures
- [Robert Morris](https://lectern.tv/speakers/robert-morris) (MIT): 2 courses, 27 lectures
- [Abhijit Banerjee](https://lectern.tv/speakers/abhijit-banerjee) (MIT): 1 courses, 18 lectures
- [Andy Pavlo](https://lectern.tv/speakers/andy-pavlo) (Carnegie Mellon University): 3 courses, 47 lectures
- [Steve Brunton](https://lectern.tv/speakers/steve-brunton) (University of Washington): 2 courses, 20 lectures
- [Robert Shiller](https://lectern.tv/speakers/robert-shiller) (Yale University): 1 courses, 20 lectures
- [Gilbert Strang](https://lectern.tv/speakers/gilbert-strang) (MIT): 2 courses, 39 lectures
- [Peter Shor](https://lectern.tv/speakers/peter-shor) (MIT): 1 courses, 9 lectures
- [Frans Kaashoek](https://lectern.tv/speakers/frans-kaashoek) (MIT): 2 courses, 22 lectures
- [Jonathan Gruber](https://lectern.tv/speakers/jonathan-gruber) (MIT): 2 courses, 42 lectures
- [Robert Sapolsky](https://lectern.tv/speakers/robert-sapolsky) (Stanford University, JCCSF): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Leonard Susskind](https://lectern.tv/speakers/leonard-susskind) (Stanford University, Perimeter Institute): 3 courses, 34 lectures
- [Alexander Polyakov](https://lectern.tv/speakers/alexander-polyakov) (Princeton University): 1 courses, 12 lectures
- [Nima Arkani-Hamed](https://lectern.tv/speakers/nima-arkani-hamed) (Institute for Advanced Study, Cornell University, Perimeter Institute): 1 courses, 5 lectures
- [Alan Guth](https://lectern.tv/speakers/alan-guth) (MIT): 1 courses, 21 lectures
- [Esther Duflo](https://lectern.tv/speakers/esther-duflo) (MIT): 1 courses, 12 lectures
- [Srini Devadas](https://lectern.tv/speakers/srini-devadas) (MIT): 2 courses, 23 lectures
- [David W. Blight](https://lectern.tv/speakers/david-w-blight) (Yale University): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Steven Strogatz](https://lectern.tv/speakers/steven-strogatz) (Santa Fe Institute, Cornell University): 2 courses, 23 lectures
- [Christof Paar](https://lectern.tv/speakers/christof-paar) (Ruhr University Bochum): 2 courses, 27 lectures
- [Stephen Boyd](https://lectern.tv/speakers/stephen-boyd) (Stanford University): 2 courses, 43 lectures
- [Martin Kleppmann](https://lectern.tv/speakers/martin-kleppmann) (University of Cambridge): 1 courses, 19 lectures
- [Raj Chetty](https://lectern.tv/speakers/raj-chetty) (Harvard University): 1 courses, 20 lectures
- [Timothy Snyder](https://lectern.tv/speakers/timothy-snyder) (Yale University): 1 courses, 20 lectures
- [David J. Malan](https://lectern.tv/speakers/david-j-malan) (Harvard University): 1 courses, 13 lectures
- [Russ Tedrake](https://lectern.tv/speakers/russ-tedrake) (MIT): 1 courses, 24 lectures
- [Aswath Damodaran](https://lectern.tv/speakers/aswath-damodaran) (New York University): 1 courses, 35 lectures
- [Donald Kagan](https://lectern.tv/speakers/donald-kagan) (Yale University): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Herbert Gross](https://lectern.tv/speakers/herbert-gross) (MIT): 2 courses, 25 lectures
- [Pieter Abbeel](https://lectern.tv/speakers/pieter-abbeel) (UC Berkeley): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Alan Kay](https://lectern.tv/speakers/alan-kay) (Carnegie Mellon University, University of Utah, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ParcPlace Systems, UCLA, University of Colorado Boulder, Mustafa Erdem Koç, Infosys Foundation USA, Computer History Museum): 0 courses, 11 lectures
- [Fei-Fei Li](https://lectern.tv/speakers/fei-fei-li) (Stanford University): 1 courses, 14 lectures
- [Barton Zwiebach](https://lectern.tv/speakers/barton-zwiebach) (MIT): 2 courses, 34 lectures
- [Andrej Karpathy](https://lectern.tv/speakers/andrej-karpathy) (Independent / Eureka Labs, IEEE / CVF CVPR): 1 courses, 13 lectures
- [Michael Sipser](https://lectern.tv/speakers/michael-sipser) (MIT): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Daron Acemoglu](https://lectern.tv/speakers/daron-acemoglu) (MIT, Nobel Prize Outreach): 0 courses, 4 lectures
- [Michael Sandel](https://lectern.tv/speakers/michael-sandel) (MIT, Harvard University, Berggruen Institute, Radboud University): 1 courses, 19 lectures
- [Manuel Blum](https://lectern.tv/speakers/manuel-blum) (UC Berkeley): 1 courses, 1 lectures
- [Nancy Kanwisher](https://lectern.tv/speakers/nancy-kanwisher) (MIT): 1 courses, 17 lectures
- [Charles Leiserson](https://lectern.tv/speakers/charles-leiserson) (MIT): 1 courses, 12 lectures
- [Pat Hanrahan](https://lectern.tv/speakers/pat-hanrahan) (Stanford University): 0 courses, 2 lectures
- [Avi Wigderson](https://lectern.tv/speakers/avi-wigderson) (Institute for Advanced Study): 0 courses, 1 lectures
- [Allan Adams](https://lectern.tv/speakers/allan-adams) (MIT): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Jennifer Doudna](https://lectern.tv/speakers/jennifer-doudna) (UC Berkeley): 1 courses, 2 lectures
- [Ricardo Caballero](https://lectern.tv/speakers/ricardo-caballero) (MIT): 1 courses, 20 lectures
- [Ramamurti Shankar](https://lectern.tv/speakers/ramamurti-shankar) (Yale University): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Ryan O'Donnell](https://lectern.tv/speakers/ryan-o-donnell) (Carnegie Mellon University): 6 courses, 100 lectures
- [Leslie Valiant](https://lectern.tv/speakers/leslie-valiant) (UC Berkeley, Harvard University): 1 courses, 3 lectures
- [Christine Hayes](https://lectern.tv/speakers/christine-hayes) (Yale University): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Andrew Lo](https://lectern.tv/speakers/andrew-lo) (MIT): 1 courses, 20 lectures
- [David Tong](https://lectern.tv/speakers/david-tong) (Perimeter Institute): 1 courses, 14 lectures
- [Ron Rivest](https://lectern.tv/speakers/ron-rivest) (UC Berkeley): 1 courses, 2 lectures
- [Geoffrey Hinton](https://lectern.tv/speakers/geoffrey-hinton) (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), University of Toronto): 0 courses, 2 lectures
- [Yann LeCun](https://lectern.tv/speakers/yann-lecun) (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York University, Harvard University, Stanford University): 0 courses, 4 lectures
- [Shelly Kagan](https://lectern.tv/speakers/shelly-kagan) (Yale University): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Hal Abelson](https://lectern.tv/speakers/hal-abelson) (MIT): 1 courses, 2 lectures
- [Gerald Jay Sussman](https://lectern.tv/speakers/gerald-jay-sussman) (MIT): 1 courses, 2 lectures
- [Diana E. E. Kleiner](https://lectern.tv/speakers/diana-e-e-kleiner) (Yale University): 1 courses, 21 lectures
- [Didier Fassin](https://lectern.tv/speakers/didier-fassin) (Institute for Advanced Study, IWM Vienna): 1 courses, 10 lectures
- [Paul H. Fry](https://lectern.tv/speakers/paul-h-fry) (Yale University): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Barbara Imperiali](https://lectern.tv/speakers/barbara-imperiali) (MIT): 1 courses, 13 lectures
- [Ana Bell](https://lectern.tv/speakers/ana-bell) (MIT): 1 courses, 17 lectures
- [Tom Leighton](https://lectern.tv/speakers/tom-leighton) (MIT): 1 courses, 17 lectures
- [Yaser Abu-Mostafa](https://lectern.tv/speakers/yaser-abu-mostafa) (Caltech): 1 courses, 18 lectures
- [Steven B. Smith](https://lectern.tv/speakers/steven-b-smith) (Yale University): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [David Silver](https://lectern.tv/speakers/david-silver) (Google DeepMind): 1 courses, 10 lectures
- [Vicky Neale](https://lectern.tv/speakers/vicky-neale) (University of Oxford): 2 courses, 14 lectures
- [Edward Frenkel](https://lectern.tv/speakers/edward-frenkel) (UC Berkeley): 1 courses, 12 lectures
- [W. Brian Arthur](https://lectern.tv/speakers/w-brian-arthur) (Santa Fe Institute): 1 courses, 1 lectures
- [Joe Blitzstein](https://lectern.tv/speakers/joe-blitzstein) (Harvard University): 1 courses, 21 lectures
- [John Merriman](https://lectern.tv/speakers/john-merriman) (Yale University): 1 courses, 21 lectures
- [Josh McDermott](https://lectern.tv/speakers/josh-mcdermott) (MIT): 1 courses, 20 lectures
- [Juan Maldacena](https://lectern.tv/speakers/juan-maldacena) (Institute for Advanced Study): 1 courses, 1 lectures
- [Arthur Mattuck](https://lectern.tv/speakers/arthur-mattuck) (MIT): 1 courses, 21 lectures
- [Paul Bloom](https://lectern.tv/speakers/paul-bloom) (Yale University): 1 courses, 18 lectures
- [Ankur Moitra](https://lectern.tv/speakers/ankur-moitra) (MIT): 1 courses, 11 lectures
- [Silvio Micali](https://lectern.tv/speakers/silvio-micali) (MIT): 0 courses, 1 lectures
- [Oussama Khatib](https://lectern.tv/speakers/oussama-khatib) (Stanford University): 1 courses, 14 lectures
- [Ashish Vaswani](https://lectern.tv/speakers/ashish-vaswani) (Stanford University): 1 courses, 6 lectures
- [Francis Su](https://lectern.tv/speakers/francis-su) (Harvey Mudd College): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Patrick Winston](https://lectern.tv/speakers/patrick-winston) (MIT): 1 courses, 4 lectures
- [Vladimir Voevodsky](https://lectern.tv/speakers/vladimir-voevodsky) (Institute for Advanced Study): 0 courses, 2 lectures
- [Jeffrey Hoffman](https://lectern.tv/speakers/jeffrey-hoffman) (MIT): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [Michael I. Jordan](https://lectern.tv/speakers/michael-i-jordan) (UC Berkeley): 0 courses, 1 lectures
- [Lucas Beyer](https://lectern.tv/speakers/lucas-beyer) (Stanford University): 1 courses, 6 lectures
- [Sergey Levine](https://lectern.tv/speakers/sergey-levine) (UC Berkeley): 1 courses, 11 lectures
- [Shafi Goldwasser](https://lectern.tv/speakers/shafi-goldwasser) (Simons Institute (UC Berkeley)): 0 courses, 1 lectures
- [Jon Kleinberg](https://lectern.tv/speakers/jon-kleinberg) (UC Berkeley): 1 courses, 2 lectures
- [Frank Wilczek](https://lectern.tv/speakers/frank-wilczek) (Institute for Advanced Study, Royal Institution): 0 courses, 2 lectures
- [Jonathan Weissman](https://lectern.tv/speakers/jonathan-weissman) (UC Berkeley): 1 courses, 2 lectures
- [Michael J. Hopkins](https://lectern.tv/speakers/michael-j-hopkins) (Harvard University): 0 courses, 1 lectures
- [Simon Johnson](https://lectern.tv/speakers/simon-johnson) (Nobel Prize Outreach, Stockholm University): 0 courses, 2 lectures
- [Ben Polak](https://lectern.tv/speakers/ben-polak) (Yale University): 1 courses, 22 lectures
- [J. Doyne Farmer](https://lectern.tv/speakers/j-doyne-farmer) (Santa Fe Institute): 1 courses, 1 lectures
- [Edward Witten](https://lectern.tv/speakers/edward-witten) (Institute of Physics (IOP), Institute for Advanced Study): 0 courses, 2 lectures
- [Daniel Kahneman](https://lectern.tv/speakers/daniel-kahneman) (Princeton University): 0 courses, 1 lectures
- [Norvin Richards](https://lectern.tv/speakers/norvin-richards) (MIT): 1 courses, 22 lectures

## 6. Featured Standalone Colloquia & Research Talks

- [The Future of Programming](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-future-of-programming-bret-victor) (Bret Victor · DBX Conference · 32:55): Delivered on an overhead projector in a 1973 pocket-protector shirt: a devastating historical critique of sequential text files, threads/locks, and forgotten computing paradigms.
- [Simple Made Easy](https://lectern.tv/watch/simple-made-easy-rich-hickey-strange-loop) (Rich Hickey · Strange Loop Conference · 1:01:23): Perhaps the most cited conference keynote in software engineering history: gives engineers exact vocabulary ('complecting' state, time, and identity) to diagnose accidental complexity.
- [How to Speak](https://lectern.tv/watch/how-to-speak-patrick-winston-mit) (Patrick Winston · MIT · 1:03:42): Patrick Winston's enduring MIT lecture outlines heuristic rules for effective public speaking, covering structuring presentations, utilizing visual aids, informing, persuading, and managing oral examinations and job talks.
- [Hammock Driven Development](https://lectern.tv/watch/hammock-driven-development-rich-hickey) (Rich Hickey · Clojure/conj · 39:49): Rich Hickey presents a philosophical framework for software development, advocating for deep, uninterrupted thought and problem decomposition over reactive, task-driven approaches. This talk explores the cognitive benefits of 'hammock time' for complex system design.
- [Computer Science: Hardware, Software, and Heuristics](https://lectern.tv/watch/richard-feynman-on-computer-science-hardware-software-and-heuristics) (Richard Feynman · Caltech · 1:15:47): Explore Richard Feynman's insightful perspective on the fundamental principles of computation, examining the interplay of hardware, software, and heuristic problem-solving approaches.
- [Mathematics and Computation: The Landscape of P vs. NP](https://lectern.tv/watch/mathematics-and-computation-the-landscape-of-p-vs-np) (Avi Wigderson · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:02:49): Surveys computational hardness, pseudorandomness, interactive proofs, and why resolving P vs. NP sits at the heart of mathematical knowledge itself.
- [On Notation: Principles and Impact in Computing](https://lectern.tv/watch/on-notation-principles-and-impact-in-computing) (Pat Hanrahan · Stanford University · 1:10:12): Turing Award laureate Pat Hanrahan discusses the profound influence of notation on the development and expressiveness of computing systems, drawing from his extensive experience in graphics and language design.
- [The Morrigan: The Nightmare Queen](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-morrigan-the-nightmare-queen) (Ronald Hutton · Gresham College · 53:08): Professor Ronald Hutton explores the complex and often contradictory scholarly interpretations of The Morrigan, a prominent figure in Irish mythology, tracing her evolution and cultural impact.
- [How Windows Bootloader Initializes the Kernel](https://lectern.tv/watch/how-windows-bootloader-initializes-the-kernel) (Nir Lichtman · 18:56): An in-depth technical analysis detailing the intricate process by which the Windows Bootloader transitions control to the operating system kernel.
- [States, Logic & Complex Vector Spaces](https://lectern.tv/watch/quantum-entanglements-part-1-leonard-susskind-stanford) (Leonard Susskind · Stanford University · 1:35:35): Builds quantum mechanics from two-state spin systems and Dirac bra-ket algebra rather than messy wave-equation PDEs—the foundation of Susskind's 'Theoretical Minimum'.
- [Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention](https://lectern.tv/watch/recurrent-neural-networks-transformers-and-attention) (Ava Amini · MIT · 1:02:50): A core lecture from MIT's Introduction to Deep Learning, dissecting the architecture and functional principles of Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformer models, and the critical attention mechanism.
- [Decidability, Type Systems, and the Limits of Open Source Trust](https://lectern.tv/watch/decidability-type-systems-and-the-limits-of-open-source-trust) (15:21): This presentation delves into the fundamental limitations of static analysis and the implications for trusting open-source software, leveraging concepts like Rice's Theorem and type system decidability.
- [A Collectivist, Economic Perspective on AI Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/a-collectivist-economic-perspective-on-ai-systems) (Michael I. Jordan · UC Berkeley · 54:44): Reframes large-scale machine learning around microeconomic mechanism design—where uncertainty quantification interacts with strategic incentives, scarcity, and multi-agent markets.
- [The Physics of UAP](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-physics-of-uap) (Kevin Knuth · Stanford University · 32:14): Kevin Knuth examines the physics of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), analyzing clues related to their detection, monitoring, and potential engineering, presented at a Stanford University symposium.
- [Bridget: Goddess and Saint](https://lectern.tv/watch/bridget-goddess-and-saint) (Ronald Hutton · Gresham College · 49:12): Unravel the complex historical and mythological layers of Bridget, tracing her evolution from ancient Celtic goddess to medieval saint and exploring the cultural forces that shaped her enduring legacy.
- [The Jank Dialect: Native Clojure on LLVM with Seamless C++ Interop](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-jank-dialect-native-clojure-on-llvm-with-seamless-c-interop) (Jeaye Wilkerson · Clojure/conj · 40:11): Explore Jank, a native Clojure dialect built on LLVM, and its implications for C++ interop, performance, and native application development within the Clojure ecosystem.
- [The Universe in a Box: Astrophysical Simulation and Supercomputing](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-universe-in-a-box-astrophysical-simulation-and-supercomputing) (Andrew Pontzen · Perimeter Institute · 53:02): Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen elucidates the transformative role of supercomputers and simulations in modern cosmology, from galaxy formation to the enigmas of dark matter.
- [A Multiset Approach to Arithmetic (Mathematics Foundations 227)](https://lectern.tv/watch/a-multiset-approach-to-arithmetic-mathematics-foundations-227) (Norman Wildberger · University of New South Wales · 39:10): This lecture reconstructs fundamental arithmetic operations—addition and multiplication—within a multiset theoretic framework, defining natural numbers, polynumbers, and multinumbers as nested multisets. It explores closure properties and distinct algebraic structures.
- [What Happened to Liberal Democracy? A Discussion with Daron Acemoglu and Michael Sandel](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-happened-to-liberal-democracy-a-discussion-with-daron-acemoglu-and-michael-) (Daron Acemoglu & Michael Sandel · MIT · 1:04:35): Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu and political philosopher Michael Sandel analyze the decline of liberal democracy, examining the divergence of working-class interests, the impact of post-industrial society, and the role of globalization. They explore concepts of contributive justice and the implications of AI on democratic governance.
- [The Great Wild Manifold Rodeo: Dennis Sullivan in Algebraic Topology](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-great-wild-manifold-rodeo-dennis-sullivan-in-algebraic-topology) (Michael J. Hopkins · Harvard University · 48:13): Michael J. Hopkins surveys the profound contributions of Dennis Sullivan to algebraic topology, particularly focusing on his work concerning manifolds and the interplay between homotopy theory and geometry.
- [HydroGym: A Reinforcement Learning Platform for Fluid Dynamics](https://lectern.tv/watch/hydrogym-a-reinforcement-learning-platform-for-fluid-dynamics) (Steve Brunton · University of Washington · 21:30): Steven L. Brunton introduces HydroGym, a novel reinforcement learning platform for controlling complex fluid dynamics, with connections to recent Nature publications.
- [Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty](https://lectern.tv/watch/why-nations-fail-inclusive-vs-extractive-political-institutions) (Daron Acemoglu · MIT · 1:10:50): Daron Acemoglu presents his institutional theory of economic development, arguing that extractive versus inclusive political and economic institutions fundamentally determine national prosperity, rather than geography or culture. Drawing on comparative historical cases, he analyzes the mechanisms through which institutional structures incentivize innovation and growth.
- [Hodge Theory of p-adic Varieties: Faltings' Legacy](https://lectern.tv/watch/hodge-theory-of-p-adic-varieties-faltings-legacy) (Wiesława Nizioł · CNRS · 48:14): An exploration of p-adic Hodge theory, tracing its development and the pivotal contributions of Gerd Faltings. This lecture details the relationship between étale cohomology and differential forms over p-adic fields.
- [Sugar: The Bitter Truth](https://lectern.tv/watch/sugar-the-bitter-truth) (Robert H. Lustig · University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) · 1:29:37): A foundational UCSF lecture examining the metabolic impact of dietary sugar, particularly fructose, and its role in the global obesity and chronic disease crisis.
- [A Post-Prospectus SpaceX Valuation](https://lectern.tv/watch/a-post-prospectus-spacex-valuation) (Aswath Damodaran · New York University · 45:19): Aswath Damodaran revisits his valuation of SpaceX following the release of its prospectus, providing an updated financial analysis informed by new data and market dynamics.
- [Dionysus: Lord of Misrule](https://lectern.tv/watch/dionysus-lord-of-misrule) (Ronald Hutton · University of Bristol · 46:38): Ronald Hutton delivers a compelling examination of Dionysian cults, moving beyond myth to explore the historical and social dimensions of this enigmatic ancient deity.
- [What Can the Theory of Cryptography Tell Us About AI Verification?](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-can-the-theory-of-cryptography-tell-us-about-ai-verification) (Shafi Goldwasser · Simons Institute (UC Berkeley) · 1:02:15): Applies interactive proof systems, cryptographic watermarking, and worst-case adversarial guarantees to verifiable machine learning.
- [Arithmetic Geometry and Computation](https://lectern.tv/watch/arithmetic-geometry-and-computation) (Minhyong Kim · ICMS Edinburgh · 54:19): Minhyong Kim explores the interface of arithmetic geometry and computation, tracing the evolution of solving Diophantine equations from antiquity to the profound implications of Faltings' theorem.
- [Quantum Electrodynamics: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Part 1](https://lectern.tv/watch/quantum-electrodynamics-the-strange-theory-of-light-and-matter-part-1) (Richard Feynman · Caltech · 1:17:58): Richard Feynman's inaugural Sir Douglas Robb Memorial Lecture from 1979, introducing the foundational concepts of Quantum Electrodynamics with his characteristic clarity and insight.
- [AI's Impact on Programming: An Epistemological Perspective](https://lectern.tv/watch/ai-s-impact-on-programming-an-epistemological-perspective-from-felienne-hermans) (Felienne Hermans · Domain-Driven Design Europe · 48:26): Professor Felienne Hermans offers a critical, alternate history of AI and its epistemological impact on programming, challenging current dominant narratives.
- [The Deep Learning Revolution (Turing Award Lecture)](https://lectern.tv/watch/geoffrey-hinton-the-deep-learning-revolution-turing-award-lecture) (Geoffrey Hinton · Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · 32:28): Geoffrey Hinton's seminal 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture, outlining the conceptual genesis and profound impact of the deep learning revolution.
- [The Indexing Question: Should SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic be in the S&P 500?](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-indexing-question-should-spacex-openai-and-anthropic-be-in-the-s-p-500) (Aswath Damodaran · New York University · 46:03): Professor Aswath Damodaran scrutinizes the complex question of including high-growth, privately valued tech firms like SpaceX and OpenAI in benchmark indices such as the S&P 500.
- [Digital vs. Biological Intelligence (Vienna Gödel Lecture)](https://lectern.tv/watch/digital-vs-biological-intelligence-vienna-godel-lecture) (Geoffrey Hinton · University of Toronto · 1:20:05): Contrasts immortal weight-sharing digital models with mortal analog biological computation—and examines knowledge distillation across heterogeneous architectures.
- [A Living Planet](https://lectern.tv/watch/a-living-planet) (Helen Czerski · University College London · 59:29): Helen Czerski elucidates the interconnectedness of Earth's ecosystems, exploring the profound influence of microbial life and marine organisms on planetary processes.
- [3-Manifolds After Perelman: Topology, Geometry, and Effective Rigidity](https://lectern.tv/watch/3-manifolds-after-perelman-topology-geometry-and-effective-rigidity) (Jeff Brock · Brown University · 59:52): Jeff Brock discusses the profound implications of Perelman's work on 3-manifolds, exploring advanced topics in topology, geometric structures, and the concept of effective rigidity.
- [The Biology of Depression](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-biology-of-depression-stanford-university) (Robert Sapolsky · Stanford University · 52:28): Professor Robert Sapolsky details the biological underpinnings and societal impact of major depressive disorder, examining its neurochemical, hormonal, and genetic components as a complex biological disease.
- [The Future of Fundamental Physics: Spacetime and Quantum Amplitudes](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-future-of-fundamental-physics-spacetime-and-quantum-amplitudes) (Nima Arkani-Hamed · Cornell University · 7:17:30): Demonstrates why locality and unitarity at Planck-scale energies force smooth spacetime to dissolve into positive combinatorial geometries like the Amplituhedron.
- [The Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture: A Millennium Prize Problem at 25](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-birch-swinnerton-dyer-conjecture-a-millennium-prize-problem-at-25) (Chris Skinner · Clay Mathematics Institute · 52:16): An anniversary reflection on the Birch-Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture, a profound problem in number theory concerning elliptic curves and L-functions, presented by a leading expert.
- [Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution](https://lectern.tv/watch/generative-modeling-by-estimating-gradients-of-the-data-distribution) (Stefano Ermon · Stanford University · 1:20:59): A seminar from the Institute for Advanced Study presenting advanced concepts in generative modeling through the estimation of data distribution gradients, with applications in machine learning.
- [Proofs, Knowledge, and Computation: Zero-Knowledge Interactive Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/proofs-knowledge-and-computation-zero-knowledge-interactive-systems) (Silvio Micali · MIT · 1:03:26): Traces how randomness and interaction transformed mathematical proof from static deduction into probabilistic, zero-knowledge cryptographic verification.
- [Ricci Flow After Perelman](https://lectern.tv/watch/ricci-flow-after-perelman) (Bruce Kleiner · Clay Mathematics Institute · 45:35): An advanced lecture on the Ricci flow, exploring its profound implications and developments in geometric analysis following Perelman's groundbreaking work on the Poincaré Conjecture.
- [Deep Dive into Large Language Models: Pretraining to RLHF](https://lectern.tv/watch/deep-dive-into-large-language-models-pretraining-to-rlhf) (Andrej Karpathy · Independent / Eureka Labs · 3:31:23): End-to-end engineering dissection of tokenization, distributed Transformer pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning on chain-of-thought, and inference failure modes.
- [The Hodge Conjecture: Geometry and Analysis](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-hodge-conjecture-geometry-and-analysis) (Burt Totaro · Clay Mathematics Institute · 51:25): An in-depth presentation on the Hodge Conjecture, examining its profound implications at the intersection of algebraic geometry and complex analysis.
- [The Deep Learning Revolution: The Sequel (Turing Award Lecture)](https://lectern.tv/watch/yann-lecun-the-deep-learning-revolution-the-sequel-turing-award-lecture) (Yann LeCun · Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) · 37:56): Yann LeCun's 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture, presenting an advanced perspective on the trajectory and future challenges of the deep learning paradigm.
- [Beyond "Two or Infinity": Quantitative Refinements of the Reeb Flow Conjecture](https://lectern.tv/watch/beyond-two-or-infinity-quantitative-refinements-of-the-reeb-flow-conjecture) (Umberto Leone Hryniewicz · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:06:49): Delve into quantitative refinements of the Hofer-Wysocki-Zehnder conjecture, exploring ergodic and growth-related aspects of periodic orbits in Reeb flows on the three-sphere.
- [Chernobyl: Technical and Cultural Factors Leading to the Accident](https://lectern.tv/watch/chernobyl-technical-and-cultural-factors-leading-to-the-accident) (Michael Short · MIT · 54:24): From MIT OpenCourseWare, this lecture rigorously dissects the Chernobyl accident, analyzing the inherent design flaws of the RBMK reactor and the cascade of human errors exacerbated by Soviet institutional culture.
- [Lagrangian Cobordisms and Persistence Modules](https://lectern.tv/watch/lagrangian-cobordisms-and-persistence-modules) (Leonid Polterovich · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:06:00): Leonid Polterovich presents on the application of persistence modules from topological data analysis to the geometry of Lagrangian cobordisms, a subject of ongoing research.
- [Introduction to Information Theory (University of Cambridge, Lecture 1)](https://lectern.tv/watch/introduction-to-information-theory-university-of-cambridge-lecture-1) (David MacKay · University of Cambridge · 1:01:51): This inaugural lecture introduces the foundational concepts of information theory, including Shannon entropy, and establishes the mathematical framework for understanding data compression and communication limits. The content directly references MacKay's authoritative textbook.
- [Thinking in Events: From Databases to Distributed Collaboration Software](https://lectern.tv/watch/thinking-in-events-from-databases-to-distributed-collaboration-software) (Martin Kleppmann · University of Cambridge · 52:04): A keynote address from ACM DEBS 2021 by Martin Kleppmann, exploring the evolution of event-driven paradigms from traditional databases to modern distributed collaboration systems.
- [Yang-Mills and the Mass Gap](https://lectern.tv/watch/yang-mills-and-the-mass-gap) (Martin Hairer · Clay Mathematics Institute · 1:00:56): Martin Hairer discusses the mathematical challenges of the Yang-Mills existence and mass gap problem, a Clay Millennium Prize Problem, exploring its connections to stochastic partial differential equations and quantum field theory.
- [The Continuum Hypothesis as a Fundamental Axiom](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-continuum-hypothesis-as-a-fundamental-axiom) (Joel David Hamkins · University of Oxford · 1:51:47): Joel David Hamkins presents a rigorous argument for considering the Continuum Hypothesis as a foundational axiom, exploring its implications for the structure of mathematics and set theory.
- [Topics in High Energy Physics, Lecture 7: Anomalies, Fermions & Topological Aspects](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-character-of-physical-law-1964-complete-series) (Richard Feynman · Cornell University · 5:59:49): Edward Witten investigates chiral anomalies, fermionic zero modes, and topological index theorems in high-energy quantum field theory.
- [Progress on Zeta and L-Functions Motivated by the Riemann Hypothesis](https://lectern.tv/watch/progress-on-zeta-and-l-functions-motivated-by-the-riemann-hypothesis) (Kannan Soundararajan · Clay Mathematics Institute · 58:17): A comprehensive overview of recent advancements in the study of zeta and L-functions, directly motivated by the enduring challenge of the Riemann Hypothesis.
- [Institutions, Technology, and Prosperity (Nobel Prize Lecture)](https://lectern.tv/watch/institutions-technology-and-prosperity-nobel-prize-lecture) (Daron Acemoglu · Nobel Prize Outreach · 36:22): Daron Acemoglu presents his Nobel Prize lecture, examining the intricate co-evolution of institutions, technological advancements, and long-run economic prosperity. The discussion delves into how institutional frameworks shape the adoption and impact of new technologies.
- [Critiquing CS Education and Reinventing Programming](https://lectern.tv/watch/critiquing-cs-education-and-reinventing-programming) (Alan Kay · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:20:48): Alan Kay offers a critical examination of contemporary computer science education and research, advocating for a return to fundamental principles and ambitious innovation in programming.
- [Helicity as a Foliated Cobordism Invariant, Part 2](https://lectern.tv/watch/helicity-as-a-foliated-cobordism-invariant-part-2) (Oliver Edtmair · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:05:47): Explore the geometric interpretation of helicity as a foliated cobordism invariant, extending Arnold's conjecture to C0 volume-preserving flows in 3-manifolds.
- [Mojo: Modular's Unified Device Accelerator Language](https://lectern.tv/watch/mojo-modular-s-unified-device-accelerator-language) (Chris Lattner · GPU MODE · 2:13:36): This presentation introduces Mojo, a unified programming language designed for artificial intelligence hardware, detailing its architectural components including the Graph compiler and MLRT for accelerated computation. It covers the rationale and design principles behind creating a Python-compatible language that achieves C/C++ level performance for AI workloads.
- [A Report on the Navier-Stokes Problem](https://lectern.tv/watch/a-report-on-the-navier-stokes-problem) (Vladimir Šverak · University of Minnesota · 52:55): Vladimir Šverak presents an overview of the formidable Navier-Stokes problem, delving into current challenges and recent progress in mathematical fluid dynamics.
- [Infinity-Category Theory for Undergraduates](https://lectern.tv/watch/infinity-category-theory-for-undergraduates) (Emily Riehl · Johns Hopkins University · 1:53:51): Emily Riehl outlines a pedagogical vision for introducing ∞-category theory to undergraduates, positing how future curricula might integrate advanced concepts like homotopy type theory.
- [2024 Nobel Prize Lectures in Economic Sciences: Institutions, Technology, and Prosperity](https://lectern.tv/watch/2024-nobel-prize-lectures-in-economic-sciences-institutions-technology-and-prosp) (Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson & James A. Robinson · Nobel Prize Outreach · 1:46:53): The 2024 Nobel Laureates present their research on the endogenous formation of institutions and their profound impact on long-term economic prosperity and societal development, with particular attention to technology and historical disease environments.
- [Lessons from Leo: The Perils of Investment Conviction](https://lectern.tv/watch/lessons-from-leo-the-perils-of-investment-conviction) (Aswath Damodaran · New York University · 36:20): Using the case of a prominent hedge fund, this session critically examines the nature of investment conviction, its spectrum, and the underlying forces shaping investor decision-making.
- [Disease Environments, European Mortality & Colonial Institutions (Nobel Prize Lecture)](https://lectern.tv/watch/prize-lecture-simon-johnson-disease-environments-mortality-of-europeans-and-crea) (Simon Johnson · Stockholm University · 33:48): Simon Johnson presents his Nobel Prize lecture, elucidating the long-term impact of disease environments and European mortality rates on the formation of institutions and subsequent economic prosperity in former colonial territories. This work connects historical epidemiological conditions to modern institutional development.
- [The White Knight: Ice](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-white-knight-ice) (Helen Czerski · Gresham College · 57:37): Professor Helen Czerski explores the multifaceted physics of ice, from its unique properties and role in Earth's climate system to the history of Arctic exploration and scientific inquiry.
- [Fourier Series: From Joseph Fourier's Heat Equation to Complex Epicycles](https://lectern.tv/watch/fourier-series-from-heat-flow-to-epicycles-3blue1brown) (Grant Sanderson · 3Blue1Brown · 24:47): Bridges PDE physics and pure harmonic analysis: shows why sinusoidal eigenfunctions naturally diagonalize the heat operator and how inner products isolate each rotating frequency.
- [New Bodies, Unconventional Minds: A Continuum of Cognition and Consciousness](https://lectern.tv/watch/new-bodies-unconventional-minds-a-continuum-of-cognition-and-consciousness) (Michael Levin · Tufts University · 39:56): Professor Michael Levin explores a continuum of cognition across diverse biological systems, challenging conventional views on consciousness and its embodiment.
- [Atomic Facts to Structured Knowledge: Rethinking Unlearning & Jailbreaking in Large Language Models](https://lectern.tv/watch/atomic-facts-to-structured-knowledge-rethinking-unlearning-jailbreaking-in-large) (Rongzhe Wei · Google Research & TechTalks · 56:22): Proposes a shift from atomic views of knowledge in LLMs toward structured internal knowledge modeling, fundamentally reshaping approaches to unlearning and jailbreaking. Addresses critical trust and safety concerns.
- [Algebraic Geometry and Discrete Periodic Operators](https://lectern.tv/watch/algebraic-geometry-and-discrete-periodic-operators) (Frank Sottile · Texas A&M University · 46:06): Exploring the intersection of algebraic geometry and spectral theory, this talk delves into using algebraic methods to analyze the spectra of discrete periodic operators on Z^d-periodic graphs.
- [The Triple Connection: Black Hole Mergers, Electromagnetic Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-triple-connection-black-hole-mergers-electromagnetic-counterparts-and-galact) (Smadar Naoz · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:01:14): Smadar Naoz explores the multi-messenger astronomy of black holes, linking gravitational-wave detections with X-ray emissions and astrometric measurements.
- [Kupka-Smale Genericity in Analytic Convex Billiards](https://lectern.tv/watch/kupka-smale-genericity-in-analytic-convex-billiards) (Inmaculada Concepcion Baldomá Barraca · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:07:39): A rigorous exploration of Kupka-Smale genericity in analytic strongly convex billiards, detailing conditions for maximal chaotic behavior and the existence of transverse homoclinic intersections.
- [Arbitrarily Fast Dispersion in Long Range Crystals](https://lectern.tv/watch/arbitrarily-fast-dispersion-in-long-range-crystals) (Mostafa Sabri · New York University · 51:20): This seminar presents a novel construction of 1D translation-invariant graphs with long-range hopping, demonstrating arbitrarily fast dispersion speeds bounded by t^{-N} for any N. It details the use of a Dolgopyat-inspired transfer operator method to control oscillatory integrals with highly irregular phases, addressing a question on the local time of Weierstrass nowhere differentiable functions.
- [Sirius: A GPU-Native SQL Engine](https://lectern.tv/watch/sirius-a-gpu-native-sql-engine) (Xiangyao Yu · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:07:27): An in-depth presentation on Sirius, a GPU-native SQL engine, examining its design and performance within the context of modern database systems research.
- [Learning Representations: A Challenge for Learning Theory, COLT 2013](https://lectern.tv/watch/learning-representations-a-challenge-for-learning-theory-colt-2013) (Yann LeCun · New York University · 54:33): Yann LeCun examines the fundamental challenges of learning theory in the context of representation learning, presented at the Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) in 2013.
- [Chemical and Biological Effects of Radiation; Deconstructing Nuclear Misinformation](https://lectern.tv/watch/chemical-and-biological-effects-of-radiation-deconstructing-nuclear-misinformati) (Michael Short · MIT · 59:36): An MIT OpenCourseWare lecture elucidates the chemical and biological mechanisms of radiation damage, from molecular interactions to organismal effects, culminating in a critical analysis of common nuclear misinformation.
- [Neuroscience Beyond Neurons: The Diverse Intelligence Era](https://lectern.tv/watch/neuroscience-beyond-neurons-the-diverse-intelligence-era) (Michael Levin & Robert Chis-Ciure · Mind-Body Solution Colloquia · 1:28:09): This colloquium re-evaluates the neuron-centric model of cognition, proposing bioelectric networks and morphological computation as fundamental mechanisms for goal-directed behavior, memory, and agency across biological scales, from cellular to organismic.
- [How Mao Conquered China: Grand Strategy and Civil War](https://lectern.tv/watch/how-mao-conquered-china-grand-strategy-and-civil-war) (Sarah Paine · U.S. Naval War College · 1:49:00): Professor Sarah Paine analyzes Mao Zedong's rise to power, examining his strategic application of Clausewitzian principles, his role as a propagandist and social scientist, and the military and political factors that led to the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War.
- [On the Emergence of Representational Geometry from Natural Language Statistics](https://lectern.tv/watch/on-the-emergence-of-representational-geometry-from-natural-language-statistics) (Yasaman Bahri · Harvard University · 1:08:42): Yasaman Bahri of Google DeepMind discusses the spontaneous emergence of intricate geometric structures in large language models, reflecting the semantic and conceptual organization of natural language.
- [Country Risk: Determinants, Measures, and Implications (2026 Edition)](https://lectern.tv/watch/country-risk-determinants-measures-and-implications-2026-edition) (Aswath Damodaran · New York University · 37:00): An updated annual overview of country risk, examining its key determinants, various measurement methodologies, and critical implications for corporate financial analysis and valuation.
- [Computer-Assisted Proofs in Fluid PDEs using Interval Arithmetic](https://lectern.tv/watch/computer-assisted-proofs-in-fluid-pdes-using-interval-arithmetic) (Tristan Buckmaster · Princeton University · 56:08): A detailed exposition on the application of rigorous numerical computation and interval arithmetic to produce validated mathematical proofs for singularity formation in fluid PDEs.
- [What is Ultimately Real? Consciousness, Free Energy, and Spacetime](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-is-ultimately-real-consciousness-free-energy-and-spacetime) (Donald Hoffman & Karl Friston · UC Irvine & UCL · 2:40:25): A rigorous dialogue between Donald Hoffman and Karl Friston on the fundamental nature of reality, exploring the Free Energy Principle, active inference, and the proposition that spacetime is an evolved interface.
- [Invariant Sets and Rigidity of Hamiltonian Diffeomorphisms](https://lectern.tv/watch/ias-symplectic-geometry-hamiltonian-diffeomorphisms-egor-shelukhin) (Egor Shelukhin · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:05:31): Institute for Advanced Study School of Mathematics seminar investigating symplectic rigidity, Floer homology persistence modules, and invariant subsets of Hamiltonian flows.
- [Shading Languages and Programmable Graphics Systems](https://lectern.tv/watch/shading-languages-and-programmable-graphics-systems) (Pat Hanrahan · Stanford University · 1:03:55): A distinguished lecture from Professor Pat Hanrahan (Stanford) tracing the evolution of shading languages and their role in the emergence of programmable graphics systems, presented at MIT CSAIL.
- [Information Timing and Release: Quarterly Reporting and Fed Guidance](https://lectern.tv/watch/information-timing-and-release-quarterly-reporting-and-fed-guidance) (Aswath Damodaran · New York University · 31:41): An exploration of the ongoing debate surrounding the frequency of financial reporting and the role of central bank guidance in shaping market behavior and price discovery.
- [Nobel Lecture: The Neanderthal Genome and Human Evolution](https://lectern.tv/watch/nobel-lecture-the-neanderthal-genome-and-human-evolution) (Svante Pääbo · Max Planck Society · 59:11): Svante Pääbo details the methodological breakthroughs in paleogenomics that enabled the sequencing of Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes, revealing archaic gene flow into modern human populations and illuminating key aspects of human evolutionary history.
- [OpenAI Meta-Learning and Self-Play](https://lectern.tv/watch/ilya-sutskever-openai-meta-learning-and-self-play-mit-artificial-general-intelli) (Ilya Sutskever · MIT · 1:00:15): Ilya Sutskever of OpenAI presents on advanced topics in meta-learning and self-play within the context of Artificial General Intelligence, delivered for an MIT course.
- [Women Who Shaped Modern Physics](https://lectern.tv/watch/women-who-shaped-modern-physics) (Shohini Ghose · Perimeter Institute · 56:36): An illuminating journey through the contributions of pioneering women scientists whose work fundamentally advanced our understanding of the universe, from quantum mechanics to cosmology.
- [What Needs to Be Added to Machine Learning? PAC Learning and Reasoning](https://lectern.tv/watch/what-needs-to-be-added-to-machine-learning-pac-learning-and-reasoning) (Leslie Valiant · Harvard University · 54:36): PAC-learning pioneer Leslie Valiant examines how statistical generalization and compositional logical deduction can be unified in formal computational models of educability.
- [Society and Survival During the Holocaust](https://lectern.tv/watch/society-and-survival-during-the-holocaust) (Mary Fulbrook · Gresham College · 45:25): A nuanced historical analysis exploring the complex dynamics of societies under Nazi occupation, examining conditions for passivity, forms of assistance, and Jewish survival strategies during the Holocaust.
- [The Exponential Time Hypothesis: Foundations of Computational Hardness](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-exponential-time-hypothesis-foundations-of-computational-hardness) (Ryan O'Donnell · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:19:45): An foundational lecture introducing the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a crucial conjecture in theoretical computer science that posits limits on efficient solvability for NP-hard problems.
- [Scheduling with Time-Evolving Uncertainty for Content Review in Social Media](https://lectern.tv/watch/scheduling-with-time-evolving-uncertainty-for-content-review-in-social-media) (Thodoris Lykouris · MIT · 49:19): Thodoris Lykouris (MIT) presents a novel approach to scheduling content review, addressing time-evolving uncertainty in social media moderation pipelines.
- [Gibbs Measures on Infinite Trees and Homoclinic Points](https://lectern.tv/watch/ias-gibbs-measures-and-homoclinic-points-alberto-abbondandolo) (Alberto Abbondandolo · Institute for Advanced Study · 1:08:23): Research seminar at the Institute for Advanced Study linking statistical-mechanics Gibbs measures on trees with chaotic homoclinic dynamics.
- [Restoring the American Dream Through Higher Education: New Insights from Big Data](https://lectern.tv/watch/restoring-the-american-dream-through-higher-education-new-insights-from-big-data) (Raj Chetty · Harvard University · 49:54): Professor Raj Chetty delivers a keynote address on leveraging large-scale data to analyze and inform policies for improving economic mobility through higher education.
- [The Role of Computer Assistance in Mathematical Proofs](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-role-of-computer-assistance-in-mathematical-proofs) (Kevin Buzzard · Imperial College London · 1:13:30): An examination of how computational methods augment and transform complex mathematical proofs, from the four-color theorem to the classification of finite simple groups.
- [A Staircase for the Gromov Width of Finsler Co-Sphere Bundles over RP2](https://lectern.tv/watch/a-staircase-for-the-gromov-width-of-finsler-co-sphere-bundles-over-rp2) (Vinicius Ramos · IMPA · 1:05:02): Explore a novel staircase phenomenon arising from deforming the target space, specifically the Gromov width of Finsler co-sphere bundles over RP2, revealing aspects of symplectic rigidity and flexibility.
- [Why Pluto Isn't a Planet: The History of Planetary Definitions](https://lectern.tv/watch/why-pluto-isn-t-a-planet-the-history-of-planetary-definitions) (Chris Lintott · Gresham College · 51:48): Explore the scientific and historical journey that led to Pluto's reclassification, delving into the evolving understanding of planetary bodies and the dynamics of the Kuiper Belt.
- [Sleep as a Trojan Horse: A Computational Principle for Biological Intelligence](https://lectern.tv/watch/sleep-as-a-trojan-horse-a-computational-principle-for-biological-intelligence) (Keith Hengen · Santa Fe Institute · 55:50): This seminar explores the criticality hypothesis, proposing that healthy brains operate near a tipping point to maximize computational capacity. Hengen presents experimental evidence on how neural circuits converge to critical dynamics, how criticality impacts learning, and how sleep may restore this critical state, linking it to neurological disorders.
- [AI's Business Questions: From Hype to Economic Reality](https://lectern.tv/watch/ai-s-business-questions-from-hype-to-economic-reality) (Aswath Damodaran · New York University · 44:36): A critical examination of AI's economic implications, moving beyond market hype to analyze its impact on investment build-up, value creation, and long-term financial viability.
- [Fantastic Bitflips & Where to Find Them (and How to Tame Them)](https://lectern.tv/watch/fantastic-bitflips-where-to-find-them-and-how-to-tame-them) (Onur Mutlu · ETH Zürich · 1:09:32): Onur Mutlu, a leading researcher in computer architecture, delivers a keynote on the elusive yet critical phenomenon of bitflips in DRAM, exploring their origins and mitigation strategies.
- [On the Stability and Instability of Elliptic Equilibria of Real Analytic Hamiltonians](https://lectern.tv/watch/on-the-stability-and-instability-of-elliptic-equilibria-of-real-analytic-hamilto) (Bassam Fayad · University of Maryland · 1:06:33): Discuss recent advancements in the stability theory of elliptic equilibria for real analytic Hamiltonian flows, addressing fundamental questions in dynamical systems.
- [SpacetimeDB: Inverting the Backend - Why We Built Our MMORPG Inside a Database](https://lectern.tv/watch/spacetimedb-inverting-the-backend-why-we-built-our-mmorpg-inside-a-database) (Tyler Cloutier · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:05:58): An analysis of SpacetimeDB's architectural paradigm, illustrating how an MMORPG was constructed directly within a database, fundamentally inverting traditional backend design.
- [1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed](https://lectern.tv/watch/1177-b-c-the-year-civilization-collapsed) (Eric H. Cline · George Washington University · 1:10:17): Eric H. Cline reconstructs the interconnected Late Bronze Age Mediterranean network, analyzing archaeological and textual evidence for the cascading systems collapse that ended the Mycenaean, Hittite, and New Kingdom Egyptian civilizations around 1177 BC.
- [Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress and Health](https://lectern.tv/watch/why-zebras-don-t-get-ulcers-stress-and-health) (Robert Sapolsky · Stanford University · 1:27:44): Dr. Robert Sapolsky explores the evolutionary basis of the stress response and its profound implications for human health, drawing parallels between animal and human physiological reactions.
- [Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning: Introduction & Word Vectors](https://lectern.tv/watch/stanford-cs224n-nlp-with-deep-learning-winter-2021-lecture-1-intro-word-vectors) (Christopher Manning · Stanford University · 1:24:27): This lecture introduces foundational concepts in Natural Language Processing, examining how human language and word meaning can be represented by dense vector embeddings. It provides a detailed introduction to the Word2vec algorithm, covering its objective function, gradients, and optimization basics.
- [Homa: Addressing AI Cluster Networking Bottlenecks Beyond TCP](https://lectern.tv/watch/homa-addressing-ai-cluster-networking-bottlenecks-beyond-tcp) (John Ousterhout · Stanford University · 18:48): Stanford's John Ousterhout discusses the limitations of traditional network protocols like TCP for modern AI workloads and introduces Homa as a high-performance alternative for data center communication.
- [Set Theory and the Philosophy of Set Theory](https://lectern.tv/watch/set-theory-and-the-philosophy-of-set-theory) (Joel David Hamkins · University of Oxford · 1:36:50): Joel David Hamkins explores the historical emergence and philosophical underpinnings of set theory, from Cantor's insights to Zermelo's axiomatic framework and its foundational role in mathematics.
- [Arithmetic Diagonal Cycles and L-Functions](https://lectern.tv/watch/arithmetic-diagonal-cycles-and-l-functions) (Wei Zhang · Clay Mathematics Institute · 1:00:02): Investigating the intricate connections between arithmetic diagonal cycles and L-functions, a topic at the frontier of modern number theory and arithmetic geometry.
- [Reinventing Shannon Information Theory: Entropy & Optimal Prefix Codes](https://lectern.tv/watch/reinventing-shannon-entropy-compression-is-intelligence-3blue1brown) (Grant Sanderson · 3Blue1Brown · 32:19): Derives Claude Shannon's 1948 entropy formula H(X) = -Σ p(x) log₂ p(x) from Kraft's inequality on binary prefix trees and connects lossless compression directly to language modeling.
- [QED Lecture 1, Part 5: Photons, Partial Reflection & Probability Amplitudes](https://lectern.tv/watch/computer-science-and-homotopy-theory) (Vladimir Voevodsky · Institute for Advanced Study · 28:58): Vladimir Voevodsky explores the profound connections between computer science, type theory, and homotopy theory, laying groundwork for new mathematical foundations.
- [Multigres: Horizontal Scaling and Enterprise Operations for PostgreSQL](https://lectern.tv/watch/multigres-horizontal-scaling-and-enterprise-operations-for-postgresql) (Sugu Sougoumarane · Carnegie Mellon University · 1:01:19): Explore Multigres, a system designed to bring horizontal scaling and enterprise-grade operational capabilities to PostgreSQL deployments, addressing challenges in distributed database management.
- [Programming Methodology: Course Introduction and Overview](https://lectern.tv/watch/programming-methodology-course-introduction-and-overview) (Mehran Sahami · Stanford University · 49:47): An introductory lecture from Stanford's CS106A, outlining core programming principles, object-oriented design, and the fundamentals of Java for aspiring computer scientists.
- [Compiler 2.0: Building the Next Generation of Compilers with Machine Learning](https://lectern.tv/watch/compiler-2-0-building-the-next-generation-of-compilers-with-machine-learning) (Saman Amarasinghe · MIT · 56:56): Saman Amarasinghe (MIT) presents on the integration of machine learning techniques into compiler design, exploring novel approaches for creating the next generation of high-performance compilers.
- [Neural Networks I: Feedforward Architectures & Backpropagation](https://lectern.tv/watch/lecture-7-neural-networks-1-architecture-cs229) (Chris Ré · Stanford University · 1:20:28): This lecture introduces the foundational concepts of artificial neural networks, detailing their architectural components, including layers, neurons, activation functions, and feedforward propagation. Key elements for constructing basic neural network models are examined.
- [Topological Algebra of Symplectic Geometry of Symmetric Powers](https://lectern.tv/watch/topological-algebra-of-symplectic-geometry-of-symmetric-powers) (Vivek Shende · Harvard University · 1:02:24): Vivek Shende explores the topological algebra inherent in the symplectic geometry of symmetric powers, extending the framework to an open 2D topological field theory without explicit Lagrangian construction.
- [Non-abelian Motives](https://lectern.tv/watch/non-abelian-motives) (Daniel Litt · University of Toronto · 57:48): An exploration of non-abelian Hodge theory, developing structures on fundamental group representations analogous to those in cohomology, and presenting new related conjectures.
- [Objective-Driven AI: World Models that Learn, Remember, Reason, and Plan](https://lectern.tv/watch/objective-driven-ai-world-models-that-learn-remember-reason-and-plan) (Yann LeCun · Harvard University · 1:16:53): Critiques autoregressive token prediction on high-dimensional sensory streams and proposes Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) for hierarchical planning.
- [The Stable Homotopy Groups of Spheres](https://lectern.tv/watch/the-stable-homotopy-groups-of-spheres) (Tomer Schlank · Clay Mathematics Institute · 56:53): A detailed investigation into the stable homotopy groups of spheres, exploring fundamental structures and recent advancements in this core area of algebraic topology.
- [Bridging Affine Vertex Algebras and Affine Springer Fibers](https://lectern.tv/watch/bridging-affine-vertex-algebras-and-affine-springer-fibers) (Peng Shan · Tsinghua University · 1:19:16): An advanced exposition on the current research program connecting affine Springer theory with representations of simple affine vertex algebras, detailing explicit correspondences and conjectures.
- [State of the (Tagged) Union Address](https://lectern.tv/watch/state-of-the-tagged-union-address-by-andrew-kelley) (Andrew Kelley · TigerBeetle / Systems Distributed '26 · 49:03): Andrew Kelley provides an overview of recent advancements, ongoing development, and the future roadmap for the Zig programming language, emphasizing its philosophy of minimal dependencies and robust toolchain.
- [Helicity as a Foliated Cobordism Invariant 1](https://lectern.tv/watch/helicity-as-a-foliated-cobordism-invariant-1) (Sobhan Seyfaddini · ETH Zürich · 1:06:52): Uncover the geometric interpretation of helicity as a foliated cobordism invariant, extending Arnold's conjecture to C0 volume-preserving flows in both smooth and C0 settings.
- [Grace Hopper's Landmark Lecture: The Future of Computing (1985)](https://lectern.tv/watch/grace-hopper-s-landmark-lecture-the-future-of-computing-1985) (Grace Hopper · MIT · 1:25:57): An archival presentation from Grace Hopper at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in 1985, offering a visionary perspective on the foundational principles and future trajectory of computing from a pioneer in the field.
- [Quantum Gravity and Statistical Physics](https://lectern.tv/watch/quantum-gravity-and-statistical-physics) (Jan de Boer · University of Amsterdam · 1:21:39): Exploring the statistical nature of information available to low-energy observers in quantum gravity, linking it to the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis and factorization.