David I. Kaiser Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tel. 617 452-3173. Email. [email protected] http://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www Academic Positions 2019–2022. Associate Dean, Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, MIT 2015–. Professor, Department of Physics, MIT. 2011–. Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT. 2011–. Faculty Associate, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University. 2000–2011. Assistant Professor (2000-2004) and Associate Professor (2004-2011), Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT. 2000–2015. Lecturer (2000-2010) and Senior Lecturer (2010-2015), Department of Physics, MIT. Spring 1999. Visiting Lecturer. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College. Education 2000. Ph.D. in Physics and in History of Science, Harvard University History of Science Dissertation: “Making Theory: Producing Physics and Physicists in Postwar America.” May 2000. Physics Dissertation: “Post-Inflation Reheating in an Expanding Universe.” December 1997. 1993. A.B. in Physics, Dartmouth College. Summa cum Laude Academic Honors and Awards 2026. History of Science Society, Hazen Education Prize for outstanding teaching in the history of science. 2020. Choice Outstanding Academic Title for Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World. 2020. Physics World “Best of Physics in Books, TV, and Film in 2020” for Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World. 2016. George Sarton Memorial Lecturer, plenary address sponsored by the History of Science Society, delivered at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting. 2013. History of Science Society, Davis Prize for best book aimed at a general audience, awarded for How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival. 2012. Physics World “Book of the Year” award for How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival. 2012. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT’s highest honor for excellence in undergraduate teaching. 2012. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frank E. Perkins Award for Excellence in Graduate Advising. 2010. American Physical Society, Fellow, elected for “outstanding publications that combine technical mastery of twentieth-century physics with a deep knowledge of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science.” David Kaiser 2007. History of Science Society, Pfizer Award for best book in the field, awarded for Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. 2006. Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize, awarded for Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harold E. Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, awarded to one tenure-track faculty member at MIT for “exceptional distinction in teaching and research.” 2005. Forum for the History of Science in America Article Prize, awarded for “The postwar suburbanization of American physics.” 2004. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Graduate Student Council Teaching Award, awarded to one professor in MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences “for excellence in teaching a graduate level course.” 2001. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Levitan Prize in the Humanities, awarded to one faculty member at MIT for “innovative and creative scholarship in the humanities.” 2000. British Society for the History of Science, Ivan Slade Prize Runner-Up, awarded for the article, “Stick-figure realism: Conventions, Reification, and the Persistence of Feynman Diagrams.” 1996–1999. Awarded three Certificates for Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University. 1993. American Physical Society, LeRoy Apker Award, awarded first place nationally “for outstanding achievement in physics by an undergraduate student.” 1992. Dartmouth College, Phi Beta Kappa Society, junior-year recipient. Grants and Fellowships 2025. MIT Bose Research Grant, Principal Investigator for “Cosmic Close Encounters: Novel Strategies for Detecting Primordial Black Holes” ($500,000). 2020. Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator for “Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing” ($500,000). 2015. National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant PHY-1541160 (“Testing Bell’s Inequality with Astrophysical Observations,” $900,360). 2013. MacArthur Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and Noyce Foundation, Principal Investigator for “Evolving Culture of Science Engagement” initiative ($50,000 each). 2011. National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant SES-1056580 (“Dark Energy, Fine-Tuning, and the Multiverse: Testing Theories in Modern Cosmology,” $120,000). 2010. National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant SBE-0965259 (“Predictive Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields,” $563,284). 2007. Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Wellesley College, Resident Fellow. 2004. Spencer Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant 200400119 (“Training Quantum Mechanics: Pedagogical Pressures and Curricular Reform in Modern Physics,” $34,000). 2002. National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant SES-0135615 (“The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics,” $51,264). 2002. National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant SES-0135622 (“Public Science: Discourse on the Strategic Defense Initiative,” $84,000). 2001. Spencer Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant 200200081 (“Pedagogy and Practice in Postwar Theoretical Physics,” $35,000). 2001. Spencer Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant 200200064 (“Training Scientists, Crafting Science Conference,” $50,000). 2 David Kaiser 2001. National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator for Grant SES-0118165 (“Training Scientists, Crafting Science Conference,” $9,102). 1999. Harvard University, Whiting Fellowship for the Humanities. 1999. Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Graduate Fellow. 1997. Spencer Foundation, Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education. 1997. Harvard University, Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. 1993. National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship. 1993. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Fellow in Humanistic Studies. Publications Books 2027. Alan H. Guth and David I. Kaiser, The Physics of the Early Universe: An Introduction to Modern Cosmology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, under contract. 2020. David Kaiser, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Hardcover 2020; paperback 2022; Greek translation 2023; Korean translation 2024. 2011. David Kaiser, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival. New York: W. W. Norton. Hardcover and audiobook 2011; paperback 2012; Italian translation 2012; Chinese translation 2014. 2005. David Kaiser, Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited Volumes 2022. David Kaiser, ed., “Well, Doc, You’re In”: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2022. Aaron Wright, Diana Coleman, and David Kaiser, eds., Theoretical Physics In Your Face: Selected Correspondence of Sidney Coleman. Singapore: World Scientific. 2016. David Kaiser and Patrick McCray, eds., Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2013. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and David Kaiser, eds., Science and the American Century: Readings from Isis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2010. David Kaiser, ed., Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision. Cambridge: MIT Press. Korean translation in press. 2005. David Kaiser, ed., Pedagogy and the Practice of Science: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2002. Alexis de Greiff and David Kaiser, eds., Twentieth-Century Theoretical Physics in Political Contexts. Special issue of Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 33 (Fall 2002): 1-192. 2001. Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, and David Kaiser, eds., The History of Modern Physical Science in the Twentieth Century. Four-volume series. Vol. 1: Making Special Relativity; Vol. 2: Making General Relativity; Vol. 3: Physical Science and the Language of War; and Vol. 4: Quantum Histories. New York: Routledge. Articles in Refereed Journals 2026. David Kaiser, “Coordinated blasts: Cold War roots of numerical relativity in the United States,” British Journal for the History of Science, forthcoming. 3 David Kaiser 2026. Alexandra P. Klipfel and David I. Kaiser, “Electromagnetic signatures from primordial black holes in the Solar System,” Universe 12, no. 8: 245, arXiv:2605.26204 [hep- ph]. 2026. David Kaiser, “Secret clocks: The US military, Einstein’s relativity, and the Global Positioning System,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 56 no. 3: 210–251. 2026. Alexandra P. Klipfel, Miguel Vanvlasselaer, Sokratis Trifinopoulos, and David I. Kaiser, “Baryogenesis from exploding primordial black holes,” arXiv:2603.29024 [hep-ph]. 2026. Miguel vanvlasselaer, Sokratis Trifinopoulos, Alexandra P. Klipfel, and David I. Kaiser, “Shocks from exploding primordial black holes in the early universe,” arXiv:2603.15746 [astro-ph.CO]. 2026. Alexandra P. Klipfel and David I. Kaiser, “Gravitational ionization by Schwarzschild primordial black holes,” Physical Review D 113: 063031, arXiv:2601.05935 [hep- ph]. 2025. Dario L. Lorenzoni, Sarah R. Geller, David I. Kaiser, and Evan McDonough, “Primordial black holes from inflation with a spectator field,” arXiv:2512.04199 [astro-ph.CO]. 2025. Vitorio A. De Lorenci, David I. Kaiser, and Patrick Peter, “Orbital motion of primordial black holes crossing Sun-type stars,” American Journal of Physics 93: 943-950, arXiv:2405.08113 [astro-ph.CO]. 2025. Alexandra P. Klipfel, Peter Fisher, and David I. Kaiser, “Hawking radiation signatures from primordial black holes transiting the inner Solar System: Prospects for detection,” Physical Review D 112: 103007, arXiv:2506.14041 [astro-ph.CO]. 2025. David Kaiser, “Hippies, Bell tests, and a career studying quantum entanglement,” Physics Today 78 (June 2025): 26-35. 2025. Thomas Steingasser, Mark P. Hertzberg, and David I. Kaiser, “Precision unitarity calculations in inflationary models,” arXiv:2505.20386 [hep-ph]. 2025. Dario L. Lorenzoni, Sarah R. Geller, Zachary Ireland, David I. Kaiser, Evan McDonough, and Kyle A. Wittmeier, “Light scalar fields foster production of primordial black holes,” arXiv:2504.13251 [astro-ph.CO]. 2025. Vitorio A. De Lorenci, David I. Kaiser, Patrick Peter, Lucas S. Ruiz, and Noah E. Wolfe, “Gravitational wave signals from primordial black holes from solar-type stars,” Physical Review D 112: 063063, arXiv:2504.07517 [gr-qc]. 2025. Thomas Steingasser and David I. Kaiser, “Toward quantum tunneling from excited states: Recovering imaginary-time instantons from a real-time analysis,” Physical Review D 111: 0960009, arXiv:2402.00099 [hep-th]. 2025. Alexandra P. Klipfel and David I. Kaiser, “Ultra-high-energy neutrinos from primordial black holes,” Physical Review Letters 113: 121003, arXiv:2503.19227 [hep-ph]. Editors’ Suggestion. 2025. David Kaiser, “How the Cold War changed quantum education,” Nature Reviews Physics 7 (5 February 2025): 130-131. 2024. Sean M. D. Gregory, Silvia Schiattarella, Vitor S. Barroso, David I. Kaiser, Anastasios Avgoustidis, and Silke Weinfurtner, “Tracing the nonlinear formation of an interfacial wave spectral cascade: From one to few to many,” arXiv:2410.08842 [gr- qc]. 2024. Dario L. Lorenzoni, David I. Kaiser, and Evan McDonough, “Natural inflation with exponentially small tensor-to-scalar ratio,” Physical Review D 110:L061302, arXiv:2405.13881 [astro-ph.CO]. 2024. Thomas Steingasser, Morgane König, and David I. Kaiser, “Finite-temperature instantons from first principles,” Physical Review D 110:L111902, arXiv:2310.19865 [hep-th]. 2024. Tung X. Tran, Sarah R. Geller, Benjamin V. Lehmann, and David I. Kaiser, “Close encounters of a primordial kind: A new observable for primordial black holes as dark 4 David Kaiser matter,” Physical Review D 110:063533, arXiv:2312.17217 [astro-ph.CO]. Editors’ Suggestion. 2024. Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David I. Kaiser, “Primordial black holes with QCD color charge,” Physical Review Letters 132: 231403, arXiv:2310.16877 [hep-ph]. Editors’ Suggestion. 2023. Elba Alonso-Monsalve and David I. Kaiser, “Debye screening of non-Abelian plasmas in curved spacetimes,” Physical Review D 108: 125010, arXiv:2309.15385 [hep-ph]. 2023. Thomas Steingasser and David I. Kaiser, “Higgs criticality beyond the Standard Model,” Physical Review D 108: 095035, arXiv:2307.10361 [hep-ph]. 2023. Wenzer Qin, Sarah R. Geller, Shyam Balaji, Evan McDonough, and David I. Kaiser, “Planck constraints and gravitational wave forecasts for primordial black hole dark matter seeded by multifield inflation,” Physical Review D 108: 043508, arXiv:2303.02168 [astro-ph.CO]. 2023. Feraz Azhar and David I. Kaiser, “Flows into de Sitter space from anisotropic initial conditions: An effective field theory approach,” Physical Review D 107: 043506, arXiv:2207.08355 [astro-ph.CO]. 2022. Sarah R. Geller, Wenzer Qin, Evan McDonough, and David I. Kaiser, “Primordial black holes from multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings,” Physical Review D 106: 063535, arXiv:2205.04471 [hep-th]. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2021. Borna Salehian, Hong-Yi Zhang, Mustafa A. Amin, David I. Kaiser, and Mohammad Hossein Namjoo, “Beyond Schrödinger-Poisson: Nonrelativistic effective field theory for scalar dark matter,” Journal of High Energy Physics 09 (2021): 050, arXiv:2104.10128 [astro-ph.CO]. 2021. Rouzbeh Allahverdi et al., “The first three seconds: A review of possible expansion histories of the early universe,” Open Journal of Astrophysics 4, arXiv:2006.16182 [astro-ph.CO]. (A topcite 100+ entry in on INSPIRE.) 2020. Evan McDonough, Alan H. Guth, and David I. Kaiser, “Nonminimal couplings and the forgotten field of axion inflation,” arXiv:2010.04179 [hep-th]. 2020. Borna Salehian, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo, and David I. Kaiser, “Effective theories for a nonrelativistic field in an expanding universe: Induced self-interaction, pressure, sound speed, and viscosity,” Journal of High Energy Physics 07 (2020): 059, arXiv:2005.05388 [astro-ph.CO]. 2020. Jorinde van de Vis, Rachel Nguyen, Evangelos Sfakianakis, John T. Giblin, Jr., and David I. Kaiser, “Time-scales for nonlinear processes in preheating in multifield inflation with nonminimal couplings,” Physical Review D 102: 043528, arXiv:2005.00433 [astro-ph.CO]. 2020. Julia Menzel and David Kaiser, “Weimar, Cold War, and Historical Explanation: Re- reading Forman,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 50: 31-40. 2019. Maximilian Daschner, David I. Kaiser, and Joseph A. Formaggio, “Exploiting Faraday Rotation to Jam Quantum Key Distribution via Polarized Photons,” Quantum Information and Computation 19: 1313-1324, arXiv:1905.01359 [quant-ph]. 2019. Rachel Nguyen, Jorinde van de Vis, Evangelos I. Sfakianakis, John T. Giblin, Jr., and David I. Kaiser, “Nonlinear Dynamics of Preheating after Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings,” Physical Review Letters 123: 171301, arXiv:1905.12562 [hep-ph]. 2019. Jolyon K. Bloomfield, Patrick Fitzpatrick, Kiriakos Hilbert, and David I. Kaiser, “Onset of Inflation amid Backreaction from Inhomogeneities,” Physical Review D 100: 063512, arXiv:1906.08651 [astro-ph.CO]. 2019. Andrew Friedman, Alan Guth, Michael Hall, David I. Kaiser, and Jason Gallicchio, “Relaxed Bell Inequalities with Arbitary Measurement Dependence for Each Observer,” Physical Review A 99: 012121, arXiv:1809.01307 [quant-ph]. 5 David Kaiser 2018. Feraz Azhar and David I. Kaiser, “Flows into Inflation: An Effective Field Theory Approach,” Physical Review D 98: 063515, arXiv:1807.02088 [astro-ph.CO]. 2018. Dominik Rauch et al., “Cosmic Bell Test using Random Measurement Settings from High- Redshift Quasars,” Physical Review Letters 121: 080403, arXiv:1808.05966 [quant- ph]. Editors’ Suggestion. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2018. Mohammad Hossein Namjoo, Alan H. Guth, and David I. Kaiser, “Relativistic Corrections to Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theories,” Physical Review D 98: 016011, arXiv:1712.00445 [hep-ph]. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2018. David Kaiser and Dean Rickles, “The Price of Gravity: Private Patronage and the Transformation of Gravitational Physics after World War II,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 48: 338-379. 2018. Calvin Leung, Amy Brown, Hien Nguyen, Andrew Friedman, David I. Kaiser, and Jason Gallicchio, “Astronomical Random Numbers for Quantum Foundations Experiments,” Physical Review A 97: 042120, arXiv:1706.02276 [quant-ph]. 2018. David Kaiser, “The Origins of Physics Today,” Physics Today 71 (May 2018): 32-38. 2018. Matthew DeCross, David I. Kaiser, Anirudh Prabhu, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Evangelos Sfakianakis, “Preheating after Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings, III: Dynamical spacetime results,” Physical Review D 97: 023528, arXiv:1610.08916 [astro-ph.CO]. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2018. Matthew DeCross, David I. Kaiser, Anirudh Prabhu, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Evangelos Sfakianakis, “Preheating after Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings, II: Resonance structure,” Physical Review D 97: 023527, arXiv:1610.08868 [astro-ph.CO]. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2018. Matthew DeCross, David I. Kaiser, Anirudh Prabhu, C. Prescod-Weinstein, and Evangelos Sfakianakis, “Preheating after Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings, I: Covariant Formalism and Attractor Behavior,” Physical Review D 97: 023526, arXiv:1510.08553 [astro-ph.CO]. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2017. Johannes Handsteiner et al., “Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars,” Physical Review Letters 118: 060401, arXiv:1611.06985 [quant-ph]. Editors’ Suggestion. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2016. Joseph Formaggio, David I. Kaiser, Mykola Murskyj, and Talia Weiss, “Violation of the Leggett-Garg Inequality in Neutrino Oscillations,” Physical Review Letters 117: 050402, arXiv:1602.00051 [quant-ph]. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2015. Mustafa Amin, Mark Hertzberg, David I. Kaiser, and Johanna Karouby, “Nonperturbative Dynamics of Reheating after Inflation: A Review,” invited review for International Journal of Modern Physics D 24: 1530003, arXiv:1410.3808 [hep-ph]. (A topcite 250+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2014. Alan Guth, David I. Kaiser, and Yasunori Nomura, “Inflationary Paradigm after Planck 2013,” Physics Letters B 733: 112-119, arXiv:1312.7619 [astro-ph.CO]. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2014. Jason Gallicchio, Andrew Friedman, and David I. Kaiser, “Testing Bell’s Inequality with Cosmic Photons: Closing the Settings-Independence Loophole,” Physical Review Letters 112: 110405, arXiv:1310.3288 [quant-ph]. 2014. Katelin Schutz, Evangelos Sfakianakis, and David I. Kaiser, “Multifield Inflation after Planck: Isocurvature Modes from Nonminimal Couplings,” Physical Review D 89: 064044, arXiv:1310.8285 [astro-ph.CO]. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2014. David I. Kaiser and Evangelos Sfakianakis, “Multifield Inflation after Planck: The Case for Nonminimal Couplings,” Physical Review Letters 112: 011302, arXiv:1304.0363 [astro-ph.CO]. Editors’ Suggestion. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 6 David Kaiser 2013. Andrew Friedman, David I. Kaiser, and Jason Gallicchio, “The Shared Causal Pasts and Futures of Cosmological Events,” Physical Review D 88: 044038, arXiv:1305.3943 [astro-ph.CO]. 2013. Ross Greenwood, David I. Kaiser, and Evangelos Sfakianakis, “Multifield Dynamics of Higgs Inflation,” Physical Review D 87: 064021, arXiv:1210.8190 [hep-ph]. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2013. David I. Kaiser, Edward Mazenc and Evangelos Sfakianakis, “Primordial Bispectrum from Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings,” Physical Review D 87: 064004, arXiv:1210.7487 [astro-ph.CO]. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2012. David Kaiser, “Booms, Busts, and the World of Ideas: Enrollment Pressures and the Challenge of Specialization,” Osiris 27: 276-302. 2010. David I. Kaiser and Audrey Todhunter, “Primordial Perturbations from Multifield Inflation with Nonminimal Couplings,” Physical Review D 81: 124037, arXiv:1004.3805 [astro-ph.CO]. 2010. David I. Kaiser, “Conformal Transformations with Multiple Scalar Fields,” Physical Review D 81: 084044, arXiv:1003.1159 [gr-qc]. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2009. Luís Bettencourt, David I. Kaiser, and Jasleen Kaur, “Scientific Discovery and Topological Transitions in Collaboration Networks,” Journal of Informetrics 3: 210-221. 2008. Luís Bettencourt, David I. Kaiser, Jasleen Kaur, Carlos Castillo-Chávez, and David Wojick, “Population Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields,” Scientometrics 75: 495-518. 2006. David Kaiser, “The Physics of Spin: Sputnik Politics and American Physicists in the 1950s,” Social Research 73: 1225-1252. 2006. David Kaiser, “Whose Mass is it Anyway? Particle Cosmology and the Objects of Theory,” Social Studies of Science 36: 533-564. 2006. Luís Bettencourt, Ariel Cintrón-Arias, David I. Kaiser, and Carlos Castillo-Chávez, “The Power of a Good Idea: Quantitative Modeling of the Spread of Ideas from Epidemiological Models,” Physica A 364: 513-526. 2005. David Kaiser, “The Atomic Secret in Red Hands? American Suspicions of Theoretical Physicists During the Early Cold War,” Representations 90: 28-60. Reprinted in Reappraising Oppenheimer: Centennial Studies and Reflections, ed. Cathryn Carson and David Hollinger (Berkeley: Office for History of Science and Technology, 2005), 185-216. 2005. Alan Guth and David I. Kaiser, “Inflationary Cosmology: Exploring the Universe from the Smallest to the Largest Scales,” Science 307 (11 Feb): 884-890, arXiv:astro- ph/0502328. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 2004. David Kaiser, “The Postwar Suburbanization of American Physics,” American Quarterly 56: 851-888. 2004. David Kaiser, Kenji Ito, and Karl Hall, “Spreading the Tools of Theory: Feynman Diagrams in the United States, Japan, and the Soviet Union,” Social Studies of Science 34: 879-922. 2002. David Kaiser, “Cold War Requisitions, Scientific Manpower, and the Production of American Physicists after World War II,” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 33: 131-59. 2002. David Kaiser, “Nuclear Democracy: Political Engagement, Pedagogical Reform, and Particle Physics in Postwar America,” Isis 93: 229-268. Reprinted in Science and the American Century: Readings from Isis, ed. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and David Kaiser (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 170-209. Also reprinted in Geoffrey Chew: Architect of the Bootstrap, ed. Lars Brink, Richard Brower, Carleton DeTar, Chung-I Tan, and K. K. Phua (Singapore: World Scientific, 2021). 7 David Kaiser 2000. David Kaiser, “Stick-Figure Realism: Conventions, Reification, and the Persistence of Feynman Diagrams, 1948-1964,” Representations 70: 49-86. 2000. Bruce Bassett, Christopher Gordon, Roy Maartens, and David I. Kaiser, “Restoring the Sting to Metric Preheating,” Physical Review D 61: 061302 (Rapid Communication), arXiv:hep-ph/9909482. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 1999. Bruce Bassett, Fabrizio Tamburini, David I. Kaiser, and Roy Maartens, “Metric Preheating and Limitations of Linearized Gravity,” Nuclear Physics B 561: 188-240, arXiv:hep- ph/9901319. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 1999. Bruce Bassett, David I. Kaiser, and Roy Maartens, “General Relativistic Effects in Preheating,” Physics Letters B 455: 84-89, arXiv:hep-ph/9808404. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 1999. David I. Kaiser, “Larger Domains from Resonant Decay of Disoriented Chiral Condensates,” Physical Review D 59: 117901, arXiv:hep-ph/9801307. 1998. David Kaiser, “A Mannheim for All Seasons: Bloor, Merton, and the Roots of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge,” Science in Context 11: 51-87. 1998. David Kaiser, “A y is just a y? Pedagogy, Practice, and the Reconstitution of General Relativity, 1942-1975,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 29: 321-338. Reprinted in Making General Relativity, ed. Peter Galison, Michael Gordin, and David Kaiser (New York: Routledge, 2001), 291-308. 1998. Joanne Cohn and David I. Kaiser, “Where do all the Supercurvature Modes Go?,” Physical Review D 58: 083515, arXiv:gr-qc/9803073. 1998. David I. Kaiser, “Resonance Structure for Preheating with Massless Fields,” Physical Review D 57: 702-711, arXiv:hep-ph/9707516. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 1997. David I. Kaiser, “Preheating in an Expanding Universe: Analytic Results for the Massless Case,” Physical Review D 56: 706-716, arXiv:hep-ph/9702244. (A topcite 50+ entry on INSPIRE.) 1996. David I. Kaiser, “Post-Inflation Reheating in an Expanding Universe,” Physical Review D 53: 1776-1783, arXiv:astro-ph/9507108. (A topcite 100+ entry on INSPIRE.) 1995. David I. Kaiser, “Primordial Spectral Indices from Generalized Einstein Theories,” Physical Review D 52: 4295-4306, arXiv:astro-ph/9408044. (A topcite 250+ entry on INSPIRE.) 1994. David I. Kaiser, “Induced-gravity Inflation and the Density Perturbation Spectrum,” Physics Letters B 340: 23-28, arXiv:astro-ph/9405029. 1994. David Kaiser, “Bringing the Human Actors Back On Stage: The Personal Context of the Einstein-Bohr Debate,” British Journal for the History of Science 27: 129-152. 1994. David I. Kaiser, “Constraints in the context of Induced-gravity Inflation,” Physical Review D 49: 6347-6353, arXiv:astro-ph/9308043. 1993. David I. Kaiser, “Distinguishing a Charged Higgs Signal from a Heavy W R Signal,” Physics Letters B 306: 125-128. 1992. David Kaiser, “More Roots of Complementarity: Kantian Aspects and Influences,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 23: 213-239. 1990. David Kaiser, “Working Apparatus for Determining Metals’ Relative Rates of Oxidation,” BASE: A Journal of Science and Technology 8: 53-58. Chapters in Books 2026. David Kaiser, “Quantum fields and antimatter,” in Uncertainty and the Quantum Revolution: 100 Years Since the Classical World Came Undone, ed. Derek Kaufman (New York: Grolier, 2026), 176–195. 2024. Marc Aidinoff and David Kaiser, “We’ve Been Here Before: Historical Precedents for Managing Artificial Intelligence,” in Realizing the Promise and Minimizing the 8 David Kaiser Perils of AI for Science and the Scientific Community, ed. Kathleen Hall Jamison, William J. Kearney, and Anne-Marie Mazza (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), 35-55. 2024. David Kaiser, “Preface,” in Alain Aspect, Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), vii-xiii. 2024. Simona Chiodo, David Kaiser, Julie Shah, and Paolo Volonté, “What Improving Technology Through Ethics Means,” in Improving Technology Through Ethics, ed. Simona Chiodo, David Kaiser, Julie Shah, and Paolo Volonté (Cham, Switzerland: Springer 2024), 1-11. 2022. David Kaiser, “The First Apprentice,” in “Well, Doc, You’re In”: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe, ed. David Kaiser (Cambridge: MIT Press), 71-102. 2022. David Kaiser, “Introduction,” in “Well, Doc, You’re In”: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe, ed. David Kaiser (Cambridge: MIT Press), 1-18. 2022. David I. Kaiser, “Tackling Loopholes in Experimental Tests of Bell’s Inequality,” in Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations, ed. Olival Freire, Jr. (New York: Oxford University Press), 331-370, arXiv:2011.09296 [quant-ph]. 2019. David Kaiser, “Foreword,” in George Greensein, Quantum Strangeness: Wrestling with Bell’s Theorem and the Ultimate Nature of Reality (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019), xi-xvi. 2019. David Kaiser, “‘Information’ for Wiener, for Shannon, and for Us,” in Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI, ed. John Brockman (New York: Penguin, 2019), 151-159. 2019. David Kaiser, “Foreword,” in Quantum Field Theory: Lectures of Sidney Coleman, ed. Bryan Gin-ge Chen et al. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2019), xvii-xxvii. 2017. David Kaiser, “Foreword to the 2017 edition,” in Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, and John Wheeler, Gravitation (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017), xxlii-xxxi. 2016. David I. Kaiser, “Nonminimal Couplings in the Early Universe: Multifield Models of Inflation and the Latest Observations,” invited contribution in At the Frontiers of Spacetime: Scalar-Tensor Theory, Bell’s Inequality, Mach’s Principle, Exotic Smoothness, ed. T. Asselmeyer-Maluga (New York: Springer, 2016), 41-57, arXiv:1511.09148 [astro-ph.CO]. 2016. David Kaiser, “Thomas Kuhn and the Psychology of Scientific Revolutions,” in Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty, ed. Lorraine Daston and Robert Richards (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 71-95. 2016. David Kaiser and W. Patrick McCray, “Introduction,” in Groovy Science: Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture, ed. Kaiser and McCray (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 1-10. 2014. Benjamin Wilson and David Kaiser, “Calculating Times: Radar, Ballistic Missiles, and Einstein’s Relativity,” in Science and Technology in the Global Cold War, ed. Naomi Oreskes and John Krige (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014), 273-316. 2014. Benjamin Wilson and David Kaiser, “Physics,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Scientific, Medical, and Technological History, ed. Hugh Slotten (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). 2013. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and David Kaiser, “Introduction,” in Science and the American Century, ed. Kohlstedt and Kaiser (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 1-6. 2013. David Kaiser, “Epilogue: Textbooks and the Emergence of a Conceptual Trajectory,” in A History of Quantum Physics through Textbooks, ed. Massimiliano Badino and Jaume Navarro (Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2013), 285-289. 2011. David Kaiser, “Foreword,” in Freeman Dyson, Advanced Quantum Mechanics, ed. David Derbes, 2nd ed. (New Jersey: World Scientific, 2011), v-xii. 2010. David Kaiser, “Introduction: Moments of Decision,” in Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision, ed. David Kaiser (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010), 1-13. 9 David Kaiser 2010. David Kaiser, “Elephant on the Charles: Postwar Growing Pains,” in Becoming MIT: Moments of Decision, ed. David Kaiser (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010), 103-121. 2009. David Kaiser, “Dem verbotenen Pfad folgend: Konventionen, Gepflogenheiten und die Feynman-Diagramme [Following the Forbidden Path: Conventions, Habits, and Feynman Diagrams],” in Atombilder: Ikonographien des Atoms in Wissenschaft und Öffentlichkeit des 20. Jahrhunderts, ed. Jochen Hennig and Charlotte Bigg (Berlin: Wallstein Verlag, 2009), 62-68. 2007. Cyrus Mody and David Kaiser, “Scientific Training and the Creation of Scientific Knowledge,” in Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, rev. ed. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007), 377-402. 2007. David Kaiser, “The Mutual Embrace: Institutions and Epistemology,” in Positioning the History of Science, ed. Kostas Gavroglu and Jürgen Renn (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), 99-103. 2005. David Kaiser, “Einstein’s Teachers,” in Albert Einstein: Chief Engineer of the Universe, ed. Jürgen Renn (Berlin: Wiley VCH, 2005), 152-155. 2005. David Kaiser, “Introduction: Moving Pedagogy from the Periphery to the Center,” in Pedagogy and the Practice of Science, ed. David Kaiser (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 1-8. 2005. David Kaiser, “Making Tools Travel: Pedagogy and the Transfer of Skill in Postwar Theoretical Physics,” in Pedagogy and the Practice of Science, ed. David Kaiser (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 41-74. 2005. Andrew Warwick and David Kaiser, “Kuhn, Foucault, and the Power of Pedagogy,” in Pedagogy and the Practice of Science, ed. David Kaiser (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005), 393-409. 1999. David Kaiser, “Do Feynman Diagrams Endorse a Particle Ontology? The Roles of Feynman Diagrams in S-Matrix Theory,” in Conceptual Foundations of Quantum Field Theory, ed. Tian Yu Cao (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 343- 356. 1994. David Kaiser, “Niels Bohr’s Conceptual Legacy in Contemporary Particle Physics,” in Niels Bohr and Contemporary Philosophy, ed. Jan Faye and Henry Folse (Boston: Kluwer, 1994), 257-268. Other Publications 2026. Peter Fisher and David Kaiser, “MIT and the November Revolution: Establishing the Standard Model of Particle Physics,” Physics@MIT (Fall 2026). 2026. David Kaiser, “The New Student Visa Policy Doesn’t Add Up,” Undark (27 August 2026). 2024. Sasha de Sola and David Kaiser, “The Exchange: The Illusion of Time and Exploring Social Questions through Ballet,” Scientific Inquirer (14 October 2024). 2024. David Kaiser, “Black hole flyby,” London Review of Books 46, no. 11 (6 June 2024). 2024. Wolfgang Blau et al., “Protecting scientific integrity in an age of generative AI,” Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences 121: e2407886121 (21 May 2024). 2024. Marc Aidinoff and David Kaiser, “Novel technologies and the choices we make: Historical precedents for managing artificial intelligence,” Issues in Science and Technology (21 May 2024). 2022. David Kaiser, “They probed quantum entanglement while everyone shrugged,” Nautilus (5 October 2022). 2022. Diana Henderson, Daniel Jackson, David Kaiser, S. P. Kothari, Sanjay Sarma, “Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution,” Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab, MIT (September 2022). 10 David Kaiser 2020. Anup Malani et al., “Adaptive control of COVID-19 outbreaks in India: Local, gradual, and trigger-based exit paths from lockdown,” National Bureau of Economic Research working paper (12 May 2020). 2020. Anup Malani, David Kaiser, Rupam Bhattacharyya, and Bhramar Mukherjee, “Is there really no community transmission of coronavirus in India? Let’s do some math,” Quartz India (23 April 2020). 2020. David Kaiser, “Double vision,” Technology Review (15 April 2020). 2020. David Kaiser, “Freeman Dyson’s letters offer another glimpse of genius,” New Yorker (5 March 2020). 2019. David Kaiser, “Discovery is always political,” Nature 573 (26 September 2019): 487-90. 2019. W. Patrick McCray and David Kaiser, “When science was groovy: Counterculture-inspired research flourished in the Age of Aquarius,” Science 365 (9 August 2019): 550-51. 2018. David Kaiser, “Free Will, Video Games, and the Most Profound Quantum Mystery,” New Yorker (9 May 2018). 2018. David Kaiser, “A Physicist’s Farewell to Stephen Hawking,” New Yorker (15 March 2018). 2018. Peter Galison and David Kaiser, “Silvan Samuel Schweber” (obituary), Physics Today 71 (January): 63-64. 2017. David Kaiser, “Learning from Gravitational Waves,” New York Times (3 October 2017). 2017. David Kaiser, “Operation: Neutrino,” Aeon (20 July 2017). 2017. Alan Guth, David Kaiser, Andrei Linde, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Ed Witten and others, “A Cosmic Controversy,” Scientific American (July 2017): 5-7. 2017. David Kaiser, “Quantum Theory by Starlight,” New Yorker (7 February 2017). 2016. David Kaiser, “Share the Joy of Science,” Nature (11 November 2016). 2016. David Kaiser, “How Einstein and Schrödinger Conspired to Kill a Cat,” Nautilus (13 October 2016). 2016. David Kaiser, “Quantum Theory Made Charming,” The Guardian (7 January 2016). 2015. David Kaiser, “Gaga for Gravitation,” Huffington Post (23 November 2015). 2015. David Kaiser, “How politics shaped general relativity,” New York Times (8 November 2015): SR9. 2015. Steve Paulson, Adam Frank, David Kaiser, Tim Maudlin, and Priyamvada Natarajan, “Transcending matter: Physics and ultimate meaning,” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (11 September 2015). 2015. Luis Bettencourt and David Kaiser, “Formation of Scientific Fields as a Universal Topological Transition,” arXiv:1504:00319 [physics.soc-ph]. 2015. David Kaiser, “From blackboards to bombs,” Nature 523 (30 July 2015): 523-525. 2015. David Kaiser and Benjamin Wilson, “American scientists as public citizens: 70 years of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 71 (January 2015): 13-25. 2014. David Kaiser, “Is quantum entanglement real?,” New York Times (16 November 2014): SR10. 2014. David Kaiser, “Of black holes and glittering stars: The Theory of Everything and Hollywood physics,” Huffington Post (12 November 2014). 2014. David Kaiser, “Evolving culture of science engagement,” Huffington Post (3 October 2014). 2014. David Kaiser, “Is time travel possible? What shape is the univesre? What’s the deal with wormholes?,” HIPPO Reads (8 September 2014), invited response for inaugural “ask me anything” column. 2014. David Kaiser, “The sacred, spherical cows of physics,” Nautilus (1 May 2014). 2014. David Kaiser, “Dance of the elementary particles,” London Review of Books blog (24 March 2014). 2014. David Kaiser, “Physicists’ golden jubilee,” Huffington Post (10 February 2014). 11 David Kaiser 2014. David Kaiser, “Cosmic inflation,” London Review of Books 36 (6 February 2014): 27-28. 2014. David Kaiser, “Shut up and calculate!” (invited ‘comment’), Nature 505 (9 January 2014): 153-155. 2013. David Kaiser, “Everything but the Unicorn,” London Review of Books blog (19 April 2013). 2013. David Kaiser, “Déjà vu all over again? A response to Philip Mirowski,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 2(2): 1-7. 2012. David Kaiser and Jonathan Moreno, “Dual-use research: Self-censorship is not enough” (invited ‘comment’), Nature 492 (20 - 27 December 2012): 345-347. 2012. David Kaiser, “I Didn’t Write That,” New York Times (4 November 2012): SR11. 2012. David Kaiser, “Boiling Electrons,” London Review of Books 34 (27 September 2012): 17- 18. Translated in Vietnamese and published in Tia Sáng 5 (5 March 2021): 33-37. 2012. David Kaiser, “David Kaiser’s Top Ten Books about Quantum Theory” (invited column), The Guardian (26 September 2012). 2012. David Kaiser and Angela Creager, “The Right Way to Get It Wrong,” Scientific American 306 (June 2012): 70-75. Reprinted in Italian translation as “Il modo giusto di sbagliare,” Le Scienze (August 2012); in Japanese translation as “Uso kara deta dai hakken,” Nikkei Saiensu (October 2012): 76-83; and in German translation as “Fruchtbare Irrtümer,” Spektrum (January 2013), s. 76. 2012. David Kaiser, “Higgs at Last,” London Review of Books blog (6 July 2012). 2012. David Kaiser, “Elegant Wiggles: Why the Universe is Lumpy,” Huffington Post (22 May 2012). 2012. David Kaiser, “In Retrospect: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (invited ‘comment’), Nature 484 (12 April 2012): 164-166. 2012. David Kaiser, “A Tale of Two Textbooks: Experiments in Genre,” invited contribution for Focus section, Isis 103 (March 2012): 126-138. 2012. David Kaiser, “The Higgsy Higgsy Boson,” Huffington Post (11 January 2012). 2012. David Kaiser, “The weighty Higgs particle,” Philadelphia Inquirer (9 January 2012). Distributed by Project Syndicate and also published in Spain, Germany, Dubai, Qatar, Egypt, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, and elsewhere. 2011. David Kaiser, “The quantum universe,” The Guardian (18 November 2011): 7. 2011. David Kaiser, “Faster than a Speeding Neutrino,” London Review of Books blog (23 September 2011). 2011. David Kaiser, “Short Cuts” (on the search for the Higgs boson), London Review of Books 33 (25 August 2011): 20. 2011. David Kaiser, “How the Hippies Saved Physics: Curious Contributions to Quantum Theory,” NPR Cosmos and Culture blog (30 June 2011). 2011. David Kaiser, “The Search for Clean Cash” (invited ‘comment’), Nature 472 (7 April 2011): 30-31. 2011. David Kaiser, “Consciousness on the Charles” [essay review], Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 41: 265-275. 2011. David Kaiser, “Going supernova,” London Review of Books 33 (17 Feb 2011): 36-37. 2010. David Kaiser and Marc Kastner, “Francis E. Low, 1921-2007,” Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the National Academy of Sciences, 1-24. 2010. David Kaiser, “Half the Blink of an Eye,” London Review of Books blog (24 November 2010). 2010. David Kaiser, “Diary: Aliens,” London Review of Books 32 (8 July 2010): 34-35. 2010. Hunter Heyck and David Kaiser, invited guest editors for Isis Focus section on “New Perspectives on Science and the Cold War,” with contributions by David Engerman, Paul Erickson, Rebecca Lemov, Kristie Macrakis, and Zuoyue Wang, Isis 101 (June 2010): 362-411. 12 David Kaiser 2010. David Kaiser, “The Coldest Place in the Universe,” London Review of Books blog (22 March 2010). 2009. David Kaiser, “Gremlin fireworks,” London Review of Books 31 (17 Dec 2009): 19-20. 2009. David Kaiser, “A x B ≠ B x A,” London Review of Books 31 (26 Feb 2009): 21-22. 2009. David Kaiser, “Così la politica perseguitò Einstein e la relatività [How politics persecuted Einstein and relativity],” l’Unità (14 Jan 2009): 38-39. 2009. David Kaiser, “Feynman diagrams,” Compendium of Quantum Physics: Concepts, Experiments, History, and Philosophy, ed. Friedel Weinert, Klaus Hentschel, and Daniel Greenberger (New York: Springer, 2009), 235-239. 2008. David Kaiser, “Birth Cry of Image and Logic,” Centaurus 50 (Feb 2008): 166-167. 2007. David Kaiser, “The Other Evolution Wars,” American Scientist 95 (Nov-Dec 2007): 518- 525. Reprinted in Italian translation as “La guerra dell’altra evoluzione,” Le Scienze (June 2008), n. 478. 2007. David Kaiser, “When Fields Collide,” Scientific American 296 (June 2007): 62-69. Reprinted in German translation as “Duell der Felder,” Spektrum der Wissenschaft (Oct 2007): 26-33; and in Japanese translation as “Soryūshi Uchūron no Tanjō [The Emergence of Particle Cosmology],” Nikkei Saiensu, September 2007: 26-34. 2007. David Kaiser, “Turning Physicists into Quantum Mechanics,” Physics World 20 (May): 28- 33. Reprinted in Polish translation as “Jak ksztalcic mechnikow kwantowych,” Postepy Fizyki 58 (Sep-Oct 2007): 201-206. 2007. David Kaiser, “Viki Weisskopf: Searching for Simplicity in a Complicated World,” Physics @ MIT 20 (Fall 2007): 44-56. 2007. David Kaiser, “Richard Feynman” and “Victor Weisskopf,” in The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Macmillan, 2007). 2005. David Kaiser, “Training and the Generalist’s Vision in the History of Science,” invited contribution for Focus section, Isis 96 (June 2005): 244-251. 2005. David Kaiser, “Physics and Feynman’s Diagrams,” American Scientist 93 (Mar-Apr 2005): 156-165. Reprinted in Spanish translation as “La fisica y los diagramas de Feynman,” Investigacion y Ciencia (Sep 2005): 74-83. 2003. David Kaiser with Felice Frankel, “Sightings” (column on Feynman diagrams), American Scientist 91 (Sep-Oct 2003): 450-451. 2001. David Kaiser, “Francis E. Low: Coming of Age as a Physicist in Postwar America,” Physics @ MIT 14 (Fall 2001): 24-31, 70-77. 2000. David Kaiser, “Richard Feynman” and “Physics: 20th Century,” in Reader’s Guide to the History of Science, ed. Arne Hessenbruch (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), 257-8, 566-8. 1996. David Kaiser, “Supercurvature modes from preheating in an open universe,” arXiv:astro- ph/9608025. 1995. David Kaiser, “Frame-independent calculation of spectral indices from inflation,” arXiv:astro-ph/9507048. 1994 – 2024. More than thirty book reviews in Science, Nature, American Scientist, American Historical Review, Isis, British Journal for the History of Science, Journal for the History of Astronomy, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Science Education, Annals of Science, and Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences. Complete list available upon request. Professional Activities Academic Publishing Chair, Editorial Board of MIT Press, 2016–; member of the Editorial Board, 2008–. Editor, MIT Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, 2020–. 13 David Kaiser Co-Editor, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, 2010–2016; Associate Editor, 2007-2010, 2016–. Advisory Board member, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society, 2005–2010. Institutional Service Member, MIT Provost’s Faculty Advisory Council, 2025–. Member, MIT Faculty Policy Committee, 2025–2026; 2008–2010. Chair, 75th Anniversary Planning Committee, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, 2025–2026. Faculty Affiliate, NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI), 2025–. Chair, Advisory Board, Catalyst Collaborative, MIT and Central Square Theater, 2025–; member, 2012–. Co-Chair, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Collaboration Fund committee, 2024–. Strategic Planning Committee, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, 2024–2026. MIT Museum Advisory Board, 2019–2025. MIT Corporation Joint Advisory Committee on Institute-Wide Affairs, 2021–2024. Faculty Search Committee, MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, 2023–2024. Niels Bohr Archive (Copenhagen), Scientific Advisory Board, 2023–. MIT Presidential Search Committee, 2022. Associate Dean, Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, MIT, 2019–2022. External Visiting Committee, Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, 2022. Faculty Affiliate, Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University, 2021–. Co-Chair, MIT Legal-Ethical-Equity committee for campus operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020–2021. Alumni Advisory Board for the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, 2011–. MIT Working Group on Social Implications and Responsibilities of Computing, 2019. Member, Search Committee for Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2017– 2022. External Visiting Committee, Department of History of Science, Harvard University, 2016-17. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, “The Public Face of Science” working group, 2017. Department Head, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society, 2011–2016. MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellow Selection Committee, 2015-2016. Director of Graduate Studies, MIT doctoral program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS), 2009–2011. MIT-STS Faculty Search Committee member, 2013-14 (Chair), 2007–2008 (Chair), and 2003– 2004. MIT Knight Science Journalism Program Director Search Committee, 2014 (Chair). MIT Sesquicentennial Committee, 2007–2008. MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) Oversight Committee, 2007–2008. Consultant, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy, 2006– 2011. Leader, Faculty Humanities Seminar, “Physics in the 20th Century,” St. Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, June 2005. MIT-STS Undergraduate Advisor, 2001–2006. Faculty Lecturer, “Manhattan Project Seminar,” MIT Alumni Travel Program and Boston Museum of Science, Los Alamos, New Mexico, May 2003. MIT Committee on Graduate School Programs, 2001. 14 David Kaiser Advisory Board, NSF grant “Promoting Argumentation in the Teaching of History and Science (PATHS).” Principal Investigators: Sam Wineburg et al., University of Washington, Seattle, 2000–2003. Professional Meetings and Societies Board of Trustees, American Institute of Physics Foundation, 2025–. Co-Organizer, “Black Holes and Cosmology” annual conference series, 2025–. Scientific Organizing Committee, Symposium in honor of Nobel Laureate Rainer Weiss, 2025– 2026. Advisor, US National Academy of Sciences study group on managing generative artificial intelligence, 2023–2024. Co-Organizer, weekly Joint Tufts-MIT Cosmology Seminar series, 2021–. Scientific Organizing Committee, “When ℏ meets G: Quantum Theory, Gravitation, and Cosmology,” Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 2021–2022. American Institute of Physics, Committee on the Center for History of Physics, 2022. Chair, Committee on Honors and Prizes, History of Science Society, 2018–2020. Conference Organizer, New England Workshop on Theoretical Cosmology and Gravity, MIT, October 2017. Program Co-Organizer, “Celebrating Einstein” events to mark the centennial of general relativity, Cambridge Science Festival, April 2015. Conference Co-Organizer, “The Evolving Culture of Science Engagement,” MIT, Sep 2013. Committee on Meetings and Programs, History of Science Society, 2012-2014; 2002–2005. Local Organizing Committee, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Boston, Fall 2013. Program Co-Chair, History of Science Society, 2011–2012. Conference Organizer, “Predictive Modeling of the Emergence and Development of Scientific Fields,” MIT, May 2011. Conference Co-Organizer, “Groovy Science: The Countercultures and Scientific Life, 1955- 1975,” Princeton University, Feb 2011. Chair, Nominating Committee, History of Science Society, 2008–2009. Council member, History of Science Society, 2007–2009. Steering Committee member, Forum for History of Science in America, 2007–2009. Local Organizer, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Cambridge, Fall 2003. Conference Co-Organizer, “Joint Atlantic Seminar on the History of Physical Sciences” (JASHOPS), MIT and Harvard, Sep 2003. Conference Organizer, “Training Scientists, Crafting Science: Putting Pedagogy on the Map for Science Studies,” MIT, Jan and Sep 2002. Conference Co-Organizer, “Foundations of Quantum Field Theory: Historical Examination and Philosophical Reflections,” Boston University, Mar 1996. Media Contributions Online and Print Advisory board member, Undark magazine (2016–). Advisory board member, Nautilus magazine (2012–). Featured blogger, Huffington Post science section (2012–2015) and London Review of Books online (2010–2015). Television and Video Advisor and on-screen contributor, Veritasium popular-science episodes (quantum theory, gravitation, particle physics and cosmology), 2025–. 15 David Kaiser On-screen contributor, NHK (Japan) documentary film about quantum entanglement, 2024. Original broadcast, December 2024. Advisor and on-screen contributor, NOVA documentary film, Decoding the Universe: Quantum, 2022–2024. Original broadcast November 2024. Advisor and on-screen contributor, NOVA documentary film, Decoding the Universe: Cosmos, 2022–2024. Original broadcast May 2024. On-screen contributor, NOVA video, “New Map of the Universe Hints that Dark Energy May be Evolving,” NOVA YouTube channel, 1 May 2024. On-screen contributor, Anichnefseis (Explorations), Greek television. Original broadcast October 2023. Advisor, Boston Museum of Science IMAX film, The Heart of New England, 2020–2023. On-screen contributor, BBC and NOVA five-part series, The Universe Revealed, episodes 4 (black holes) and 5 (the big bang). Original broadcast October 2021. Advisor and on-screen contributor, NOVA documentary film, Particles Unknown, about neutrinos, 2019–2021. Original broadcast October 2021. On-screen contributor, BBC film, Einstein and Hawking: Unlocking the Universe. Original broadcast March 2019. Advisor and on-screen contributor, NOVA documentary film, Einstein’s Quantum Riddle, about quantum entanglement, 2016–2018. Original broadcast January 2019. Advisor and on-screen contributor, NOVA Wonders, What is the Universe Made Of?, about dark matter and dark energy, 2017–2018. Original broadcast May 2018. On-screen contributor, RAI Scuola (Rome), “Caccia ai numeri primi [The Hunt for Prime Numbers],” 28 April 2018. On-screen contributor, WCVB-ABC “Nooks and Crannies: Newton’s Nooks,” 13 February 2018. On-screen contributor, “Cosmic Quantum Bell Test,” Physics Girl YouTube channel, 11 May 2017. On-screen contributor, “Einstein and the 100th anniversary of general relativity,” Daily Planet, Discovery Channel (Canada), 25 November 2015. Advisor and on-screen contributor, NOVA documentary film, Inside Einstein’s Mind, on the centennial of general relativity, 2015. Original broadcast November 2015. Advisor and on-screen contributor, PBS documentary film, The Mystery of Matter, 2009–2015. Three one-hour episodes, original broadcast September 2015. Advisory Board member and on-screen contributor, NOVA documentary film, The Fabric of the Cosmos, 2006–2011. Four one-hour episodes, original broadcast November 2011. On-screen contributor, “Time since Einstein” film broadcast during the World Science Festival, New York City, June 2009. Advisor, BBC and NOVA documentary film, Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives about Hugh Everett’s “many-worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics. Original broadcast October 2008. On-screen contributor, PBS “Wired Science” television segment about the X-prize, 2007. Original broadcast November 2007. On-screen contributor, NOVA “Science Now” segment about nuclear physics and the “island of stability,” 2006. Original broadcast October 2006. Advisory Board member, script consultant, and on-screen contributor, NOVA documentary film, Einstein’s Big Idea, 2003–2005. Original broadcast October 2005. Also consulted on Teacher’s Guide and Library Guide for the film. Radio and Podcasts Invited guest, The Economist “Weekend Intelligence” to discuss the IgNobel prizes and US science policy, 29 August 2026. 16 David Kaiser Invited guest, PBS NOVA Particles of Thought to discuss black holes and dark matter, 18 June 2026. Invited guest, BBC News “Unexpected Elements” to discuss black holes, 20 March 2026. Invited guest, Lost Women of Science podcast series about Katherine Burr Blodgett, 4 episodes, 29 January – 12 March 2026. Invited guest, Science Stuff with cartoonist Jorge Cham about relativity, 20 August 2025. Invited guest, Physics Frontiers podcast to talk about primordial black holes, 3 September 2024. Invited guest, NOVA YouTube livestream on “The ‘hippie days’ of physics,” 28 August 2024. Invited guest, Sing for Science with musician Jack Antonoff on the nature of time, 26 June 2024. Invited guest, Phil Halper cosmology podcast series on primordial black holes, 13 June 2024. Invited guest, MIT OpenCourseWare Chalk Radio podcast about teaching the history of modern physics, 8 May 2024. Invited guest, The HPS Podcast on scientists’ training and the history of science, 11 October 2023. Invited guest, LifeCycle podcast on “quantum stories,” 1 June 2023. Invited guest, Physics World podcast about Freeman Dyson, 4 May 2023. Invited guest, American Museum of Science and Energy podcast about quantum theory, 2 May 2023. Invited guest, KUAF public radio (Arkansas) to discuss relativity and GPS, 22 March 2023. Invited guest, Physics World podcast on entanglement and the Nobel Prize, 6 October 2022. Invited guest, NOVA Now podcast on the big bang, 2 December 2021. Invited guest, Nature Careers podcast on science communication, 16 July 2020. Invited guest, New Books Network podcast on quantum theory, 13 July 2020. Invited guest, Into the Impossible podcast on quantum theory, 20 May 2020. Invited guest, Mindscape podcast on science, money, and power, 30 March 2020. Invited guest, Line Edit podcast on writing about quantum entanglement, 21 February 2020. Invited guest, CBC “Quirks and Quarks” to discuss research on the big bang, 1 November 2019. Invited guest, WBUR “Radio Boston” on trends in research funding, 21 August 2019. Invited guest, NPR “Science Friday,” on the history of science, 31 May 2019. Invited guest, Quanta magazine podcast about quantum theory, 25 July 2018. Recurring guest, “Sojourner Truth” on KPFK radio on physics and cosmology, 2014 —. Invited contributor, “Love, quantum physics, and entanglement,” PRI The World, 25 July 2017. Invited guest, WBUR “Radio Boston” on testing quantum theory with neutrinos, 19 July 2016. Invited guest, Deutschlandradio Kultur on funding for scientific research, 14 July 2016. Invited guest, NPR “Here and Now” on the history of science, 17 June 2016. Invited guest, Radio 3 Scienza (Rome, Italy) on quantum theory, 19 May 2016. Invited guest, WGBH “Curiosity Desk” on the discovery of new elements, 8 January 2016. Invited guest, NPR “Science Friday” to discuss general relativity, 6 March 2015. Invited guest, “Frontiers” BBC4 radio interview about cosmic inflation, 9 July 2014. Invited guest, “Aufbau des Kosmos” Bayern 2 public radio (Germany) on cosmology, 2 June 2014. Invited guest, Nature Pastcast episode about testing Einstein’s relativity, 20 March 2014. Invited guest, Feature Story News syndicated radio interview about cosmic inflation, 18 March 2014. Invited guest, Nature Pastcast episode about quantum theory, 19 December 2013. Invited guest, Nature Pastcast episode about exoplanets and astrobiology, 16 October 2013. Invited guest, Physics World podcast about mavericks, outsiders, and cranks, 15 October 2012. Invited guest, National Geographic Weekend radio on quantum theory, 5 August 2012. Invited guest, BBC Radio “Today Programme” on quantum theory, 5 March 2012. Invited guest, Illinois Public Radio “Focus” on quantum theory, 9 January 2012. 17 David Kaiser Invited guest, Wisconsin Public Radio “Veronica Rueckert Show” on quantum theory, 16 December 2011. Invited guest, NPR “On Point” on quantum theory, 1 November 2011. Invited guest, Wisconsin Public Radio “To the Best of Our Knowledge” on quantum theory, 2 October 2011. Invited guest, WNYC / Public Radio International “The Takeaway” interview about neutrinos and relativity, 23 September 2011. Invited guest, CBC “The Current” interview about quantum theory, 9 August 2011. Invited guest, WICN public radio interview about quantum theory, 13 July 2011. Invited guest, Nature podcast about the history of MIT, 7 April 2011. Invited guest, Radio 3 Scienza, Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI, Italy) on Einstein and politics, 15 January 2009. Invited guest, KXTR radio (Kansas City) on Einstein and relativity, 17 November 2005. Invited guest, “Daybreak” USA Radio Network show about Einstein and relativity, 10 October 2005. Invited guest, NPR “Science Friday” on Einstein and relativity, 24 June 2005. Postdoctoral Fellows Supervised 2026–. Alicja Ostrowska (Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing) 2024–. Josu Aurrekoetxea (Physics) 2022-2025. Thomas Steingasser (Physics) 2022-2025. Morgane König (Physics) 2022-2025. Kati Kish (STS) 2022-2025. Jaco de Swart (STS) 2021-2023. Marion Boulicault (Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing) 2020-2021. Evan McDonough (Physics) 2019-2021. Milo Phillips-Brown (Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing) 2019-2020. Masaki Yamada (Physics) 2016-2018. Mohammad Hossein Namjoo (Physics) 2014-2016. Massimiliano Badino (STS) 2013-2016. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Physics) 2012-2017. Andrew Friedman (Physics) 2012-2015. Johanna Karouby (Physics) 2011-2013. Roberto Lalli (STS) 2009-2011. Yoshiyuki Kikuchi (STS) 2008-2009. Mina Park (STS) 2002-2004. Rebecca Slayton (STS) Graduate Theses Supervised Principal Advisor 2025. Julia Menzel. “American Physics from the Cold War to Neoliberal Order, 1962–1991” (Ph.D. MIT HASTS). 2023. Sarah Geller, “Cosmic Echoes of the Early Universe: From Primordial Black Holes to Gravitational Waves” (Ph.D., MIT Physics). Co-advised with Alan Guth. 2021. Marc Aidinoff, “A More Updated Union: A History of New Liberals and their New Computers in the New New South” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2021. Patrick Fitzpatrick, “Initial Conditions for Cosmic Inflation, the History of the Dark Sector, and Dark-onium” (Ph.D., MIT Physics), Co-advised with Tracy Slatyer. 18 David Kaiser 2020. Claire Webb, “Technologies of Perception: Searches for Life and Intelligence beyond Earth” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2019. Clare Kim, “The Subjects of Modernism: Mathematics and the Politics of Value in Twentieth-Century United States” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2015. Mykola Murskyj, “Testing the Leggett-Garg Inequality with Solar Neutrinos” (M.Sc., MIT Physics). 2014. Benjamin Wilson, “Insiders and Outsiders: Nuclear Arms Control Experts in Cold War America” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2014. David Singerman, “An Empire of Purity: The Atlantic Sugar Economy, 1860-1930” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2014. Evangelos Sfakianakis, “Hybrid and Multifield Inflation” (Ph.D., MIT Physics), Co- advised with Alan Guth. 2013. Alma Steingart, “Conditional Inequalities: American Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1940- 1975” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2010. Audrey Todhunter, “Inflation with a Nonminimally Coupled Standard Model Higgs Field: A Review in the Jordan Frame” (M.S., Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne). 2009. Kieran Downes, “From Enthusiasm to Practice: Users, Systems, and Technology in High- End Audio” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2007. Peter Shulman, “Empire of Energy: Environment, Geopolitics, and Ameican Technology before the Age of Oil” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). Dissertation Committee Member 2026. Elba Alonso-Monsalve, “Quantum Aspects of Gravity in Cosmology” (Ph.D. MIT Physics). 2026. Robert van Leeuwen, “String Theorists and Reality: Experiment, Mathematics, and Realism in Particle Theory, 1968–1989” (Ph.D., History of Science, University of Amsterdam). 2025. Aaron Gluck-Thaler, “The Pattern Recognizers: Surveillance, Security, and the Making of Identity in 20th Century America” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard). 2025. Geoffrey Mo, “Multimessenger Signatures of Compact Binaries” (Ph.D., MIT Physics). 2024. Christopher J. Shallue, “Quantum Black Holes and the Primordial Universe” (Ph.D., Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard). 2024. Gautier Depambour, “Émergence de l’optique quantique des années 1950 à 1980” (Ph.D., History of Science, Université Paris Cité). 2024. Wenzer Qin, “Illuminating the Cosmos: Dark Matter, Primordial Black Holes, and Cosmic Dawn” (Ph.D., MIT Physics). 2023. Amaury Micheli, “Entanglement and Decoherence in Cosmology and Analogue Gravity Experiments” (Ph.D., Physics, Université Paris-Saclay). 2023. Calvin Leung, “Localizing Fast Radio Bursts for Cosmology” (Ph.D., MIT Physics). 2023. Itamar Allali, “Axion Dark Matter: Novel Dynamics and Consequences for Cosmological Observations” (Ph.D., Physics, Tufts University). 2022. John Tylko, “Simulating Apollo: Flight Simulation Technology, 1945–1975” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2022. Tiffany Nichols, “Constructing Stillness: Theorization, Discovery, Interrogation, and Maintenance of the Expanded Laboratory of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational- Wave Observatory” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard). 2022. Jaco de Swart, “How Dark Matter came to Matter” (Ph.D., Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam). 2021. Brad Bolman, “The Voyage of the Scientific Beagle: Dogs in the Physical and Biomedical Sciences” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard). 19 David Kaiser 2021. Adam Bene Watts, “Identifying Perfect Nonlocal Games” (Ph.D., MIT Physics). 2019. Michelle Stephens, “Applications of Information Theory to Field Theory and Cosmology” (Ph.D., Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College). 2019. John Lisle, “Science and Espionage: How the State Department and the CIA Deployed American Scientists during the Cold War” (Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin). 2019. Lucas Müller, “Toxic Relationships: Health and the Politics of Science and Trade in the Postcolonial World” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2018. Daniel Volmar, “The Computer in the Garbage Can: Air-Defense Systems in the Organization of US Nuclear Command and Control, 1940-1960” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard). 2018. Ryan Shapiro, “Bodies at War: National Security in American Controversies over Animal and Human Experimentation from World War I to the War on Terror” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2018. Dhrubo Jyoti, “Topics in Theoretical Cosmology” (Ph.D., Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College). 2017. Feraz Azhar, “Probabilistic Reasoning in the Inflationary Universe” (Ph.D., Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge). 2017. Ion Mihailescu, “Graphical: The History of a Category” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard). 2017. Marie Burks, “Meditations in an Emergency: Social Scientists and the Problem of Conflict in Cold War America” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2017. Connemara Doran, “Seeking the Shape of Space: Confronting the Hyperbolic World, from Henri Poincaré to the Cosmic Microwave Background” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard). 2016. Damian Sowinski, “Complexity and Stability in Nature: The Epistemic Foundations and Phenomenology of Configurational Entropy” (Ph.D., Physics, Dartmouth College). 2016. Thomas Ozden-Schilling, “Salvage Cartographies: Mapping, Futures, and Landscapes in Northwest British Columbia” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2016. Jonathan Lehrich, “A Matter of Science: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Transformation of American Management Education, 1950-1964” (Ph.D., History of Education, Boston University). 2015. Cedric Yen-Yu Lin, “Alternative Models for Quantum Computation” (Ph.D., MIT Physics). 2014. Rebecca Perry, “Rigging the World: 3D Modeling and the Seduction of the Real” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2014. Teasel Muir-Harmony, “Project Apollo, Cold War Diplomacy, and the American Framing of Global Interdependence” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2014. Aaron Wright, “More than Nothing: Histories of the Vacuum in Theoretical Physics, 1927- 1981” (Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto). 2013. Lisa Crystal, “Quantum Times: Time, Physics, and Philosophy in the Postwar United States” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard University). 2013. Ari Gross, “Form and Function: Seeing, Knowing, and Reasoning with Diagrams in the Practice of Science” (Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto). 2011. Lambert Williams, “Modeling, Building, Writing: A History of Nonlinear Dynamics and Complex Systems” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard University). 2011. Lisa Messeri, “Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2010. Chihyung Jeon, “Technologies of the Observer: Human Factors in Aviation and the Cultures of Pilot Selection and Training, 1930-1960” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 20 David Kaiser 2010. Alex Wellerstein, “Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard University). 2009. Alexander Brown, “Accidents, Engineering, and History at NASA: 1967-2003” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). 2008. Shawn Mullet, “Little Man: Four Junior Physicists and the Red Scare Experience” (Ph.D., History of Science, Harvard University). 2007. Natasha Myers, “Modeling Proteins, Making Scientists: An Ethnography of Pedagogy and Visual Cultures in Contemporary Structual Biology” (Ph.D., MIT HASTS). Currently Enrolled Graduate Students Kelcey Gibbons (MIT HASTS), Principal advisor. Tathagat Bhatia (MIT HASTS), Principal advisor. Alexandra Klipfel (MIT Physics), Co-Advisor. Lucas Barreto Alves (MIT Physics), Advisor. Verena Bellscheidt (MIT Physics), Advisor. Emma Chickles (MIT Physics), Committee member. George Sieniawski (MIT HASTS), Committee member. Undergraduate Theses Supervised 2020. Megan Kralj, “Supersymmetry, Supergravity, and String Theory Based Inflationary Cosmology” (S.B., MIT-Physics). Recipient of the Philip Morse Memorial Award, MIT. 2016. Anirudh Prabhu, “Preheating in Multifield Inflation” (S.B., MIT-Physics). Recipient of Barrett Prize for Best Thesis in Astrophysics at MIT. 2015. Juana Becerra, “Herman Feshbach: What it Meant to be a Physicist in the Twentieth Century” (S.B., MIT-STS). 2015. Karla Guardado, “Preheating in New Higgs Inflation” (S.B., MIT-Physics). 2014. Katelin Schutz, “A Tale of Two Particles” (S.B., MIT-Physics). Recipient of Barrett Prize for Best Thesis in Astrophysics at MIT. Finalist: LeRoy Apker Award from American Physical Society. 2013. Edward Mazenc, “Multifield Inflation and Differential Geometry” (S.B., MIT-Physics). Recipient of Barrett Prize for Best Thesis in Astrophysics at MIT. 2012. Ross Greenwood, “Refining the Multifield Effects of Higgs Inflation” (S.B., MIT-Physics). 2004. Shefali Oza, “Forging the Inner Space - Outer Space Connection” (S.B., MIT-Physics). 2002. Christopher Beland, “Digital Technology and Copyright Law” (S.B., MIT-STS). Selected Recent Seminars and Colloquia July 2026. “Coordinated Blasts: Cold War Roots of Numerical Relativity in the US,” invited talk, undergraduate research workshop on gravitation and cosmology, Haverford College. July 2026. “From Curious Hippies to Quantum Optics: Tackling Loopholes in Experimental Tests of Bell’s Inequality,” History of Science Society annual meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland. June 2026. “Gravitational Ionization by Schwarzschild Primordial Black Holes,” invited talk, Black Holes and Cosmology workshop, Granada, Spain. June 2026. “Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates: Prospects for Detection,” invited seminar, University of Amsterdam. May 2026. “Could Tiny Black Holes from the Big Bang Solve the Mystery of Dark Matter?,” invited talk, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley. 21 David Kaiser Apr 2026. “J. Robert Oppenheimer: In His Own Words,” American Institute of Physics, Washington DC, with Kai Bird, Charles Oppenheimer, and Dorothy Oppenheimer Vanderford. Apr 2026. “Scenes from the Quantum Century: From Curious Hippies to Novel Tests of Bell’s Inequality,” invited lab-wide colloquium, CERN, Geneva. Apr 2026. “Could Tiny Black Holes from the Big Bang Solve the Mystery of Dark Matter?,” invited talk (zoom), BICEP and South Pole Telescope groups, South Pole, Antarctica. Mar 2026. “Baryogenesis from Exploding Primordial Black Holes,” invited talk, Yale Center for the Invisible Universe, Yale University. Dec 2025. “Quantum Legacies: Grappling with Quantum Theory over a Turbulent Century,” invited talk (zoom), Korean Association of Science, Technology, and Society. Oct 2025. “Coordinated Blasts: Cold War Roots of Numerical Relativity in the US,” invited talk, Workshop on “In Pursuit of Gravitational Waves: Solving the Two-Body Problem in General Relativity,” Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany. Oct 2025. “Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates: Prospects for Local Detection,” invited colloquium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bowdoin College. Sep 2025. “Scenes from the Quantum Century: From Curious Hippies to Novel Tests of Bell’s Inequality,” invited talk (zoom), Symposium in Celebration of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China. Sep 2025. “Electromagnetic Signatures of Nearby Transits of Primordial Black Holes,” invited talk, Workshop on “Primordial Black Holes: Theory Meets Experiment,” University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Sep 2025. “As Wobbly as a Trampoline: Gravity and the Fabric of Spacetime,” invited public lecture, MIT Museum. Aug 2025. “Scenes from the Quantum Century: From Curious Hippies to Novel Tests of Bell’s Inequality,” invited plenary, Joint Meeting of the Swiss and Austrian Physical Societies, Vienna, Austria. June 2025. “Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates: Production Mechanisms, Medium Effects, and Detection Strategies,” invited seminar (zoom), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. Apr 2025. “Scenes from the Quantum Century: From Curious Hippies to Novel Tests of Bell’s Inequality,” invited public lecture, University of Strasbourg, France. Apr 2025. “Producing Primordial Black Holes from Inflation: Alleviating Fine-Tuning with Multifield Dynamics,” invited seminar, Institut d’astrophysique de Paris, France. Mar 2025. “Primordial Black Holes with QCD Color Charge,” invited seminar, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK. Mar 2025. “Quantum Legacies: Grappling with Quantum Theory during a Turbulent Century,” invited talk, Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics workshop, University of Nottingham, UK. Mar 2025. “Preparing the Big Bang: Nonlinear Processes in Post-Inflation Reheating,” invited talk, Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics workshop, University of Nottingham, UK. Feb 2025. “Secret Clocks: Einstein’s Relativity, the US Military, and the Global Positioning System,” inaugural Michael Ruby public lecture, University of Oklahoma. Feb 2025. “Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: Production Mechanisms, Medium Effects, and Detection Strategies,” invited seminar, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Oklahoma. 22 David Kaiser Jan 2025. “Quantum Legacies: Grappling with Quantum Theory over a Turbulent Century,” invited keynote, Deutsche Physicalische Gesellschaft public event to launch Quantum Century celebrations, Berlin, Germany. Jan 2025. “A Political History of Gravity,” invited seminar, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany. Jan 2025. “Secret Clocks: Einstein’s Relativity, the US Military, and the Global Positioning System,” invited seminar, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany. Jan 2025. “Science and Democracy,” invited panelist with Danielle Allen, Boston Museum of Science. June 2024. “The Nature of Time,” live event with Grammy-winning musician Jack Antonoff, Boston Museum of Science. Mar 2024. “Secret Clocks: Einstein’s Relativity, the US Military, and the Global Positioning System,” invited public lecture, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Dec 2023. “Inference from within the Monad: Reasoning about the Early Universe in Contemporary Cosmology,” invited speaker, Understanding the Nature of Inference: Correlation and Causation workshop, Yale University. Nov 2023. “Managing Transformative Technologies: Historical Perspectives,” with Marc Aidinoff, invited speakers, A Framework for Addressing Artificial Intelligence in Society, US National Academy of Sciences retreat (virtual workshop). May 2023. “Misner, Thorne, Wheeler, Gravitation: A 50-Year Anniversary Celebration,” invited speaker, International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (virtual) symposium. Mar 2023. “Secret Clocks: The US Military, Einstein’s Relativity, and the Global Positioning System,” inaugural Holz Endowed Lecture on the History of Science, University of Arkansas. Nov 2022. “Changing Notions of Openness and Secrecy in the History of Science,” invited plenary speaker, Open World Conference, University of Copenhagen. Apr 2022. “Cosmic Bell Experiments: Using Quasars to Test Quantum Theory,” invited plenary, Joint Conference of the European Frequency and Time Forum and the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Paris. Mar 2021. “The Wonderful Weirdness of Quantum Theory: Testing Some Bizarre Features of our Most Precise Scientific Theory,” invited 2-session (virtual) Master Class for The Academy of Teachers. Nov 2019. “Quantum Jitters in the Sky: The Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, and the Latest Observations,” Carl Sagan Day public lecture, MIT. Sept 2019. “History (of, and, for) Physics,” invited keynote, History for Physics workshop, Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Vienna. Apr 2019. “Testing Quantum Theory with the Cosmos,” John Marshall Memorial Lecture, Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, American Museum of Natural History. Apr 2019. “Einstein’s Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace,” Invited Public Lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mar 2019. “Quantum Entanglement: Recent Tests, New Applications,” Invited Colloquium, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. Mar 2019. “How the Hippies Saved Physics: Adventures with Bell’s Theorem, Then and Now,” Invited talk in “Author in Dialogue” session on How the Hippies Saved Physics, with Alain Aspect, Bill Wootters, and Patrick McCray, American Physical Society meeting, Boston. Feb 2019. “Quantum Jitters in the Sky: The Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, and the Latest Observations,” TSS Horizons Public Lecture, Tallahasse, Florida. Feb 2019. “Quasars to the Rescue! A Cosmic Test for Quantum Entanglement,” Invited public presentation, Boston Museum of Science. 23 David Kaiser May 2018. “Following his Own Path: The Life and Science of Physicist Richard Feynman,” Invited seminar, Richard Feynman Centennary symposium, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid. May 2018. “Testing Quantum Theory with the Cosmos,” Invited Public Lecture, CosmoCaixa Science Museum, Barcelona. Mar 2017. “Ideology, Access, and Infrastructure: Writing a Political History of Cold War Physics,” invited colloquium, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Mar 2017. “Testing Quantum Theory with the Cosmos,” Featured Speaker, New Scientist Instant Expert event, Boston. Oct 2016. “Einstein’s Legacy,” Featured Speaker, New Scientist Instant Expert event, Boston. Oct 2016. “Using Neutrino Oscillations to Test the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics,” Neutrino Division Seminar Series, Fermilab. Sept 2016. “Quantum Jitters in the Sky: The Big Bang, Cosmic Inflation, and the Latest Observations,” Public Lecture, New York Amateur Astronomers Association, American Museum of Natural History May 2016. “Testing Quantum Theory with the Cosmos,” Featured Speaker, Rome Science Festival. Apr 2016. “Einstein’s Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace,” NSF Distinguished Lecture, NSF Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Feb 2016. “Einstein’s Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace,” George Sarton Memorial Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science (invited plenary), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C. Oct 2015. “Einstein’s Legacy: Studying Gravity in War and Peace,” Lyne Starling Trimble Science Heritage Public Lecture, American Institute of Physics, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Feb 2015. “Transcending Matter: Physics and Ultimate Meaning,” Invited panelist with Adam Frank, Tim Maudlin, and Priya Natarajan, New York Academy of Sciences. Nov 2014. Host and panelist, screening of The Theory of Everything about Stephen and Jane Hawking, with actor Eddie Redmayne and screenwriter Anthony McCarten, American Physical Society / Smithsonian. Oct 2013. “How the Hippies Saved Physics,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to accompany Hippie Chic exhibit. Mar 2013. “Gravity: A Political History,” Max von Laue Lecture (invited plenary), German Physical Society annual meeting, Dresden. Dec 2012. Panelist with hip-hop artist GZA of Wu-Tang Clan to launch “Science Genius” initiative, Teachers College, Columbia University. 24