Monday Colloquium Archive
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2009/2010
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 11-30-09 | Antonio Castro Neto, Boston University | Drawing Conclusions from Graphene |
| 11-23-09 | Edward Farhi, MIT | A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster Than a Classical Computer |
| 11-16-09 | Gilbert Collins, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Recreating Core States of Giant Planets in the Laboratory, A New Generation of Condensed Matter Science |
| 11-9-09 | Gregory Boebinger, Florida State U and U Florida Director; National High Magnetic Field Laboratory | Energy, Environment and Health: The Sometimes Hidden Role of High Magnetic Fields and Invisible Light |
| 11-2-09 | Neil Cornish, Montana State University | Listening to the Universe |
| 10-26-09 | Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories | Darwin In The Lab: Experimental Evolution Studies in Finches and Fruitflies |
| 10-12-09 | Markus Greiner, Harvard Physics | Quantum Gas Microscope - A Next Generation Quantum Simulator* |
| 10-12-09 | No Colloquium | |
| 10-5-09 | Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona | A New Decade of Cosmic Structure [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 9-28-09 | Eric Mazur, Harvard University | Confessions of a Converted Lecturer |
| 9-21-09 | Larry Abbott, Columbia University | Controlling Chaotic Activity in Neural Networks |
| 9-14-09 | Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University | Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Insulators |
2008/2009
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 05-18-09 | Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University and Radcliffe | Open
Access: Myth, Paradox, Recreation and Transformation
in the 00's. [also download this video as Quicktime1] |
| 05-11-09 | Roy Schwitters, University of Texas | Imaging Large Objects with Cosmic Rays: Lessons Being Learned in the UT Maya Muon Project. |
| 05-04-09 | Allan McDonald, University of Texas | Exciton Superfluidity. |
| 04-27-09 | Harry Atwater, Caltech | Light
Matter Interactions for Terawatt Scale Solar
Energy Conversion. [also download this video as Quicktime1] |
| 04-20-09 | David Kaplan, University of Washington | Nuclear Physics from Effective Field Theory* [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 04-13-09 | Carl Wieman, University of British Columbia | When the Virtual World is Better than Reality; Teaching Physics with Interactive Simulations |
| 04-06-09 | Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich | Synthetic Quantum Many-Body Systems |
| 30-Mar-09 | Ann Nelson, University of Washington | Beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 23-Mar-09 | No Colloquium | |
| 16-Mar-09 | Gabriella Sciolla, MIT | Dark Matter is from Cygnus: in search of a wind of Dark Matter in the Milky Way |
| 09-Mar-09 | William Zajc, Columbia | The Fluid Nature of Quark-Gluon Plasma |
| 02-Mar-09 | Philippe Cluzel, Harvard | From Random Walks to Predictive Biology |
| 23-Feb-09 | Peter Michelson, Stanford | A New View of the High-Energy Universe: Results from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope's First 6 Months in Orbit |
| 16-Feb-09 | No Colloquium | |
| 09-Feb-09 | Tom McLeish, Durham University, UK. | The Tangled Tale of Polymer Melt Dynamics |
| 02-Feb-09 | Christopher Stubbs, Harvard | Confronting the Dark Energy Crisis in Fundamental Physics |
| 22-Dec-08 / 26-Jan-09 | No Colloquium | |
| 15-Dec-08 | Cumrun Vafa, Harvard. | Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics* |
| 08-Dec-08 | J. Seamus Davis, Cornell | Complex Quantum Matter in Bosonic Crystals: A Superglass State in Solid 4 He [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 01-Dec-08 | Deborah Jin, University of Colorado | Making Ultracold Polar Molecules (CD only) |
| 24-Nov-08 | Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching | Tensor Networks, Many-body Systems, and Quantum Information |
| 17-Nov-08 | Harold Hwang, University of Tokyo | Atomic Engineering Oxide Heterointerfaces* |
| 10-Nov-08 | Rashid Sunyaev, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics | Clusters of Galaxies, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Cosmology [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 03-Nov-08 | Edo Berger, Harvard. | Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 27-Oct-08 | Ronald Walsworth, Harvard | From Astrophysics to Bioimaging: New Applications of Physics Tools |
| 20-Oct-08 | M. Zahid Hassan, Princeton University | Observation of a New Class of Topological States of Quantum Matter |
| 13-Oct-08 | No Colloquium | |
| 06-Oct-08 | Douglas Scalapino, University of California, Santa Barbara | The New Iron Age of Superconductivity |
| 29-Sep-08 | Frederik Denef, Harvard | The String Theory Landscape |
| 22-Sep-08 | Andy MacKenzie, Univ. of St. Andrews. | Quantum Oscillations in Metals: Old Dog, New Tricks |
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to the Top 2007/2008
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 05-May-08 | Nergis Mavalvala, MIT | Quantum Mechanics on Giant Scales |
| 28-Apr-08 | Paul McEuen, Cornell | Nano Carbon: From Terahertz Transistors to Atomic Membranes |
| 21-Apr-08 | Isaac F. Silvera, Harvard | Which Path to Metallic Hydrogen: High or Low Temperature |
| 14-Apr-08 | Howard Georgi, Harvard, | Unparticle Physics |
| 07-Apr-08 | Joseph Polchinski, UCSB | The Black Hole Paradox, Past and Future |
| 31-Mar-08 | Marian Scully, Texas A&M Univ and Princeton Univ. | The Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations and Correlations Tell the Story [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 24-Mar-08 | Mar 24, 2008: No Colloquium | |
| 17-Mar-08 | Alan Litke, UCSC. | "What Does The Eye Tell The Brain: A Journey from High Energy Physics to Neural Systems |
| 10-Mar-08 | Rainer Weiss, MIT. | The Search For Gravitational Radiation |
| 03-Mar-08 | Michael Thorpe, Arizona State University | The Flexibility Window in Materials |
| 25-Feb-08 | Steven M. Block, Stanford University | Single Molecule Biophysics: Reading the Genetic Code [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 18-Feb-08 | No Colloquium | |
| 11-Feb-08 | Barry Barish, Caltech. | The Next Great Particle Accelerator: A Linear Collider |
| 04-Feb-08 | Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria. | Quantum Optics with Cold Atoms |
| 28-Jan-08 | Max Tegmark, MIT. | New Clues about Inflation, dark matter and Dark Energy |
| 24-Dec-07 / 21-Jan-08 | No Colloquium | |
| 17-Dec-07 | Stefan Hell, Max Plank Institute (Gottingen) | Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy |
| 10-Dec-07 | Don Eigler, IBM | There's Plenty of Room in the Middle: A View from the Bottom [Loeb Colloquium] |
| 03-Dec-07 | Peter J. Lu, Harvard | Quasicrystals in Medieval Islamic Architecture |
| 26-Nov-07 | Amir Yacoby, Harvard | Spins and Charges in Low dimensions |
| 19-Nov-07 | Seamus Davis, Cornell | The Complexity of Electronic Matter in High-Tc Superconductors |
| 12-Nov-07 | Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago | The Good the Bad and the Awful - Scientific Simulation and Prediction |
| 05-Nov-07 | David Weitz, Harvard | New Insights into Hard Problems with Soft Materials |
| 29-Oct-07 | Alan Kostelecky, Indiana University. | Testing Relativity |
| 22-Oct-07 | Mark Kasevich, Stanford. | Atom Interferometry |
| 15-Oct-07 | Lisa Randall, Harvard | Warped Geometry: Consequences and LHC Signatures |
| 08-Oct-07 | No Colloquium | |
| 01-Oct-07 | Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard | The Path To Extrasolar Earths |
| 24-Sep-07 | Adam Cohen, Harvard. | Trapping and Manipulating Single Molecules in Solution |
| 17-Sep-07 | Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard | Sea Sponges: A Textbook in Materials Physics |
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to the Top2006/2007
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 21-May-07 | No Colloquium | |
| 14-May-07 | Geoffrey West, Los Alamos. | Universal Scaling Laws from Genomes and Cells to Ecosystems and Cities; Towards a Unified Quantitative Theory of Biological Structure and Organization |
| 07-May-07 | No Colloquium | |
| 30-Apr-07 | Subir Sachdev, Harvard | Quantum Phase Transitions |
| 23-Apr-07 | Michael Sipser, MIT. | Beyond Computation: The P versus NP Question |
| 16-Apr-07 | Jean Dalibard, ENS, France. | Cold atoms in Flatland |
| 09-Apr-07 | Avi Loeb, Harvard | Three Astrophysical Laboratories for Particle Physics |
| 02-Apr-07 | Richard Wilson, Harvard Bruno Coppi, MIT. |
The Scientific Work of Andrei Dmitreyvich Sakharov |
| 26-Mar-07 | No Colloquium | |
| 19-Mar-07 | Jun Ye, JILA, U. Colorado | The Art of Light-Based Precision Measurement |
| 12-Mar-07 | John Pendry, Imperial College, London. | A Cloak of Invisibility: Harry Potter Does Electromagnetism |
| 05-Mar-07 | Mara Prentiss, Harvard | Phase Transitions in DNA:Temperature Matters |
| 26-Feb-07 | Joseph Kroll, U-Penn | Matter-Antimatter Transformations at 3 Trillion Hertz |
| 19-Feb-07 | No Colloquium | |
| 12-Feb-07 | Phuan Ong, Princeton. | FVorticity and high-Tc Superconductors |
| 05-Feb-07 | Maria Spiropulu, CERN. | Discovery Physics at the LHC |
| 25-Dec-06 / 29-Jan-07 | No Colloquium | |
| 18-Dec-06 | Alfons van Blaaderen, Utrecht | Colloids in Electric Fields |
| 11-Dec-06 | Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago. | Taking Sides on the Dark Energy Issue [Loeb Colloquium] |
| 04-Dec-06 | Joerg Wrachtrup, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany | Defects in Diamond: New Hardware for the Quantum World? |
| 27-Nov-06 | Andre Geim, Univ. Manchester, UK | QED in a Pencil Trace |
| 20-Nov-06 | Robijn Bruinsma, UCLA . | Physics of Viruses |
| 13-Nov-06 | Masahiro Morii, Harvard | Searching for New Physics in CP Violation with BABAR |
| 06-Nov-06 | Eric Adelberger, Washington U. | Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale |
| 30-Oct-06 | David Charbonneau, Harvard | Extrasolar Planets: Seeing the Light |
| 23-Oct-06 | Albert-Laszlo Barabas, Notre Dame | Complex Networks: From the Web to the Cell |
| 16-Oct-06 | Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford | Search for Yukawa-Type Gravity-like Forces at sub-mm distance |
| 09-Oct-06 | No Colloquium | |
| 02-Oct-06 | Ian Shipsey, Purdue Univ. | Bringing Hearing to the Deaf, Cochlear Implants: A Technical and Personal Account |
| 25-Sep-06 | Philip H. Bucksbaum, Stanford | Ultrafast Quantum Control |
| 18-Sep-06 | Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard | A new measurement of the electron magnetic moment and the fine structure constant |
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to the Top 2005/2006
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 15-May-06 | David Kestenbaum, National Public Radio | The 17th Street Canal: Anatomy of an Engineering Disaster |
| 08-May-06 | Greg Boebinger, Ntl. Magnetic Lab | The Cusp at Optimum Doping in the Low-Temperature Hall Number of the High-Temperature Superconductors |
| 01-May-06 | Blayne Heckel, U-Washington | Torsion Balance Tests of Gravity at Short Distances & Spin Coupled Forces |
| 24-Apr-06 | Bruce Rosen, MGH/Harvard Medical School | Multi Modal Functional Brain Imaging |
| 17-Apr-06 | Donald Candela, University of Massachusetts | Looking Inside The Sand Pile |
| 10-Apr-06 | Elizabeth Lada, U Florida | Embedded Clusters: Laboratories for Understanding the Origin of Stars and Planets |
| 03-Apr-06 | Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University | Science Under Attack |
| 27-Mar-06 | No Colloquium | |
| 20-Mar-06 | Persis Drell, SLAC | Quantum Universe |
| 13-Mar-06 | Frank Wilczek, MIT | The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity |
| 06-Mar-06 | John Preskill, Caltech | Putting Weirdness to Work: Quantum Information Science |
| 27-Feb-06 | Keith Baker, Hampton University | Extra Dimensions, ATLAS, and COSM |
| 20-Feb-06 | Feb 20, 2006: No Colloquium | |
| 13-Feb-06 | Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT | New Forms of Quantum Matter Near Absolute Zero Temperature |
| 06-Feb-06 | Chetan Nayak, UCLA | Topological Quantum Computation |
| 26-Dec-05 / 31-Jan-06 | No Colloquium | |
| 19-Dec-05 | Peter Galison, Harvard | DAssassin of Relativity |
| 12-Dec-05 | Ann Nelson, Univ. of Washington, Seattle | The Neutrinos as a Window into the Dark |
| 05-Dec-05 | Stefan Westerhoff, Columbia Univ. | The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays |
| 28-Nov-05 | No Colloquium | |
| 21-Nov-05 | Alexey Vihklinin, Harvard Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics | Cosmology from X-ray observations of galaxy clusters |
| 14-Nov-05 | Moses Chan, Penn State U. | Superfluidity in Solid Helium and Solid Hydrogen |
| 07-Nov-05 | Eric Heller, Harvard | What Do Semiconductor Electrons and Freak Waves Have In Common? |
| 31-Oct-05 | No Colloquium | |
| 24-Oct-05 | Lars Samuelson, Lund Univ., Sweden | Physics of Semiconductor Nanowires |
| 17-Oct-05 | Atac Imamoglu, ETH Zurich | The Quantum Optics with Quantum Dots |
| 17-Oct-05 | No Colloquium | |
| 03-Oct-05 | David DeMille, Yale | Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics |
| 26-Sep-05 | Markus Greiner, Harvard | Fermi Condensates |
| 19-Sep-05 | David Nelson, Harvard. | DNA Unzipping & Motor Proteins: Effect of the Genetic Code |
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to the Top 2004/2005
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 18-Apr-05 | Robert Schoelkopf, Yale | Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits |
| 11-Apr-05 | Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University | Particle Physics Circa 2010 |
| 04-Apr-05 | Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA | The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics, Economics, and Sociology |
| 28-Mar-05 | No Colloquium | |
| 21-Mar-05 | Christopher Schaffer, UCSD | Nonlinear Optics in Vivo |
| 14-Mar-05 | George Chapline, LLNL | Quantum Criticality and Event Horizons |
| 07-Mar-05 | Amir Yacoby", Weizmann Institute | Electron in 1D |
| 28-Feb-05 | Cumrun Vafa, Harvard | Quantum Foam and Melting Crysta |
| 21-Feb-05 | No Colloquium | |
| 14-Feb-05 | Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard | Quantum Cyclotron Yields New Value for the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant |
| 07-Feb-05 | Robert Goldston, Princeton | Magnetic Fusion Science and ITER |
| 20-Dec-04 / 31-Jan-05 | No Colloquium | |
| 13-Dec-04 | Philip Nelson, Pennsylvania University | Mechanics of DNA at High Curvature |
| 06-Dec-04 | Daniel Ruger, IBM Almaden | Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy |
| 29-Nov-04 | Peter Zoller, Innsbruck University | Quantum Information Processing with Atoms and Ions |
| 22-Nov-04 | Daniel Kleppner, MIT | NBoost-Phase Intercept and the National Missile Defense |
| 15-Nov-04 | Daniel McCleese, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Mars Exploration |
| 08-Nov-04 | Giorgio Gratta, Stanford | The Quest for the Mass of the Neutrino |
| 01-Nov-04 | Andrew Kiruluta, Harvard | From NMR to the Imaging of the Diffusion Tensor Field in the Brain and Beyond |
| 25-Oct-04 | Marvin L. Cohen, Berkeley | A Standard Model for Solids |
| 18-Oct-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 11-Oct-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 04-Oct-04 | James Hudspeth, The Rockefeller University. | Mechanical Amplification in the Ear |
| 27-Sep-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 20-Sep-04 | Eugene Demler, Harvard | Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices and Magnetic Microtraps |
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to the Top 2003/2004
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 10-May-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 03-May-04 | Mark Konishi, Caltech. | How Auditory Space is Represented in the Brain |
| 26-Apr-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 19-Apr-04 | Angela Belcher, MIT. | Virus Based Hybrid Materials [NSCE Lecture] |
| 12-Apr-04 | Freeman Dyson, IAS Princeton | Looking for Life in Unlikely Places |
| 05-Apr-04 | David Wineland, NIST | Quantum Entanglement With Atoms |
| 29-Mar-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 22-Mar-04 | Gerard Meijer, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. | Cold Molecules |
| 15-Mar-04 | Leonid Glazman, Minnesota University | Transport in a Luttinger Liquid |
| 08-Mar-04 | David Awschalom, UC Santa Barbara | Semiconductor Spintronics |
| 01-Mar-04 | Mar 1, 2004: No Colloquium | |
| 23-Feb-04 | Paul McEuen, Cornell | "Carbon Nanotubes-Electons in a 1D World |
| 16-Feb-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 09-Feb-04 | Thomas Witten, Chicago University |
Anomalous Focusing in Elastic Sheets |
| 02-Feb-04 | Jan 19 - Feb 2, 2004: No Colloquium | |
| 26-Jan-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 19-Jan-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 12-Jan-04 | Hongkun Park, Harvard | Transport & Scanned Probe Investigations of Chemical Nanostructures |
| 22-Dec-03 / 05-Jan-04 | No Colloquium | |
| 15-Dec-03 | Paul Chaikin, Princeton | Jammed Ellipsoids Beat Jammed Spheres |
| 08-Dec-03 | Fred MacKintosh, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam | Polymer Physics and the Cell |
| 01-Dec-03 | Georg Maret, Konstanz University | The Physics of Light Transport |
| 24-Nov-03 | Alvaro De Rujula, CERN and BU. | Towards a Complete Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 17-Nov-03 | Sekazi Mtingwa, North Carolina A&T State University and Harvard | An Update on the Linear Collider |
| 10-Nov-03 | Christopher Quigg, FNAL | Double Simplex: Envisioning |
| 03-Nov-03 | Gary Feldman, Harvard | Neutrino Oscillations: What We Know, What We Want to Know, and How We Get From Here to There |
| 27-Oct-03 | Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University | How Analogy Drives Physics |
| 20-Oct-03 | Leonid Levitov, MIT. | Pattern Formation in a Cold Exciton System |
| 13-Oct-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 06-Oct-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 29-Sep-03 | Barbara Jacak, SUNY | On the Trail of the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC |
| 02-Sep-03 | Helen Quinn, Stanford | Why Keep Doing B Physics? |
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to the Top 2002/2003
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 12-May-03 | Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich | Seeing Particles Beneath Waves |
| 05-May-03 | Steve Kivelson, UCLA | Locally Crystalline Electron Liquids |
| 28-Apr-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 21-Apr-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 14-Apr-03 | Apr 14, 2003: "Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures", Ellen D. Williams, UMD. | Apr 14, 2003: "Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures", Ellen D. Williams, UMD. |
| 07-Apr-03 | Jeff Kimble, Caltech | The New Science of Quantum Information |
| 31-Mar-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 24-Mar-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 17-Mar-03 | Ian Affleck, BU | 1D Antiferromagnets: A Laboratory for Low Dimensional Quantum Field Theory |
| 10-Mar-03 | Boris Shklovskii, Univ. Minnesota | Charge Inversion and Gene Delivery |
| 03-Mar-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 24-Feb-03 | James Eisenstein, Caltech | Surprises in 2 Dimensions: From the Quantized Hall Effect to Exciton Condensation |
| 17-Feb-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 10-Feb-03 | Michael Turner, U-Chicago | Making Sense of the New Cosmology |
| 23-Dec-02 / 03-Feb-03 | No Colloquium | |
| 16-Dec-02 | Robert Dijkgraaf | Quantum Physics and Mathematics |
| 09-Dec-02 | Hitoshi Murayama, Berkeley | Big World of Small Neutrinos |
| 02-Dec-02 | Seigo Tarucha, University of Tokyo | QD-Spin |
| 25-Nov-02 | Cumrun Vafa, Harvard | |
| 18-Nov-02 | A.C. Gossard, UC Santa Barbara | Semiconductor Nanostructues |
| 11-Nov-02 | Nov 11, 2002: No Colloquium | |
| 04-Nov-02 | Krishna Rajagopal, MIT | The Condensed Matter Physics of QCD |
| 28-Oct-02 | Gerald Gabrielse, Havard | Background-free Observation of Cold Antihydrogen with a First Glimpse of Its Atomic State |
| 21-Oct-02 | Eric Chaisson, Tufts | The Rise of Complexity in Nature |
| 14-Oct-02 | No Colloquium | |
| 07-Oct-02 | Amnon Aharony, Tel Aviv University | What Is Really Measured in the Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer |
| 30-Sep-02 | David DiVincenzo, IBM | Prospects for Quantum Computation |
| 23-Sep-02 | Raphael Bousso, Harvard | The World as a Hologram |
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to the Top2001/2002
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 13-May-02 | Michel Devoret, Yale | ManipulatioMonColloqArchiven of Quantum State of Electrical Circuit |
| 06-May-02 | Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Stanford | Generation of Photons from a Quantum Dot |
| 29-Apr-02 | S. Weinberg, U-TX | Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Short Course [Loeb Colloquium] |
| ]22-Apr-02 | Leon Balents, UC Santa Barbara | Splitting the Electron |
| 15-Apr-02 | Michael Roukes, CalTech | Mechanical devices for single-molecule and single-quantum nanoscience |
| 08-Apr-02 | Zhi-xun Shen, Stanford | Many Body Physics in Cuprate Superconductors |
| 01-Apr-02 | Daniel Lathrop, U-Maryland | AJets, Rogue Waves, Turbulence and Tornados |
| 25-Mar-02 | Mar 25, 2002: No Colloquium | |
| 18-Mar-02 | John Huth, Harvard | The Physics of Musical Instruments |
| 11-Mar-02 | George Benedek, MIT | Elastic Properties Biological Springs |
| 04-Mar-02 | Dirk Kreimer, BU | Quantum Fields and Numbers |
| 25-Feb-02 | Abraham Loeb, Harvard | The First Sources of Light in the Universe |
| 18-Feb-02 | Feb 18, 2002: No Colloquium | |
| 11-Feb-02 | John Carlstrom, Univ. Chicago | Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background and the South Pole DASI Experiment |
| 04-Feb-02 | Cherry Murray, Bell Labs. | Physical Science Research at Bell Labs |
| 14-Jan-02 / 28-Jan-02 | No Colloquium | |
| 07-Jan-02 | Boris Shraiman, Lucent | Modeling Genetic Networks |
| 17-Dec-01 / 31-Dec-01 | No Colloquium | |
| 10-Dec-01 | G. Whitesides, Harvard | Self Assembly |
| 03-Dec-01 | Dec 3, 2001: "Massive Thoughts", Young-Kee Kim, Univ. CA., Berkeley. | Massive Thoughts |
| 26-Nov-01 | Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard President | Science and Public Policy |
| 19-Nov-01 | Steven M. Girvin, Yale | DC Transformer and DC Josephson(-like) Effect in Quantum Hall Bilayers |
| 12-Nov-01 | No Colloquium | |
| 05-Nov-01 | P. Zoller, Innsbruk | Quantum Information with Quantum Optics |
| 29-Oct-01 | W. Ketterle, MIT | Bose-Einstein Condensation |
| 22-Oct-01 | J. Marko, U. Illinois | OMicromanipulation Study of Physical Properties of DNA and Chromosomes |
| 15-Oct-01 | S. Sachdev, Yale | Competing Orders and Quantum Phase Transitions in the Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors |
| 08-Oct-01 | No Colloquium | |
| 01-Oct-01 | A. McDonald, Queen's | The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem |
| 24-Sep-01 | N. Arkani-Hamed, Harvard | Deconstructing Dimensions: Adventures In Theory Space |
| 17-Sep-01 | C. Lieber, Harvard | Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology |
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to the Top 2000/2001
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 07-May-01 | Costas Papaliolios, Harvard | New Ways to Find New Planets |
| 30-Apr-01 | David Grier, U. Chicago | Macroionic Mysteries: Many-body Interactions in Strongly Coupled Classical Systems |
| 23-Apr-01 | Lisa Randall | New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity |
| 16-Apr-01 | Carl Wieman | Quantum Explosions and Implosions in a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| 09-Apr-01 | Shri Kulkarni, California Tech. | Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe |
| 02-Apr-01 | David Nelson, Harvard | Viruses, Vesicles and Multi-electron Bubbles: the Thomson Problem Revisited |
| 26-Mar-01 | No Colloquium | |
| 19-Mar-01 | No Colloquium | |
| 12-Mar-01 | Robert Carey, Boston U. | A New Precision Measurement of the Muon (g-2) Value at the level of 1.3 ppm |
| 05-Mar-01 | No Colloquium | |
| 26-Feb-01 | Susan Coppersmith, Chicago U. | The Complexity of Materials |
| 19-Feb-01 | No Colloquium | |
| 12-Feb-01 | Bertram Batlogg, ETH Zurich and Bell Laboratories | Organic Molecular Crystals: Amazing New Opportunities for Science and Technology |
| 05-Feb-01 | Mark Meister, Harvard. | The Neural Code of the Retina |
| 11-Dec-00 / 29-Jan-01 | No Colloquium | |
| 04-Dec-00 | Thomas Greytak, MIT | Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen |
| 27-Nov-00 | No Colloquium | |
| 20-Nov-00 | Mikhail Lukin, ITAMP, Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics | Coherence and Quantum Information in Modern Optic |
| 13-Nov-00 | Kathryn Ann Moler, Stanford | Mesomagnetic Tests of Mechanisms of Superconductivity |
| 06-Nov-00 | Blayne Heckel, Univ. of Washington in Seattle | Were Newton and Einstein Right? |
| 30-Oct-00 | Phillip Platzman, Lucent Technologies | Quantum Computing Using Electrons Floating On Liquid Helium |
| 23-Oct-00 | Fritz Haake, University of Essen | Decoherence, or Why the Macroworld Behaves Classically |
| 16-Oct-00 | Peter Fisher, MIT | Stretching the Vacum: Precision Measurements of the Weak Interaction and the Search for the Higgs Boson |
| 09-Oct-00 | No Colloquium | |
| 02-Oct-00 | Joseph Polchinski, UC Santa Barbara | String Duality and D-Branes [Loeb Colloquium] |
| 25-Sep-00 | No Colloquium | |
| 18-Sep-00 | Norman Ramsey, Harvard | Exploring the Universe with Atomic Clocks |
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