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1999/2000
Oct 4, 1999: Stanislas Leibler, Harvard University.
Oct 18, 1999: "Crystal Surfaces: From Facets to
Crystallization Waves," Sebastian Balibar, Laboratoir
de Physique Statistique, de l'Ecole Normale Superieure.
Oct 25. 1999: "Supernovae, Dark Energy and the
Accelerating Universe," Saul Perlmutter, University
of California , Berkeley.
Nov 1, 1999: "The Search for Dark Matter Axions," Les
Rosenberg, M.I.T.
Nov 8, 1999: "Macroscopic Quanatum Interference
Experiments with Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms," Mark
Kasevich, Yale University
Nov 15, 1999: "Where Do We Stand With Solar Neutrinos," John
Bachall, IAS.
Nov 22, "From Inter Facial Chemistry to Mesoscopic
Physics: New Directions in Condensed Matter Theory," Emily
Carter, UCLA.
Nov 29, 1999: Ed Farhi, MIT.
Dec 6, 1999: "Engineering Entropy: Phase Behavior
of Virus Suspensions," Seth Fraden, Brandeis University.
Dec 13, 1999: "Unexpected Complexity of Ligand-Receptor
Bonds in Biology," Evan Evans, U. British Columbia
.
Dec 20, 1999: "Quantum Mirages: The Projection
of Electronic Structure to Remote Locations," Donald
Eigler, IBM Almaden Res. Ctr., San Jose , CA.
Feb 7, 2000: "Minimum Metallic Conductivity of
Fluid Hydrogen and other Molecular Fluids at Megabar
Pressure," Dr. William Nellis, Lawrence Livermore
National Labs.
Feb 14, 2000: "Physics at the Breakfast Table," Sidney
Nagel, University of Chicago.
Feburary 28, 2000: "Observation of a Quantum Cyclotron
with One Electron," Gerald Garielse, Harvard Physics
Department.
Mar 6, 2000: No Colloquium
Mar 13, 2000: "Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem
on the Ground," Stuart Freedman, UC Berkeley.
Mar 20, 2000: "Tomographic Imaging of dark Matter:
New Tests of Cosmology," Tony Tyson, Bell Laboratories,
Lucent Technologies.
Apr 3, 2000: "Cuprate Superconductors: Physics
beyond High Tc," Bertram Batlogg, Bell Laboratories,
Lucent Technologies.
Apr 10, 2000: "The Shape of Gravity with Extra
Dimensions," Lisa Randall, Princeton University
.
Apr 17, 2000: "Duality and Supersymmetry," Ashoke
Sen, Mehta Research Institute.
Apr 24, 2000: "The Glorious Days of Gauge Theory," Gerard
't Hooft, Utrecht University , Netherlands.
May 1, 2000: "A Statistical Physicist's Look at
Earthquakes," Daniel Fisher, Harvard Physics Department
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1998/1999
Sep 2, 1998: (Untitled) L. Susskind, (LOEB) Stanford.
Sep 28, 1998: "Evidence for Atmospheric Neutrino
Oscillation from the Super-Kamiokande Experiment," Ed
Kearns, Boston University.
Oct 5, 1998: "The Structure of Molecular Motors," D.
DeRosier, Brandeis University.
Oct 19, 1998: "Surprises in 2D Electrical Transport," E.
Gwinn, UC Santa Barbara.
Oct 26, 1998: "Single Electron Transport through
Quantum Dots," Dr. Leo Kouwenhoven, Delft , Netherlands.
Nov 2, 1998: "From Photons to Perception," W.
Bialek, NEC.
Nov 9, 1998: "The Almost Magical World of Photonic
Crystals ," J. Joannopulos, M.I.T.
Nov 16, 1998: (Untitled), LOEB, Robert Angel, University
of Arizona.
Nov 23, 1998: "Use Crystals to solve the nucleon's
'Spin Crisis' TODAY, and look for Physics beyond the
standard model TOMORROW," M. Velasco, CERN.
Nov 30, 1998: "What is needed to build a Quantum
Computer?" David DiVincenzo, IBM.
Dec 7, 1998: "Chemical Modulation of Cell Surface
Interactions," C. Bertozzi, UC Berkeley.
Dec 14, 1998: "Femtosecond Optics," Eric
Ippen, M.I.T.
Jan 4, 1999: "New Sub-Millimeter Dimensions and
Quantum Gravity Around the Corner," Nima Arkani
Hamed, SLAC.
Feb 8, 1999: "QCD, Strings and Black Holes: The
large N limit of Field Theories and Gravity," Juan
Madacena, Harvard University.
Feb 15, 1999: "Magnetic Trapping of Atoms and
Molecules," John Doyle, Harvard University .
Feb 22, 1999: "Bose-Einstein Condensation and
Light Speeds of 38 miles/hour," Lene Hau, Rowland.
Mar 1, 1999: " DNA Mode D'Emploi: Reading , Editing,
and Translating," Albert Libchaber (Loeb Colloquium).
Mar 8, 1999: "Einstein's Clocks: Fundamental Theory
and Lowly Technology," Peter Galison, Harvard
University .
Mar 15, 1999: "Beginning the Second Century of
X-Ray Research," David Moncton, Argonne.
Mar 22, 1999: "Gravitational Waves and Black Holes:
A Personal View," Kip Thorne , Cal Tech.
Apr 5, 1999: "Optical SETI," Paul Horowitz,
Harvard University .
Apr 12, 1999: Hans Specht and Gunter Dosch, Heidelberg
. Joint Colloquium (Loeb Colloquium)
Apr 19, 1999: "How does the vortex lattice melt?
Study of vortex matter phase transitions in high temperature
super conductors," Eli Zeldov, Weizmann Insitute.
Apr 21, 1999: "Some Adventures among the Elementary
Particles," Murray Gell-Mann, Caltech & Santa-Fe
Institute (Historical Loeb Lecture).
Apr 26, 1999: "Physical principles of transduction,
tuning, and transmission by hair cells of the inner
ear," AJ (Jim) Hudspeth.
May 3, 1999: "Nonlocality and the Absurd," David
Mermin, Cornell University.
May 10, 1999: "Cosmology in the Laboratory: The
Formation of Topological Defects," Mark Bowick,
Visiting Professor, Harvard University .
1997/1998
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1996/1997
Sep 23, 1996: "Symmetry of the Superconducting
Pairing State: Direct Experimental Evidence for d-Wave
Pairing in High T c Superconductors," Dale van
Harlingen, Urbana.
Sep 30, 1996: "Formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
and Macroscopic Quantum Properties," Y. Kagan
(Loeb Colloquium).
Oct 7, 1996: "On the Road to the Solution of the
Solar Neutrino Problem," Eric Norman, Lawrence
Berkeley Laboratory, (SLG invitation).
Oct 14, 1996: No Colloquium
Oct 21, 1996: "A Physicist in Congress: A Clash
of Two Cultures," Vern Ehlers, Loeb Lecturer-Congressman.
Oct 28, 1996: "Hard Spheres in Space: Colloidal
Crystals in Microgravity," Paul Chaikin, Princeton
University (Loeb Colloquium).
Nov 4, 1996: "Nucleation of Bubbles in Quantum
Liquids," Humphrey Maris, Brown University (MN
invitation).
Nov 11, 1996: No Colloquium
Nov 18, 1996: "Study of a Bose-Einstein Condensate-
Kick it, Shake it, Drop it, Cut it," Wolfgang
Ketterle, MIT.
Nov 25, 1996: "Ultrafast Computing using Flux
Quantization in Superconductors," Konstantin K.
Likharev, SUNY Stony Brook.
Dec 2, 1996: "New Developments in String Theory," Cumrun
Vafa, Harvard University.
Dec 9, 1996: "Lise Meitner and the Discovery of
Nuclear Fission," Ruth Sime, Sacramento City College
(G. Holton host; co-sponsored by History of Science
Dept).
Dec 16, 1996: "The Problem of Mass in Physics," Harald
Fritzsch, Werner-Heisenberg-Institute, University of
Munich (SLG invitation).
1995/1996
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1994/1995
Sep 26, 1994: "Nature's Most Nonlinear Oscillator:
Synchronous Picosecond Sonoluminescence," Seth
Putterman, UCLA.
Oct 3, 1994: "Let there be Dark: Laser Manipulation
of Three Level Atoms," Arthur Chu, Harvard University.
Oct 17, 1994: "Taking the Measure of the Universe," Robert
P. Kirshner, Harvard University Center for Astrophysics.
Oct 31, 1994: "Hot electrons, cold electrons,
and cryogenic elementary particle detectors," Michael
Nahum, Harvard University.
Nov 7, 1994: "Some Magnetic Moments," Alex
Pines, University of California , Berkeley (Loeb Colloquium)
Nov 14, 1994: "The Future of CP Violation," Karl
Berkelman, Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University.
Nobember 21, 1994: "Brown Dwarfs and Other Microcleansing
Candidates," Alvaro de Rujula, Boston University
and Theoretical Study Division CERN, Geneva.
Nov 28, 1994: "Atoms with Attitude: Epitaxial
Growth for Physicists," Andrew Zangwill, Georgia
Institute of Technology.
Dec 5, 1994: "Remembering Julian Schwinger (1918-1994),
A Symposium," Herman Feshbach, M.I.T. Emeritus,
Victor E. Weisskopf, Inst.Prof/Phys. Emeritus, Roy
Glauber Mallinckrodt Prof/Phys, Paul Martin, Harvard
University.
Dec 12, 1994: "The Great Comet-Jupiter Debate," Dr.
Heidi Hammel, Research Scientist, Department of Earth,
Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
Jan 9, 1995: "The Physics of Self-Assembling Helical
Ribbons and the Problems of Cholesterol Crystallization," Professor
George Benedek, Department of Physics, M.I.T.
Jan 30, 1995: "Astrophysical Limits on Light Pseudoscalors," Eric
Carlson, Harvard University.
Feb 6, 1995: "Search for Dark Matter," Bernard
Sadoulet, Director Center for Particle Astrophysics,
University of California-Berkeley.
Feb 13, 1995: No Colloquium
Feb 27, 1995: "Neutron Stars: Observing the Properties
of Matter at High Density," Gordon Baym, University
of Illinois
Mar 6, 1995: "Gamma Ray Bursts: Facts and Speculation," Bohdan
Paczynsk, Princeton University (Loeb Colloquium)
Mar 13, 1995: "Magnetic Vortices in Type II Superconductors-
Why all the fuss?" David Bishop, ATT Bell Laboratories.
Mar 20, 1995: "Putting out Oil Fires in Kuwait
," Robert Grace, Grace, Shurson, Moore, and Associates.
Apr 3, 1995: "Renormalization Group for Fermions:
An Intro," R. Shankar, Yale University.
Apr 10, 1995: "Long Distance Transmission for
the Information Age: Solitons in Optical Fibers," Linn
Mollenauer, ATT Bell Laboratories (Loeb Colloquium).
Apr 17, 1995: "Helium on cesium: Novel Wetting
Behavior," R. Hallock, University of Massachusetts
, Amherst.
Apr 24, 1995: "Ice Ages and the Earth's Orbit:
Most Theories are Wrong," Richard A. Muller, University
of California Berkeley.
Apr 26, 1995: "Energy in the Stars," Hans
Bethe, Cornell University (Loeb Historical Lecture).
May 1, 1995: "The Agendas of the Physics Communities
in Western Europe ," Hans Chang.
1993/1994
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1992/1993
Sep 28, 1992: "Post Modern Quantum Mechanics:
Chaos and the Holy Grail," Eric J. Heller, University
of Washington.
Oct 5, 1992: "The Single-Electron Transistor and
other Arificial Atoms," Mar A. Kastner, MIT.
Oct 19, 1992: Untitled, Peter Goldreich, California
Institute of Technology.
Oct 26, 1992: "Flux Lattice Melting in High Tc
Superconductors," David E. Farrell, Case Western
Reserve University.
Nov 2, 1992: "The Study of Supernovaae and the
Quest for Omega," Gerson Goldhaber Lawrence, UC
Berkeley.
Nov 9, 1992: "Free Neutron Beta-Decay," Dr.
Boris G. Yerozolimsky, Harvard University.
Nov 16, 1992: "The Quantum Hall Effect- Quantized
and Unquantized," Bertrand Halperin, Harvard University.
Nov 23, 1992: "Peeking Inside the Event Horizon;
Quantum Hair and Moving Mirrors," Frank Wilczek,
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences.
Nov 30, 1992: "Nearly Singleton Sets: Women in
Science," Barbara J. Grosz, Harvard University.
Dec 7, 1992: "The Gyromagnetic Ratio of the Muon " Emilio
Picasso, La Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.
Dec 14, 1992 ;"Cavity Quantum Optics," Pierre
Meystre, University of Arizona.
Jan 11, 1993: "Vortex-Glass Superconductivity," Roger
Koch, IBM.Feb 8, 1993 ; "Clinical Use of Medium
Energy Protons at the Harvard Cyclotron Lab," Bernard
Gottschalk, Harvard University Cyclotron Lab.
Feb 22, 1993: "Free Radicals, Solid State Lasers
and Ozone Catalysis," James Anderson, Harvard
University Department of Chemistry and Division of
Applied Sciences.
Mar 1, 1993: "Gravitational Lenses, Time Delays
and Hubble's Constant," Jacqueline N. Hewitt,
MIT.
Mar 8, 1993: "The World of Clusters: A Scientist's
Legoland," Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University.
Mar 15, 1993: "Precision Parity- Violating Neutral
Current Experiments," Krishna Kumar, Harvard University.
Mar 22, 1993: "The Reflections of a Physicist
on Foreign Policy," Allen L. Sessoms, Deputy Chief
of Mission American Embassy, Mexico.
Apr 5, 1993: Douglas Gough, Institute of Astronomy
and Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical
Physics, University of Cambridge. (Loeb Lecture)
Apr 12, 1993: "Colliding Electrons and Protons
with Hera and Zeus," Frank Sciulli, Columbia University,
Nevis Laboratories.
Apr 19, 1993: Stanislas Leibler, Princeton University.
(Loeb Lecture)
Apr 26, 1993: Steven Weinberg, University of Texas.
(Loeb Lecture)
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1991/1992
Sep 23, 1991: "Things that (Almost) Don't Happen:
K + ? v v As a Test of the Standard Model," Peter
Meyers, Princeton University.
Sep 25, 1991: "Weighing Photons, the Story of
an Experiment," Robert Pound, Harvard University
(Historical Loeb Lecture).
Sep 30, 1991: "How Right is General Relativity?" Clifford
M. Will , Washington University.
Oct 7, 1991: "Fifth Force Physics and the Gravity
of Spinning Tops," James e. Faller, JILA and University
of Colorado.
Oct 21, 1991 "F=ma: Personal Observations, a Report
of Space Shuttle Mission 37," Jay Apt, NASA.
Oct 28, 1991: "What have we learned from High
Energy Proton-antiproton Collisions?" Pekka Sinervo,
University of Toronto.
Nov 4, 1991: Nathan Isgur, CEBAF (Loeb Lecture).
Nov 18, 1991: "Resonances, Spectograms and Hidden
Markov Models in Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition," Paul
Bamberg, Harvard University.
Nov 25, 1991: "Electronic Correlation Effects
and Superconductivity in Doped Fullerenes," Steven
Kivelson, UCLA.
Dec 2, 1991: "Status of the Supercollider," Roy
Schwitters, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory.
Dec 9, 1991: "Random Fractals in Hydrodynamics," Yakov
Sinai, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academy
of Science ,USSR.
Dec 16, 1991: " Mountain Heights , Water Waves,
and Leaky Roofs," Victor F. Weisskopf, M.I.T.
Jan 6, 1992: "Understanding the Origin of CP Violation:
A Proposed B Factory," Jonathan Dorfan, Stanford
University Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
Feb 3, 1992: "Phase Transitions and Defects in
Langmuir Monolayers: Star Defects and Chiral Symmetry
Breaking," Charles Knobler, UCLA , Department
of Chemistry.
Feb 10, 1992: "Violations of Locality and Classical
Probability in Optical Interference," Leonard
Mandel, University of Rochester.
Feb 24, 1992: "A New Formulation of Quantum Mechanics
and Quantum Time Machines," Yakir Aharonov, Boston
University , University of South Carolina , Tel Aviv
University.
Mar 2, 1992: Alain Aspect, Laboratoire de Spectroscopie
Hertzienne de l'Ecole Normale Superieure (Loeb Lecture).
Mar 16, 1992: " Iraq and Beyond: Challenges in
Controlling Nulear Proliferation," David A. Kay,
The Uranium Institute.
Mar 30, 1992: Dr. Pierre-Gilles deGennes, ESPCI (Loeb
Lecture).
Apr 6, 1992: "On Neutrinos," Cecilia Jarlskog,
University of Stockholm.
Apr 13, 1992: "Catastrophes and Self-Organized
Criticality," Per Bak, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Apr 20, 1992: "Challenging the Standard Model
with 2 Million Z o Decays at LEP," Sau Lan Wu,
University of Wisconsin.
Apr 27, 1992: "Particle Astrophysics; An Underground
Perspective," Barry Barish, California Institute
of Technology
May 4, 1992: "Boson Localization, Supersolids
and Correlated Pinning in High Temperature Superconductors," David
Nelson, Harvard University.
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1990/1991
Sep 24, 1990: "Physics with Laser-Polarized Nuclei," Timothy
Chupp, Harvard University.
Oct 1, 1990: "Issues in Pre-College Physics Education," Jack
M. Wilson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Oct 15, 1990: "Non-Equilibrium Pattern Formation," Pierre
Hohenberg, Bell Laboratories.
Oct 22, 1990: "The b-Quark: Confronting the Standard
Model in the 1990's," Kay Kinoshita.
Oct 29, 1990: "Low Temperature Physics as an Aid
for the Quantum Mechanic," Richard Webb, IBM.
Nov 19, 1990: "Twisted Crystals: Defect Lattices
in Chiral Smectics," Ronald Pindack, Bell Laboratories.
Nov 26, 1990: "The Coldest Atoms Ever," William
D. Phillips, National Institute of Stand. & Technology.
Dec 3, 1990: "Non-Perturbative Effects of a Static
Field in Photoabsorption," Chris H. Greene, Join
Institute for Laboratory Astro., University of Colorado.
Dec 10, 1990: "Correlated Motion in Highly-Excited
Atomic and Molecular States," John S. Briggs of
Albert-Ludwig-Universitat.
Dec 17, 1990: "Searching for New Forces of Nature
in Rare Kaon Decays and Related Processes," Robert
Cousins, UCLA.
Jan 14, 1991: "Eigenstates of Chaos," Daniel
Kleppner, M.I.T.
Feb 4, 1991: "High Precision Measurements of Single
Macroscopic Objects," Vladimir Braginsky, Moscow
University.
Feb 11, 1991: "Quantum Antiferromagnets in one
and two Dimensions," Bertrand I. Halperin, Harvard
University.
Feb 25, 1991: "Optical Tests for Broken Time-Reversal
Symmetry and the Search for Anyons in High-Temperature
Superconductors," Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford
University.
Mar 4, 1991: "Cosmology at the Boiling Point," P.
Steinhardt (Loeb Lecture).
Mar 11, 1991: "Two Dimensional Melting," Cherry
Ann Murray, Bell Laboratires.
Mar 18, 1991: "Neutrino Masses and Mixings- the
17 KEV Neutrino," John J. Simpson, University
of Guelph.
Apr 1, 1991: "One Particle, Two Particles, Three.
Local and Non-Local Quantum Interferometry," Anton
Zeilinger, Technical University of Vienna and University
of Innsbruck.
Apr 8, 1991: "Te V Physics on an eV Budget: Measurement
of Parity Non-Conservation in Atomic Cesium," Carl
E. Wieman (Loeb Lecture).
Apr 15, 1991: "Bound States of Guided Matter Waves-
An Atom and a Charged Wire," Lene Hau, Harvard
University.
Apr 22, 1991: "Gender Differences in Scientists'
Careers; An Empirical Study," Gerald Holton and
Gerhard Sonnert, Harvard University.
Apr 29, 1991: "From Supernova to Supercollider," Lawrence
R. Sulak, Boston University.
May 6, 1991: "Critical Phenomena in Soft Matter," Mikhail
Anisimov, Moscow Oil and Gas Institute, USSR Academy
of Sciences.
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1989/1990
Sep 25, 1989: "Quantum Field Theory in Two Dimensions
and Critical Phenomena," Alexander Zamoldchikov,
Landau Institute (Loeb Lecture).
Oct 2, 1989: "Cryogenic Antiprotons Cooled by
Electrons: A New Measurement of the p Mass," Gerald
Gabrielse, Harvard University.
Oct 16, 1989: "Quasicrystals, Symmetry, and Fermat's
Last Theorem: Adventures of a Stubborn Theorist," N.
David Mermin, Cornell University.
Oct 23, 1989: "Quantum Coherence Effects in Small
Disordered Conductors," Boris L. Altshuler, Leningrad
Nuclear Physics Institute, & M.I.T.
Oct 30, 1989: "Towards the Classical Atom: Localized
Electron Wave Packets on Kepler Orbits," Carlos
Stroud, University of Rochester.
Nov 6, 1989: "Challenging the Standard Models
ant TRISTAN," Stephen L. Olsen, University of
Rochester.
Nov 13, 1989: "Production and Decay of Z Bosons:
Results from the Mark II at SLC," Gary J. Feldman,
SLAC.
Nov 20, 1989: "Atom Traps: Progress and Prospects," David
E. Pritchard, MIT.
Nov 27, 1989: "Observational Neutrino Astrophysics," Masatoshi
Koshiba, Tokai University and University of Chicago.
Dec 4, 1989: "Fractional Statistics," Bertrand
Halperin, Harvard University.
Dec 11, 1989: "Strings, Superconductors, and Mathematics," Alexander
Polyakov, Princeton University.
Jan 8, 1990: "Self-Avoiding Walks and Related
Problems- A Path Integral Approach," John Imbrie,
Harvard University.
Feb 5, 1990: "Single Atom Experiments and the
Test of Quantum Physics," Herbert Walther, Max
Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Loeb Lecture).
Feb 12, 1990: "The State of the String," David
J. Gross, Princeton University.
Mar 5, 1990: "Probing the Cosmos with High Altitude
Balloon Experiments," Steven Ahlen, Boston University.
Mar 12, 1990: "Lepton-Hadron Scattering: From
the Post to the Future at HERA," Roger Cashmore,
Univeristy of Oxford , Department of Nuclear Physics.
Mar 19, 1990: "Experiments on Time Reveral Symmetry
and Parity," Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University.
Apr 2, 1990: "Light on Surfaces and Surfactants," Eric
Mazur, Harvard University.
Apr 9, 1990: "The Beautiful Quark," Karl
Berkelman, Cornell University (Loeb Lecture).
Apr 19, 1990: "What's the Matter in the Universe?" Sekhar
Chivukula, Boston University.
Apr 23, 1990: "Triton among the Minnows: The Big
Quark," Melissa Franklin, Harvard University.
May 7, 1990: "Thermal Turbulence," Albert
Libchaber, University of Chicago
1988/1989
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1987/1988
Sep 28, 1987: "Solar Neutrinos and Low Temperature
Physics," Humphrey Maris, Brown University.
Oct 5, 1987: "The Physics of e-p Collisions at
HERA-Status of the Project," Volker Soergel, DESY.
Oct 19, 1987: "Basic Principles of Inflationary
Cosmology," A.D. Linde, Lebedev Physical Institute.
Oct 26, 1987: "Mechanics Without Intertia," Frank
Wilczek, ITP, Santa Barbara.
Nov 2, 1987: "Antiprotons in an Ion Trap," Gerald
Gabrielse, Harvard University.
Nov 9, 1987: "Out Damned Spot! Out I say!" ,
SUPERNOVA SN1987A and COMPANION, Costas Papaliolios,
Harvard University.
Nov 16, 1987: "The Silicon 7x7 Surface Reconstruction:
Establishing a Motive," David Vanderbilt, Harvard
University.
Nov 23, 1987: "Weak Decay of Charmed Quarks," Michael
Witherell, Santa Barbara.
Nov 30, 1987: "Precision Measurement with Polarized
Noble Gas Atoms: Tests of Lorentz and Time Reversal
Invariance," Timothy E. Chupp, Harvard University.
Dec 7, 1987: "Measuring Fractals; Holding a Ruler
to the Infinitesimal," Leo P. Kadanoff, University
of Chicago (Loeb Lecture).
Dec 14, 1987: "Evidence for a Large Scale Deviation
from the Hubble Flow," Jeremy R. Mould, Cal. Tech.
Jan 11, 1988: "Quantum Physics Experiments in
Silicon Nanostructures", William J. Skicpol, Boston
University.
Feb 8, 1988: "Theory and Experiment of Deep Inelastic
Scattering," Richard Silver, Theory Division and
LANSCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Feb 29, 1988: "Cosmic Microwave Radiation - What's
New?" David T. Wilkinson, Princeton University.
Mar 7, 1988: "Topics in Laser Spectroscopy at
the Lunatic Fringe," Steven Chu, Stanford University
(Loeb Lecture).
Mar 14, 1988: "Flavor SU (3) Symmetries in Particle
Physics," Howard M. Georgi, Harvard University.
Mar 21, 1988: "Physics of Polymerized Membranes," David
R. Nelson, Harvard University.
Apr 4, 1988: "The Strange Properties of Intense-Field
Ionization," Philip Busbaum, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Apr 11, 1988: "Isolated Molecules in Metals," Hendrick
de Waard, University of Gronigen.
Apr 18, 1988: "The Mass of Our Galaxy," Scott
Tremaine, University of Toronto (Loeb Lecture).
Apr 25, 1988: "Time Cosmology, and Grand Unification," Allan
R. Sandage, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
May 2, 1988: "The Cosmological Constant Problem," Steven
Weinberg, University of Texas , Austin (Loeb Lecturer).
May 9, 1988: "The Tevatron and SSC; New Tools
for High Energy Physics," Roy F. Schwitters, Harvard
University.
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1986/1987
Sep 22, 1986: "The Structure of the Universe:
Fractals, Strings, and Neutrinos," David N. Schramm,
University of Chicago.
Sep 29, 1986: "Real Spin Glasses," Daniel
S. Fisher, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Oct 6, 1986: "Squeezed States of Light," H.
J. Kimble, University of Texas, Austin.
Oct 20, 1986: "Noise and Chaos in Josephson Junctions," M.
Tinkham, Harvard University.
Oct 27, 1986: "Fields and Strings," E. Witten
, Princeton University (Loeb Lecture).
Nov 3, 1986: "The 6 th or 7 th Force," A.de
Rujula, CERN and Boston University.
Nov 10, 1986: " Chernobyl and Its Aftermath," R.
Wilson, Harvard University.
Nov 17, 1986: "Monte Carlo Methods for the many
Fermion Problem," Malvin Kalos, Courant Institute.
Nov 24, 1986: "Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and
Quantized Energy Levels in a Josephson Junction," John
Clarke, University of California , Berkeley.
Dec 1, 1986: "Synchrotorn Radiation and Condensed
Matter: Why the Excitement?" R.J. Birgeneau, M.I.T.
(Loeb Lecture).
Dec 8, 1986: "Fractal Structures in Synthetic
Materials," Dale Schaefer, Sandia Laboratories.
Dec 15, 1986: "Progress and Prospects for Inertial
Fusion," Alexander J. Glass, KMS Fusion Inc.
Feb 9, 1987: "Physics from the CERN Proton-Antiproton
Collider," Stephen Geer, Harvard University.
Feb 23, 1987: "Chemistry for Physicists," Dudley
R. Herschbach, Harvard University.
Mar 2, 1987: "Limits on the Electron Antineutrino
Mass," John F. Wilkerson, Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
Mar 9, 1987: "A Future for Experimental Particle
Physics?" Pierre Darriulat (Loeb Lecture).
Mar 16, 1987: "Superconductivity above Liquid
Nitrogen Temperature," C. W. Chu, University of
Houston.
Mar 23, 1987: "Are Quasicrystals Crystalline?" Paul
Horn, IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center.
Apr 6, 1987: "The Birth of a New Astronomy: Observation
of Neutrinos from Supernova 1987A," Lawrence Sulak,
Boston University.
Apr 13, 1987: "D.C. Squids: From Monopoles to
Macroscopic Quantum Coherence," Claudia Tesche,
IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center.
Apr 20, 1987: "Physics with Giant Atoms," Daniel
Kleppner, M.I.T. (Loeb Lecture).
Apr 27, 1987: "Electroweak Interactions - Past,
Present, Future," Roger Cashmore, University of
Oxford.
May 4, 1987: "The American Physical Society Study
on Directed Energy Weapons," Nicholaas Bloembergen,
Harvard University.
May 11, 1987: "Neutrino Interactions and the Electroweak
Mixing Angle," Klaus Winter, CERN
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1985/1986
Sep 23, 1985: "Neutron Storage in bottles and
Rings," Wolfgang Paul, University of Bonn.
Sep 30, 1985: "A Look at the World through the
Tunneling Microscope," J. A. Golovchenko, AT&T
Bell Laboratories.
Oct 7, 1985: "Superstrings: Magic, Coincidence,
Recreation, and Desperation in the 80's," Paul
Ginsparg, Harvard University.
Oct 21, 1985: "Niels Bohr: The Quantum and the
World," Victor F. Weisskopf (Loeb Lecture).
Oct 28, 1985: "Macroscopic Fluctuations and the
Decay of Unstable States," Fritz Haake, University
of Essen.
Nov 4, 1985: "Localization: An Electronic Phase
Transition," Gordon Thomas, DAS and AT&T Bell
Laboratories.
Nov 18, 1985: "A Proposed Search for the Experimental
Axion," Neil Sullivan, University of Florida.
Nov 25, 1985: "Chaos, and its Role in Laser-Matter
Interactions,' Peter W. Milonni, University of Arkansas.
Dec 2, 1985 ; "Cooling and Trapping of Atoms with
Laser Light and Potential Applications," Steven
Chu, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Dec 9, 1985: "Fundamental Physics with a Single
Trapped Particle," Gerald Gabrielse, University
of Washington.
Dec 16, 1985: "Finding Order in Disordered Magnets:
Theory, Experiment, Mathematics," John Z. Imbrie,
Harvard University.
Jan 6, 1986: "Technical and Operational Considerations
of the Strategic Defense Initiative," Kosta M.
Tsipis, M.I.T.
Feb 3, 1986: "Spectroscopy of the Heavy Quarks," Dikran
Antreasyan, Harvard University.
Feburary 10, 1986: "Eotvos Re-Revisited," James
Faller, University of Colorado and JILA.
Feb 24, 1986: "From Quasiperiodicity to Chaos
in a Rayleigh-Benard Experiment," Albert Libchaber,
University of Chicago.
Mar 3, 1986: "Between 2 and 3 Dimensions," J.G.
Dash, University of Washington.
Mar 10, 1986: "Atoms in Strong Transient Optical
Fields: Stationary States to Optical Memories," Thomas
W. Mossberg, Harvard University.
Mar 17, 1986: "Spin Polarized 3He," Frank
Laloe, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.
Mar 31, 1986: "Conformal Mapping Comes of Age," Michael
Peskin, SLAC.
Apr 7, 1986: "Why Spin Glasses are Interesting," G.
Parisi, Instituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare (Loeb
Lecture).
Apr 14, 1986: "Using High-Energy Hadron Collisions
to Study the Strong and Weak Interactions," James
W. Rohlf, Harvard University
Apr 21, 1986: "Ultrametricity in Physics & Biology," G.
Toulouse (Morris Loeb Lecturer), Ecole Superieure de
Physique et de Chimie Industrielles.
Apr 28, 1986: "Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble," Margaret
Geller, Harvard Observatory.
May 5, 1986: "Why Strings?" S. Weinberg (Morris
Loeb Lecturer), University of Texas at Austin.
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1984/1985
Sep 24, 1984: "Snatching Chaos from Order: Complex
Results from Simple Systems," Leo P. Kadanoff,
University of Chicago.
Oct 1, 1984: "Automated Search for Supernovae
and the Solar Companion Star Nemesis," Carleton
Pennypacker, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Joint with
Astronomy).
Oct 15, 1984: "Physics and Information Processes," Edward
Fredkin, MIT.
Oct 29, 1984: "Experiments on Time Reversal Symmetry
and Parity," Norman F. Ramsey, Harvard University.
Nov 5, 1984: "Towards a Unified Field Theory of
All Interactions," John Schwarz, Caltech.
Nov 19, 1984: "Antimatter in the Laboratory: Positron
Studies of Atoms and Surfaces," Allen P. Mills,
Bell Labs.
Nov 26, 1984: "Pentagonal and Icosahedral Order
in Nature," David R. Nelson, Harvard University.
Dec 3, 1984: "Scaling and Chaos," Mitchell
J. Feigenbaum, Cornell University.
Dec 10, 1984: "Unusual Events at the CERN Collider," Lawrence
J. Hall, Harvard University.
Jan 7, 1985: "Synchrotron Radiation Study of Liquid
Surfaces," Peter Pershan, Harvard University).
Jan 14, 1985: "Large Spin Effects in Hard P-P
Collisions," Alan Krisch, University of Michigan.
Feb 4, 1985: "The Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence," Paul Horowitz, Harvard University.
Feb 11, 1985: "What's New in Mathematical Physics," Arthur
M. Jaffe, Harvard University.
Feb 25, 1985: "The Physics of Biological Computation," John
J. Hopfield, Cal Tech.
Mar 4, 1985: "Towards a Theory of Complexity in
Physics," Stephen Wolfram, Institute for Advanced
Study, Princeton University.
Mar 11, 1985: "Strange Matter," Edward Fahri,
M.I.T.
Mar 18, 1985: "Microscopy and Spectroscopy in
the Atomic Range: The Scanning Tunnel Microscope," Heini
Rohrer, IBM Zurich Laboratory.
Apr 1, 1985: "Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy," Patrick
Thaddeus, Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
Apr 8, 1985: "Particle Physics and Metaphysics
in the 1980's," Howard Georgi, Harvard University.
Apr 15, 1985: "The Great Red Spot of Jupiter," Philip
S. Marcus, Harvard University , Astronomy Department.
Apr 22, 1985: "Nonlinear Dynamics and Noise in
Semiconductors," Robert M. Westervelt, Harvard
University.
Apr 29, 1985: "Evidence of Heavy Neutrino Emission
in Beta Decay," John J. Simpson, University of
Guelph.
May 6, 1985: "The Origin of Large Scale Experimentation
in High Energy Physics," Peter Galison, Stanford
University.
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1983/1984
Sep 26, 1983: "Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect," Robert
Laughlin, Livermore Laboratory.
Oct 17, 1983: "Search for Monopoles, Gravitational
Waves, and Newtorites," DeRujula.
Oct 24, 1983: "Measuring Parity Violation and
Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry in Atoms," E Norval
Fortson.
Oct 31, 1983: "Quantum Correlations and Measurements," Alan.R.
Mackintosh.
Nov 7, 1983: "Classical Wigner Crystals, Glasses
and Liquids from Polyballs," Paul M. Chaikin.
Nov 14, 1983: "Recent Developments of Quantum
Electrodynamics and High Precision Determination of
the Fine Structure Constant," Toichiro Kinoshita.
Nov 21, 1983: "Speech Recognition by Computer," Paul
Bamberg.
Nov 28, 1983: "Periodic and Chaotic Stellar Dynamos," Nigel
Weiss, Joint with Astrophysics.
Dec 5, 1983: "Anti-Neutrinos from Heaven and Earth," Lawrence
Krauss.
Dec 12, 1983: "The Naked Truth about Dressed Atoms," David
Pritchard, M.I.T.
Jan 9, 1984: "Results from KAMOIKA Nucleon Decay
Experiment," Masatoshi Koshiba.
Feb 6, 1984: "1/f Noise".
Feb 13, 1984: "The Application of Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance to Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Human
Subject," William Edelstein.
Feb 27, 1984: "Neuromagnetism: A New Frontier
in Brain Research," Sam Williamson.
Mar 5, 1984: "Quantum Mechanics and 'Common Sense,'" Anthony
J. Leggett.
Mar 12, 1984: "Quantization of Physical Parameters," Roman
Jackiw.
Mar 19, 1984: "Observation of Shear Waves in the
Two Dimensional Electron Solid," F.I.B. Williams.
Apr 2, 1984: "The Origin of the Universe," Stephen
Hawking.
Apr 9, 1984: "Time-of-Flight Experiments with
Conduction Electrons; an Application of Weak Localization," Gerd
Bergmann.
Apr 16, 1984: "Pulsars: Natures's Most Precise
Clocks- Experimental Relativity, Timing the Binary
Pulsar," Joseph Taylor.
Apr 23, 1984: "Disordered Systems," Jurg
Frohlich.
Apr 30, 1984: "Physics in Higher Dimensions," Steve
Weinberg
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1982/1983
Sep 27, 1988: "Antiproton-proton Collisions at
Very High Energy," Carlo Rubbia.
Oct 4, 1988: "Astronomy for the 1980's," George
Field.
Oct 18, 1988: "Pauli's Little Neutral One0 Fifty
Years of Hide and Seek," J.K. Dickens, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory.
Oct 25, 1988: "Experimental Evidence for Universal
Chaotic Behavior," Carson Jeffries, University
of California , Berkeley.
Nov 1, 1988: "Energetic Photons and Fast Protons," June
Matthews, M.I.T.
Nov 8, 1988: "Supernovae General I" Hans
Bethe.
Nov 15, 1988: "Pictures of a Many-Particle Ground
State," Douglas J. Scalapino, University of California
, Santa Barbara.
Nov 22, 1988: "Statistical Mechanics and the Traveling
Salesman," Scott Kirkpatrick, Watson Lab, I.B.M.
Yorktown Heights , NY .
Nov 29, 1988: "The Uses of Synchrotron Radiation," Brian
Kincaid, Bell Laboratories.
Dec 6, 1988: "Chiral Symmetry and the Bag Model
of Hadronic Structure: A New Way of Looking at Nuclear
and Particle Physics," Anthony Thomas, University
of British Columbia and CERN.
Dec 13, 1988: "Ultrafast Optical Interactions
in Semi-Conductors," Michael Salour, M.I.T.
Jan 10, 1983 ; "Cooled-Ion Clocks," David
Wineland, National Bureau of Standards.
Feb 7, 1983: "Is Quantum Field Theory a Theory?" Gerard
't Hooft, Loeb Lecturer.
Feb 14, 1983: "Wave Optics at 1 A," J.A.
Golovchenko.
Feb 28, 1983: "Laser Cooling of an Atomic Beam," W.D.
Philips, National Bureau of Standards.
Mar 7, 1983: "Colliding Particle Beams: The Present
and the Future," Panofsky.
Mar 14, 1983: "Search for Intermediate Vector
Bosons," Carlo Rubbia.
Mar 21, 1983: "Sources of Gravitation and Radiation," Douglas
Eardley
Apr 4, 1983: "How the First Neutral Current Experiments
Ended," Peter Galison.
Apr 11, 1983: "Waiting for the Proton to Decay," Larry
Sulak.
Apr 18, 1983: "Analyzing the Daily Risks of Life," Richard
Wilson.
Apr 25, 1983: "The New Inflationary Universe," Alan
Guth.
Apr 27, 1983: "The Origins of the Einstein Legend," Abraham
Pais (Loeb Lecture).
May 2, 1983: "New Phases of Molecular Hydrogen
at Ultra-High Pressure," Isaac Silvera
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