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Year Loeb and Lee Lecturers Lecture/Course Titles
2012-2013 Short-Term Lecturer:
Fabiola Gianotti, CERN		 Colloquium: "Challenges and accomplishments
of the Large Hadron Collider" (04/22/2013)
Lecture I: "Higgs boson: a very special discovery" (04/24/2013)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Philip Kim, Columbia University		 Lecture I: "Spin and Pseudospin in Graphene" (9/21/2012)
Colloquium: "Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter's Butterfly in Graphene" (09/24/2012)
Lecture II: "Materials in 2-Dimension and Beyond" (9/25/2012)
2011-2012 Lee Historical Lecturer:
David Gross, KITP, UCSB		 Lecture: "A Century of Nuclear Physics: From Rutherford to QCD and to String Theory" (4/17/2012)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
John Clarke, UC Berkeley		 Colloquium: "The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now" (3/19/2012)
Lecture I: "Magnetic Flux 1/f Noise: A 30-Year Saga" (3/20/2012)
Lecture II: "Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Microtesla Fields: A New Clinical Modality?" (3/22/2012)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Theodor W. Hänsch
(University of Munich, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics)		 Colloquium: "Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen" (3/5/2012)
Lecture I: "The Proton Size Puzzle" (3/6/2012)
Lecture II: "Lazer Frequency Combs" (3/8/2012)
2010-2011 Short-Term Lecturer:
Dam Thanh Son, University of Washington		 Colloquium: "Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory" (4/18/11)
Lecture I: "Deconstructing Holographic Liquids"(4/19/11)
Lecture II: "Field Theoretical Methods for Non-relativistic Systems" (4/21/11)
  Lee Historical Lecturer:
Dudley Herschbach, CCB, Harvard		 Lecture: "Molecular Beams in Chemical Physics" (3/9/11)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Boris Shraiman, KITP, UCSB		 Colloquium: "Unexpected Physics in Biology" (1/31/11)
Lecture I: "Genetic 'Ensembles': Alleles versus Genotypes (2/1/11)
Lecture II: "Sex, Survival and Adaptation" (2/3/11)
2009-2010 Lee Historical Lecturer:
M. Dresselhaus, MIT		 Lecture I: "Historical Threads of Nanoscience."
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Matthew P.A. Fisher, California Institute of Technology 		Colloquium: "Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing" (3/1/10)
Lecture I: "Exotic Spin Liquids in Weak Mott Insulators" (3/2/10)
Lecture II: "Critical Quantum Fluids with d-wave Pair Correlations" (3/4/10)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona		 Colloquium: "A New Decade of Cosmic Structure" (10/5/09)
Lecture I: "Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A Robust and Precise Route to the Cosmological Distance Scale" (10/6/09)
Lecture II: "Observational probes of dark energy" (10/8/09)
2008-2009 Short-Term Lecturer:
David Kaplan, University of Washington		 Colloquium: "Nuclear Physics from Effective Field Theory" (4/20/09)*
Lecture I: "Conformality Lost" (4/21/09)*
Lecture II: "Peering Beyond the Horizon with Axions" (4/23/09)*
  Lee Historical Lecturer:
Michael Tinkham, Harvard		 Lecture: "The Discovery of the Superconducting Energy Gap" (4/16/09)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Ann Nelson, University of Washington 		Colloquium: "Beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era" (3/30/09)
Lecture I: "SUSY Conformal Hidden Valley & Dark Matter" (3/31/09)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
J.C. Séamus Davis,
Cornell University & Brookhaven National Laboratory		 Exploring Complex Condensed Quantum Matter:
Lecture I: "Atomic Scale Visualization of Electronic Structure in Cuprates: From Mottness to Superconductivity" (12/4/08)
Colloquium: "Complex Quantum Matter in Bosonic Crystals: A 'Superglass' State in Solid 4 He" (12/8/08)
Lecture II: "Imaging the 'Fano Lattice'’ Signature of Heavy Fermion Formation via f-d Hybridization" (12/10/08)
Lecture III: "Identification of the Cuprate Pseudogap State using Quasiparticle Interference Imaging" (12/11/08)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Rashid Sunyaev, Max Planck Institute		 Colloquium: "Clusters of Galaxies, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Cosmology" (11/10/08)
Lecture I: "CMB Spectral Distortions Due to Energy Release in the Early Universe" (11/11/08)
Lecture II: "Interaction of CMB Photons with Hot Gas in the Clusters of Galaxies and Observational Consequences" (11/13/08)
2007-2008 Lee Historical Lecturer:
Daniel Kleppner, MIT 		Lecture: "How Physics Became Precise" (4/16/08)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University and Princeton University		 Colloquium: "The Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations and Correlations Tell the Story" (3/31/08)
Lecture I: "Using Quantum Mechanics to Detect Anthrax" (4/2/08)
Lecture II: "The Laser-Bec Analogy" (4/8/08)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Steven M. Block, Stanford University		 Colloquium: "Single Molecule Biophysics: Reading the Genetic Code" (2/25/08)
Lecture I: "Single Molecule Biophysics: How Nucleic Acids Fold" (2/26/08)
Lecture II: "Single Molecule Biophysics: How Kinesin Motors Move" (2/28/08)
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Don Eigler, IBM		 Colloquium: "There’s Plenty of Room in the Middle: A View from the Bottom"
Lecture I: "Computation in Nanometer-Scale Structures: Molecule Cascades"
Lecture II: "Classical Computation in Quantum Nanostructures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future"
2006-2007 Lee Historical Lecturers:
David M. Lee, Cornell
Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford		 Lecture: "Probing the World Near Absolute Zero:  The Discovery of Superfluidity in Helium Three"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Rocky Kolb,
University of Chicago
 Colloquium: "Taking Sides on the Dark Energy Issue"
Lecture I: "Inflation and the Origin of Structure"
Lecture II: "Dark Matters"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Eric Adelberger,
University of Washington 		Colloquium: "Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale"
Lecture I: "Modern Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle"
Lecture II: "Probes of Lorentz-Symmetry Violation and other Exotica using a Spin Pendulum"
2005-2006 Lee Historical Lecturer:
Charles Slichter 		Lecture: "The Flowering of Magnetic Resonance & Condensed Matter Physics--Some History, Ancient & in the Making"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Persis Drell, SLAC 		Colloquium: "Quantum Universe"
Lecture I: "GLAST: The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope"
Lecture II: "The Future of High Energy Physics: A Personal Perspective"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
John Preskill, Caltech		 Colloquium: "Putting Wierdness to Work: Quantum Information Science"
Lecture I: "Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer"
Lecture II: "Topological Quantum Computation"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
John Hopfield, Princeton		 Colloquium: "A Physics View of Brain Computation"
Lecture I: " The Dynamics of Spike-Timing Computation: Olfaction"
Lecture II: "A Neural Approach to Recognizing Brief Dynamical Patterns: Speech"
2004-2005 Lee Historical Lecturer:
P. James E. Peebles, Princeton 		Lecture: “The Expanding Universe”


  Short-Term Lecturer:
Eli Yablonovitch,
UCLA
Colloquium: "The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics, Economics, and Sociology"
Lecture I: "What Specific Physics will the End-of-Roadmap Technology Consist Of?"
Lecture II "What New Roadmap Concept Might Emerge Afterward?"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Marvin Cohen,
University of California, Berkeley		 Colloquium: "A Standard Model for Solids"
Lecture I:"Nanoscience: Small is Sometimes Different"
Lecture II "Mostly Superconductivity"
2003-2004 Short-Term Lecturer:
Georg Maret,
University of Konstanz 		Colloquium: "The Physics of Light Transport"
Lecture I: "Multiple Light Scattering in Anisotropic Media: Principles and Applications"
Lecture II "Melting and Glass Transition in 2D Model Colloids"
  Lee Historical Lecturer:
Freeman Dyson,
Institute for Advanced Study		 Lecture: "How We Might Have Gone to Mars in 1965: History of Project Orion"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Brian Greene,
Columbia University		 Colloquium: "Searching for the Unified Theory"
Lecture I: "String Theory and Geometry"
Lecture II "String Theory and Cosmology"
2002-2003 Short-Term Lecturer:
James P. Eisenstein,
California Institute of Technology		 Colloquium: "Surprises in Two Dimensions: From the Quantized Hall Effect to Exciton Condensation"
Lecture I: "Liquid Crystals of Electrons?"
Lecture II "Evidence for a New Kind of Superfluid"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
H. Jeff Kimble,
California Institute of Technology		 Colloquium: "The new science of quantum information"
Lecture I: "An overview of cavity quantum electrodynamics from Purcell and Casimir to the Era of strong coupling"
Lecture II "Quantum teleportation fact and fantasy"
Lecture III "Cavity QED the plumbing"
  Lee Historical Lecturer:
Richard L. Garwin,
IBM Fellow Emeritus, Thomas J. Watson Research Center
 Colloquium: "Fun with Muons, GPS, Radar, etc."
  Short-Term Lecturer:
David DiVincenzo,
IBM Watson Research Center		 Colloquium: "Prospects for Quantum Computation.
Lecture I: "Exchange Gates for Spin Qubits"
Lecture II "The New Quantum Cryptography"
2001-2002 Short-Term Lecturer:
John Carlstrom,
University of Chicago		 Colloquium: "Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background and the South Pole DASI Experiment"
Lecture I: "CMB Polarization and Future Directions"
Lecture II "Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect"
Lecture III: "Probing the Dark Energy Equation of State with New SZE Surveys"
  Lee Historical Lecturer:
Walter Kohn, University of California, Santa Barbara		 Lecture: "The Birth and Early Decades of Solid State Physics Remembered"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin; Morris Loeb Visiting Professor of Physics		 Colloquium: "Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Short Course"
Lecture I: "Cosmological Fluctuations: From Inflation through the Era of Radiation Dominance"
Lecture II "Cosmological Fluctuations: From the Era of Matter Dominance to Now"
2000-2001 Short-Term Lecturer:
Joseph Polchinski, University of California, Santa Barbara		 Colloquium: "String Duality and D-Branes."
Lectures I: "Gage/Gravity Duality"
Lecture II "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part I"
Lecture III: "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part II"-Lecture IV. "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part III"
  Historical Lecturer:
Sheldon Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and Boston University		 Lecture: "Half a Century of Particle Physics at Harvard"
  Lee Historical Lecturer:
I.M. Khalatnikov, Honorary Director of Landau Institute, Academician, and Foreign Member Royal Society		 Lecture: "The Landau School and the Landau Institute"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Margaret Murnane,
University of Colorado		 Colloquium: "Control of Atoms and Molecules Using Shaped Pulses"
Lecture I: "Direct Observation of Surface Chemistry Using Ultrafast Soft-X-Ray Pulses"
Lecture II "Nonlinear Optics at Short Wavelengths"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Lisa Randall, M. I. T. 		Colloquium: "New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity"
Lecture I: "Localizing Gravity"
Lecture II "Localized Gravity and the Weak Scale"
Lecture III: "Locally Localized Gravity, Holography, and String Theory"
Lecture IV "Holography, Phenomenology, and Model Building"
1999-2000 Short-Term Lecturer:
Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge		 Colloquium: "The Shape of Time"
Lecture I: "Nuts, Bolts and Branes"
Lecture II "Finite But Unbounded"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Sidney Nagel,
University of Chicago		 Colloquium: "Physics at the Breakfast Table"
Lecture I: "Exciting Granular Materials"
Lecture II "Jamming: From Glasses to Granular Matter"
Lecture III: "Singularities and Cascades in Droplet Fission"
Lecture IV "Breaking Away, Selective Withdrawal, and Islets in the Stream"
  Historical Lecturer:
Charles Townes, University of California, Berkeley		 Lecture: "The Sociology of Science Illustrated by Laser History"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Ashoke Sen,
Mehta Research Institute		 Colloquium: "Duality and Supersymmetry"
Lecture I-IV: "Non-Supersymmetric Configurations in Supersymmetric String Theories"
  Long-Term Lecturer:
Sebastien Balibar, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure		 Colloquium: "Crystal Surfaces: From Facets to Crystallization Waves"
Lecture I: "Crystal Steps: Experimental Checks of a Renormalization Theory"
Lecture II "Nucleation: Bubbles, Crystals and Superfluids"
1998-1999 Short-Term Lecturer:
Leonard Susskind, Stanford University		 Colloquium: "The Holographic Principle: A New Paradigm for the Foundations of Physics"
Lecture I: "String Theory and M-Theory"
Lecture II "M(atrix) Theory as a Holographic Theory"
Lecture III: "Black Holes in Matrix Theory"
Lecture IV "Holography and Maldacena's Conjecture"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Roger Angel,
University of California

Colloquium: "Searching for Spectroscopic Signs of Primitive Life on Extra-Solar Planets: A Realistic Goal for NASA"
Lecture I: "Building Big Mirrors for Telescopes on the Ground and in Space"
Lecture II "Adaptive Optics: A Tool to Remove Atmospheric Blurring"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Albert J. Libchaber, Rockefeller University		 Colloquium: "Biology and the Flow of Molecular Information"
Lecture I: "DNA Mode d'Emploi: Reading, Editing, Translating"
Lecture II "The One Molecule Approach: Optical Tweezer and Fluorescence Marker"
Lecture III: "Evolution: Ribosome Display and In-Vitro Protein Evolution"-Lecture IV "Gene Expression and Molecular Computing"
  Short-Term Lecturer:s
H. Günter Dosch & Hans J. Specht,
University of Heidelberg		 Colloquium: "Musical Harmony: Physics, Physiology and Psychology"
Lecture I: "Musical Pitch: Temporal vs. Spectral Perception"
Lecture II "Physics of Musical Instruments and Pitch Perception"
  Historical Lecturer:
Murray Gell-Mann,
The Santa Fe Institute		 Lecture: "Some Adventures Among the Elementary Particles"
1997-98 Historical Lecturer:
Philip Anderson,
Princeton University		 Lecture: "Mott, Slater, and the Magnetic State"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Mark Wise,
California Institute of Technology		 Colloquium: "The Uses of Heavy Quark Symmetry"
Lectures I & II: "Recent Developments in Heavy Quark Theory"
Lectures III & IV: "A New Approach to Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
David Stephenson, California Institute of Technology		 Colloquium: "The Interior of Jupiter Illuminated by Galileo and Condensed Matter Physics"
Lecture I: "History of Earth's Core"
Lecture II "Lunar Structure and Evolution: Clues to Origin?"
Lecture III: "Why Do Some Planets Have Large Magnetic Fields (and What About Others)?"
Lecture IV "What's Going on Inside the Galilean Satellites?"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Prof. J.E. Mooij,
Delft University of Technology		 Colloquium: "Quantum Transport of Electrons in Fabricated Nanostructures" Lecture I: "Semiconductor Quantum Dots"
Lecture II "Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays as Quantum Particles"
Lecture III: "Electron Transport in Single Carbon Nanotubes"
Lecture IV "Quantum Computation with Superconducting Tunnel Junction Circuits"
1996-97 Short-Term Lecturer:
Yuri Kagan, Kurchatov Institute		 Colloquium: "Formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate and Macroscopic Quantum Properties"
Lecture I: "Evolution of Bose Condensate in a Time-Dependent External Field"
Lecture II "Light Induced Change of Scattering Length and Optical Manipulation of a Bose-Condensed Gas"
Lecture III: "Bose Condensation and Collapse in the Case of a Negative Scattering Length"
Lecture IV "Kinetics of Bose-Einstein Condensation in Highly Nonequilibrium Gas"
  Short-Term Lecturer: (Special)
The Hon. Vernon J. Ehlers, Member, United States Congress (R-Michigan)		 Lecture: "A Physicist in Congress: The Clash of Two Cultures"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Paul Chaikin, Princeton University		 Colloquium: "Hard Spheres in Space: Colloidal Crystals in Microgravity"
Lecture I: "Dynamic Light Scattering from Jello and Yogurt and Other Nonergodic Stuff"
Lecture II "Sedimentation and Fluidization: Turbulent Flow Through Liquids and Crystals"
Lecture III: "A Frustrating Game of Chinese Checkers: Order from Disorder on a Superconducting Kagome Lattice"
Lecture IV "The Umklapp Painter and Other Problems with Periodic Electrons and Magnetic Fields in Organic Superconductors"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Nathan Seiberg, Rutgers University		 Colloquium: "The Superworld"
Lectures: "Supersymmetric Dynamics I, II, III and IV"
  Historical Lecturer:
Chen-Ning Yang,
State University of New York		 Lecture: "Vector Potential, Gauge Field and Connection on a Fiber Bundle"
1995-96 Short-Term Lecturer:
Ad Lagendijk, University of Amsterdam		 Colloquium: "Can Light be Localized?"
Lecture I: "Propagation of Diffuse Light"
Lecture II "Weak Localization"
Lecture III: "Strong Localization"-Lecture IV. "Quantum Optics"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Edward Witten,
Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University		 Colloquium: "Duality, Space-Time, and Quantum Mechanics"
Lecture I-IV: "Duality in Field Theory and String Theory"
  Historical Lecturer:
Nicolaas Bloembergen,
Gerhard Gade University Professor Emeritus		 Lecture: "Nonlinear Optics: A Historical Perspective"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji,
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure		 Colloquium: "Atoms in Electromagnetic Fields"
Lecture I-IV: "Laser Manipulation of Atoms-Methods, Problems and Perspectives"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Steven Weinberg,
Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin		 Colloquium: "Changing Views of Renormalization"
Lectures I & II: "Antibrackets, Symmetries, and Renormalization"
1994-1995 Short-Term Lecturer:
Alex Pines,
Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley		 Colloquium: "Some Magnetic Moments"
Lecture I: "NMR with and without Magnets"
Lecture II "Gauge Kinematics of Spins and Cats"
Lecture III: "NMR with Lots of Quanta"
Lecture IV "Iterative Control of Spins and Vehicles"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Bohdan Paczynski, Princeton University		 Colloquium: "Gamma Ray Bursts: Facts and Speculations"
Lecture I:. "Theory of Gravitational Lensing and Microlensing"
Lecture II "Gravitational Lensing and the Search for Dark Matter"
Lecture III: ."Results and Interpretation of the Searches for MACHOs"
Lecture IV "Diverse Astrophysics from Massive Photometric Projects"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Linn F. Mollenauer,
AT&T Bell Laboratories		 Colloquium: "Long-Distance Transmission for the Information Age: Solitons in Optical Fibers"
Lecture I: "The Non-Linear Schrödinger Equation and Solitons"
Lecture II "The Rate-Limiting Effects of Amplifier Spontaneous Emission, and Amelioration with 'Guiding' Filters"
Lecture III: "Soliton-Soliton Interactions: Nearest Neighbor Effects, and Collisions in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing"
Lecture IV "Fiber Birefringence and Polarization in Soliton Transmission"
  Historical Lecturer:
Hans Bethe,
John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics Emeritus, Cornell University		 Lecture: "Energy in the Stars"
1993-1994 Historical Lecturer:
Maurice Goldhaber,
Brookhaven National Laboratory		 Lecture: "Reminiscences of the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930's"
  Historical Lecturer:
Gerald Holton,
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Sciences, Emeritus		 Lecture: "The Place of Science in our Culture at the End of the Modern Era"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Elliott H. Lieb,
Princeton University		 Colloquium: "The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars"
Lecture I: "The Structure of Large Atoms"
Lecture II "Why the Fine Structure Constant Must be Small"
Lecture III: "Topics in the Theory of Magnetism"
Lecture IV "The Hubbard Model of Interacting Electrons"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Stephen Shenker,
Rutgers University		 Colloquium: "Random Matrices and Random Surfaces"
Lectures: "Matrix Models, I, II, III & IV"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Giorgio Frossati,
Leiden University. 		Colloquium: "GRAIL: A Fourth Generation Gravitation Wave Antenna"
Lecture I: "Dilution Refrigeration-1"
Lecture II "Dilution Refrigeration-2"
Lecture III: "Pomeranchuk Cooling"
Lecture IV "Nuclear Demagnetization"
1992-1993 Short-Term Lecturer:
Peter Goldreich,
California Institute of Technology		 Colloquium: "Solar Phonons"
Lecture I: "Neutron Star Magnetic Fields"
Lecture II "Scale Invariant Spectra in Nature"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Douglas Gough,
University of Cambridge		 Colloquium: "Helioseismology: Measuring the Inside of the Sun"
Lecture I: "The Techniques of Helioseismic Inference"
Lecture II "The Hydrostatic Structure of the Sun"
Lecture III: "The Internal Solar Rotation"
Lecture IV "On the Solar Neutrino Problem"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Stanislas Leibler,
Princeton University		 Colloquium: "Membranes, Molecular Motors, Microtubules, Mitosis: Mytacism or More?"
Lecture I: "Membranes: Self-Assembly of Fluctuating Surfaces"
Lecture II "Molecular Motors as Stochastic Machines"
Lecture III: "Regulated Assembly of Microtubules, Cell Cycle and Mitosis"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Steven Weinberg,
Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin		 Colloquium: "Effective Field Theories"
Lecture I: "Effective Field Theories of Superconductivity"
Lecture II "Effective Field Theories of Strong Interactions"
Lecture III: "Effective Field Theories of Everything"
1991-1992 Historical Lecturer:
Robert Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus		 Lecture: "Weighing Photons-The Story of an Experiment"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Nathan Isgur, CEBAF		 Colloquium: "Where's the Glue?: Comments on a Puzzle in Strong Interaction Spectroscopy"
Lecture I: "A Rationalization of the Quark Model (with Strings Attached)"
Lecture II "The Quark Model Beyond the 'Quenched' Approximation"
Lecture III: "The Heavy Quark Symmetry of QCD (Introduction and Some Applications)"
Lecture IV "The Heavy Quark Symmetry of QCD (Some Implications for Light Quark Spectroscopy)"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Alain Aspect,
Director, Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée		 Colloquium: "Experimental Tests of Quantum Mechanics with Bell's Inequalities"
Lecture I: "Wave-Particle Duality for a Single Photon
Lecture II "Laser Cooling of Atoms: Below the Limits"
Lecture III: "Laser Manipulation of Metastable Helium: Limits of the Classical Description"
Lecture IV "Magneto-Optical Trapping of Metastable Helium: The (Good and Bad) Role of Collisions"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Director, ESPCI, Collège de France		 Colloquium: "Physics of Soft Interfaces"
Lecture I: "Polymer Surfaces and the Welding Problem"
Lecture II "Dynamics of Wetting and Drying"
1990-1991 Short-Term Lecturer:
Paul Steinhardt,
University of Pennsylvania		 Colloquium: "Cosmology at the Boiling Point"
Lecture I: "Inflation: Cosmology's Dorian Gray?"
Lecture II "Extended Inflation: Restoring the Original Picture"
Lecture III: "Is the Gravitational Constant Oscillating?"
1990-91 Short-Term Lecturer:
Carl Wieman,
University of Colorado at Boulder		 Colloquium: "TeV Physics on an eV Budget; Measurement of Parity Nonconservation in Atomic Cesium"
Lecture I: "The Technical Challenges and Innovations in the Colorado Cesium Parity Nonconservation Experiment"
Lecture II "Laser Trapping and Cooling I: The Curious Behavior of Optically Trapped Neutral Atoms"
Lecture III: "Laser Trapping and Cooling II: Laser Trapping as an Exciting New Tool"
  Short-Term Lecturer:
Jerry Gollub,
Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania		 Colloquium: "Nonlinear Dynamics of Waves on Fluid Interfaces"
Lecture I: "Pattern Formation in Non-equilibrium Growth Processes"
Lecture II "The Physics of Thermal Convection: From Order to Chaos and Turbulence"

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