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2019/2020
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
05-04-20 | John Huth (Harvard) | |
04-27-20 | Lisa Randall (Harvard) | |
04-20-20 | David R. Nelson (Harvard) | |
04-13-20 | Bertrand Halperin (Harvard); | |
04-06-20 | Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard) | |
03-30-20 | Matteo Mitrano | |
03-23-20 | Aravinthan Samuel (Harvard) | The Developmental Connectome of a Whole Brain |
03-09-20 | Max Tegmark (MIT) | AI for Physics & Physics for AI [Loeb Lecture] |
03-02-20 | Marianna Safronova (U. Delaware) | Atomic Clocks for Fundamental Physics - Time for Discovery |
02-24-20 | Slava Rychkov (IHES) | The Conformal Bootstrap Approach to Criticality in 3 and 2+1 Dimensions |
02-10-20 | Charles Marcus (Microsoft Quantum Lab, Copenhagen) | Toward Topological Qubits |
02-03-20 | Immanuel Bloch (Max Planck Institute) | Engineered Ultracold Quantum Matter - From Quantum Simulations to Novel Quantum Light-Atom Interfaces |
01-27-20 | Ilija Zeljkovic (Boston College) | A New Spin on Doped Mott Insulators |
12-02-19 | Lawrence Bacow (Harvard) | The University President: A Job Description |
11-25-19 | Jim Sethna (Cornell U.) | Sloppy models, differential geometry, and why science works |
11-18-19 | Adam Riess (STScI) | The Expansion of the Universe, Faster Than We Thought |
11-04-19 | Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford) | Angle-Resolved Photoemission – a Many-Body Spectroscopy for Quantum Materials [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
10-28-19 | James Napolitano (Temple U.) | Precision Electroweak Experiments at GeV Energies |
10-21-19 | Daniel Jafferis (Harvard) | Traversable Wormholes |
10-07-19 | John Bohn (JILA/U. Colorado) | |
09-23-19 | Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.) | Exotic physics explaining the quantum properties of black holes [no video] |
09-16-19 | Yann LeCun (NYU) | The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
09-09-19 | Carlo Rubbia (CERN) | The Future of Energy |
2018/2019
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
04-29-19 | Christopher Monroe (U Maryland) | Quantum Computing with Atomic Ions |
04-08-19 | Matthew Fisher (UC, Santa Barbara) | Quantum Processing in the Brain? |
04-01-19 | Roxanne Guenette (Harvard) | Neutrinos: From Zeros to Heroes? |
03-25-19 | Lawrence Sulak (BU) | Weak neutral currents, supernovae and oscillating neutrinos, Methuselah protons…it all began here at Harvard |
03-11-19 | Marcelle Soares-Santos (Brandeis) | Dark Energy Research with Cosmic Surveys and Gravitational Waves |
03-04-19 | Donna Strickland (U Waterloo) | From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] Video of this lecture will not be posted. |
02-25-19 | Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford) | Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light |
02-11-19 | Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton) | Exploiting Plasma Oscillations |
02-04-19 | Cora Dvorkin (Harvard) | New Frontiers in Cosmology |
01-28-19 | Susanne Yelin (Harvard) | Controlling Light and Matter Using Cooperative Radiation |
12-03-18 | Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT) | Magic Angle Graphene: A New Platform for Strongly Correlated Physics* |
11-26-18 | Matthew Reece (Harvard) | Fundamental Physics from Underground to the Sky |
11-19-18 | Aharon Kapitulnik (Stanford) | Transport in Strongly Correlated Bad Metals |
11-05-18 | Reina Maruyama (Yale) | Testing DAMA/LIBRA’s Claim for a Discovery of Dark Matter |
10-29-18 | Robert Kleinberg (Columbia) | mKto km: How Millikelvin Physics is Reused to Explore the Earth Kilometers Below the Surface |
10-22-18 | Jun Ye (JILA) | Quantum matter and atomic clocks [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
10-15-18 | Damon Clark (Yale) | Dissecting Neural Computations in the Fly Eye |
10-01-18 | Stefan Soldner-Rembold (Manchester U) | DUNE – an International Neutrino Observatory |
09-24-18 | Subir Sachdev (Harvard) | Strange Metals and Black Holes |
09-17-18 | Brad Marston (Brown) | El Niño as a Topological Insulator: A Surprising Connection between Climate and Quantum Physics |
09-10-18 | Kyle Cranmer (NYU) | What does the Revolution in Artificial Intelligence Mean for Physics? |
2017/2018
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
04-30-18 | Holger Mueller (UC Berkeley) | Measurement of the fine structure constant as test of the standard model |
04-23-18 | William Unruh (UBC) | Measurement of Hawking Radiation in Analog Systems |
04-16-18 | Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich) | Polaritons in two dimensional systems |
04-02-18 | Jenny Hoffman (Harvard) | Imaging the Surface States of a Strongly Correlated Topological Insulator, SmB6 |
03-26-18 | Hiroshi Ooguri (Caltech) | Constraints on Quantum Gravity |
03-19-18 | Gilbert Collins (U Rochester) | Matter at Extreme Energy Density: Exotic Solids to Inertial Fusion |
03-05-18 | Werner Riegler (CERN) | Future Circular Colliders |
02-26-18 | Mark Halpern (UBC) | CHIME: Measuring the Expansion History of the Universe |
02-12-18 | Special Colloquium: Howard Georgi (Harvard), Walter Gilbert (Harvard), Sheldon Glashow (BU), Daniel Kleitman (MIT), and Roy Glauber (Harvard) | Memories of Julian: A Celebration of the Centennial of the Birth of Julian Schwinger |
02-05-18 | Isaac Silvera (Harvard) | Metallic Hydrogen and Deuterium |
01-29-18 | Eleni Katifori (UPenn) | The Spectrum of Efficient Venation Phenotypes |
11-27-17 | Edo Berger (Harvard) | Rattle and Shine: The Joint Detection of Gravitational Waves and Light from the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 |
11-20-17 | Anthea Coster (MIT) | Lise Meitner: Her Discovery of Fission and Dramatic Escape from Nazi Germany |
11-13-17 | David Albert (Columbia) | Why is the world quantum-mechanical? |
11-06-17 | Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute) | Particle Physics Beyond Colliders |
10-30-17 | Wolfgang Rueckner (Harvard) | The puzzle of the steady-state rotation of a reverse sprinkler |
10-23-17 | Srini Turaga (HHMI Janelia) | From Biological Neural Networks to Artificial Neural Networks |
10-16-17 | Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) | SESAME - Opening a Source of Light in the Middle East |
10-02-17 | Natalia Toro (Perimeter Institute) | Dark Matter Hiding under Our Noses — and Accelerator Experiments to Sniff It Out |
09-25-17 | Achim Rosch (U Cologne) | Whirls in Magnets: from Skyrmions to Magnetic Monopoles (video not available) |
09-18-17 | Eric Cornell (JILA) | No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition |
09-11-17 | Sidney Nagel (U Chicago) | Exploiting Disorder |
2016/2017
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
04-24-17 | Benjamin Wandelt | Connecting Theory and Data in Cosmology (video not available) |
04-17-17 | Steve Shenker (Stanford) | Quantum Gravity and Quantum Chaos |
04-03-17 | L. Mahadevan (Harvard) | Folding Matters - from Origami to the Brain |
03-27-17 | Scott Dodelson (Fermilab) | Myth-Busters: Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope |
03-20-17 | Cindy Regal (JILA) | Interferometry in a Strong Light (video not available) |
03-06-17 | Jun Ye (JILA) | Atomic clock based on quantum matter |
02-27-17 | Ramamurti Shankar (Yale) | The Tragic Tale of the Mathematician Ramanujan |
02-06-17 | Daniel Jafferis (Harvard) | A Journey Through Quantum Gravity: From the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence to Traversable Wormholes |
01-30-17 | Sebastian Seung (Princeton) | In Search of the Brain's Learning Algorithms |
11-28-16 | David DeMille (Yale) | Probing physics at the TeV scale - and above - with room-scale experiments |
11-21-16 | Ania Jayich (UCSB) | Diamond Spins for Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Hybrid Quantum Networks |
11-14-16 | Zohar Komargodski (Weizmann) | Second-Order Phase Transitions: Beyond Landau-Ginzburg Theory |
11-07-16 | Peter Onyisi (U Texas) | Studies and Searches with the 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider |
10-31-16 | Ali Yazdani (Princeton) | Spotting the Elusive Majorana under the Microscope [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
10-24-16 | Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck) | Tensor Networks: A Quantum Information Perspective to Many-Body Physics |
10-17-16 | Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton) | Hunting for Dark Matter in the Gamma-Ray Sky |
10-3-16 | Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia) | High-precision physics and chemistry with ultracold diatomic molecules |
9-26-16 | Gregory Eyink (Johns Hopkins) | What’s So Surprising About Fluid Turbulence? |
9-19-16 | David Nelson (Harvard) | Non-Hermitian Localization in Biological Networks Please note: several slides on this video are not captured properly. |
09-12-16 | Mark Kasevich (Stanford) | Quantum mechanics at macroscopic scales (video not available) |
2015/2016
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
05-02-16 | Yasser Roudi (NTNU) | Learning and Inference When There Is Little Data |
04-25-16 | Alison Sweeney (U Pennsylvania) | Living Photonic Devices: Protein-Based Self-Assembly of Optical Materials in Mollusks |
04-19-16 | Moty Heiblum (Weizmann Institute) | Robust Electron Pairing in the Integer Quantum Hall Effect Regime |
04-11-16 | Tony Heinz (Stanford) | Two-Dimensional Materials - Graphene and Beyond |
03-28-16 | Eric Mazur (Harvard) | |
03-21-16 | Juan Maldacena (Princeton) | "Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime" (03/21/16) [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
03-07-16 | Eric Heller (Harvard) | Spectroscopy for the Masses (of Carbon Atoms) |
02-29-16 | Andrey Chubukov (U Minnesota) | Superconductivity from Repulsion |
02-08-15 | Daniel McKinsey, (UC Berkeley) | Who Has Seen The WIMP? Neither I Nor You |
01-25-16 | Bonnie Fleming (Yale) | Nu Measurements, New Physics: Short and Long Baseline Electron Neutrino appearance |
12-07-15 | James Analytis (UC, Berkeley) | Weyl Wiggles: Quantum Oscillatory Studies of Exotic Surfaces States in the Dirac Semimetal Cd3As2 |
11-30-15 | Joshua Shaevitz (Princeton) | Phases Transitions in Active Matter: Lessons From The Social Bacterium Myxococcus Xanthus** |
11-16-15 | Markus Greiner (Harvard) | New Physics in the Quantum Gas Microscope – From Measuring Entanglement Entropy to Fermi-Hubbard Systems |
11-09-15 | Sean Eddy (Harvard MCB) | Biological Sequence Comparison Using Probabilistic Modeling |
11-02-15 | Henriette Elvang (U Michigan) | Exciting new Approaches to Scattering Amplitude |
10-26-15 | Kevin Hand (JPL) | Ocean Worlds of the Outer Solar System |
10-05-15 | Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins) | Symmetry, Geometry, Cosmology |
09-28-15 | Matthew Reece (Harvard) | Particle Physics After the Higgs: What’s Next? |
09-21-15 | Matthew Evans (MIT) | Gravitational Wave Detection with Advanced LIGO |
2014/2015
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
05-04-15 | Itai Cohen (Cornell) | Flight of the Fruit Fly |
04-29-15 | Brian P. Schmidt (The Australian National University) | The Accelerating Universe [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
04-27-15 | May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser (NTNU, Norway) | Grid Cells and Neural Maps for Space |
04-20-15 | Logan McCarty and Louis Deslauriers (Harvard) | Increasing Learning, Engagement, and Personal Interest: A Research-Based Transformation of a Large Introductory Physics Course for Life Science Concentrators |
04-13-15 | David Spergel, Princeton | Cosmology after Planck: Or What Will We Learn from Polarization? |
04-06-15 | John Martinis, UC, Santa Barbara | State Preservation by Repetitive Error Correction in Superconducting Qubits |
03-30-15 | Vinothan Manoharan, Harvard | Entropy and the Humble Colloidal Particle |
03-23-15 | Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos | Decoherence and Quantum Theory of the Classical |
03-09-15 | Katherine Freese, Nordita; U Michigan | The Dark Side of the Universe |
03-02-15 | Edward Hinds, Imperial College, London | Measuring Nothing But Learning Something |
02-23-15 | Holger Mueller, UC, Berkeley | Atom Interferometry Measurements in Fundamental Physics |
01-26-15 | Isaac Silvera, Harvard | A First-Order Transition to Metallic Hydrogen |
12-02-14 | Yifang Wang, Institute of High Energy Physics, China | SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment and the Future Nutrino Program in China |
12-01-14 | Jasna Brujic, NYU | Biomimicry, Self-Assembly and Motility of Functionalized Droplets |
11-24-14 | Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute | The Making and Breaking of Non-Abelian Anyons in Electronic Systems |
11-17-14 | Jorge Kurchan, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles | From Glasses to Darwinian Evolution and Back |
11-10-14 | Sarah Demers, Yale | Chasing the Fundamental: An Experimentalist’s Perspective, from CERN to FNAL |
11-03-14 | Matthew Schwartz, Harvard | Blood from a Stone: Precision Jet Physics at the LHC |
10-27-14 | Paul Chaikin, NYU | Self-Replication, Exponential Growth, Selection and Competition in Artificial Systems** |
10-06-14 | Marcela Carena, Fermilab | Particle Physics after the Higgs |
09-29-14 | Xi Yin, Harvard | An Anatomy of Holography |
09-22-14 | Joel Moore, UC Berkeley | How Non-Abelian Gauge Fields and (maybe) Non-Abelian Particles Emerge in Solids |
09-15-14 | Erel Levine, Harvard | Interactions and Complexity in Small RNA |
09-08-14 | Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley | Quantum is Different: Topology and Entanglement in Solids |
2013/2014
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
05-05-14 | Atac Imamoglu, ETH, Zurich | Interfacing Single Photons and Condensed Matter Systems |
04-28-14 | Marc Mézard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris | The Spin Glass Cornucopia [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
04-21-14 | Paul McEuen, Cornell | Föppl, Fluctuations, and Feynman: Nonlinear Mechanics with Graphene and Nanotubes |
04-14-14 | J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell | Solving the Mystery of High Temperature Superconductivity |
04-07-14 | Andrea Cavalleri, MPSD | Optical Control in High Tc Superconductors |
03-31-14 | Subir Sachdev, Harvard | Unveiling the Order of the High Temperature Superconductors |
03-24-14 | David Kaplan, UMW | Testing Gravity with Millisecond Pulsars |
03-10-14 | Peter Abbamonte, UIUC | Attosecond Imaging with X-rays |
03-03-14 | Tadashi Tokieda, Cambridge | Toy Models |
02-24-14 | Joao Guimaraes da Costa, Harvard | Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: The Higgs Boson and Beyond |
02-03-14 | Rob Phillips, Caltech | The Other Bohr and Biology's Greatest Model |
01-27-14 | Steven Kivelson, Stanford | Quenched Disorder and Vestigial Nematicity |
12-02-13 | Richard Gaitskell, Brown U. | LUX: Noble Travails: First Dark Matter Search Results from the Large Underground Xenon Detector |
11-25-13 | Joseph Polchinski, KITP | The Black Hole Information Paradox, Alive and Kicking |
11-18-13 | Peter Pesic, St. John's College | Max Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium |
11-04-13 | David Kleinfeld, UCSD | How Blood Flows in the Brain** |
10-28-13 | Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse U. | Hydrodynamics and Topological Defects in 'Living Liquid Crystals' |
10-21-13 | Masashi Kawasaki, U-Tokyo | Breathing New Life in the Quantum Era into an Old Material ZnO** |
10-07-13 | Zvi Bern, UCLA | Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Supergravity |
09-30-13 | Joseph Redish, U-MD | How Should We Think About How Our Students Think About Physics? |
09-23-13 | Ashvin Vishwanath, UC, Berkeley | Entanglement, Topology and the Quantum Phases of Matter* |
09-16-13 | Qi-Kun Xue, Tsinghua University, China | Quantization of Anomalous Hall Effect** |
09-09-13 | Nigel Goldenfeld, UIUC | Phase Transitions in Early Life: Clues from the Genetic Codes** |
2012/2013
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
04-29-13 | John Doyle, Harvard | Particle Physics and Chiral Detection using Cold Molecules |
04-22-13 | Fabiola Gianotti, CERN | Challenges and accomplishments of the Large Hadron Collider[Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
04-08-13 | Ben Simons, University of Cambridge | Tissue Maintenance: A Laboratory for Statistical Physics |
04-01-13 | Carter Hall, UMD | Why Are Neutrinos So Light? |
03-25-13 | Karin Dahmen, UIUC | Unifying Theory for Tuned-Critical Quake Statistics: From Compressed Nanopillars to Earthquakes |
03-04-13 | Michelangelo D'Agostino | Physics and Presidential Politics: The Role of Data on the Obama Campaign |
02-25-13 | Raymond Laflamme, U Waterloo | Experimental Quantum Error Correction |
02-11-13 | Philip W. Phillips, UIUC | Is Strongly Correlated Electron Matter Full of Unparticles? |
02-04-13 | Jeff Lichtman, Harvard | Connectomics: What, Why and How |
12-10-12 | SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM:Ali Yazdani, Princeton | Visualizing and Manipulating Topological Quantum States in Novel Materials and Nanostructures |
12-02-12 | Martin Weitz, Bonn University | Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons |
11-26-12 | Daniel Dessau, U Colorado | Dynamics of Electron Interactions, The Origin of Fermi Arcs, and Pairing in Cuprate Superconductors |
11-20-12 | SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: David Goldhaber-Gordon, Stanford | Model Many-Body Systems Based on Quantum Dots |
11-19-12 | Thierry Giamarchi, U Geneva | Deconstructing the Electron: Quantum Physics in One Dimension |
11-12-12 | Michael Peskin, Stanford U | The Higgs Boson: From Expectation to Reality |
11-09-12 | SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: Yoichi Ando, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University | Topological Insulators and Superconductors: Materials Frontier |
11-05-12 | Carl Bender, Washington U in St. Louis | PT-Symmetrice Quantum Mechanics |
10-30-12 | Juerg Froehlich, ETH Zurich | The Role of Gauge Symmetries in the Discovery of Novel States of Condensed Matter |
10-22-12 | Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas, IFIC/U Valencia | Ettore Majorana Through The Looking Glass |
10-15-12 | Edward E. Prather, U Arizona | How Teaching Earth, Astronomy and Space Science can Reshape Our Nation's Understanding of the Role of Science in Society |
10-01-12 | Suchitra Sebastian, U Cambridge | Quantum Oscillations as a Tool to Crack the Mystery of Unconventional Superconductivity |
09-24-12 | Philip Kim, Columbia U | Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter's Butterfly in Graphene [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
09-17-12 | John Huth, Harvard | The Search for the Higgs Boson: Results |
09-10-12 | L. Mahadevan, Harvard | On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology* |
2011/2012
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
04-23-12 | Jenny Hoffman, Harvard | The Effect of a Single Atom on High-Tc Superconductivity |
04-16-12 | Brad Marston, Brown U | The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming |
04-02-12 | Vinothan Manoharan | Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles at Liquid Interfaces |
03-26-12 | Terry Hwa, UCSD | Bacterial Growth Laws: Origins and Consequences |
03-19-12 | John Clarke, UC Berkeley | The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
03-05-12 | Theodor W. Hänsch, University of Munich | Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
02-27-12 | Serge Haroche, Collège de France and ÉcoleNormaleSupérieure, Paris | Juggling with Photons in a Box to Explore the Quantum World |
02-13-12 | Andrew Foland, L-3 Communications | Bombs, Math and X-Rays |
02-06-12 | Joao Guimaraes da Costa, Harvard | The Road to the Higgs Boson |
12-5-11 | Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford | Bridging the Gap in High Temperature Superconductor |
11-30-11 | Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy | Atom Interferometry, Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity |
11-21-11 | Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University | Viscosity of Strongly Interacting Fermions |
11-14-11 | Ken Dill, Stoney Brook University. | Maximum Caliber: An Approach to Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Few-Particle Systems |
11-7-11 | Paul J. Steinhardt, Princeton | Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Search for Natural Quasicrystals |
10-31-11 | Xiang Zhang, Berkeley | Optical Metamaterials: Superlens, Invisibility Cloak and Plasmon Lasers |
10-24-11 | Juan Collar, U Chicago | Certainty And Uncertainty In Dark Matter Searches |
10-17-11 | Matthew Schwartz, Harvard | The Emergence of Jets at the Large Hadron Collider |
10-3-11 | Mara Prentiss, Harvard | New Insights into Homology Recognition and Strand Exchange with Implications for Artificial Self-Assembly and Protein Folding |
9-19-11 | Matt Strassler, Rutgers | Searching for Answers at The Large Hadron Collider |
9-12-11 | Bertrand Halperin, Harvard | Defects with Character-Majorana States in Condensed-Matter Systems |
2010/2011
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
5-2-11 | Michael Brenner, Harvard | Linear Algebra and Darwin's Finches |
4-25-11 | Juan Maldacena, Princeton | The Gravity Field Theory Duality: Black Holes as Ordinary Fluids |
4-18-11 | Dam Thanh Son, University of Washington | Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
4-11-11 | Rolf Heuer, Director-General, CERN, Geneva | The Large Hadron Collider LHC: Entering a New Era of Fundamental Science |
4-4-11 | David Ceperley, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne | Hydrogen and Helium at High Pressure as Revealed by Simulations |
3-28-11 | Jack Harris, Yale | New Measurements of Persistent Currents in Resistive Metal Rings |
3-7-11 | Steven White, U.C., Irvine | The First Realistic Quantum Spin Liquids |
2-28-11 | Dan Stamper-Kurn, U.C., Berkeley | Simulating a Gravity-Wave Observatory with a Few Thousand Atoms |
2-14-11 | Zoltan Ligeti, UC, Berkeley | Beauty for Valentine's Day: From B Factories to the Large Hadron Collider |
2-7-11 | Chris Jarzynski, University of Maryland | Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale |
1-31-11 | Boris Shraiman, KITP, UCSB | Unexpected Physics in Biology [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
1-24-11 | Frederik Denef, Harvard | Black Holes as Black Boxes |
12-6-10 | Douglas Finkbeiner, Harvard | Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles in the Inner Galaxy: AGN Activity or Bipolar Galactic Wind? |
11-22-10 | Ian Stewart, MIT | Mastering Jets: New Windows into the Strong Interaction and Beyond |
11-15-10 | Andrea Damascelli, Univ. of British Columbia | Superconductivity: Deep Superficial Insights |
11-8-10 | Robert Swendsen, Carnegie Mellon University | Footnotes To The History of Statistical Mechanics: In Boltzmann's Words |
11-1-10 | Avi Loeb, Harvard | How Did the First Stars and Black Holes Form? |
10-25-10 | Erik Verlinde, University of Amsterdam | Emergence of Gravity |
10-18-10 | Sandip Trivedi, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research | Accelerating Universes and the Emerging Landscape in String Theory |
10-4-10 | Keith Ellis, Fermi Lab | QCD for the LHC |
9-27-13 | Eva Andrei, Rutgers University | Graphene: a Relativistic Electron in Carbon Flatland |
9-20-10 | Zlatko Tesanovic, Johns Hopkins U. | Superconductivity in the Iron Age |
9-13-10 | Andrew Strominger, Harvard | Black Holes-The Harmonic Oscillators of the 21st Century |
2009/2010
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
5-3-10 | David Nelson, Harvard | Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest |
4-26-10 | Steven Gubser, Princeton | Applied String Theory for the Impatient |
4-19-10 | Gabriel Kotliar, Rutgers University | Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: A Challenge for the 21'st Century |
4-12-10 | Louis Taillefer, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research | The Two-Way Interplay of Magnetism and Superconductivity |
4-5-10 | Graham Fleming, UC Berkeley | Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy: Coherence, Entanglement and Photosynthesis |
3-29-10 | Jenny Hoffman, Harvard | Gott Mott? Nanoscale Explorations of Electronic Transition |
3-22-10 | Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo | Spin Glasses and Computational Complexity |
3-8-10 | Phillip Schewe, AIP | Bottled Lightning: Modernizing the Electrical Grid |
3-1-10 | Matthew P.A. Fisher, Caltech | Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
2-22-10 | Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford | Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystals: From Cavity QED to Optical Switches and Quantum Gates |
2-8-10 | Catherine Kallin, McMaster University | Explorations in Exotic Superconductivity |
2-1-10 | Aravi Samuel, Harvard | How Worms and Maggots Navigate Temperature Gradients |
1-25-10 | Neil Weiner, New York University | Illuminating Dark Matter |
12-7-09 | Meg Urry, Yale University | Teaching Physics a New Way: What Yale Can Tell Harvard about Innovative Teaching |
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* |
10-5-09 | 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. |
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. |
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] |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 Hasan, Princeton University | Observation of a New Class of Topological States of Quantum Matter |
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 |
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] |
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] |
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 |
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 |
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 |
2006/2007
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
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 |
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 |
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 |
12-Feb-07 | Phuan Ong, Princeton. | FVorticity and high-Tc Superconductors |
05-Feb-07 | Maria Spiropulu, CERN. | Discovery Physics at the LHC |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
13-Feb-06 | Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT | New Forms of Quantum Matter Near Absolute Zero Temperature |
06-Feb-06 | Chetan Nayak, UCLA | Topological Quantum Computation |
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 |
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? |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
04-Oct-04 | James Hudspeth, The Rockefeller University. | Mechanical Amplification in the Ear |
20-Sep-04 | Eugene Demler, Harvard | Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices and Magnetic Microtraps |
2003/2004
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
03-May-04 | Mark Konishi, Caltech. | How Auditory Space is Represented in the Brain |
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 |
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 |
23-Feb-04 | Paul McEuen, Cornell | "Carbon Nanotubes-Electons in a 1D World |
09-Feb-04 | Thomas Witten, Chicago University | Anomalous Focusing in Elastic Sheets |
12-Jan-04 | Hongkun Park, Harvard | Transport & Scanned Probe Investigations of Chemical Nanostructures |
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 |
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? |
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 |
14-Apr-03 | Ellen D. Williams, UMD. | Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures |
07-Apr-03 | Jeff Kimble, Caltech | The New Science of Quantum Information |
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 |
24-Feb-03 | James Eisenstein, Caltech | Surprises in 2 Dimensions: From the Quantized Hall Effect to Exciton Condensation |
10-Feb-03 | Michael Turner, U-Chicago | Making Sense of the New Cosmology |
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 |
18-Nov-02 | A.C. Gossard, UC Santa Barbara | Semiconductor Nanostructues |
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 |
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 |
2001/2002
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
07-Jan-02 | Boris Shraiman, Lucent | Modeling Genetic Networks |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
12-Mar-01 | Robert Carey, Boston U. | A New Precision Measurement of the Muon (g-2) Value at the level of 1.3 ppm |
26-Feb-01 | Susan Coppersmith, Chicago U. | The Complexity of Materials |
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 |
04-Dec-00 | Thomas Greytak, MIT | Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen |
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 |
02-Oct-00 | Joseph Polchinski, UC Santa Barbara | String Duality and D-Branes [Loeb Colloquium] |
18-Sep-00 | Norman Ramsey, Harvard | Exploring the Universe with Atomic Clocks |
1999/2000
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
01-May-00 | Daniel Fisher, Harvard | A Statistical Physicist's Look at Earthquakes |
24-Apr-00 | Gerard 't Hooft, Utrecht University | The Glorious Days of Gauge Theory |
17-Apr-00 | Ashoke Sen, Mehta Research Institute | Duality and Supersymmetry |
10-Apr-00 | Lisa Randall, Princeton | The Shape of Gravity with Extra Dimensions |
3-Apr-00 | Bertram Batlogg, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies | Cuprate Superconductors: Physics beyond High Tc |
20-Mar-00 | Tony Tyson, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies | Tomographic Imaging of dark Matter: New Tests of Cosmology |
13-Mar-00 | Stuart Freedman, UC Berkeley | Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem on the Ground |
28-Feb-00 | Gerald Garielse, Harvard | Observation of a Quantum Cyclotron with One Electron |
14-Feb-00 | Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago | Physics at the Breakfast Table |
07-Feb-00 | William Nellis, Lawrence Livermore National Labs | Minimum Metallic Conductivity of Fluid Hydrogen and other Molecular Fluids at Megabar Pressure |
20-Dec-99 | Donald Eigler, IBM Almaden Res. Ctr., San Jose, CA. | Quantum Mirages: The Projection of Electronic Structure to Remote Locations |
13-Dec-99 | Evan Evans, U. British Columbia | Unexpected Complexity of Ligand-Receptor Bonds in Biology |
06-Dec-99 | Seth Fraden, Brandeis University | Engineering Entropy: Phase Behavior of Virus Suspensions |
29-Nov-99 | Ed Farhi, MIT | TITLE NOT AVAILABLE |
22-Nov-99 | Emily Carter, UCLA | From Inter Facial Chemistry to Mesoscopic Physics: New Directions in Condensed Matter Theory |
15-Nov-99 | John Bachall, IAS | Where Do We Stand With Solar Neutrinos |
08-Nov-99 | Mark Kasevich, Yale | Macroscopic Quanatum Interference Experiments with Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms |
01-Nov-99 | Les Rosenberg, MIT | The Search for Dark Matter Axions |
25-Oct-99 | Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley | Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe |
18-Oct-99 | Sebastian Balibar, l'Ecole Normale Superieure | Crystal Surfaces: From Facets to Crystallization Waves |
04-Oct-99 | Stanislas Leibler, Harvard | TITLE NOT AVAILABLE |
1998/1999
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
10-May-99 | Mark Bowick, Visiting Professor, Harvard | Cosmology in the Laboratory: The Formation of Topological Defects |
03-May-99 | David Mermin, Cornell | Nonlocality and the Absurd |
26-Apr-99 | AJ (Jim) Hudspeth | Physical principles of transduction, tuning, and transmission by hair cells of the inner ear |
19-Apr-99 | Eli Zeldov, Weizmann Insitute | How does the vortex lattice melt? Study of vortex matter phase transitions in high temperature super conductors |
12-Apr-99 | Hans Specht and Gunter Dosch, Heidelberg | Musical Harmony: Physics, Physiology and Psychology [Loeb Colloquium] |
05-Apr-99 | Paul Horowitz, Harvard | Optical SETI |
22-Mar-99 | Kip Thorne , Cal Tech. | Gravitational Waves and Black Holes: A Personal View |
15-Mar-99 | David Moncton, Argonne | Beginning the Second Century of X-Ray Research |
08-Mar-99 | Peter Galison, Harvard | Einstein's Clocks: Fundamental Theory and Lowly Technology |
01-Mar-99 | Albert Libchaber | DNA Mode D'Emploi: Reading , Editing, and Translating [Loeb Colloquium] |
22-Feb-99 | Lene Hau, Rowland | Bose-Einstein Condensation and Light Speeds of 38 miles/hour |
15-Feb-99 | John Doyle, Harvard | Magnetic Trapping of Atoms and Molecules |
08-Feb-99 | Juan Madacena, Harvard | QCD, Strings and Black Holes: The large N limit of Field Theories and Gravity |
04-Jan-99 | Nima Arkani Hamed, SLAC. | New Sub-Millimeter Dimensions and Quantum Gravity Around the Corner |
14-Dec-98 | Eric Ippen, M.I.T. | Femtosecond Optics |
07-Dec-98 | C. Bertozzi, UC Berkeley | Chemical Modulation of Cell Surface Interactions |
30-Nov-98 | David DiVincenzo, IBM | What is needed to build a Quantum Computer? |
23-Nov-98 | M. Velasco, CERN | Use Crystals to solve the nucleon's 'Spin Crisis' TODAY, and look for Physics beyond the standard model TOMORROW," M. Velasco, CERN. |
16-Nov-98 | Robert Angel, University of Arizona | Searching for Spectroscopic Signs of Primitive Life on Extra-Solar Planets: A Realistic Goal for NASA [Loeb Colloquium] |
09-Nov-98 | J. Joannopulos, M.I.T. | The Almost Magical World of Photonic Crystals |
02-Nov-98 | W. Bialek, NEC. | From Photons to Perception |
26-Oct-98 | Leo Kouwenhoven, Delft, Netherlands | Single Electron Transport through Quantum Dots |
19-Oct-98 | E. Gwinn, UC Santa Barbara | Surprises in 2D Electrical Transport |
05-Oct-98 | D. DeRosier, Brandeis University | The Structure of Molecular Motors |
28-Sep-98 | Ed Kearns, Boston University | Evidence for Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation from the Super-Kamiokande Experiment |
21-Sep-98 | L. Susskind, Stanford | The Holographic Principle: A New Paradigm for the Foundations of Physics [Loeb Colloquium] |
1997/1998:
no information available
Spring 1997:
no information available
Fall 1996
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
16-Dec-96 | Harald Fritzsch, Werner-Heisenberg-Institute, University of Munich | The Problem of Mass in Physics |
09-Dec-96 | Ruth Sime, Sacramento City College | Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission |
02-Dec-96 | Cumrun Vafa, Harvard | New Developments in String Theory |
25-Nov-96 | Konstantin K. Likharev, SUNY Stony Brook | Ultrafast Computing using Flux Quantization in Superconductors |
18-Nov-96 | Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT | Study of a Bose-Einstein Condensate- Kick it, Shake it, Drop it, Cut it |
04-Nov-96 | Humphrey Maris, Brown University | Nucleation of Bubbles in Quantum Liquids |
28-Oct-96 | Paul Chaikin, Princeton | Hard Spheres in Space: Colloidal Crystals in Microgravity [Loeb Colloquium] |
21-Oct-96 | The Hon. Vernon J. Ehlers, Member, United States Congress (R-Michigan) | A Physicist in Congress: A Clash of Two Cultures [Loeb Lecture] |
7-Oct-96 | Eric Norman, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | On the Road to the Solution of the Solar Neutrino Problem |
30-Sep-96 | Yuri Kagan, Kurchatov Institute | Formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate and Macroscopic Quantum Properties [Loeb Colloquium] |
23-Sep-96 | Dale van Harlingen, Urbana | Symmetry of the Superconducting Pairing State: Direct Experimental Evidence for d-Wave Pairing in High T c Superconductors |
1995/1996:
no information available
1994/1995
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
01-May-95 | Hans Chang | The Agendas of the Physics Communities in Western Europe |
24-Apr-95 | A. Muller, UC Berkeley | Ice Ages and the Earth's Orbit: Most Theories are Wrong |
17-Apr-95 | R. Hallock, U Mass, Amherst. | Helium on cesium: Novel Wetting Behavior |
10-Apr-95 | Linn Mollenauer, ATT Bell Laboratories | Long Distance Transmission for the Information Age: Solitons in Optical Fibers [Loeb Colloquium] |
03-Apr-95 | R. Shankar, Yale | Renormalization Group for Fermions: An Intro |
20-Mar-95 | Robert Grace, Grace, Shurson, Moore, and Associates | Putting out Oil Fires in Kuwait |
13-Mar-95 | David Bishop, ATT Bell Laboratories | Magnetic Vortices in Type II Superconductors- Why all the fuss? |
06-Mar-95 | Bohdan Paczynsk, Princeton | Gamma Ray Bursts: Facts and Speculation [Loeb Colloquium] |
27-Feb-95 | Gordon Baym, University of Illinois | Neutron Stars: Observing the Properties of Matter at High Density |
06-Feb-95 | Bernard Sadoulet, Center for Particle Astrophysics, UC Berkeley. | Search for Dark Matter |
30-Jan-95 | Eric Carlson, Harvard | Astrophysical Limits on Light Pseudoscalors |
09-Jan-95 | George Benedek,, M.I.T. | The Physics of Self-Assembling Helical Ribbons and the Problems of Cholesterol Crystallization |
12-Dec-94 | Heidi Hammel, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. | The Great Comet-Jupiter Debate |
05-Dec-94 | Herman Feshbach, M.I.T. Emeritus; Victor E. Weisskopf, Inst. Prof/Phys. Emeritus, Roy Glauber Mallinckrodt Prof/Phys, Paul Martin, Harvard | Remembering Julian Schwinger (1918-1994), A Symposium |
28-Nov-94 | Andrew Zangwill, Georgia Institute of Technology | Atoms with Attitude: Epitaxial Growth for Physicists |
21-Nov-94 | Alvaro de Rujula, Boston University and Theoretical Study Division CERN, Geneva | Brown Dwarfs and Other Microcleansing Candidates |
14-Nov-94 | Karl Berkelman, Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Cornell University | The Future of CP Violation |
07-Nov-94 | Alex Pines, UC Berkeley | Some Magnetic Moments [Loeb Colloquium] |
31-Oct-94 | Oct 31, 1994: "Hot electrons, cold electrons, and cryogenic elementary particle detectors," Michael Nahum, Harvard University. | Hot electrons, cold electrons, and cryogenic elementary particle detectors |
17-Oct-94 | Robert P. Kirshner, Harvard University Center for Astrophysics | Taking the Measure of the Universe |
03-Oct-94 | Arthur Chu, Harvard | Let there be Dark: Laser Manipulation of Three Level Atoms |
26-Sep-94 | Seth Putterman, UCLA | Nature's Most Nonlinear Oscillator: Synchronous Picosecond Sonoluminescence |
1993/1994:
no information available
1992/1993
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
26-Apr-93 | Steven Weinberg, University of Texas | Effective Field Theories [Loeb Colloquium] |
19-Apr-93 | Stanislas Leibler, Princeton | Membranes, Molecular Motors, Microtubules, Mitosis: Mytacism or More? [Loeb Colloquium] |
12-Apr-93 | Frank Sciulli, Columbia University, Nevis Laboratories. | Colliding Electrons and Protons with Hera and Zeus |
05-Apr-93 | Douglas Gough, University of Cambridge | Helioseismology: Measuring the Inside of the Sun [Loeb Colloquium] |
22-Mar-93 | Allen L. Sessoms, Deputy Chief of Mission American Embassy, Mexico. | The Reflections of a Physicist on Foreign Policy |
15-Mar-93 | Krishna Kumar, Harvard | Precision Parity- Violating Neutral Current Experiments |
08-Mar-93 | Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard | The World of Clusters: A Scientist's Legoland |
01-Mar-93 | Jacqueline N. Hewitt, MIT | Gravitational Lenses, Time Delays and Hubble's Constant |
22-Feb-93 | James Anderson, Harvard | Free Radicals, Solid State Lasers and Ozone Catalysis |
08-Feb-93 | Bernard Gottschalk, Harvard University Cyclotron Lab | Clinical Use of Medium Energy Protons at the Harvard Cyclotron Lab |
11-Jan-93 | Roger Koch, IBM | Vortex-Glass Superconductivity |
14-Dec-92 | Pierre Meystre, University of Arizona | Cavity Quantum Optics |
07-Dec-92 | Emilio Picasso, La Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa | The Gyromagnetic Ratio of the Muon |
30-Nov-92 | Barbara J. Grosz, Harvard | Nearly Singleton Sets: Women in Science |
23-Nov-92 | Frank Wilczek, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Natural Sciences | Peeking Inside the Event Horizon; Quantum Hair and Moving Mirrors |
16-Nov-92 | Bertrand Halperin, Harvard | The Quantum Hall Effect - Quantized and Unquantized |
09-Nov-92 | Boris Yerozolimsky, Harvard | Free Neutron Beta-Decay |
02-Nov-92 | Gerson Goldhaber Lawrence, UC Berkeley. | The Study of Supernovaae and the Quest for Omega |
26-Oct-92 | David Farrell, Case Western Reserve University | Flux Lattice Melting in High Tc Superconductors |
19-Oct-92 | Peter Goldreich, California Institute of Technology | TITLE NOT AVAILABLE |
05-Oct-92 | Mar A. Kastner, MIT | The Single-Electron Transistor and other Arificial Atoms |
28-Sep-92 | Eric Heller, University of Washington. | Post Modern Quantum Mechanics: Chaos and the Holy Grail |
1991/1992
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
04-May-92 | David Nelson, Harvard | Boson Localization, Supersolids and Correlated Pinning in High Temperature Superconductors |
27-Apr-92 | Barry Barish, California Institute of Technology | Particle Astrophysics; An Underground Perspective |
20-Apr-92 | Sau Lan Wu, University of Wisconsin | Challenging the Standard Model with 2 Million Z o Decays at LEP |
13-Apr-92 | Per Bak, Brookhaven National Laboratory | Catastrophes and Self-Organized Criticality |
06-Apr-92 | Cecilia Jarlskog, University of Stockholm | On Neutrinos |
30-Mar-92 | Pierre-Gilles deGennes, ESPCI, Collège de France | Physics of Soft Interfaces [Loeb Colloquium] |
16-Mar-92 | David A. Kay, The Uranium Institute | Iraq and Beyond: Challenges in Controlling Nulear Proliferation |
02-Mar-92 | Alain Aspect, Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée | Experimental Tests of Quantum Mechanics with Bell's Inequalities [Loeb Colloquium] |
24-Feb-92 | Yakir Aharonov, BU,, University of South Carolina , Tel Aviv University | A New Formulation of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Time Machines |
10-Feb-92 | Leonard Mandel, University of Rochester | Violations of Locality and Classical Probability in Optical Interference |
03-Feb-92 | Charles Knobler, UCLA | Phase Transitions and Defects in Langmuir Monolayers: Star Defects and Chiral Symmetry Breaking |
06-Jan-92 | Jonathan Dorfan, Stanford University Stanford Linear Accelerator Center | Understanding the Origin of CP Violation: A Proposed B Factory |
16-Dec-91 | Victor F. Weisskopf, M.I.T. | Mountain Heights, Water Waves, and Leaky Roofs |
09-Dec-91 | Yakov Sinai, Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Academy of Science, USSR | Random Fractals in Hydrodynamics |
02-Dec-91 | Roy Schwitters, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory | Status of the Supercollider |
25-Nov-91 | Steven Kivelson, UCLA | Electronic Correlation Effects and Superconductivity in Doped Fullerenes |
18-Nov-91 | Paul Bamberg, Harvard | Resonances, Spectograms and Hidden Markov Models in Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition |
04-Nov-91 | Nathan Isgur, CEBAF | Where's the Glue?: Comments on a Puzzle in Strong Interaction Spectroscopy [Loeb Colloquium] |
28-Oct-91 | Pekka Sinervo, University of Toronto | What have we learned from High Energy Proton-antiproton Collisions? |
21-Oct-91 | Jay Apt, NASA | F=ma: Personal Observations, a Report of Space Shuttle Mission 37 |
07-Oct-91 | James Faller, JILA and University of Colorado | Fifth Force Physics and the Gravity of Spinning Tops |
30-Sep-91 | Clifford M. Will , Washington University | How Right is General Relativity? |
25-Sep-91 | Peter Meyers, Princeton | Things that (Almost) Don't Happen: K + ? v v As a Test of the Standard Model |
1990/1991
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
06-May-91 | Mikhail Anisimov, Moscow Oil and Gas Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences | Critical Phenomena in Soft Matter |
29-Apr-91 | Lawrence Sulak, Boston University | From Supernova to Supercollider |
22-Apr-91 | Gerald Holton and Gerhard Sonnert, Harvard | Gender Differences in Scientists' Careers; An Empirical Study |
15-Apr-91 | Lene Hau, Harvard University. | Bound States of Guided Matter Waves- An Atom and a Charged Wire |
08-Apr-91 | Carl Wieman, University of Colorado at Boulder | TeV Physics on an eV Budget: Measurement of Parity Non-Conservation in Atomic Cesium [Loeb Colloquium] |
01-Apr-91 | Anton Zeilinger, Technical University of Vienna and University of Innsbruck | "One Particle, Two Particles, Three. Local and Non-Local Quantum Interferometry |
18-Mar-91 | John Simpson, University of Guelph | Neutrino Masses and Mixings- the 17 KEV Neutrino |
11-Mar-91 | Mar 11, 1991: "Two Dimensional Melting," Cherry Ann Murray, Bell Laboratires. | Mar 11, 1991: "Two Dimensional Melting," Cherry Ann Murray, Bell Laboratires. |
04-Mar-91 | Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania | Cosmology at the Boiling Point [Loeb Colloquium] |
25-Feb-91 | Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford | Optical Tests for Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry and the Search for Anyons in High-Temperature Superconductors |
11-Feb-91 | Bertrand Halperin, Harvard | Quantum Antiferromagnets in one and two Dimensions |
04-Feb-91 | Vladimir Braginsky, Moscow University | High Precision Measurements of Single Macroscopic Objects |
14-Jan-91 | Daniel Kleppner, M.I.T. | Eigenstates of Chaos |
17-Dec-90 | Robert Cousins, UCLA | Searching for New Forces of Nature in Rare Kaon Decays and Related Processes |
10-Dec-90 | John S. Briggs of Albert-Ludwig-Universitat | Correlated Motion in Highly-Excited Atomic and Molecular States |
03-Dec-90 | Chris H. Greene, University of Colorado | Non-Perturbative Effects of a Static Field in Photoabsorption |
26-Nov-90 | William Phillips, National Institute of Stand. & Technology. | The Coldest Atoms Ever |
19-Nov-90 | Ronald Pindack, Bell Laboratories | Twisted Crystals: Defect Lattices in Chiral Smectics |
29-Oct-90 | Richard Webb, IBM | Low Temperature Physics as an Aid for the Quantum Mechanic |
22-Oct-90 | Kay Kinoshita | The b-Quark: Confronting the Standard Model in the 1990's |
15-Oct-90 | Pierre Hohenberg, Bell Laboratories | Non-Equilibrium Pattern Formation |
01-Oct-90 | Jack M. Wilson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Issues in Pre-College Physics Education |
24-Sep-90 | Timothy Chupp, Harvard | Physics with Laser-Polarized Nuclei |
1989/1990
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
07-May-90 | Albert Libchaber, University of Chicago | Thermal Turbulence |
23-Apr-90 | Melissa Franklin, Harvard | Triton among the Minnows: The Big Quark |
19-Apr-90 | Sekhar Chivukula, Boston University | What's the Matter in the Universe? |
09-Apr-90 | Karl Berkelman, Cornell | The Beautiful Quark [Loeb Colloquium] |
02-Apr-90 | Eric Mazur, Harvard | Light on Surfaces and Surfactants |
19-Mar-90 | Norman Ramsey, Harvard | Experiments on Time Reveral Symmetry and Parity |
12-Mar-90 | Roger Cashmore, Univeristy of Oxford | Lepton-Hadron Scattering: From the Post to the Future at HERA |
05-Mar-90 | Steven Ahlen, Boston University | Probing the Cosmos with High Altitude Balloon Experiments |
12-Feb-90 | David Gross, Princeton | The State of the String |
05-Feb-90 | Herbert Walther, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics | Single Atom Experiments and the Test of Quantum Physics [Loeb Colloquium] |
08-Jan-90 | John Imbrie, Harvard | Self-Avoiding Walks and Related Problems- A Path Integral Approach |
11-Dec-89 | Alexander Polyakov, Princeton | Strings, Superconductors, and Mathematics |
04-Dec-89 | Fractional Statistics," Bertrand Halperin | Fractional Statistics |
27-Nov-89 | Masatoshi Koshiba, Tokai University and University of Chicago | Observational Neutrino Astrophysics |
20-Nov-89 | David Pritchard, MIT. | Atom Traps: Progress and Prospects |
13-Nov-89 | Gary J. Feldman, SLAC. | Production and Decay of Z Bosons: Results from the Mark II at SLC |
06-Nov-89 | Stephen Olsen, University of Rochester | Challenging the Standard Models ant TRISTAN |
30-Oct-89 | Carlos Stroud, University of Rochester | Towards the Classical Atom: Localized Electron Wave Packets on Kepler Orbits |
23-Oct-89 | Boris Altshuler, Leningrad Nuclear Physics Institute & M.I.T. | Quantum Coherence Effects in Small Disordered Conductors |
16-Oct-89 | N. David Mermin, Cornell | Quasicrystals, Symmetry, and Fermat's Last Theorem: Adventures of a Stubborn Theorist |
02-Oct-89 | Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard | Cryogenic Antiprotons Cooled by Electrons: A New Measurement of the p Mass |
25-Sep-89 | Alexander Zamolodchikov, Landau Institute | Quantum Field Theory in Two Dimensions and Critical Phenomena [Loeb Lecture] |
1988/1989:
no information available
1987/1988
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
09-May-88 | Roy Schwitters, Harvard | The Tevatron and SSC; New Tools for High Energy Physics |
02-May-88 | Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin | The Cosmological Constant Problem [Loeb Colloquium] |
25-Apr-88 | Allan Sandage, Carnegie Institution of Washington | Time Cosmology, and Grand Unification |
18-Apr-88 | Scott Tremaine, University of Toronto | The Mass of Our Galaxy [Loeb Colloquium] |
11-Apr-88 | Hendrick de Waard, University of Gronigen | Isolated Molecules in Metals |
04-Apr-88 | Philip Busbaum, AT&T Bell Laboratories | The Strange Properties of Intense-Field Ionization |
21-Mar-88 | David Nelson, Harvard | Physics of Polymerized Membranes |
14-Mar-88 | Howard Georgi, Harvard | Flavor SU (3) Symmetries in Particle Physics |
07-Mar-88 | Steven Chu, Stanford | Topics in Laser Spectroscopy at the Lunatic Fringe [Loeb Colloquium] |
29-Feb-88 | David Wilkinson, Princeton | Cosmic Microwave Radiation - What's New? |
08-Feb-88 | Richard Silver, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Theory and Experiment of Deep Inelastic Scattering |
11-Jan-88 | William Skicpol, Boston University | Quantum Physics Experiments in Silicon Nanostructures |
14-Dec-87 | Jeremy Mould, Cal. Tech. | Evidence for a Large Scale Deviation from the Hubble Flow |
07-Dec-87 | Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago | Measuring Fractals; Holding a Ruler to the Infinitesimal [Loeb Colloquium] |
30-Nov-87 | Timothy E. Chupp, Harvard | Precision Measurement with Polarized Noble Gas Atoms: Tests of Lorentz and Time Reversal Invariance |
23-Nov-87 | Michael Witherell, Santa Barbara | Weak Decay of Charmed Quarks |
16-Nov-87 | David Vanderbilt, Harvard | The Silicon 7x7 Surface Reconstruction: Establishing a Motive |
09-Nov-87 | Costas Papaliolios, Harvard | "Out Damned Spot! Out I say!" , SUPERNOVA SN1987A and COMPANION |
02-Nov-87 | Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard | Antiprotons in an Ion Trap |
26-Oct-87 | Frank Wilczek, ITP, Santa Barbara | Mechanics Without Intertia |
19-Oct-87 | A.D. Linde, Lebedev Physical Institute. | Basic Principles of Inflationary Cosmology |
05-Oct-87 | Volker Soergel, DESY. | The Physics of e-p Collisions at HERA-Status of the Project |
28-Sep-87 | Humphrey Maris, Brown | Solar Neutrinos and Low Temperature Physics |
1986/1987
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
11-May-87 | Klaus Winter, CERN | Neutrino Interactions and the Electroweak Mixing Angle |
04-May-87 | Nicholaas Bloembergen, Harvard | The American Physical Society Study on Directed Energy Weapons |
27-Apr-87 | Roger Cashmore, University of Oxford | Electroweak Interactions - Past, Present, Future |
20-Apr-87 | Daniel Kleppner, M.I.T. | Physics with Giant Atoms [Loeb Colloquium] |
13-Apr-87 | Claudia Tesche, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center | D.C. Squids: From Monopoles to Macroscopic Quantum Coherence |
06-Apr-87 | Lawrence Sulak, Boston University | The Birth of a New Astronomy: Observation of Neutrinos from Supernova 1987A |
23-Mar-87 | Paul Horn, IBM, T. J. Watson Research Center | Are Quasicrystals Crystalline? |
16-Mar-87 | C. W. Chu, University of Houston | Superconductivity above Liquid Nitrogen Temperature |
09-Mar-87 | Pierre Darriulat, CERN | A Future for Experimental Particle Physics? [Loeb Colloquium] |
02-Mar-87 | John Wilkerson, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Limits on the Electron Antineutrino Mass |
23-Feb-87 | Dudley R. Herschbach, Harvard | Chemistry for Physicists |
09-Feb-87 | Stephen Geer, Harvard | Physics from the CERN Proton-Antiproton Collider |
15-Dec-86 | Alexander J. Glass, KMS Fusion Inc. | Progress and Prospects for Inertial Fusion |
08-Dec-86 | Dale Schaefer, Sandia Laboratories | Fractal Structures in Synthetic Materials |
01-Dec-86 | R.J. Birgeneau, M.I.T. | Synchrotorn Radiation and Condensed Matter: Why the Excitement? [Loeb Colloquium] |
24-Nov-86 | John Clarke, UC Berkeley | Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and Quantized Energy Levels in a Josephson Junction |
17-Nov-86 | Malvin Kalos, Courant Institute | Monte Carlo Methods for the many Fermion Problem |
10-Nov-86 | R. Wilson, Harvard | Chernobyl and Its Aftermath |
03-Nov-86 | A.de Rujula, CERN and Boston University | The 6 th or 7 th Force |
27-Oct-86 | E. Witten, Princeton | Fields and Strings [Loeb Colloquium] |
20-Oct-86 | M. Tinkham, Harvard | Noise and Chaos in Josephson Junctions |
06-Oct-86 | H. J. Kimble, University of Texas, Austin | Squeezed States of Light |
29-Sep-86 | Daniel Fisher, AT&T Bell Laboratories | Real Spin Glasses |
22-Sep-86 | David Schramm, University of Chicago | The Structure of the Universe: Fractals, Strings, and Neutrinos |
1985/1986
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
05-May-86 | S. Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin | Why Strings? [(Loeb Colloquium] |
28-Apr-86 | Margaret Geller, Harvard Observatory | Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble |
21-Apr-86 | G. Toulouse, Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles | Ultrametricity in Physics & Biology |
14-Apr-86 | James W. Rohlf, Harvard University | Using High-Energy Hadron Collisions to Study the Strong and Weak Interactions |
07-Apr-86 | G. Parisi, Instituto Nazionale de Fisica Nucleare | Why Spin Glasses are Interesting [Loeb Colloquium] |
31-Mar-86 | Michael Peskin, SLAC. | Conformal Mapping Comes of Age |
17-Mar-86 | Frank Laloe, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris | Spin Polarized 3He |
10-Mar-86 | Thomas Mossberg, Harvard | Atoms in Strong Transient Optical Fields: Stationary States to Optical Memories |
03-Mar-86 | J.G. Dash, University of Washington | Between 2 and 3 Dimensions |
24-Feb-86 | Albert Libchaber, University of Chicago | From Quasiperiodicity to Chaos in a Rayleigh-Benard Experiment |
10-Feb-86 | James Faller, University of Colorado and JILA | Eotvos Re-Revisited |
03-Feb-86 | Dikran Antreasyan, Harvard | Spectroscopy of the Heavy Quarks |
06-Jan-86 | Kosta M. Tsipis, M.I.T. | Technical and Operational Considerations of the Strategic Defense Initiative |
16-Dec-85 | John Z. Imbrie, Harvard | Finding Order in Disordered Magnets: Theory, Experiment, Mathematics |
09-Dec-85 | Gerald Gabrielse, University of Washington | Fundamental Physics with a Single Trapped Particle |
02-Dec-85 | Steven Chu, AT&T Bell Laboratories | Cooling and Trapping of Atoms with Laser Light and Potential Applications |
25-Nov-85 | Peter Milonni, University of Arkansas | Chaos, and its Role in Laser-Matter Interactions |
18-Nov-85 | Neil Sullivan, University of Florida | A Proposed Search for the Experimental Axion |
04-Nov-85 | Gordon Thomas, DAS and AT&T Bell Laboratories | Localization: An Electronic Phase Transition |
28-Oct-85 | Fritz Haake, University of Essen | "Macroscopic Fluctuations and the Decay of Unstable States |
21-Oct-85 | Victor F. Weisskopf | Niels Bohr: The Quantum and the World [Loeb Colloquium] |
07-Oct-85 | Paul Ginsparg, Harvard | Superstrings: Magic, Coincidence, Recreation, and Desperation in the 80's |
23-Sep-85 | J. A. Golovchenko, AT&T Bell Laboratories | A Look at the World through the Tunneling Microscope |
23-Sep-85 | Wolfgang Paul, University of Bonn | Neutron Storage in bottles and Rings |
1984/1985
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
06-May-85 | Peter Galison, Stanford | The Origin of Large Scale Experimentation in High Energy Physics |
29-Apr-85 | John Simpson, University of Guelph | Evidence of Heavy Neutrino Emission in Beta Decay |
22-Apr-85 | Robert Westervelt, Harvard | Nonlinear Dynamics and Noise in Semiconductors |
15-Apr-85 | Philip Marcus, Harvard | The Great Red Spot of Jupiter |
08-Apr-85 | Howard Georgi, Harvard | Particle Physics and Metaphysics in the 1980's |
01-Apr-85 | Patrick Thaddeus, Goddard Institute for Space Studies | Molecular Clouds in the Galaxy |
18-Mar-85 | Heini Rohrer, IBM Zurich Laboratory | Microscopy and Spectroscopy in the Atomic Range: The Scanning Tunnel Microscope |
11-Mar-85 | Edward Fahri, M.I.T. | Strange Matter |
04-Mar-85 | Stephen Wolfram, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton | Towards a Theory of Complexity in Physics |
25-Feb-85 | John Hopfield, Cal Tech. | The Physics of Biological Computation |
11-Feb-85 | Arthur Jaffe, Harvard | What's New in Mathematical Physics |
04-Feb-85 | Paul Horowitz, Harvard | The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence |
14-Jan-85 | Alan Krisch, University of Michigan | Large Spin Effects in Hard P-P Collisions |
07-Jan-85 | Peter Pershan, Harvard | Synchrotron Radiation Study of Liquid Surfaces |
10-Dec-84 | Lawrence J. Hall, Harvard | Unusual Events at the CERN Collider |
03-Dec-84 | Mitchell Feigenbaum, Cornel | Scaling and Chaos |
26-Nov-84 | David Nelson, Harvard | Pentagonal and Icosahedral Order in Nature |
19-Nov-84 | Allen Mills, Bell Labs | Antimatter in the Laboratory: Positron Studies of Atoms and Surfaces |
05-Nov-84 | John Schwarz, Caltech | Towards a Unified Field Theory of All Interactions |
29-Oct-84 | Norman Ramsey, Harvard | Experiments on Time Reversal Symmetry and Parity |
15-Oct-84 | Edward Fredkin, MIT | Physics and Information Processes |
01-Oct-84 | Carleton Pennypacker, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Automated Search for Supernovae and the Solar Companion Star Nemesis |
24-Sep-84 | Leo Kadanoff, University of Chicago | Snatching Chaos from Order: Complex Results from Simple Systems |
1983/1984
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
30-Apr-84 | Steve Weinberg | Physics in Higher Dimensions |
23-Apr-84 | Jurg Frohlich | Disordered Systems |
16-Apr-84 | Joseph Taylor | Pulsars: Natures's Most Precise Clocks- Experimental Relativity, Timing the Binary Pulsar |
09-Apr-84 | Gerd Bergmann | Time-of-Flight Experiments with Conduction Electrons; an Application of Weak Localization |
02-Apr-84 | Stephen Hawking | The Origin of the Universe |
19-Mar-84 | F.I.B. Williams | Observation of Shear Waves in the Two Dimensional Electron Solid |
12-Mar-84 | Roman Jackiw | Quantization of Physical Parameters |
05-Mar-84 | Anthony Leggett | Quantum Mechanics and 'Common Sense' |
27-Feb-84 | Sam Williamson | Neuromagnetism: A New Frontier in Brain Research |
13-Feb-84 | William Edelstein | The Application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Human Subject |
06-Feb-84 | N/A | 1/f Noise |
09-09-84 | Masatoshi Koshiba | Results from KAMOIKA Nucleon Decay Experiment |
12-Dec-83 | David Pritchard, M.I.T. | The Naked Truth about Dressed Atoms |
05-Dec-83 | Lawrence Krauss | Anti-Neutrinos from Heaven and Earth |
28-Nov-83 | Nigel Weiss, Joint with Astrophysics | Periodic and Chaotic Stellar Dynamos |
21-Nov-83 | Paul Bamberg | Speech Recognition by Computer |
14-Nov-83 | Toichiro Kinoshita | Recent Developments of Quantum Electrodynamics and High Precision Determination of the Fine Structure Constan |
07-Nov-83 | Pau Chaikin | Classical Wigner Crystals, Glasses and Liquids from Polyballs |
31-Oct-83 | Alan.R. Mackintosh | Quantum Correlations and Measurements |
24-Oct-83 | E Norval Fortson | Measuring Parity Violation and Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry in Atoms |
17-Oct-83 | DeRujula | Search for Monopoles, Gravitational Waves, and Newtorites |
26-Sep-83 | Robert Laughlin, Livermore Laboratory | Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect |
1982/1983
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
|---|---|---|
2-May-83 | Isaac Silvera | New Phases of Molecular Hydrogen at Ultra-High Pressure |
25-Apr-83 | Alan Guth | The New Inflationary Universe |
18-Apr-83 | Richard Wilson. | Analyzing the Daily Risks of Life |
11-Apr-83 | Larry Sulak | Waiting for the Proton to Decay |
04-Apr-83 | Peter Galison | How the First Neutral Current Experiments Ended |
21-Mar-83 | Douglas Eardley | Sources of Gravitation and Radiation |
14-Mar-83 | Carlo Rubbia | Search for Intermediate Vector Bosons |
07-Mar-83 | Panofsky | Colliding Particle Beams: The Present and the Future |
28-Feb-83 | W.D. Philips, National Bureau of Standards | Laser Cooling of an Atomic Beam |
14-Feb-83 | J.A. Golovchenko | Wave Optics at 1 A |
10-Jan-83 | David Wineland, National Bureau of Standards | Cooled-Ion Clocks |
13-Dec-82 | Michael Salour, M.I.T. | Ultrafast Optical Interactions in Semi-Conductors |
06-Dec-82 | Anthony Thomas, University of British Columbia and CERN | Chiral Symmetry and the Bag Model of Hadronic Structure: A New Way of Looking at Nuclear and Particle Physics |
29-Nov-82 | Brian Kincaid, Bell Laboratories | The Uses of Synchrotron Radiation |
22-Nov-82 | Scott Kirkpatrick, Watson Lab, I.B.M. | Statistical Mechanics and the Traveling Salesman |
15-Nov-82 | Douglas J. Scalapino, UC Santa Barbara | Pictures of a Many-Particle Ground State |
08-Nov-82 | Hans Bethe | Supernovae General I |
01-Nov-82 | June Matthews, M.I.T. | Energetic Photons and Fast Protons |
25-Oct-82 | Carson Jeffries, UC Berkeley | Experimental Evidence for Universal Chaotic Behavior |
18-Oct-82 | J.K. Dickens, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. | Pauli's Little Neutral One: Fifty Years of Hide and Seek |
04-Oct-82 | George Field | Astronomy for the 1980's |
27-Sep-82 | Carlo Rubbia | Antiproton-proton Collisions at Very High Energy |