#  Colloquium Archive: 1982/1983 - 1999/2020  

 



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- for Fall 2020 and later listings, go to the [Colloquium Archive: 2020/2021 -](/colloq_archive)
- for current and upcoming Colloquia, go to the [Physics Event Calendar](/colloq "Physics Monday Colloquium")
- *Jump to:*  
    [2019/2020](#y2019_2020) | [2018/2019](#y2018_2019) | [2017/2018](#y2017_2018) | [2016/2017](#y2016_2017) | [2015/2016](#y2015_2016) | [2014/2015](#y2014_2015) | [2013/2014](#y2013_2014) | [2012/2013](#y2012_2013) | [2011/2012](#y2011_2012) | [2010/2011](#y2010_2011) | [2009/2010](#y2009_2010) | [2008/2009](#y2008_2009) | [2007/2008](#y2007_2008) | [2006/2007](#y2006_2007) | [2005/2006](#y2005_2006) | [2004/2005](#y2004_2005) | [2003/2004](#y2003_2004) | [2002/2003](#y2002_2003) | [2001/2002](#y2001_2002) | [2000/2001](#y2000_2001) | 1999/2000 | [1998/1999](#y1998_1999) | 1997/1998 | [1996/1997](#y1996_1997) | 1995/1996 | [1994/1995](#y1994_1995) | 1993/1994 | [1992/1993](#y1992_1993) | [1990/1991](#y1990_1991) | [1989/1990](#y1989_1990) | 1988/1989 | [1987/1988](#y1987_1988) | [1986/1987](#y1986_1987) | [1985/1986](#y1985_1986) | [1984/1985](#y1984_1985) | [1983/1984](#y1983_1984) | [1982/1983](#y1982_1983)

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## 2019/2020

SortDateLecturerTitle05-04-20

John Huth (Harvard)

[*Wave Piloting in the Marshall Islands*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiwNNXK8sDI)

04-27-20

Lisa Randall (Harvard)

[*Darkly Charged Dark Matter*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZSsw3AztVk)

04-20-20

David R. Nelson (Harvard)

[*On Growth and Form of Microorganisms on Liquid Substrates*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZF02JfKNbQ)

04-13-20

Bertrand Halperin (Harvard);

[*Quantum Hall Physics in Coupled Bilayers*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8khLoOqBJLU&t=5s)

04-06-20

Efthimios Kaxiras (Harvard)

[*Twistronics: manipulating electronic behavior in two-dimensional materials*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_efjgFgPX4&t=12s)

03-30-20

Matteo Mitrano

[*Controlling Quantum Materials with Light*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4-6z4I7eDI)

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](/loeb-lee)]

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](/loeb-lee)]

09-09-19

Carlo Rubbia (CERN)

The Future of Energy





## 2018/2019

SortDateLecturerTitle04-29-19

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](/loeb-lee)] 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](/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle04-30-18

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

SortDateLecturerTitle04-24-17

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](/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle05-02-16

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)

[Flat Space, Deep Learning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X64TfzDIOAg)

03-21-16

Juan Maldacena (Princeton)

"[Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkVV88LSUVg&list=PLYwNda-DMY-NcEfPqJCypaDiPQ4goCrD6&index=1)" (03/21/16) [Loeb Colloquium; see also [Loeb Lectures page](/loeb-lee "Loeb and Lee Lectures: 2000 -  ")]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle05-04-15

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle05-05-14

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle04-29-13

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle04-23-12

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

03-05-12

Theodor W. Hänsch, University of Munich

*Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen* [Loeb Colloquium; see also the [Loeb Lectures page](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle5-2-11

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle5-3-10

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle05-18-09

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle05-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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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](https:/www.physics.harvard.edu/loeb-lee)]

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

SortDateLecturerTitle14-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

SortDateLecturerTitle15-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

SortDateLecturerTitle18-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

SortDateLecturerTitle03-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

SortDateLecturerTitle12-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

SortDateLecturerTitle13-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

SortDateLecturerTitle07-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

SortDateLecturerTitle01-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

SortDateLecturerTitle10-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

SortDateLecturerTitle16-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

SortDateLecturerTitle01-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

SortDateLecturerTitle26-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

SortDateLecturerTitle04-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

SortDateLecturerTitle06-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

SortDateLecturerTitle07-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

SortDateLecturerTitle09-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

SortDateLecturerTitle11-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

SortDateLecturerTitle05-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

SortDateLecturerTitle06-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

SortDateLecturerTitle30-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

SortDateLecturerTitle2-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