For access to recordings of some of the lectures, please email physics_colloquium@fas.harvard.edu
For earlier lectures, see Loeb and Lee Lectures Archive: 1953 - 1990
| 2023-2024 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Frank Wilczek (MIT, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics) |
"My Life With QCD: A Fifty Year Love Affair That’s Still Going Strong" (04/09/2024) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Andre Geim (U Manchester) |
Colloquium: "Wonder Materials" (05/25/2024) Lecture I: "Exploring 2D Empty Space" (05/26/2024) Colloquium II: "Science of flying frogs" 05/27/2024 |
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Loeb Lecturer: Jean Dalibard (Collège de France) |
Colloquium: "Scale invariance, a hidden symmetry explored with quantum gases" (11/13/2023) Lecture I: "Surprises in soliton physics with quantum gas mixtures" (11/14/2023) Lecture II: "Is a zero-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate fully superfluid?" (11/15/2023) |
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| 2022-2023 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Steven Chu (Stanford) |
"A random walk into laser cooling, optical trapping and beyond" (04/25/2023) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute) |
Colloquium: "The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales" (03/20/2023) Lecture I: "The CνB on the Surface of the Earth" (03/21/2023) Lecture II: "A Diffraction Grating for the CνB" (03/22/2023) |
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Loeb Lecturer: M. Cristina Marchetti (UC Santa Barbara) |
Colloquium: "The Physics of Active Matter" (11/14/2022) Lecture I: "Dynamics of active fluid interfaces" (11/15/2022) Lecture II: "Rheology of dense biological tissue" (11/16/2022) |
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| 2021-2022 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: David Ruelle (IHES) |
"A Personal Historical View of the Theory of Deterministic Chaos" (4/5/2022) |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Helen Quinn (SLAC) |
"A Window on Particle Physics at Harvard in the Early 1970’s" (11/17/2021) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Sara Seager (MIT) |
Colloquium: "Exoplanets and the Search for Atmospheric Biosignature Gases" (11/01/21) Lecture I: "Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet" (11/2/21) Lecture II: The Search for Another Earth (11/3/21) |
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2020-2021 |
No Lectures |
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| 2019-2000 |
Loeb Lecturer: Zhi-Xun Shen (Stanford) |
Colloquium: "Angle-Resolved Photoemission – a Many-Body Spectroscopy for Quantum Materials" (11/4/19) Lecture I: "Electronic Phase Diagram of Cuprate Superconductors – a Balancing Act" (11/5/19) Lecture II: "Electronic Structure of Topological Materials" (11/6/19) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Yann LeCun (VP & Chief AI Scientist, Facebook; Silver Professor, NYU) |
Colloquium: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning" (09/16/19) Lecture I: "The Energy-Based Formulation of Learning" (09/17/19) Lecture II: "Intriguing Connections Between Deep Learning and Physics" (09/18/19) |
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| 2018-19 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Anton Zeilinger (U Vienna) |
"Quantum Information and Quantum Communication, Foundations and Prospects" (04/04/2019) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Donna Strickland (U Waterloo) |
Colloquium: "From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics" (03/04/19) Lecture I: "Investigation of Multi-Frequency Raman Generated Spectra" (03/05/19) Lecture II: "Two-Color CPA Laser Development for Nonlinear Optics" (03/06/19) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Jun Ye (JILA) |
Colloquium: "Quantum Matter and Atomic Clocks" (10/22/18) Lecture I: "Frequency Comb Spectroscopy – from Mid-IR to XUV" (10/23/18) Lecture II: "The Making of a Polar Molecule Quantum Gas" (10/24/18) |
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| 2017-18 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Rainer Weiss (MIT) |
"The Remarkable Gamble the National Science Foundation Took with LIGO" (04/23/2018) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Margaret Murnane (JILA) |
Colloquium: "Harnessing Quantum Light Science for Tabletop X-Ray Lasers, with Applications in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" (04/10/18) Lecture I: "Capturing the Fastest Charge and Spin Dynamics in Nanosystems using Tabletop High Harmonic Beams" (04/11/18) Lecture II: "Coherent Imaging Using Coherent X-Ray Beams" (04/12/18) |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Michael Berry (U Bristol) |
"Variations on a Theme of Aharonov and Bohm" (03/29/2018) |
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| 2016-17 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Michael E. Fisher, U Maryland & Cornell |
"Wilson’s Renormalization Group Theory: Ken Wilson as I Knew Him" (04/25/17) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Ali Yazdani, Princeton |
Colloquium: "Spotting the Elusive Majorana under the Microscope" (10/31/16) Lecture I: "Visualizing a Nematic Quantum Liquid" (11/01/16) Lecture II: "Topological Connections and Protection in Metals and Insulators" (11/03/16) |
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| 2015-16 |
Loeb Lecturer: Stephen Hawking, Cambridge |
"Quantum Black Holes" (04/18/16) This lecture was not recorded |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Richard Muller, UC Berkeley |
"One Catastrophe After Another: The Big Bang, Death of the Dinosaurs, Ice Ages, Global Warming, and Beyond" (04/13/16) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Juan Maldacena, Princeton |
Colloquium: "Black Holes and the Structure of Spacetime" (03/21/16) Lecture I: "Introduction to the Gauge Gravity Duality I" (03/22/16) Lecture II: "Introduction to the Gauge Gravity Duality II" (03/23/16) Lecture III: "Entanglement entropy in quantum field theory and gravity" (03/24/16) Lecture IV: "Chaos and Black Holes"(03/25/16) |
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| 2014-15 |
Loeb Lecturer: Brian P. Schmidt, The Australian National University |
Lecture I: "Surveying the Southern Skies with the SkyMapper Telescope" (04/28/15) Colloquium: "The Accelerating Universe "(04/29/15) Lecture II: "After the Dark Ages: The First Stars" (04/30/15) |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Steven Weinberg, University of Texas |
"Glimpses of a World Within" (12/01/14) | |
| 2013-14 |
Loeb Lecturer: Marc Mézard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris |
Colloquium: "The Spin Glass Cornucopia" (4/28/2014) Lecture I: "Phase Transitions in Hard Computer Science Problems" (04/29/2014) Lecture II:" Occam’s Razor in Massive Data Acquisition: a Statistical Physics Approach" (04/30/2014) |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: François Englert, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
"The Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism and Its Scalar Bosons" (04/17/2014) | |
| 2012-13 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Roy J. Glauber, Harvard |
"Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era" (04/30/2013) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Fabiola Gianotti, CERN |
Colloquium: "Challenges and Accomplishments of the Large Hadron Collider" (04/22/2013) Lecture I: "Higgs Boson: aVery Special Discovery" (04/24/2013) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Philip Kim, Columbia University |
Lecture I: "Spin and Pseudospin in Graphene" (9/21/2012) Colloquium: "Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter's Butterfly in Graphene" (09/24/2012) Lecture II: "Materials in 2-Dimension and Beyond" (9/25/2012) |
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| 2011-12 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: David Gross, KITP, UCSB |
"A Century of Nuclear Physics: "From Rutherford to QCD and to String Theory" (4/17/2012) |
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Loeb Lecturer: John Clarke, UC Berkeley |
Colloquium: "The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now" (3/19/2012) Lecture I: "Magnetic Flux 1/f Noise: A 30-Year Saga" (3/20/2012) Lecture II: "Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Microtesla Fields: A New Clinical Modality?" (3/22/2012) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Theodor W. Hänsch (University of Munich, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics) |
Colloquium: "Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen" (3/5/2012) Lecture I: "The Proton Size Puzzle" (3/6/2012) Lecture II:" Lazer Frequency Combs" (3/8/2012) |
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| 2010-11 |
Loeb Lecturer: Dam Thanh Son, University of Washington |
Colloquium: "Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory "(4/18/11) Lecture I: "Deconstructing Holographic Liquids" (4/19/11) Lecture II: "Field Theoretical Methods for Non-relativistic Systems" (4/21/11) |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Dudley Herschbach, CCB, Harvard |
"Molecular Beams in Chemical Physics" (3/9/11) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Boris Shraiman, KITP, UCSB |
Colloquium: "Unexpected Physics in Biology" (1/31/11) Lecture I: "Genetic 'Ensembles': Alleles versus Genotypes" (2/1/11) Lecture II: "Sex, Survival and Adaptation" (2/3/11) |
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| 2009-2010 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: M. Dresselhaus, MIT |
Historical Threads of Nanoscience |
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Loeb Lecturer: Matthew P.A. Fisher, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing (3/1/10) Lecture I: Exotic Spin Liquids in Weak Mott Insulators (3/2/10) Lecture II: Critical Quantum Fluids with d-wave Pair Correlations (3/4/10) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona |
Colloquium: A New Decade of Cosmic Structure (10/5/09) Lecture I: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A Robust and Precise Route to the Cosmological Distance Scale (10/6/09) Lecture II: Observational probes of dark energy (10/8/09) |
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| 2008-09 |
Loeb Lecturer: David Kaplan, University of Washington |
Colloquium: Nuclear Physics from Effective Field Theory (4/20/09)* Lecture I: Conformality Lost (4/21/09)* Lecture II: Peering Beyond the Horizon with Axions (4/23/09)* |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Michael Tinkham, Harvard |
The Discovery of the Superconducting Energy Gap (4/16/09) | |
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Loeb Lecturer: Ann Nelson, University of Washington |
Colloquium: Beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era (3/30/09) Lecture I: SUSY Conformal Hidden Valley & Dark Matter (3/31/09) |
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Loeb Lecturer: J.C. Séamus Davis, Cornell University & Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Exploring Complex Condensed Quantum Matter: Lecture I: Atomic Scale Visualization of Electronic Structure in Cuprates: From Mottness to Superconductivity (12/4/08) Colloquium: Complex Quantum Matter in Bosonic Crystals: A 'Superglass' State in Solid 4 He (12/8/08) Lecture II: Imaging the 'Fano Lattice'’ Signature of Heavy Fermion Formation via f-d Hybridization (12/10/08) Lecture III: Identification of the Cuprate Pseudogap State using Quasiparticle Interference Imaging (12/11/08) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Rashid Sunyaev, Max Planck Institute |
Colloquium: Clusters of Galaxies, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Cosmology (11/10/08) Lecture I: CMB Spectral Distortions Due to Energy Release in the Early Universe (11/11/08) Lecture II: Interaction of CMB Photons with Hot Gas in the Clusters of Galaxies and Observational Consequences (11/13/08) |
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| 2007-08 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Daniel Kleppner, MIT |
How Physics Became Precise (4/16/08) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University and Princeton University |
Colloquium: The Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations and Correlations Tell the Story (3/31/08) Lecture I: Using Quantum Mechanics to Detect Anthrax (4/2/08) Lecture II: The Laser-Bec Analogy (4/8/08) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Steven M. Block, Stanford University |
Colloquium: Single Molecule Biophysics: Reading the Genetic Code (2/25/08) Lecture I: Single Molecule Biophysics: How Nucleic Acids Fold (2/26/08) Lecture II: Single Molecule Biophysics: How Kinesin Motors Move (2/28/08) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Don Eigler, IBM |
Colloquium: There’s Plenty of Room in the Middle: A View from the Bottom Lecture I: Computation in Nanometer-Scale Structures: Molecule Cascades Lecture II: Classical Computation in Quantum Nanostructures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future |
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| 2006-07 |
Lee Historical Lecturers: David M. Lee, Cornell Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford |
Probing the World Near Absolute Zero: The Discovery of Superfluidity in Helium Three |
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Loeb Lecturer: Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago |
Colloquium: Taking Sides on the Dark Energy Issue Lecture I: Inflation and the Origin of Structure Lecture II: Dark Matters |
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Loeb Lecturer: Eric Adelberger, University of Washington |
Colloquium: Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale Lecture I: Modern Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle Lecture II: Probes of Lorentz-Symmetry Violation and other Exotica using a Spin Pendulum |
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| 2005-06 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Charles Slichter |
The Flowering of Magnetic Resonance & Condensed Matter Physics--Some History, Ancient & in the Making |
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Loeb Lecturer: Persis Drell, SLAC |
Colloquium: Quantum Universe Lecture I: GLAST: The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope Lecture II: The Future of High Energy Physics: A Personal Perspective |
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Loeb Lecturer: John Preskill, Caltech |
Colloquium: Putting Wierdness to Work: Quantum Information Science Lecture I: Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Lecture II: Topological Quantum Computation |
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Loeb Lecturer: John Hopfield, Princeton |
Colloquium: A Physics View of Brain Computation Lecture I: The Dynamics of Spike-Timing Computation: Olfaction Lecture II: A Neural Approach to Recognizing Brief Dynamical Patterns: Speech |
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| 2004-05 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: P. James E. Peebles, Princeton |
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Loeb Lecturer: Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA |
Colloquium: The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics, Economics, and Sociology Lecture I: What Specific Physics will the End-of-Roadmap Technology Consist Of? Lecture II: What New Roadmap Concept Might Emerge Afterward? |
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Loeb Lecturer: Marvin Cohen, University of California, Berkeley |
Colloquium: A Standard Model for Solids Lecture I: Nanoscience: Small is Sometimes Different Lecture II: Mostly Superconductivity |
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| 2003-04 |
Loeb Lecturer: Georg Maret, University of Konstanz |
Colloquium: The Physics of Light Transport Lecture I: Multiple Light Scattering in Anisotropic Media: Principles and Applications Lecture II: Melting and Glass Transition in 2D Model Colloids |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study |
How We Might Have Gone to Mars in 1965: History of Project Orion | |
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Loeb Lecturer: Brian Greene, Columbia University |
Colloquium: Searching for the Unified Theory Lecture I: String Theory and Geometry Lecture II: String Theory and Cosmology |
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| 2002-03 |
Loeb Lecturer: James P. Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: Surprises in Two Dimensions: From the Quantized Hall Effect to Exciton Condensation Lecture I: Liquid Crystals of Electrons? Lecture II: Evidence for a New Kind of Superfluid |
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Loeb Lecturer: H. Jeff Kimble, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: The new science of quantum information Lecture I: An overview of cavity quantum electrodynamics from Purcell and Casimir to the Era of strong coupling Lecture II: Quantum teleportation fact and fantasy Lecture III: Cavity QED the plumbing |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Richard L. Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus, Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
Fun with Muons, GPS, Radar, etc. | |
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Loeb Lecturer: David DiVincenzo, IBM Watson Research Center |
Colloquium: Prospects for Quantum Computation. Lecture I: Exchange Gates for Spin Qubits Lecture II: The New Quantum Cryptography |
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| 2001-02 |
Loeb Lecturer: John Carlstrom, University of Chicago |
Colloquium: Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background and the South Pole DASI Experiment Lecture I: CMB Polarization and Future Directions Lecture II: Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Lecture III: Probing the Dark Energy Equation of State with New SZE Surveys |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Walter Kohn, University of California, Santa Barbara |
The Birth and Early Decades of Solid State Physics Remembered | |
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Loeb Lecturer: Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin; Morris Loeb Visiting Professor of Physics |
Colloquium: Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Short Course Lecture I: Cosmological Fluctuations: From Inflation through the Era of Radiation Dominance Lecture II: Cosmological Fluctuations: From the Era of Matter Dominance to Now |
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| 2000-01 |
Loeb Lecturer: Joseph Polchinski, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Colloquium: String Duality and D-Branes. Lectures I: Gage/Gravity Duality Lecture II: N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part I Lecture III: N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part II-Lecture IV. N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part III |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Sheldon Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and Boston University |
Half a Century of Particle Physics at Harvard | |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: I.M. Khalatnikov, Honorary Director of Landau Institute, Academician, and Foreign Member Royal Society |
The Landau School and the Landau Institute | |
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Loeb Lecturer: Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado |
Colloquium: Control of Atoms and Molecules Using Shaped Pulses Lecture I: Direct Observation of Surface Chemistry Using Ultrafast Soft-X-Ray Pulses Lecture II: Nonlinear Optics at Short Wavelengths |
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Loeb Lecturer: Lisa Randall, M. I. T. |
Colloquium: New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity Lecture I: Localizing Gravity Lecture II: Localized Gravity and the Weak Scale Lecture III: Locally Localized Gravity, Holography, and String Theory Lecture IV: Holography, Phenomenology, and Model Building |
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| 1999-2000 |
Loeb Lecturer: Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge |
Colloquium: The Shape of Time Lecture I: Nuts, Bolts and Branes Lecture II: Finite But Unbounded |
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Loeb Lecturer: Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago |
Colloquium: Physics at the Breakfast Table Lecture I: Exciting Granular Materials Lecture II: Jamming: From Glasses to Granular Matter Lecture III: Singularities and Cascades in Droplet Fission Lecture IV: Breaking Away, Selective Withdrawal, and Islets in the Stream |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Charles Townes, University of California, Berkeley |
The Sociology of Science Illustrated by Laser History | |
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Loeb Lecturer: Ashoke Sen, Mehta Research Institute |
Colloquium: Duality and Supersymmetry Lecture I-IV: Non-Supersymmetric Configurations in Supersymmetric String Theories |
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Loeb Long-Term Lecturer: Sebastien Balibar, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure |
Colloquium: Crystal Surfaces: From Facets to Crystallization Waves Lecture I: Crystal Steps: Experimental Checks of a Renormalization Theory Lecture II: Nucleation: Bubbles, Crystals and Superfluids |
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| 1998-99 |
Loeb Lecturer: Leonard Susskind, Stanford University |
Colloquium: The Holographic Principle: A New Paradigm for the Foundations of Physics Lecture I: String Theory and M-Theory Lecture II: M(atrix) Theory as a Holographic Theory Lecture III: Black Holes in Matrix Theory Lecture IV: Holography and Maldacena's Conjecture |
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Loeb Lecturer: Roger Angel, University of California |
Colloquium: Searching for Spectroscopic Signs of Primitive Life on Extra-Solar Planets: A Realistic Goal for NASA Lecture I: Building Big Mirrors for Telescopes on the Ground and in Space Lecture II: Adaptive Optics: A Tool to Remove Atmospheric Blurring |
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Loeb Lecturer: Albert J. Libchaber, Rockefeller University |
Colloquium: Biology and the Flow of Molecular Information Lecture I: DNA Mode d'Emploi: Reading, Editing, Translating Lecture II: The One Molecule Approach: Optical Tweezer and Fluorescence Marker Lecture III: Evolution: Ribosome Display and In-Vitro Protein Evolution Lecture IV: Gene Expression and Molecular Computing |
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Loeb Lecturer:s H. Günter Dosch & Hans J. Specht, University of Heidelberg |
Colloquium: Musical Harmony: Physics, Physiology and Psychology Lecture I: Musical Pitch: Temporal vs. Spectral Perception Lecture II: Physics of Musical Instruments and Pitch Perception |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Murray Gell-Mann, The Santa Fe Institute |
Some Adventures Among the Elementary Particles | |
| 1997-98 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Philip Anderson, Princeton University |
Mott, Slater, and the Magnetic State |
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Loeb Lecturer: Mark Wise, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: The Uses of Heavy Quark Symmetry Lectures I & II: Recent Developments in Heavy Quark Theory Lectures III & IV: A New Approach to Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics |
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Loeb Lecturer: David Stephenson, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: The Interior of Jupiter Illuminated by Galileo and Condensed Matter Physics Lecture I: History of Earth's Core Lecture II: Lunar Structure and Evolution: Clues to Origin? Lecture III: Why Do Some Planets Have Large Magnetic Fields (and What About Others)? Lecture IV: What's Going on Inside the Galilean Satellites? |
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Loeb Lecturer: Prof. J.E. Mooij, Delft University of Technology |
Colloquium: Quantum Transport of Electrons in Fabricated Nanostructures Lecture I: Semiconductor Quantum Dots Lecture II: Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays as Quantum Particles Lecture III: Electron Transport in Single Carbon Nanotubes Lecture IV: Quantum Computation with Superconducting Tunnel Junction Circuits |
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| 1996-97 |
Loeb Lecturer: Yuri Kagan, Kurchatov Institute |
Colloquium: Formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate and Macroscopic Quantum Properties Lecture I: Evolution of Bose Condensate in a Time-Dependent External Field Lecture II: Light Induced Change of Scattering Length and Optical Manipulation of a Bose-Condensed Gas Lecture III: Bose Condensation and Collapse in the Case of a Negative Scattering Length Lecture IV: Kinetics of Bose-Einstein Condensation in Highly Nonequilibrium Gas |
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Loeb Lecturer: (Special) The Hon. Vernon J. Ehlers, Member, United States Congress (R-Michigan) |
A Physicist in Congress: The Clash of Two Cultures | |
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Loeb Lecturer: Paul Chaikin, Princeton University |
Colloquium: Hard Spheres in Space: Colloidal Crystals in Microgravity Lecture I: Dynamic Light Scattering from Jello and Yogurt and Other Nonergodic Stuff Lecture II: Sedimentation and Fluidization: Turbulent Flow Through Liquids and Crystals Lecture III: A Frustrating Game of Chinese Checkers: Order from Disorder on a Superconducting Kagome Lattice Lecture IV: The Umklapp Painter and Other Problems with Periodic Electrons and Magnetic Fields in Organic Superconductors |
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Loeb Lecturer: Nathan Seiberg, Rutgers University |
Colloquium: The Superworld Lectures I, II, III and IV: Supersymmetric Dynamics |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Chen-Ning Yang, State University of New York |
Vector Potential, Gauge Field and Connection on a Fiber Bundle | |
| 1995-96 |
Loeb Lecturer: Ad Lagendijk, University of Amsterdam |
Colloquium: Can Light be Localized? Lecture I: Propagation of Diffuse Light Lecture II: Weak Localization Lecture III: Strong Localization-Lecture IV. Quantum Optics |
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Loeb Lecturer: Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University |
Colloquium: Duality, Space-Time, and Quantum Mechanics Lecture I-IV: Duality in Field Theory and String Theory |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Gerhard Gade University Professor Emeritus |
Nonlinear Optics: A Historical Perspective | |
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Loeb Lecturer: Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure |
Colloquium: Atoms in Electromagnetic Fields Lecture I-IV: Laser Manipulation of Atoms-Methods, Problems and Perspectives |
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Loeb Lecturer: Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin |
Colloquium: Changing Views of Renormalization Lectures I & II: Antibrackets, Symmetries, and Renormalization |
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| 1994-95 |
Loeb Lecturer: Alex Pines, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley |
Colloquium: Some Magnetic Moments Lecture I: NMR with and without Magnets Lecture II: Gauge Kinematics of Spins and Cats Lecture III: NMR with Lots of Quanta Lecture IV: Iterative Control of Spins and Vehicles |
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Loeb Lecturer: Bohdan Paczynski, Princeton University |
Colloquium: Gamma Ray Bursts: Facts and Speculations Lecture I:. Theory of Gravitational Lensing and Microlensing Lecture II: Gravitational Lensing and the Search for Dark Matter Lecture III: Results and Interpretation of the Searches for MACHOs Lecture IV: Diverse Astrophysics from Massive Photometric Projects |
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Loeb Lecturer: Linn F. Mollenauer, AT&T Bell Laboratories |
Colloquium: Long-Distance Transmission for the Information Age: Solitons in Optical Fibers Lecture I: The Non-Linear Schrödinger Equation and Solitons Lecture II: The Rate-Limiting Effects of Amplifier Spontaneous Emission, and Amelioration with 'Guiding' Filters Lecture III: Soliton-Soliton Interactions: Nearest Neighbor Effects, and Collisions in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing Lecture IV: |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Hans Bethe, Cornell University |
Energy in the Stars | |
| 1993-94 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Maurice Goldhaber, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Reminiscences of the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930's |
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Lee Historical Lecturer: Gerald Holton, Harvard |
The Place of Science in our Culture at the End of the Modern Era | |
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Loeb Lecturer: Elliott H. Lieb, Princeton University |
Colloquium: The Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars Lecture I: The Structure of Large Atoms Lecture II: Why the Fine Structure Constant Must be Small Lecture III: Topics in the Theory of Magnetism Lecture IV: The Hubbard Model of Interacting Electrons |
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Loeb Lecturer: Stephen Shenker, Rutgers University |
Colloquium: Random Matrices and Random Surfaces Lectures I, II, III & IV: Matrix Models |
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Loeb Lecturer: Giorgio Frossati, Leiden University. |
Colloquium: GRAIL: A Fourth Generation Gravitation Wave Antenna Lecture I: Dilution Refrigeration-1 Lecture II: Dilution Refrigeration-2 Lecture III: Pomeranchuk Cooling Lecture IV: Nuclear Demagnetization |
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| 1992-93 |
Loeb Lecturer: Peter Goldreich, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: Solar Phonons Lecture I: Neutron Star Magnetic Fields Lecture II: Scale Invariant Spectra in Nature |
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Loeb Lecturer: Douglas Gough, University of Cambridge |
Colloquium: Helioseismology: Measuring the Inside of the Sun Lecture I: The Techniques of Helioseismic Inference Lecture II: The Hydrostatic Structure of the Sun Lecture III: The Internal Solar Rotation Lecture IV: On the Solar Neutrino Problem |
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Loeb Lecturer: Stanislas Leibler, Princeton University |
Colloquium: Membranes, Molecular Motors, Microtubules, Mitosis: Mytacism or More? Lecture I: Membranes: Self-Assembly of Fluctuating Surfaces Lecture II: Molecular Motors as Stochastic Machines Lecture III: Regulated Assembly of Microtubules, Cell Cycle and Mitosis |
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Loeb Lecturer: Steven Weinberg, Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin |
Colloquium: Effective Field Theories Lecture I: Effective Field Theories of Superconductivity Lecture II: Effective Field Theories of Strong Interactions Lecture III: Effective Field Theories of Everything |
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| 1991-92 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Robert Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus |
Weighing Photons-The Story of an Experiment |
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Loeb Lecturer: Nathan Isgur, CEBAF |
Colloquium: Where's the Glue?: Comments on a Puzzle in Strong Interaction Spectroscopy Lecture I: A Rationalization of the Quark Model (with Strings Attached) Lecture II: The Quark Model Beyond the 'Quenched' Approximation Lecture III: The Heavy Quark Symmetry of QCD (Introduction and Some Applications) Lecture IV: The Heavy Quark Symmetry of QCD (Some Implications for Light Quark Spectroscopy) |
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Loeb Lecturer: Alain Aspect, Director, Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée |
Colloquium: Experimental Tests of Quantum Mechanics with Bell's Inequalities Lecture I: Wave-Particle Duality for a Single Photon Lecture II: Laser Cooling of Atoms: Below the Limits Lecture III: Laser Manipulation of Metastable Helium: Limits of the Classical Description Lecture IV: Magneto-Optical Trapping of Metastable Helium: The (Good and Bad) Role of Collisions |
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Loeb Lecturer: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Director, ESPCI, Collège de France |
Colloquium: Physics of Soft Interfaces Lecture I: Polymer Surfaces and the Welding Problem Lecture II: Dynamics of Wetting and Drying |
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Loeb Lecturer: Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania |
Colloquium: Cosmology at the Boiling Point Lecture I: Inflation: Cosmology's Dorian Gray? Lecture II: Extended Inflation: Restoring the Original Picture Lecture III: Is the Gravitational Constant Oscillating? |
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Loeb Lecturer: Carl Wieman, University of Colorado at Boulder |
Colloquium: TeV Physics on an eV Budget; Measurement of Parity Nonconservation in Atomic Cesium Lecture I: The Technical Challenges and Innovations in the Colorado Cesium Parity Nonconservation Experiment Lecture II: Laser Trapping and Cooling I: The Curious Behavior of Optically Trapped Neutral Atoms Lecture III: Laser Trapping and Cooling II: Laser Trapping as an Exciting New Tool |
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Loeb Lecturer: Jerry Gollub, Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania |
Colloquium: Nonlinear Dynamics of Waves on Fluid Interfaces Lecture I: Pattern Formation in Non-equilibrium Growth Processes Lecture II: The Physics of Thermal Convection: From Order to Chaos and Turbulence |