#  Loeb and Lee Lectures: 2000 -  

 



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*For earlier lectures, see* [*Loeb and Lee Lectures Archive: 1953 - 1999*](/loeblee3)

## 2026-2026

- **Loeb Lecturer:** [**Andrea Ghez**](/news/2025/09/loeb-lectures-andrea-ghez "Loeb Lectures in Physics: Andrea Ghez (UCLA), Oct 6-9, 2025") (UCLA, 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics)  
    "Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes" (3 lectures: 10/6, 10/7, and 10/9)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer:** [**Giorgio Parisi**](/news/2025/04/lee-historical-lectures-physics-giorgio-parisi-apr-21-2026 "Lee Historical Lectures in Physics: Giorgio Parisi, Apr 21, 2026") (La Sapienza; 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics)  
    "Spin Glasses, Complexity and All That"

## 2024-2025

- **Lee Historical Lecturer:** [**William D. Phillips**](/news/lee-phillips-2025 "Lee Historical Lectures in Physics: William D. Phillips, Apr 22-23, 2025") (U Maryland, Co-recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics), "Time, Einstein, and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe" (4/22 and 4/23)
- **Loeb Lecturer:** [**Steven Kivelson**](/news/loeb-kivelson-2025 "Loeb Lectures in Physics: Steven Kivelson (Stanford), Feb 3-6, 2025") (Stanford)  
    "Theory of superconductivity in the cuprate 'high temperature superconductors' − A progress report" (2/3/2025)  
    "'Intertwined Orders' and the complex phase diagrams of highly correlated electronic systems" (2/5/2025)  
    "Machine learning for sampling high-dimensional probability distributions in lattice field theory" (2/6/2025)
- **Loeb Lecturer:** [**Phiala Shanahan**](/news/loeb-lectures-physics-phiala-shanahan-november-18-21-2024 "Loeb Lectures in Physics: Phiala Shanahan (MIT), Nov 18-21, 2024") (MIT)  
    "The building blocks of the Universe: proton and nuclear structure from the Standard Model" (11/18/2024)  
    "Aspects of the partonic structure of the proton from (lattice) QCD" (11/19/2024)  
    "Machine learning for sampling high-dimensional probability distributions in lattice field theory" (11/21/2024)

## 2023-2024

- **Loeb Lecturer:** [**Andre Geim**](/news/loeb-andre-geim "Loeb Lectures in Physics: Andre Geim - March 25-27, 2024") (U Manchester)  
    "Wonder Materials" (05/25/2024)  
    "Exploring 2D Empty Space" (05/26/2024)  
    "Science of flying frogs" 05/27/2024
- **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)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Jean Dalibard** (Collège de France)  
    "Scale invariance, a hidden symmetry explored with quantum gases" (11/13/2023)  
    "Surprises in soliton physics with quantum gas mixtures" (11/14/2023)  
    "Is a zero-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate fully superfluid?" (11/15/2023)

## 2022-2023

- **Lee Historical Lecturer:** Steven Chu (Stanford)  
    "A random walk into laser cooling, optical trapping and beyond" (04/25/2023)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)**  
    "The Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB): Its distribution on the surface of the Earth and its manipulation on laboratory scales" (03/20/2023)  
    "The CνB on the Surface of the Earth" (03/21/2023)  
    "A Diffraction Grating for the CνB" (03/22/2023)
- **Loeb Lecturer: M. Cristina Marchetti** (UC Santa Barbara)  
    "The Physics of Active Matter" (11/14/2022)  
    "Dynamics of active fluid interfaces" (11/15/2022)  
    "Rheology of dense biological tissue" (11/16/2022)

## 2021-2022

- **Lee Historical Lecturer: David Ruelle** (IHES)  
    "A Personal Historical View of the Theory of Deterministic Chaos" (4/5/2022)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Helen Quinn** (SLAC)  
    "A Window on Particle Physics at Harvard in the Early 1970’s" (11/17/2021)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Sara Seager** (MIT)  
    "Exoplanets and the Search for Atmospheric Biosignature Gases" (11/01/21)  
    "Venus as Potentially Habitable Planet" (11/2/21)   
    "The Search for Another Earth" (11/3/21)

## 2020-2021

No lectures

## 2019-2020

- **Loeb Lecturer: Zhi-Xun Shen** (Stanford)  
    "Angle-Resolved Photoemission – a Many-Body Spectroscopy for Quantum Materials" (11/4/19)  
    "Electronic Phase Diagram of Cuprate Superconductors – a Balancing Act" (11/5/19)    
    "Electronic Structure of Topological Materials" (11/6/19)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Yann LeCun** (VP & Chief AI Scientist, Facebook; Silver Professor, NYU)  
    "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Learning" (09/16/19)  
    "The Energy-Based Formulation of Learning" (09/17/19)  
    "Intriguing Connections Between Deep Learning and Physics" (09/18/19)

## 2018-2019

- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Anton Zeilinger** (U Vienna)  
    "Quantum Information and Quantum Communication, Foundations and Prospects" (04/04/2019)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Donna Strickland** (U Waterloo)  
    "From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics" (03/04/19)  
    "Investigation of Multi-Frequency Raman Generated Spectra" (03/05/19)  
    "Two-Color CPA Laser Development for Nonlinear Optics" (03/06/19)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Jun Ye** (JILA)  
    "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)

## 2017-2018

- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Rainer Weiss** (MIT)  
    "The Remarkable Gamble the National Science Foundation Took with LIGO" (04/23/2018)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Margaret Murnane** (JILA)  
    "Harnessing Quantum Light Science for Tabletop X-Ray Lasers, with Applications in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" (04/10/18)  
    "Capturing the Fastest Charge and Spin Dynamics in Nanosystems using Tabletop High Harmonic Beams" (04/11/18)  
    "Coherent Imaging Using Coherent X-Ray Beams" (04/12/18)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Michael Berry** (U Bristol)  
    "Variations on a Theme of Aharonov and Bohm" (03/29/2018)

## 2016-2017

- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Michael E. Fisher** (U Maryland & Cornell)  
    "Wilson’s Renormalization Group Theory: Ken Wilson as I Knew Him" (04/25/17)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Ali Yazdani** (Princeton)  
    "[Spotting the Elusive Majorana under the Microscope](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv_qnxEzO70&list=PLYwNda-DMY-PziJ-0UOgrqB4z8RP8GDH0&index=1&pp=iAQB)" (10/31/16)  
    "[Visualizing a Nematic Quantum Liquid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue7hPwi9sXI&list=PLYwNda-DMY-PziJ-0UOgrqB4z8RP8GDH0&index=2&pp=iAQB)" (11/01/16)  
    "[Topological Connections and Protection in Metals and Insulators](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuh2lL4vroA&list=PLYwNda-DMY-PziJ-0UOgrqB4z8RP8GDH0&index=3&pp=iAQB)" (11/03/16)

## 2015-2016

- **Loeb Lecturer: Stephen Hawking** (Cambridge)  
    "Quantum Black Holes" (04/18/16) - *This lecture was not recorded*
- **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)
- **Loeb Lecturer: 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)  
    "[Introduction to the Gauge Gravity Duality I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz2ie3i1Gh0&list=PLYwNda-DMY-NcEfPqJCypaDiPQ4goCrD6&index=2)" (03/22/16)  
    "[Introduction to the Gauge Gravity Duality II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMa7Fr4EeHI&list=PLYwNda-DMY-NcEfPqJCypaDiPQ4goCrD6&index=3)" (03/23/16)  
    "[Entanglement entropy in quantum field theory and gravity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVVo_QtZ5Ao&list=PLYwNda-DMY-NcEfPqJCypaDiPQ4goCrD6&index=4)" (03/24/16)  
    "[Chaos and Black Holes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dd51agJCcU&list=PLYwNda-DMY-NcEfPqJCypaDiPQ4goCrD6&index=5)"(03/25/16)

## 2014-2015

- **Loeb Lecturer: Brian P. Schmidt** (The Australian National University)  
    "Surveying the Southern Skies with the SkyMapper Telescope" (04/28/15)  
    "The Accelerating Universe "(04/29/15)  
    "After the Dark Ages: The First Stars" (04/30/15)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Steven Weinberg** (U Texas)  
    "Glimpses of a World Within" (12/01/14)

## 2013-2014

- **Loeb Lecturer: Marc Mézard** (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris)  
    "The Spin Glass Cornucopia" (4/28/2014)  
    "Phase Transitions in Hard Computer Science Problems" (04/29/2014)  
    "Occam’s Razor in Massive Data Acquisition: a Statistical Physics Approach" (04/30/2014)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: François Englert** (Université Libre de Bruxelles)  
    "The Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism and Its Scalar Bosons" (04/17/2014)

## 2012-2013

- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Roy J. Glauber** (Harvard)  
    "Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era" (04/30/2013)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Fabiola Gianotti**, (CERN)  
    "Challenges and Accomplishments of the Large Hadron Collider" (04/22/2013)  
    "Higgs Boson: A Very Special Discovery" (04/24/2013)
- , **Loeb Lecturer: Philip Kim** (Columbia U)  
    "Spin and Pseudospin in Graphene" (9/21/2012)  
    "Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter's Butterfly in Graphene" (09/24/2012)  
    "Materials in 2-Dimension and Beyond" (9/25/2012)

## 2011-2012

- **Lee Historical Lecturer: David Gross** (KITP, UCSB)  
    "A Century of Nuclear Physics: "From Rutherford to QCD and to String Theory" (4/17/2012)
- **Loeb Lecturer: John Clarke** (UC Berkeley)  
    "The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now" (3/19/2012)  
    "Magnetic Flux 1/f Noise: A 30-Year Saga" (3/20/2012)  
    "Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Microtesla Fields: A New Clinical Modality?" (3/22/2012)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Theodor W. Hänsch** (U Munich, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics)  
    "Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen" (3/5/2012)  
    "The Proton Size Puzzle" (3/6/2012)  
    " Lazer Frequency Combs" (3/8/2012)

## 2010-2011

- **Loeb Lecturer: Dam Thanh So** (U Washington)  
    "Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory "(4/18/2011)  
    "Deconstructing Holographic Liquids" (4/19/2011)  
    "Field Theoretical Methods for Non-relativistic Systems" (4/21/2011)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Dudley Herschbach** (CCB, Harvard)  
    "Molecular Beams in Chemical Physics" (3/9/2011)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Boris Shraiman** (KITP, UCSB)  
    "Unexpected Physics in Biology" (1/31/11)  
    "Genetic 'Ensembles': Alleles versus Genotypes" (2/1/2011)  
    "Sex, Survival and Adaptation" (2/3/2011)

## 2009-2010

- **Lee Historical Lecturer: M. Dresselhaus** (MIT)  
    "Historical Threads of Nanoscience" *(date?)*
- **Loeb Lecturer: Matthew P.A. Fisher** (Caltech)  
    "Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing" (3/1/2010)  
    "Exotic Spin Liquids in Weak Mott Insulators" (3/2/2010)  
    "Critical Quantum Fluids with d-wave Pair Correlations" (3/4/2010)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Daniel Eisenstein** (U Arizona)  
    "A New Decade of Cosmic Structure" (10/5/2009)  
    "Lecture I: Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A Robust and Precise Route to the Cosmological Distance Scale" (10/6/2009)  
    "Lecture II: Observational probes of dark energy" (10/8/2009)

## 2008-2009

- **Loeb Lecturer: David Kaplan** (U Washington)  
    "Nuclear Physics from Effective Field Theory" (4/20/2009)  
    "Conformality Lost" (4/21/2009)  
    "Peering Beyond the Horizon with Axions" (4/23/2009)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Michael Tinkham** (Harvard)  
    "The Discovery of the Superconducting Energy Gap" (4/16/2009)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Ann Nelson** (U Washington)  
    "Beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era" (3/30/2009)  
    "SUSY Conformal Hidden Valley & Dark Matter" (3/31/2009)
- **Loeb Lecturer: J.C. Séamus Davis** (Cornell & Brookhaven)  
    "Exploring Complex Condensed Quantum Matter":  
     - "Atomic Scale Visualization of Electronic Structure in Cuprates: From Mottness to Superconductivity" (12/4/2008)  
     - "Complex Quantum Matter in Bosonic Crystals: A 'Superglass' State in Solid 4 He" (12/8/2008)  
     - "Imaging the 'Fano Lattice'’ Signature of Heavy Fermion Formation via f-d Hybridization" (12/10/2008)  
     - "Identification of the Cuprate Pseudogap State using Quasiparticle Interference Imaging" (12/11/2008)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Rashid Sunyaev** (Max Planck Institute)  
    "Clusters of Galaxies, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Cosmology" (11/10/2008)  
    "CMB Spectral Distortions Due to Energy Release in the Early Universe" (11/11/2008)  
    "Interaction of CMB Photons with Hot Gas in the Clusters of Galaxies and Observational Consequences" (11/13/2008)

## 2007-2008

**Lee Historical Lecturer: Daniel Kleppner** (MIT)  
"How Physics Became Precise" (4/16/08)

**Loeb Lecturer: Marlan O. Scully** (Texas A&M and Princeton)  
"The Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations and Correlations Tell the Story" (3/31/2008)  
"Using Quantum Mechanics to Detect Anthrax" (4/2/2008)  
"The Laser-Bec Analogy" (4/8/2008)

**Loeb Lecturer: Steven M. Block** (Stanford)  
"Single Molecule Biophysics: Reading the Genetic Code" (2/25/2008)  
"Single Molecule Biophysics: How Nucleic Acids Fold" (2/26/2008)  
"Single Molecule Biophysics: How Kinesin Motors Move" (2/28/2008)

**Loeb Lecturer: Don Eigler** (IBM)  
"There’s Plenty of Room in the Middle: A View from the Bottom" (12/10/2007)  
"Computation in Nanometer-Scale Structures: Molecule Cascades" (12/11/2007)  
"Classical Computation in Quantum Nanostructures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future" (1/10/2007)

## 2006-2007

- **Lee Historical Lecturers: Douglas D. Osheroff** (Stanford)  
    "Probing the World Near Absolute Zero: The Discovery of Superfluidity in Helium Three" (3/22/2007)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Rocky Kolb** (U Chicago)  
    "Taking Sides on the Dark Energy Issue" (12/11/2006)  
    "Inflation and the Origin of Structure" (12/12/2006)  
    "Dark Matters" (12/14/2006)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Eric Adelberger** (U Washington)  
    "Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale" (11/6/2006)  
    "Modern Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle" (11/7/2006)  
    "Probes of Lorentz-Symmetry Violation and other Exotica using a Spin Pendulum" (11/9/2006)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Charles Slichter**  
    "The Flowering of Magnetic Resonance & Condensed Matter Physics--Some History, Ancient & in the Making" (4/11/2006)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Persis Drell** (SLAC)  
    "Quantum Universe" (3/20/2006)  
    "GLAST: The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope" (3/21/2006)  
    "The Future of High Energy Physics: A Personal Perspective" (3/23/2006)
- **Loeb Lecturer: John Preskill** (Caltech)  
    "Putting Wierdness to Work: Quantum Information Science" (3/6/2006)  
    "Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer" (3/7/2006)  
    "Topological Quantum Computation" (3/9/2006)
- **Loeb Lecturer: John Hopfield** (Princeton)  
    "A Physics View of Brain Computation" (11/28/2005)  
    "The Dynamics of Spike-Timing Computation: Olfaction" (11/29/2005)  
    "A Neural Approach to Recognizing Brief Dynamical Patterns: Speech" (12/1/2005)

## 2004-2005

- **Lee Historical Lecturer: P. James E. Peebles** (Princeton)  
    "The Expanding Universe" (4/20/2005)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Eli Yablonovitch** (UCLA)  
    "The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics, Economics, and Sociology" (4/4/2005)  
    "What Specific Physics will the End-of-Roadmap Technology Consist Of?" (4/7/2005)  
    "What New Roadmap Concept Might Emerge Afterward?" (4/8/2005)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Marvin Cohen** (UC Berkeley)  
    "A Standard Model for Solids" (10/25/2004)  
    "Nanoscience: Small is Sometimes Different" (10/27/2004)  
    "Mostly Superconductivity" (10/28/2004)

## 2003-2004

- **Loeb Lecturer: Brian Greene** (Columbia)  
    "Searching for the Unified Theory" (4/26/2004)  
    "String Theory and Geometry" (4/27/2004)  
    "String Theory and Cosmology" (4/29/2004)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Freeman Dyson** (Institute for Advanced Study)  
    "How We Might Have Gone to Mars in 1965: History of Project Orion" (4/13/2004)
- **Loeb Lecturer: Georg Maret** (University of Konstanz)  
    "The Physics of Light Transport" (12/1/2003)  
    "Multiple Light Scattering in Anisotropic Media: Principles and Applications" (12/2/2003)  
    "Melting and Glass Transition in 2D Model Colloids" (12/4/2003)

## 2002-2003

- **Loeb Lecturer: H. Jeff Kimble** (Caltech)  
    "The new science of quantum information" (4/7/2003)  
    "An overview of cavity quantum electrodynamics from Purcell and Casimir to the Era of strong coupling" (4/8/2003)  
    "Quantum teleportation fact and fantasy" (4/10/2003)  
    "Cavity QED the plumbing" (4/15/2003)
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Richard L. Garwin** (IBM Fellow Emeritus, Thomas J. Watson Research Center)  
    "Fun with Muons, GPS, Radar, etc." (3/18/2003)
- **Loeb Lecturer: James P. Eisenstein** (Caltech)  
    "Surprises in Two Dimensions: From the Quantized Hall Effect to Exciton Condensation" (2/24/2003)  
    "Liquid Crystals of Electrons?" (2/25/2003)  
    "Evidence for a New Kind of Superfluid" (2/27/2003)
- **Loeb Lecturer: David DiVincenzo** (IBM Watson Research Center)  
    "Prospects for Quantum Computation" (9/30/2002)  
    "Exchange Gates for Spin Qubits" (10/1/2002)​​​​​​​  
    "The New Quantum Cryptography" (10/3/2002)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

## 2001-2002

- **Loeb Lecturer: John Carlstrom** (U Chicago)  
    "Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background and the South Pole DASI Experiment" *(dates?)*  
    "CMB Polarization and Future Directions"  
    "Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect"  
    "Probing the Dark Energy Equation of State with New SZE Surveys"
- **Loeb Lecturer: Steven Weinberg** (U Texas)  
    "Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Short Course" (4/29/2002)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
    "Cosmological Fluctuations: From Inflation through the Era of Radiation Dominance" (4/30/2002)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
    "Cosmological Fluctuations: From the Era of Matter Dominance to Now" (5/2/0202)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Walter Kohn** (UCSanta Barbara)  
    "The Birth and Early Decades of Solid State Physics Remembered" (4/25/2002)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

## 2000-2001

- **Loeb Lecturer: Margaret Murnane** (U Colorado)  
    "Control of Atoms and Molecules Using Shaped Pulses" (3/19/2001)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
    "Direct Observation of Surface Chemistry Using Ultrafast Soft-X-Ray Pulses" (3/20/2001)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
    "Nonlinear Optics at Short Wavelengths" (3/22/2001)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: I.M. Khalatnikov** (Honorary Director of Landau Institute, Academician, and Foreign Member of the Royal Society)  
    "The Landau School and the Landau Institute" (2/20/2001)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
- **Lee Historical Lecturer: Sheldon Glashow** (BU)  
    "Half a Century of Particle Physics at Harvard" (11/20/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
- **Loeb Lecturer: Joseph Polchinski** (UC Santa Barbara)  
    "String Duality and D-Branes" (10/2/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
    "Gage/Gravity Duality" (10/3/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
    "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part I" (10/5/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
    "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part II" (10/10/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
    "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part III" (10/12/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
- **Loeb Lecturer: Lisa Randall** (MIT)  
    "New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity":  
    \- "Localizing Gravity"  
    \- "Localized Gravity and the Weak Scale"  
    \- "Locally Localized Gravity, Holography, and String Theory"  
    \- "Holography, Phenomenology, and Model Building"

## 1999-2000

**Loeb Lecturer: Ashoke Sen** (Mehta Research Institute)  
"Duality and Supersymmetry" (4/17/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Non-Supersymmetric Configurations in Supersymmetric String Theories" - Lectures I-IV (4/18/2000 - 4/27/2000)

**Lee Historical Lecturer: Charles Townes** (UC Berkeley)  
"The Sociology of Science Illustrated by Laser History" (3/1/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

**Loeb Lecturer: Sidney Nagel** (U Chicago)  
"Physics at the Breakfast Table" (2/14/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Exciting Granular Materials" (2/15/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Jamming: From Glasses to Granular Matter" (2/17/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Singularities and Cascades in Droplet Fission" (2/22/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Breaking Away, Selective Withdrawal, and Islets in the Stream" (2/24/2000)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

**Loeb Long-Term Lecturer: Sebastien Balibar** (l'Ecole Normale Supérieure)  
"Crystal Surfaces: From Facets to Crystallization Waves" (10/18/1999)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Crystal Steps: Experimental Checks of a Renormalization Theory" (10/19/1999)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Nucleation: Bubbles, Crystals and Superfluids" (10/21/1999)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

**Loeb Lecturer: Stephen Hawking** (U Cambridge)  
"The Shape of Time" (9/27/1999)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Nuts, Bolts and Branes" (9/28/1999)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​  
"Finite But Unbounded" (10/5/1999)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​