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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 |
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) |
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 |
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) |
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) |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Steven Weinberg, University of Texas |
Glimpses of a World Within (12/01/14) |
Loeb Lecturer: Marc Mézard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris |
Colloquium: The Spin Glass Cornucopia (14/28/2014) 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) |
Lee Historical Lecturer: François Englert, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
The Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism and Its Scalar Bosons (04/17/2014) |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Roy J. Glauber, Harvard |
Recollections of Los Alamos and the Nuclear Era (04/30/2013) |
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) |
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) |
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 |
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) |
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) |
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) |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Dudley Herschbach, CCB, Harvard |
Molecular Beams in Chemical Physics (3/9/11) |
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) |
Lee Historical Lecturer: M. Dresselhaus, MIT |
Historical Threads of Nanoscience |
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) |
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) |
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)* |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Michael Tinkham, Harvard |
The Discovery of the Superconducting Energy Gap (4/16/09) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Daniel Kleppner, MIT |
How Physics Became Precise (4/16/08) |
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) |
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) |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturers: David M. Lee, Cornell Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford |
Probing the World Near Absolute Zero: The Discovery of Superfluidity in Helium Three |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Charles Slichter |
The Flowering of Magnetic Resonance & Condensed Matter Physics--Some History, Ancient & in the Making |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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? |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study |
How We Might Have Gone to Mars in 1965: History of Project Orion |
Loeb Lecturer: Brian Greene, Columbia University |
Colloquium: Searching for the Unified Theory Lecture I: String Theory and Geometry Lecture II: String Theory and Cosmology |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Richard L. Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus, Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
Fun with Muons, GPS, Radar, etc. |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Walter Kohn, University of California, Santa Barbara |
The Birth and Early Decades of Solid State Physics Remembered |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Sheldon Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and Boston University |
Half a Century of Particle Physics at Harvard |
Lee Historical Lecturer: I.M. Khalatnikov, Honorary Director of Landau Institute, Academician, and Foreign Member Royal Society |
The Landau School and the Landau Institute |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Charles Townes, University of California, Berkeley |
The Sociology of Science Illustrated by Laser History |
Loeb Lecturer: Ashoke Sen, Mehta Research Institute |
Colloquium: Duality and Supersymmetry Lecture I-IV: Non-Supersymmetric Configurations in Supersymmetric String Theories |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Murray Gell-Mann, The Santa Fe Institute |
Some Adventures Among the Elementary Particles |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Philip Anderson, Princeton University |
Mott, Slater, and the Magnetic State |
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 |
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? |
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 |
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 |
Loeb Lecturer: (Special) The Hon. Vernon J. Ehlers, Member, United States Congress (R-Michigan) |
A Physicist in Congress: The Clash of Two Cultures |
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 |
Loeb Lecturer: Nathan Seiberg, Rutgers University |
Colloquium: The Superworld Lectures I, II, III and IV: Supersymmetric Dynamics |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Chen-Ning Yang, State University of New York |
Vector Potential, Gauge Field and Connection on a Fiber Bundle |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Gerhard Gade University Professor Emeritus |
Nonlinear Optics: A Historical Perspective |
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 |
Loeb Lecturer: Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin |
Colloquium: Changing Views of Renormalization Lectures I & II: Antibrackets, Symmetries, and Renormalization |
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 |
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 |
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: |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Hans Bethe, Cornell University |
Energy in the Stars |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Maurice Goldhaber, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Reminiscences of the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930's |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Gerald Holton, Harvard |
The Place of Science in our Culture at the End of the Modern Era |
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 |
Loeb Lecturer: Stephen Shenker, Rutgers University |
Colloquium: Random Matrices and Random Surfaces Lectures I, II, III & IV: Matrix Models |
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 |
Loeb Lecturer: Peter Goldreich, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: Solar Phonons Lecture I: Neutron Star Magnetic Fields Lecture II: Scale Invariant Spectra in Nature |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Lee Historical Lecturer: Robert Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus |
Weighing Photons-The Story of an Experiment |
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) |
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 |
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 |
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? |
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 |
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 |