Monday Colloquium Archive
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 04-29-19 | Christopher Monroe (U Maryland) | Quantum Computing with Atomic Ions |
| 04-22-19 | No Colloquium | |
| 04-15-19 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
| 03-18-19 | No Colloquium | |
| 03-11-19 | Marcelle Soares-Santos (Brandeis) | Dark Energy Research with Cosmic Surveys and Gravitational Waves |
| 03-04-19 | Donna Strickland (U Waterloo) | From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] Video of this lecture will not be posted. |
| 02-25-19 | Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford) | Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light |
| 02-18-19 | No Colloquium | |
| 02-11-19 | Nathaniel Fisch (Princeton) | Exploiting Plasma Oscillations (Due to equipment malfunction, the audio of this tape is compromised. We apologize for the inconvenience.) |
| 02-04-19 | Cora Dvorkin (Harvard) | New Frontiers in Cosmology |
| 01-28-19 | Susanne Yelin (Harvard) | Controlling Light and Matter Using Cooperative Radiation |
| 12-10-18 to 01-21-19 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
| 11-12-18 | No Colloquium | |
| 11-05-18 | Reina Maruyama (Yale) | Testing DAMA/LIBRA’s Claim for a Discovery of Dark Matter |
| 10-29-18 | Robert Kleinberg (Columbia) | mKto km: How Millikelvin Physics is Reused to Explore the Earth Kilometers Below the Surface |
| 10-22-18 | Jun Ye (JILA) | Quantum matter and atomic clocks [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
| 10-15-18 | Damon Clark (Yale) | Dissecting Neural Computations in the Fly Eye |
| 10-08-18 | No Colloquium | |
| 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? |
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 04-30-18 | Holger Mueller (UC Berkeley) | Measurement of the fine structure constant as test of the standard model |
| 04-23-18 | William Unruh (UBC) | Measurement of Hawking Radiation in Analog Systems |
| 04-16-18 | Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich) | Polaritons in two dimensional systems |
| 04-09-18 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
| 03-12-18 | No Colloquium | |
| 03-05-18 | Werner Riegler (CERN) | Future Circular Colliders |
| 02-26-18 | Mark Halpern (UBC) | CHIME: Measuring the Expansion History of the Universe |
| 02-19-18 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 For more information, please see the announcement. |
| 02-05-18 | Isaac Silvera (Harvard) | Metallic Hydrogen and Deuterium |
| 01-29-18 | Eleni Katifori (UPenn) | The Spectrum of Efficient Venation Phenotypes |
| 12-4-17 to 01-22-18 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
| 10-09-17 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 04-24-17 | Benjamin Wandelt | Connecting Theory and Data in Cosmology (video not available) |
| 04-17-17 | Steve Shenker (Stanford) | Quantum Gravity and Quantum Chaos |
| 04-10-17 | No Colloquium | |
| 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) |
| 03-13-17 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
| 02-13-17 / 02-20-17 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
| 12-5-16/ 01-23-17 | No Colloquium | |
| 11-28-16 | David DeMille (Yale) | Probing physics at the TeV scale - and above - with room-scale experiments |
| 11-21-16 | Ania Jayich (UCSB) | Diamond Spins for Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Hybrid Quantum Networks |
| 11-14-16 | Zohar Komargodski (Weizmann) | Second-Order Phase Transitions: Beyond Landau-Ginzburg Theory |
| 11-07-16 | Peter Onyisi (U Texas) | Studies and Searches with the 13 TeV Large Hadron Collider |
| 10-31-16 | Ali Yazdani (Princeton) | Spotting the Elusive Majorana under the Microscope [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
| 10-24-16 | Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck) | Tensor Networks: A Quantum Information Perspective to Many-Body Physics |
| 10-17-16 | Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton) | Hunting for Dark Matter in the Gamma-Ray Sky |
| 10-10-16 | No Colloquium | |
| 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. If you wish to view the slides as a pdf file, please consult this document. |
| 09-12-16 | Mark Kasevich (Stanford) | Quantum mechanics at macroscopic scales (video not available) |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 05-04-15 | Itai Cohen (Cornell) | Flight of the Fruit Fly |
| 04-29-15 | Brian P. Schmidt (The Australian National University) | The Accelerating Universe [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
| 04-27-15 | May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser (NTNU, Norway) | Grid Cells and Neural Maps for Space |
| 04-20-15 | Logan McCarty and Louis Deslauriers (Harvard) | Increasing Learning, Engagement, and Personal Interest: A Research-Based Transformation of a Large Introductory Physics Course for Life Science Concentrators |
| 04-13-15 | David Spergel, Princeton | Cosmology after Planck: Or What Will We Learn from Polarization? |
| 04-06-15 | John Martinis, UC, Santa Barbara | State Preservation by Repetitive Error Correction in Superconducting Qubits |
| 03-30-15 | Vinothan Manoharan, Harvard | Entropy and the Humble Colloidal Particle |
| 03-23-15 | Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos | Decoherence and Quantum Theory of the Classical |
| 03-16-15 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 05-05-14 | Atac Imamoglu, ETH, Zurich | Interfacing Single Photons and Condensed Matter Systems |
| 04-28-14 | Marc Mézard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris | The Spin Glass Cornucopia [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
| 04-21-14 | Paul McEuen, Cornell | Föppl, Fluctuations, and Feynman: Nonlinear Mechanics with Graphene and Nanotubes |
| 04-14-14 | J.C. Seamus Davis, Cornell | Solving the Mystery of High Temperature Superconductivity |
| 04-07-14 | Andrea Cavalleri, MPSD | Optical Control in High Tc Superconductors |
| 03-31-14 | Subir Sachdev, Harvard | Unveiling the Order of the High Temperature Superconductors |
| 03-24-14 | David Kaplan, UMW | Testing Gravity with Millisecond Pulsars |
| 03-10-14 | Peter Abbamonte, UIUC | Attosecond Imaging with X-rays |
| 03-03-14 | Tadashi Tokieda, Cambridge | Toy Models |
| 02-24-14 | Joao Guimaraes da Costa, Harvard | Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: The Higgs Boson and Beyond |
| 02-03-14 | Rob Phillips, Caltech | The Other Bohr and Biology's Greatest Model |
| 01-27-14 | Steven Kivelson, Stanford | Quenched Disorder and Vestigial Nematicity |
| 12-02-13 | Richard Gaitskell, Brown U. | LUX: Noble Travails: First Dark Matter Search Results from the Large Underground Xenon Detector (alt) |
| 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** |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 04-29-13 | John Doyle, Harvard | Particle Physics and Chiral Detection using Cold Molecules |
| 04-22-13 | Fabiola Gianotti, CERN | Challenges and accomplishments of the Large Hadron Collider[Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
| 04-08-13 | Ben Simons, University of Cambridge | Tissue Maintenance: A Laboratory for Statistical Physics |
| 04-01-13 | Carter Hall, UMD | Why Are Neutrinos So Light? |
| 03-25-13 | Karin Dahmen, UIUC | Unifying Theory for Tuned-Critical Quake Statistics: From Compressed Nanopillars to Earthquakes |
| 03-04-13 | Michelangelo D'Agostino | Physics and Presidential Politics: The Role of Data on the Obama Campaign |
| 02-25-13 | Raymond Laflamme, U Waterloo | Experimental Quantum Error Correction |
| 02-18-13 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 [see lecture slides] |
| 10-22-12 | Juan Jose Gomez-Cadenas, IFIC/U Valencia | Ettore Majorana Through The Looking Glass |
| 10-15-12 | Edward E. Prather, U Arizona | How Teaching Earth, Astronomy and Space Science can Reshape Our Nation's Understanding of the Role of Science in Society |
| 10-01-12 | Suchitra Sebastian, U Cambridge | Quantum Oscillations as a Tool to Crack the Mystery of Unconventional Superconductivity |
| 09-24-12 | Philip Kim, Columbia U | Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter's Butterfly in Graphene [Loeb Colloquium; see also Loeb Lectures page] |
| 09-17-12 | John Huth, Harvard | The Search for the Higgs Boson: Results |
| 09-10-12 | L. Mahadevan, Harvard | On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology* |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 04-23-12 | Jenny Hoffman, Harvard | The Effect of a Single Atom on High-Tc Superconductivity |
| 04-16-12 | Brad Marston, Brown U | The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming |
| 04-09-12 | No Colloquium | |
| 04-02-12 | Vinothan Manoharan | Self-Assembly of Colloidal Particles at Liquid Interfaces |
| 03-26-12 | Terry Hwa, UCSD | Bacterial Growth Laws: Origins and Consequences |
| 03-19-12 | John Clarke, UC Berkeley | The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 03-05-12 | Theodor W. Hänsch, University of Munich | Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen[Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 02-27-12 | Serge Haroche, Collège de France and ÉcoleNormaleSupérieure, Paris | Juggling with Photons in a Box to Explore the Quantum World |
| 02-13-12 | Andrew Foland, L-3 Communications | Bombs, Math and X-Rays |
| 02-06-12 | Joao Guimaraes da Costa, Harvard | The Road to the Higgs Boson |
| 12-5-11 | Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford | Bridging the Gap in High Temperature Superconductor |
| 11-30-11 | Steven Chu, U.S. Secretary of Energy | Atom Interferometry, Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity |
| 11-21-11 | Mohit Randeria, Ohio State University | Viscosity of Strongly Interacting Fermions |
| 11-14-11 | Ken Dill, Stoney Brook University. | Maximum Caliber: An Approach to Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Few-Particle Systems |
| 11-7-11 | Paul J. Steinhardt, Princeton | Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Search for Natural Quasicrystals |
| 10-31-11 | Xiang Zhang, Berkeley | Optical Metamaterials: Superlens, Invisibility Cloak and Plasmon Lasers |
| 10-24-11 | Juan Collar, U Chicago | Certainty And Uncertainty In Dark Matter Searches |
| 10-17-11 | Matthew Schwartz, Harvard | The Emergence of Jets at the Large Hadron Collider |
| 10-3-11 | Mara Prentiss, Harvard | New Insights into Homology Recognition and Strand Exchange with Implications for Artificial Self-Assembly and Protein Folding |
| 9-19-11 | Matt Strassler, Rutgers | Searching for Answers at The Large Hadron Collider |
| 9-12-11 | Bertrand Halperin, Harvard | Defects with Character-Majorana States in Condensed-Matter Systems |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 05-May-08 | Nergis Mavalvala, MIT | Quantum Mechanics on Giant Scales |
| 28-Apr-08 | Paul McEuen, Cornell | Nano Carbon: From Terahertz Transistors to Atomic Membranes |
| 21-Apr-08 | Isaac F. Silvera, Harvard | Which Path to Metallic Hydrogen: High or Low Temperature |
| 14-Apr-08 | Howard Georgi, Harvard, | Unparticle Physics |
| 07-Apr-08 | Joseph Polchinski, UCSB | The Black Hole Paradox, Past and Future |
| 31-Mar-08 | Marian Scully, Texas A&M Univ and Princeton Univ. | The Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations and Correlations Tell the Story [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 17-Mar-08 | Alan Litke, UCSC. | What Does The Eye Tell The Brain: A Journey from High Energy Physics to Neural Systems |
| 10-Mar-08 | Rainer Weiss, MIT. | The Search For Gravitational Radiation |
| 03-Mar-08 | Michael Thorpe, Arizona State University | The Flexibility Window in Materials |
| 25-Feb-08 | Steven M. Block, Stanford University | Single Molecule Biophysics: Reading the Genetic Code [Loeb Colloquium; see also the Loeb Lectures page] |
| 18-Feb-08 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 14-May-07 | Geoffrey West, Los Alamos. | Universal Scaling Laws from Genomes and Cells to Ecosystems and Cities; Towards a Unified Quantitative Theory of Biological Structure and Organization |
| 30-Apr-07 | Subir Sachdev, Harvard | Quantum Phase Transitions |
| 23-Apr-07 | Michael Sipser, MIT. | Beyond Computation: The P versus NP Question |
| 16-Apr-07 | Jean Dalibard, ENS, France. | Cold atoms in Flatland |
| 09-Apr-07 | Avi Loeb, Harvard | Three Astrophysical Laboratories for Particle Physics |
| 02-Apr-07 | Richard Wilson, Harvard Bruno Coppi, MIT. |
The Scientific Work of Andrei Dmitreyvich Sakharov |
| 19-Mar-07 | Jun Ye, JILA, U. Colorado | The Art of Light-Based Precision Measurement |
| 12-Mar-07 | John Pendry, Imperial College, London. | A Cloak of Invisibility: Harry Potter Does Electromagnetism |
| 05-Mar-07 | Mara Prentiss, Harvard | Phase Transitions in DNA:Temperature Matters |
| 26-Feb-07 | Joseph Kroll, U-Penn | Matter-Antimatter Transformations at 3 Trillion Hertz |
| 12-Feb-07 | Phuan Ong, Princeton. | FVorticity and high-Tc Superconductors |
| 05-Feb-07 | Maria Spiropulu, CERN. | Discovery Physics at the LHC |
| 18-Dec-06 | Alfons van Blaaderen, Utrecht | Colloids in Electric Fields |
| 11-Dec-06 | Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago. | Taking Sides on the Dark Energy Issue [Loeb Colloquium] |
| 04-Dec-06 | Joerg Wrachtrup, Univ. of Stuttgart, Germany | Defects in Diamond: New Hardware for the Quantum World? |
| 27-Nov-06 | Andre Geim, Univ. Manchester, UK | QED in a Pencil Trace |
| 20-Nov-06 | Robijn Bruinsma, UCLA . | Physics of Viruses |
| 13-Nov-06 | Masahiro Morii, Harvard | Searching for New Physics in CP Violation with BABAR |
| 06-Nov-06 | Eric Adelberger, Washington U. | Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale |
| 30-Oct-06 | David Charbonneau, Harvard | Extrasolar Planets: Seeing the Light |
| 23-Oct-06 | Albert-Laszlo Barabas, Notre Dame | Complex Networks: From the Web to the Cell |
| 16-Oct-06 | Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford | Search for Yukawa-Type Gravity-like Forces at sub-mm distance |
| 09-Oct-06 | No Colloquium | |
| 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 |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 15-May-06 | David Kestenbaum, National Public Radio | The 17th Street Canal: Anatomy of an Engineering Disaster |
| 08-May-06 | Greg Boebinger, Ntl. Magnetic Lab | The Cusp at Optimum Doping in the Low-Temperature Hall Number of the High-Temperature Superconductors |
| 01-May-06 | Blayne Heckel, U-Washington | Torsion Balance Tests of Gravity at Short Distances & Spin Coupled Forces |
| 24-Apr-06 | Bruce Rosen, MGH/Harvard Medical School | Multi Modal Functional Brain Imaging |
| 17-Apr-06 | Donald Candela, University of Massachusetts | Looking Inside The Sand Pile |
| 10-Apr-06 | Elizabeth Lada, U Florida | Embedded Clusters: Laboratories for Understanding the Origin of Stars and Planets |
| 03-Apr-06 | Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University | Science Under Attack |
| 20-Mar-06 | Persis Drell, SLAC | Quantum Universe |
| 13-Mar-06 | Frank Wilczek, MIT | The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity |
| 06-Mar-06 | John Preskill, Caltech | Putting Weirdness to Work: Quantum Information Science |
| 27-Feb-06 | Keith Baker, Hampton University | Extra Dimensions, ATLAS, and COSM |
| 13-Feb-06 | Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT | New Forms of Quantum Matter Near Absolute Zero Temperature |
| 06-Feb-06 | Chetan Nayak, UCLA | Topological Quantum Computation |
| 19-Dec-05 | Peter Galison, Harvard | DAssassin of Relativity |
| 12-Dec-05 | Ann Nelson, Univ. of Washington, Seattle | The Neutrinos as a Window into the Dark |
| 05-Dec-05 | Stefan Westerhoff, Columbia Univ. | The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays |
| 21-Nov-05 | Alexey Vihklinin, Harvard Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics | Cosmology from X-ray observations of galaxy clusters |
| 14-Nov-05 | Moses Chan, Penn State U. | Superfluidity in Solid Helium and Solid Hydrogen |
| 07-Nov-05 | Eric Heller, Harvard | What Do Semiconductor Electrons and Freak Waves Have In Common? |
| 24-Oct-05 | Lars Samuelson, Lund Univ., Sweden | Physics of Semiconductor Nanowires |
| 17-Oct-05 | Atac Imamoglu, ETH Zurich | The Quantum Optics with Quantum Dots |
| 03-Oct-05 | David DeMille, Yale | Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics |
| 26-Sep-05 | Markus Greiner, Harvard | Fermi Condensates |
| 19-Sep-05 | David Nelson, Harvard. | DNA Unzipping & Motor Proteins: Effect of the Genetic Code |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 18-Apr-05 | Robert Schoelkopf, Yale | Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits |
| 11-Apr-05 | Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University | Particle Physics Circa 2010 |
| 04-Apr-05 | Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA | The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision of Physics, Economics, and Sociology |
| 21-Mar-05 | Christopher Schaffer, UCSD | Nonlinear Optics in Vivo |
| 14-Mar-05 | George Chapline, LLNL | Quantum Criticality and Event Horizons |
| 07-Mar-05 | Amir Yacoby", Weizmann Institute | Electron in 1D |
| 28-Feb-05 | Cumrun Vafa, Harvard | Quantum Foam and Melting Crysta |
| 14-Feb-05 | Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard | Quantum Cyclotron Yields New Value for the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant |
| 07-Feb-05 | Robert Goldston, Princeton | Magnetic Fusion Science and ITER |
| 13-Dec-04 | Philip Nelson, Pennsylvania University | Mechanics of DNA at High Curvature |
| 06-Dec-04 | Daniel Ruger, IBM Almaden | Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy |
| 29-Nov-04 | Peter Zoller, Innsbruck University | Quantum Information Processing with Atoms and Ions |
| 22-Nov-04 | Daniel Kleppner, MIT | NBoost-Phase Intercept and the National Missile Defense |
| 15-Nov-04 | Daniel McCleese, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Mars Exploration |
| 08-Nov-04 | Giorgio Gratta, Stanford | The Quest for the Mass of the Neutrino |
| 01-Nov-04 | Andrew Kiruluta, Harvard | From NMR to the Imaging of the Diffusion Tensor Field in the Brain and Beyond |
| 25-Oct-04 | Marvin L. Cohen, Berkeley | A Standard Model for Solids |
| 04-Oct-04 | James Hudspeth, The Rockefeller University. | Mechanical Amplification in the Ear |
| 20-Sep-04 | Eugene Demler, Harvard | Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices and Magnetic Microtraps |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 03-May-04 | Mark Konishi, Caltech. | How Auditory Space is Represented in the Brain |
| 19-Apr-04 | Angela Belcher, MIT. | Virus Based Hybrid Materials [NSCE Lecture] |
| 12-Apr-04 | Freeman Dyson, IAS Princeton | Looking for Life in Unlikely Places |
| 05-Apr-04 | David Wineland, NIST | Quantum Entanglement With Atoms |
| 22-Mar-04 | Gerard Meijer, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. | Cold Molecules |
| 15-Mar-04 | Leonid Glazman, Minnesota University | Transport in a Luttinger Liquid |
| 08-Mar-04 | David Awschalom, UC Santa Barbara | Semiconductor Spintronics |
| 23-Feb-04 | Paul McEuen, Cornell | "Carbon Nanotubes-Electons in a 1D World |
| 09-Feb-04 | Thomas Witten, Chicago University | Anomalous Focusing in Elastic Sheets |
| 12-Jan-04 | Hongkun Park, Harvard | Transport & Scanned Probe Investigations of Chemical Nanostructures |
| 15-Dec-03 | Paul Chaikin, Princeton | Jammed Ellipsoids Beat Jammed Spheres |
| 08-Dec-03 | Fred MacKintosh, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam | Polymer Physics and the Cell |
| 01-Dec-03 | Georg Maret, Konstanz University | The Physics of Light Transport |
| 24-Nov-03 | Alvaro De Rujula, CERN and BU. | Towards a Complete Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 17-Nov-03 | Sekazi Mtingwa, North Carolina A&T State University and Harvard | An Update on the Linear Collider |
| 10-Nov-03 | Christopher Quigg, FNAL | Double Simplex: Envisioning |
| 03-Nov-03 | Gary Feldman, Harvard | Neutrino Oscillations: What We Know, What We Want to Know, and How We Get From Here to There |
| 27-Oct-03 | Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University | How Analogy Drives Physics |
| 20-Oct-03 | Leonid Levitov, MIT. | Pattern Formation in a Cold Exciton System |
| 29-Sep-03 | Barbara Jacak, SUNY | On the Trail of the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC |
| 02-Sep-03 | Helen Quinn, Stanford | Why Keep Doing B Physics? |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 12-May-03 | Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich | Seeing Particles Beneath Waves |
| 05-May-03 | Steve Kivelson, UCLA | Locally Crystalline Electron Liquids |
| 14-Apr-03 | Ellen D. Williams, UMD. | Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures |
| 07-Apr-03 | Jeff Kimble, Caltech | The New Science of Quantum Information |
| 17-Mar-03 | Ian Affleck, BU | 1D Antiferromagnets: A Laboratory for Low Dimensional Quantum Field Theory |
| 10-Mar-03 | Boris Shklovskii, Univ. Minnesota | Charge Inversion and Gene Delivery |
| 24-Feb-03 | James Eisenstein, Caltech | Surprises in 2 Dimensions: From the Quantized Hall Effect to Exciton Condensation |
| 10-Feb-03 | Michael Turner, U-Chicago | Making Sense of the New Cosmology |
| 16-Dec-02 | Robert Dijkgraaf | Quantum Physics and Mathematics |
| 09-Dec-02 | Hitoshi Murayama, Berkeley | Big World of Small Neutrinos |
| 02-Dec-02 | Seigo Tarucha, University of Tokyo | QD-Spin |
| 18-Nov-02 | A.C. Gossard, UC Santa Barbara | Semiconductor Nanostructues |
| 04-Nov-02 | Krishna Rajagopal, MIT | The Condensed Matter Physics of QCD |
| 28-Oct-02 | Gerald Gabrielse, Havard | Background-free Observation of Cold Antihydrogen with a First Glimpse of Its Atomic State |
| 21-Oct-02 | Eric Chaisson, Tufts | The Rise of Complexity in Nature |
| 07-Oct-02 | Amnon Aharony, Tel Aviv University | What Is Really Measured in the Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer |
| 30-Sep-02 | David DiVincenzo, IBM | Prospects for Quantum Computation |
| 23-Sep-02 | Raphael Bousso, Harvard | The World as a Hologram |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 13-May-02 | Michel Devoret, Yale | ManipulatioMonColloqArchiven of Quantum State of Electrical Circuit |
| 06-May-02 | Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Stanford | Generation of Photons from a Quantum Dot |
| 29-Apr-02 | S. Weinberg, U-TX | Anisotropies in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Short Course [Loeb Colloquium] |
| ]22-Apr-02 | Leon Balents, UC Santa Barbara | Splitting the Electron |
| 15-Apr-02 | Michael Roukes, CalTech | Mechanical devices for single-molecule and single-quantum nanoscience |
| 08-Apr-02 | Zhi-xun Shen, Stanford | Many Body Physics in Cuprate Superconductors |
| 01-Apr-02 | Daniel Lathrop, U-Maryland | AJets, Rogue Waves, Turbulence and Tornados |
| 18-Mar-02 | John Huth, Harvard | The Physics of Musical Instruments |
| 11-Mar-02 | George Benedek, MIT | Elastic Properties Biological Springs |
| 04-Mar-02 | Dirk Kreimer, BU | Quantum Fields and Numbers |
| 25-Feb-02 | Abraham Loeb, Harvard | The First Sources of Light in the Universe |
| 11-Feb-02 | John Carlstrom, Univ. Chicago | Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background and the South Pole DASI Experiment |
| 04-Feb-02 | Cherry Murray, Bell Labs. | Physical Science Research at Bell Labs |
| 07-Jan-02 | Boris Shraiman, Lucent | Modeling Genetic Networks |
| 10-Dec-01 | G. Whitesides, Harvard | Self Assembly |
| 03-Dec-01 | Dec 3, 2001: "Massive Thoughts", Young-Kee Kim, Univ. CA., Berkeley. | Massive Thoughts |
| 26-Nov-01 | Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard President | Science and Public Policy |
| 19-Nov-01 | Steven M. Girvin, Yale | DC Transformer and DC Josephson(-like) Effect in Quantum Hall Bilayers |
| 05-Nov-01 | P. Zoller, Innsbruk | Quantum Information with Quantum Optics |
| 29-Oct-01 | W. Ketterle, MIT | Bose-Einstein Condensation |
| 22-Oct-01 | J. Marko, U. Illinois | OMicromanipulation Study of Physical Properties of DNA and Chromosomes |
| 15-Oct-01 | S. Sachdev, Yale | Competing Orders and Quantum Phase Transitions in the Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors |
| 01-Oct-01 | A. McDonald, Queen's | The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem |
| 24-Sep-01 | N. Arkani-Hamed, Harvard | Deconstructing Dimensions: Adventures In Theory Space |
| 17-Sep-01 | C. Lieber, Harvard | Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology |
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| Date | Lecturer | Title |
| 07-May-01 | Costas Papaliolios, Harvard | New Ways to Find New Planets |
| 30-Apr-01 | David Grier, U. Chicago | Macroionic Mysteries: Many-body Interactions in Strongly Coupled Classical Systems |
| 23-Apr-01 | Lisa Randall | New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity |
| 16-Apr-01 | Carl Wieman | Quantum Explosions and Implosions in a Bose-Einstein Condensate |
| 09-Apr-01 | Shri Kulkarni, California Tech. | Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest Explosions in the Universe |
| 02-Apr-01 | David Nelson, Harvard | Viruses, Vesicles and Multi-electron Bubbles: the Thomson Problem Revisited |
| 12-Mar-01 | Robert Carey, Boston U. | A New Precision Measurement of the Muon (g-2) Value at the level of 1.3 ppm |
| 26-Feb-01 | Susan Coppersmith, Chicago U. | The Complexity of Materials |
| 12-Feb-01 | Bertram Batlogg, ETH Zurich and Bell Laboratories | Organic Molecular Crystals: Amazing New Opportunities for Science and Technology |
| 05-Feb-01 | Mark Meister, Harvard. | The Neural Code of the Retina |
| 04-Dec-00 | Thomas Greytak, MIT | Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen |
| 20-Nov-00 | Mikhail Lukin, ITAMP, Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics | Coherence and Quantum Information in Modern Optic |
| 13-Nov-00 | Kathryn Ann Moler, Stanford | Mesomagnetic Tests of Mechanisms of Superconductivity |
| 06-Nov-00 | Blayne Heckel, Univ. of Washington in Seattle | Were Newton and Einstein Right? |
| 30-Oct-00 | Phillip Platzman, Lucent Technologies | Quantum Computing Using Electrons Floating On Liquid Helium |
| 23-Oct-00 | Fritz Haake, University of Essen | Decoherence, or Why the Macroworld Behaves Classically |
| 16-Oct-00 | Peter Fisher, MIT | Stretching the Vacum: Precision Measurements of the Weak Interaction and the Search for the Higgs Boson |
| 02-Oct-00 | Joseph Polchinski, UC Santa Barbara | String Duality and D-Branes [Loeb Colloquium] |
| 18-Sep-00 | Norman Ramsey, Harvard | Exploring the Universe with Atomic Clocks |
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