| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Autumn 1999 - Peter G.O. Freund, Chairman | ||
| Sept. 30 | Juan Maldacena Harvard University |
The Large N Limit of Gauge Theories |
| Oct. 7 | Martin Gutzwiller IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
Can You See Classical Chaos in Quantum Mechanics? |
| Oct. 14 | Edward Blucher University of Chicago |
Investigating the Difference Between Matter and Antimatter |
| Oct. 21 | Christopher Lobb Univ. of Maryland, College Park |
Josephson-Junction Arrays as Coherent Sources: A Superconducting Laser? |
| Oct. 28 | Lincoln Wolfenstein Carnegie Mellon University 1999 Zachariasen Lecture |
Fermi's Little Neutron, the Neutrino, 65 Years Later |
| Nov. 4 | Neal Koblitz University of Washington |
From Fermat's Last Theorem to Cryptography |
| Nov. 11 | Joshua Frieman Fermi Nat'l Accelerator Laboratory |
Early Science Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| Nov. 18 | Corbin Covault University of Chicago |
Tracking the Elusive Blazar |
| Nov. 25 | Thanksgiving | no colloquium today |
| Dec. 2 | Savas Dimopoulos Stanford University |
Sub-millimeter Size Dimensions and Quantum Gravity at a TeV |
| Winter 2000 - Henry Frisch, Chairman | ||
| Jan. 6 | Lourdes Monteagudo Teachers Academy for Mathematics & Science |
The Challenges of Teaching Math and Science in an Urban Environment |
| Jan. 13 | Robert B. Griffiths Carnegie-Mellon University |
Quantum Mechanics and Measurements |
| Jan. 20 | Michael Witherell Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
Fermilab and the Future of High Energy Physics |
| Jan. 27 | Harvey Tananbaum Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory |
First Scientific Results from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory joint Physics/Astronomy & Astrophysics colloquium |
| Feb. 3 | Joseph Lykken Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory |
The Search for Extra Dimensions |
| Feb. 10 | Stuart Freedman University of California/Berkeley |
Solving the Solar Neutrino Puzzle in the Laboratory: Experiments with KamLAND |
| Feb. 17 | Matthew Choptuik University of British Columbia |
Critical Phenomena in Gravitational Collapse |
| Feb. 24 | Steven Vogel Duke University |
Feather Shafts and Daffodil Stems: Twisting in the Wind without Getting Bent out of Shape |
| Mar. 2 | John Simpson University of Chicago |
The Cosmic Radiation: Past, Present, and Future |
| Mar. 9 | Maurice Goldhaber Brookhaven National Laboratory |
A Student at the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930s |
| Spring 2000 - Thomas A. Witten, Chairman | ||
| Mar. 30 | Jacob Klein Weizmann Institute |
Entropic Forces: From Colloids to Biolubrication |
| Apr. 6 | Sunil Sinha Argonne National Laboratory APS |
Watching Competing Fluctuations in Novel Magnetic Systems |
| Apr. 13 | Sidney Nagel University of Chicago |
Breaking Away, Selective Withdrawal and Islets in the Stream: Encapsulation with Threads of Fluid |
| Apr. 20 | Robert Rosner University of Chicago |
Turbulent Mixing in Astrophysical Flashes |
| Apr. 27 | Andrew Lange California Institute of Technology |
Imaging the Early Universe: Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background |
| May 4 | Aris Floratos IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |
Combinatorial Pattern Discovery in Biological Data |
| May 18 | Wolfgang Ketterle Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Bose-Einstein Condensation: Quantum Mechanics at Zero Temperature |
| May 25 | Raymond Pierrehumbert University of Chicago |
The Physics of Global Warming |
| June 1 | Kurt Gottfried Cornell University; Union of Concerned Scientists |
US Nuclear Weapons Policy: Is the Cold War Over? |
| Autumn 2000 - Robert M. Wald, Chairman | ||
| Sept. 28 | James Buckley Washington University |
TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy: The Most Violent Places in the Universe |
| Oct. 5 | Woowon Kang University of Chicago |
Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in a Two-Dimensional Electron System |
| Oct. 12 | Savdeep Sethi University of Chicago |
Strings and Related Things |
| Oct. 19 | Roger Penrose Oxford University |
The Problem of Space-Time Singularities |
| Oct. 26 | Albrecht Wagner Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) |
TESLA: e+e- Collider and X-ray Free Electron Laser Scientific Potential and Technological Challenge |
| Nov. 3 | John Bahcall IAS/Princeton University |
Solar Neutrinos: Where we are, Where we are going joint Physics/Astronomy colloquium |
| Nov. 9 | Lisa Randall Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity |
| Nov. 16 | Alvin Weinberg Oak Ridge National Laboratory Zachariasen Lecture |
Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future? |
| Nov. 23 | Thanksgiving | no colloquium today |
| Nov. 30 | Nigel Goldenfeld University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
My Manhattan Project: A Physicist's Adventures on Wall Street |
| Winter 2001 - Susan N. Coppersmith, Chairman | ||
| Jan. 4 | Paul Chaikin Princeton University |
Trillions of Quantum Dots, Fingerprints, Nanolithography with Diblock Copolymers, and the Formation of Striped Patterns |
| Jan. 11 | Steven M. Kahn Columbia University |
First Results from the Reflection Grating Spectrometer on the XMM-Newton Observatory |
| Jan. 18 | Suzanne Staggs Princeton University |
A Limit on the Polarized Anisotropy of the Cosmic Microwave Background at Subdegree Angular Scales |
| Jan. 25 | Janet Conrad Columbia University |
The Front Page Nu's |
| Feb. 1 | Theodore Postol Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Scientific Fraud in the National Missile Defense Program |
| Feb. 8 | Mark Oreglia University of Chicago |
Have We Caught a Glimpse of the Higgs Boson? (Comments by a Cautious Participant) |
| Feb. 15 | Sean Carroll University of Chicago |
What do we (really) know about the expansion of the universe? |
| Feb. 22 | David DiVincenzo IBM T. J. Watson Research Center |
Alternatives for Solid State Quantum Computing |
| Mar. 1 | W. E. Moerner Stanford University |
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, from Quantum Optics to Molecular Motors |
| Mar. 8 | Richard Gaitskell University College London |
Whither WIMPs: A Review of CDMS, and Other Experiments, Looking for 30% of the Missing Mass of the Universe |
| Spring 2001 - Bruce Winstein, Chairman | ||
| Mar. 29 | Martin Klein Yale University |
100 Years Post Planck |
| Apr. 5 | Donald G. York University of Chicago |
Continuing Results from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Farthest, the Coolest, and the Darkest |
| Apr. 12 | Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University |
First Positron Cooling of Antiprotons: Getting Closer to Cold Antihydrogen |
| Apr. 19 | Laura H. Greene University of Illinois/ Urbana-Champaign |
Detecting Broken Symmetries in High-Temperature Superconductors |
| Apr. 26 | William Cochran University of Texas at Austin |
Making Sense of Extra-Solar Planets |
| May 3 | Steven Chu Stanford University |
What can Biology do for Physics? |
| May 10 | Young-Kee Kim University of California/ Berkeley |
Massive Thoughts |
| May 17 | James W. Cronin University of Chicago |
Some Vignettes from the History of Cosmic Rays |
| May 24 | Patricia R. Burchat Stanford University |
Recent Results on CP Violation in B Decays from BABAR |
| May 31 | Marc Kamionkowski California Institute of Technology |
The First 10-38 Seconds |
| Autumn 2001 - Jonathan Rosner, Chairman | ||
| Oct. 4 | Nergis Mavalvala California Institute of Technology |
Gravitational Wave Detection with Interferometers: Present to Future |
| Oct. 11 | David G. Grier University of Chicago |
The Guiding Light: Kinetics, Dynamics and Controlled Motion in Holographic Optical Tweezer Arrays |
| Oct. 18 | Michael E. Peskin Stanford Linear Accelerator Center |
A Decade of Precision Electroweak Measurements |
| Oct. 25 | Yoichiro Nambu University of Chicago |
The Formative Years of Particle Physics 2001 Zachariasen Lecture |
| Nov. 1 | Jack Cowan University of Chicago |
Towards a Mathematically Tractable Model of the Action of the Visual Cortex |
| Nov. 8 | Gregory R. Snow Univ. of Nebraska/Lincoln |
The Cosmic Ray Observatory Project: A Statewide Outreach and Education Experiment in Nebraska |
| Nov. 15 | Leon Balents Univ. of Calif./Santa Barbara |
Splitting the Electron |
| Nov. 22 | Thanksgiving | No colloquium today |
| Friday Nov. 30 |
R.G. Hamish Robertson University of Washington |
SNO Flies: The Solar Neutrino Problem Resolved |
| Winter 2002 - Jonathan Rosner, Chairman | ||
| Jan. 10 | Anthony J. Leggett University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Introduction to High-energy Low-temperature Physics |
| Jan. 17 | John Marko University of Illinois at Chicago |
Direct Micromechanical Study of Single Biomolecules: Molecular Biology Meets Soft Condensed Matter Physics |
| Jan. 24 | Michael Turner University of Chicago |
Making Sense of the New Cosmology |
| Jan. 31 | Philip W. Phillips University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
A Glassy Cooper Pair Metal |
| Feb. 7 | Young-Kee Kim University of California at Berkeley |
Massive Thoughts |
| Feb. 14 | Andrew Cohen Boston University |
Deconstructing Dimensions |
| Feb. 21 | Jayanth R. Banavar Pennsylvania State Univ. |
Geometry and Physics of Proteins |
| Feb. 28 | David Kestenbaum National Public Radio |
My Father Sees Muons in the Driveway or How to Explain Physics to Everybody Else |
| Mar. 7 | Philippe Cluzel University of Chicago |
The Physics of Molecular Evolvable Machines |
| Spring 2002 - Jonathan Rosner, Chairman | ||
| Mar. 28 | Eric J. Heller Harvard |
Making Waves: Quantum Billiards to Concert Halls |
| Apr.4 | John Beacom Fermilab |
Supernova Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics |
| Apr. 11 | Norval Fortson University of Washington |
T-violation and a new search for a permanent electric dipole moment of the Hg atom |
| Apr. 18 | Nat Fisch Princeton University |
Uses of High Power Electromagnetic Waves in Plasma |
| Apr. 25 | Eric Adelberger University of Washington |
Sub-millimeter Tests of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law |
| May 2 | Janna Levin DAMTP, Cambridge |
Chaos, black holes and gravitational waves |
| May 9 | Maria Spiropulu University of Chicago |
There is something about SUSY |
| May 16 | Thomas F. Rosenbaum University of Chicago |
Tunable Tunneling in Spin Solids, Liquids and Glasses |
| May 23 | Donald Marolf Syracuse University |
A new look for black hole physics |
| May 30 | Peter Freund University of Chicago |
Geometry in Physics |
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| Autumn 2002 - Woowon Kang, Chairman | Oct. 3 | John Carlstrom University of Chicago |
Detection of Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization with DASI |
| Oct. 10 | Ali Yazdani UIUC |
Fine-Tuning Electronic States in Carbon Nanotubes |
| Oct. 17 | Juan Collar University of Chicago |
Direct searches for new astroparticles: Heavy and light artillery at EFI |
| Oct. 24 | Daniel Tsui Princeton University |
Zachariasen Lecture: More is indeed different: an example of novel physics from semiconductor electronics |
| Oct. 31 | Alan Watson University of Leeds, CFCS |
The Highest Energy Particles in Nature |
| Nov. 7 | Don Lamb University of Chicago |
New Results from HETE-2: Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology |
| Nov. 14 | Horst Stormer Columbia University/Lucent Technologies |
Fractional Charges and other Tales from Flatland |
| Nov. 21 | Ilya Gruzberg University of Chicago |
Random thoughts: physics of disorder |
| Nov. 28 | No colloquium today - Happy Thanksgiving | |
| Dec. 5 | Robert Austin Princeton University |
Why Biology is Hard for Physicists |
| Winter 2003 - Woowon Kang, Savdeep Sethi, Roland Winston, Chairmen | ||
| Jan. 9 | Chris Quigg Fermi National Laboratory |
The Future of Particle Physics |
| Jan. 16 | Valery Nesvizhevsky Inst. Laue-Langevin, Grenoble |
Quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field and interaction of neutrons with nanoparticles |
| Jan. 23 | Herman Verlinde Princeton University |
Holography and Gravitational Collapse |
| Jan. 30 | Leonid Glazman University of Minnesota |
Kondo Effect in Quantum Dots |
| Feb. 6 | Steve Simon Lucent Technologies |
The Unexpected Physics in Modern Wireless Communication: Replicas, Diffusons, and Supersymmetry for fun and profit |
| Feb. 13 | Harry L. Swinney University of Texas at Austin |
Patterns and shock waves in rapid granular flows |
| Feb. 20 | Carlos E.M. Wagner Argonne National Laboratory |
Supersymmetry, the Baryon Asymmetry and the Origin of Mass |
| Feb. 27 | Zheng-Tian Lu Argonne National Laboratory |
Catching Rare Atoms with Light | Mar. 6 | Hitoshi Murayama Univ. of California, Berkeley |
The Next Twenty Years in Particle Physics |
| Mar. 13 | William Bialek Princeton University |
Entropy, Information and the Brain |
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| Spring 2003 - Woowon Kang, Savdeep Sethi, Roland Winston, Chairmen | ||
| Apr. 3 | Matthew Fisher UC Santa Barbara |
Cuprates Amiss: Subtle simplicity or a matted mess? |
| Apr. 10 | Arnold Levine IAS/Rockefeller |
The Human Genome Project |
| Apr. 17 | Aron Pinczuk Columbia University |
Illuminating Electron Liquids in Quantum Structures |
| Apr. 24 | David Weinberger Senior Advisor, UBS Warburg |
A Look at Mathematical Trading in Financial Markets |
| May 1 | Raymond Chiao UC Berkeley |
Photon tunneling times and superluminality |
| May 8 | Roger Hildebrand University of Chicago |
The Infrared Cirrus |
| May 15 | William A. Zajc Columbia University |
The Science of RHIC |
| May 22 | Raman Sundrum Johns Hopkins University |
The SuperWorld, the BraneWorld, and Our World |
| May 29 | Frank Wilczek MIT |
The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness of Gravity |
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| Autumn 2003 - Ed Blucher, Dietrich Müller, Tom Witten, Chairmen | ||
| Oct. 2 | Eric Isaacs Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies |
X-ray Nano-Vision of Solids |
| Oct. 9 | Savdeep Sethi University of Chicago |
Time and String Theory |
| Oct. 16 | Eugene Parker University of Chicago |
Spontaneous Discontinuities in Magnetic Fields |
| Oct. 23 | Brad Marston Brown University |
The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming |
| Oct. 30 | Mark Newman University of Michigan |
Epidemics, Erdos numbers, and the Internet: The structure and function of networks |
| Nov. 6 | Francis Halzen Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison |
High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Results from the South Pole |
| Nov. 13 | Hermann Grunder Argonne National Laboratory |
What Can and Should Nuclear Energy Contribute to the Energy Mix |
| Nov. 20 | Uzi Landman Georgia Institute of Technology |
SMALL IS DIFFERENT Emergent phenomena in the nonscalable regime |
| Dec. 4 | Eric Siggia Rockefeller University |
The genome as parts list and assembly manual |
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| Winter 2004 - Ed Blucher, Dietrich Müller, Tom Witten, Chairmen | ||
| Jan. 15 | Jim Eisenstein Caltech |
Quantum Hall Effect Meets Bose Condensation: Long Sought Superfluid Found? |
| Jan. 22 | Robert Kirshner Harvard University |
The ESSENCE of the Universe: what is the dark energy? |
| Jan. 29 | Stephen I. Schwartz Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |
Nuclear Weapons: Not Just for Deterrence Anymore? |
| Feb. 5 | Randy Hulet Rice University |
Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Molecular Bose Gas |
| Feb. 12 | Sajeev John University of Toronto |
Photonic Band Gap Materials: Semiconductors of Light |
| Feb. 19 | David DeMille Yale University |
Fundamental physics with diatomic molecules: from CP violation to quantum computation |
| Feb. 26 | James Cronin University of Chicago |
Zachariasen Lecture "Fermi Remembered" |
| Mar. 4 | Wayne Hu University of Chicago |
The Physics of CMB Polarization |
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| Spring 2004 - Ed Blucher, Dietrich Müller, Tom Witten, Chairmen | Apr. 1 | Thomas A. Prince Caltech |
Astronomy and Physics with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) |
| Apr. 8 | Michael Turner University of Chicago, NSF |
A Cosmologist Goes to Washington: Report from the Front Lines |
| Apr. 15 | Roger Angel University of Arizona |
Seeing and analyzing extra-solar planets: a new challenge for
astronomical telescopes |
| Apr. 22 | Ian Shipsey Purdue University |
Bringing Hearing to the Deaf - Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account |
| Apr. 29 | Thomas Humphrey Exploratorium |
Artists and Scientists at the Exploratorium |
| May 6 | Alexei Abrikosov Bell Laboratories Argonne Nat. Lab. |
Superconductivity:history and modern state |
| May 13 | Jerry Gollub Haverford College |
Nonlinear Dynamics of Fluid Motion: Mixing and Clustering |
| May 20 | Peter Galison Harvard University |
Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps |
| May 27 | No colloquium today | |
| June 3 | Guy Savard Univ. of Chicago Argonne National Lab. |
Physics and technology of the Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) Facility |
| June 10 | Trevor Weekes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Astronomy at the Extreme |
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| Autumn 2004 - Yau Wah, Paul Wiegmann, and Sean Carroll, Chairman | Date | Speaker Institution |
Title |
| Oct. 7 | Juan Collar University of Chicago |
COUPP, the Chicago Observatory for Underground Particle Physics (and other groping in the dark) |
| Oct. 14 | Igor Novikov Nordita |
Problems of the Internal Structure of Black Holes |
| Oct. 21 | Gabrielle Lyon Project Exploration |
Unearthing the Hidden Curriculum |
| Oct. 28 | Seth Grae Thorium Power |
A forward-looking perspective on nuclear non-proliferation policy and how it will affect basic and applied science |
| Nov. 4 | Savas Dimopoulos Stanford |
Particle Physics circa 2010 |
| Nov. 11 | Norman Birge Michigan State University |
Electron Dephasing and Energy Exchange in Mesoscopic Metal Wires |
| Nov. 18 | Deborah Jin University of Colorado |
Using a Fermi gas to create Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Nov. 25 | - - - |
No colloquium today, Thanksgiving holiday |
| Dec. 2 | Jonathan Feng University of Calif., Irvine |
Dark Matters |
| Dec. 9 | Andrei Varlamov University of Rome |
Physics in the Kitchen |
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| Winter 2005 - Yau Wah, Paul Wiegmann, and Sean Carroll, Chairman | ||
| Date | Speaker Institution |
Title |
| Jan. 6 | Scott Hughes MIT |
Gravitational waves: A tool for studying black hole physics |
| Jan. 13 | Eugene Beier University of Pennsylvania |
The Revolution in Neutrino Physics |
| Jan. 20 | Samir Mathur Ohio State |
What is inside a black hole? |
| Jan. 27 | Charles Marcus Harvard |
Quantum Circuits |
| Feb. 3 | Ed Blucher University of Chicago |
Searching for Clues to the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry with Kaons and Neutrinos |
| Feb. 10 | Robert Geroch University of Chicago |
Faster than light? |
| Feb. 17 | George Crabtree Argonne |
The Hydrogen Economy: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Feb. 24 | Tanmay Vachaspati Case Western Reserve University |
Cosmic problems for condensed matter experiment |
| Mar. 3 | Cheng Chin University of Chicago |
Convert a Bose-Einstein condensate into a Cooper-paired degenerate Fermi gas |
| Mar. 10 | Gordon Cates University of Virginia |
Polarized He-3 and Xe-129 for medicine, biophysics, and the structure of the nucleon |
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| Spring 2005 - Yau Wah, Paul Wiegmann, and Sean Carroll, Chairman | ||
| Date | Speaker Institution |
Title |
| Mar. 31 | Sean Carroll University of Chicago |
Why is the Universe Accelerating? |
| Apr. 7 | Colloquium cancelled | |
| Apr. 14 | Neal Lane Rice University |
One perspective on American science - some trouble ahead! |
| Apr. 21 | Robert Deck University of Toledo |
The Connection between Spin and Statistics in Quantum Mechanics |
| Apr. 28 | Melanie Mitchell Portland State University |
The Effects of Spatial Distribution in Coevolutionary Learning |
| May 5 | Peter Sarnak Princeton |
Zeta functions and random matrix theory |
| May 12 | Kathy Levin University of Chicago |
The New Fermi Superfluids: From High Temperature Superconductors To Ultracold Atomic Gases |
| May 19 | Arthur Miller University College London |
Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes |
| May 26 | Ron Walsworth Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Multidisciplinary Applications of State-Selected Atoms |
| June 2 | Neal Weiner New York University |
Neutrino Mass and Dark Energy |
| June 9 | Carlos Bustamante Univ. of California, Berkeley |
Single Molecule Observation of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Helicase at Work |
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| Autumn 2005 - Cheng Chin, Ilya Gruzberg, Carlos Wagner, and Bruce Winstein, Chairman | ||
| Date | Speaker Institution |
Title |
| Sept. 29 | Sidney Redner Boston University |
Statistical Physics of Citations |
| Oct. 6 | Ilya Gruzberg University of Chicago |
Multifractals in condensed matter and field theory: new approaches and results |
| Oct. 13 | Paolo Privitera University of Rome |
Exploring the cosmic rays energy frontier with the Auger Observatory |
| Oct. 20 | Mark Wise Caltech |
Naturalness and the Laws of Nature |
| Oct. 27 | Ramamurti Shankar Yale University |
Dots for dummies |
| Nov. 3 | Lawrence Krauss Case Western |
Life, the Universe, and Nothing: The Future of Life in an Ever Expanding Universe.. |
| Nov. 10 | Douglas Stone Yale University |
Einstein's unknown insight and the problem of quantizing chaotic motion |
| Nov. 17 | Vladan Vuletic MIT |
Single photons stored in many entangled atoms |
| Nov. 24 | THANKSGIVING - No Colloquium | |
| Dec. 1 | Paul Langacker Univ. of Pennsylvania/Fermilab |
The Standard Theory and Beyond |
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Winter 2006 - Cheng Chin, Ilya Gruzberg, Carlos Wagner, and Bruce Winstein, Chairman |
| Date | Speaker Institution |
Title |
| Jan. 5 | George Gollin UIUC |
Hijacking Liberia and Other Acts of Piracy: Diploma Mills in a Networked World |
| Jan. 12 | Daniel Fisher Harvard Univ. |
Is evolution understood? Quantitative questions from a statistical mechanic |
| Jan. 19 | Frank Wilczek MIT |
Zachariasen Lecture "The Universe is a Strange Place" |
| Jan. 26 | Woowon Kang Univ. of Chicago |
Tunneling Spectroscopy of an Electron Superhighway |
| Feb. 2 | Peter Garnavich Univ. of Notre Dame |
Measuring Dark Energy with Supernovae |
| Feb. 9 | Chetan Nayak UCSB |
Topological Quantum Computation |
| Feb. 16 | Jun Ye JILA, NIST, Univ. of Colorado |
Uniting precision measurement and quantum control |
| Feb. 23 | Benoit Mandelbrot IBM, Yale |
The Smooth and the Rough: The Fractal Geometry of Roughness |
| Mar. 2 | Gordon Baym UIUC |
The Uncertainty Principals: Bohr and Heisenberg from Copenhagen to Copenhagen |
| Mar. 8 | Dava Sobel Robert Vare Writer-in-Residence in the College |
Galileo: Working Scientist [NOTE: Special Day - Wednesday, Mar. 8] |
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