Spring Quarter 2019
Thursday, 4/04/2019 | 3:30 PM
Staring at the Universe from a cold, dark and quiet cavern in Italy
Luca Grandi, University of Chicago
Thursday, 4/11/2019 | 3:30 PM
Experimental Measurement of the Hawking emission (?)
William Unruh, University of British Columbia
Host: Cheng Chin, Robert Wald
Thursday, 4/18/19 | 3:30 PM
How Schrödinger’s Cat Became a Cat
Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology
Thursday, 4/25/2019 | 3:30 PM
Mastering Bright Electron Beams
Ritchie Patterson, Cornell University
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, 5/02/2019 | 3:30 PM
Next Generation Nuclear Experiments: Toward 3D Imaging of Nuclei
Kawtar Hafidi, Argonne National Laboratory
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, 5/09/2019 | 3:30 PM
Bending space and time: New ideas from an emerging science of cities
Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago
Host: Dam T. Son
Thursday, 5/23/2019 | 3:30 PM
Gender Equity , Power Structures, and Implicit Bias in Stem
Elizabeth Simmons, University of California San Diego
Host:
Thursday, 5/30/2019 | 3:30 PM
Universality and individuality in neural dynamics across large populations of recurrent networks
David Sussillo, Google
Host: Stephanie Palmer
Thursday, 6/06/2019 | 3:30 PM
Zachariasen Lecture
David Saltzberg, University of California Los Angeles
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Winter Quarter 2019
Thursday, January 10, 2019, 3:30pm
Testing DAMA's Long-standing Claim for Dark Matter Detection
Reina Maruyama, Yale University
Host: Juan Collar
Thursday, January 24, 2019, 3:30pm
Magic Angle Graphene: a New Platform for Strongly Correlated Physics
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: David Schuster
Thursday, January 31, 2019, 3:30pm
Empathy: The good, the bad, and the ugly
Peggy Mason, University of Chicago
Host: Sidney Nagel
Thursday, February 7, 2019, 3:30pm
Signatures of Dispersing 1D Majorana Channels in an Iron-based Superconductor
Vidya Madhavan, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Host: Kathy Levin
Thursday, February 14, 2019, 3:30pm
Sloppy models, differential geometry, and the space of model predictions
Jim Sethna, Cornell University
Host: Stephanie Palmer
Thursday, February 21, 2019, 3:30pm
Heretical hypotheses in the hunt for dark matter
Marc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Michael Turner
Thursday, February 28, 2019, 3:30pm
Insect Flight: from Newton’s law to Neurons
Jane Wang, Cornell University
Host: Arvind Murugan
Thursday, March 7, 2019, 3:30pm
High Energy Density Physics and Modeling of Extreme States of Matter
Frank Graziani, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host: Petros Tzeferacos
Autumn Quarter 2018
Thursday, October 4, 2018, 4pm
Neutrino Physics at Long and Short Baselines: The DUNE and SBN Experiments at Fermilab
David Schimitz, University of Chicago
Host: Ed Blucher
Thursday, October 11, 2018, 4pm
Physics is for Everyone
Stephan Meyer
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, October 18, 2018, 4pm
Exploring Flatland with cold atoms
Jean Dalibard, Collège de France
Host:Cheng Chin
Thursday, October 25, 2018, 4pm
Spinning Top-ology
William Irvine, University of Chicago
Host:
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 4pm
Exploring the high-energy sky with neutrinos and gamma rays
Marcos Santander, The University of Alabama
Host: Scott Wakely
Thursday, November 8, 2018, 4pm
Science, Engineering and Art as well –why it is hard to teach science well
Helen Quinn, SLAC
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, November 15, 2018, 4pm
Measuring gravity at short distances and other fun tricks with levitated microspheres
Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University
Host: Luca Grandi
Thursday, December 6, 2018, 4pm
Discovering the Highest Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos Using a Radio Phased Array
Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Spring Quarter 2018
Thursday, March 29, 2018, 4pm
Scaling up Quantum Computers
Fred Chong, The University of Chicago
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, April 5, 2018, 4pm
The quest to observe the Turbulent Cascade in real time
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, April 12, 2018, 4pm
Seeking Clues to Explain the Diverse Architectures of Exoplanetary Systems
Heather Knutson, California Institute of Technology
Host: Cheng Chin
Thursday, April 19, 2018, 4pm
TBA
Rama Ranganathan, The University of Chicago
Host: Arvind Murugan
Thursday, April 26, 2018, 4pm
Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases under the Microscope
Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Jonathan Simon
Thursday, May 3, 2018, 4pm
New frontiers in cryo-electron microscopy: From Probing Low Temperature Electronic Phases to Processes at Liquid/Solid Interfaces
Lena F. Kourkoutis, Cornell University
Host: David Schuster
Wednesday, May 9, 2018, 4:30pm
The Emergent Fundamental – Exotic Collective Phenomena in Correlated Materials
Suchitra Sebastian, The University of Cambridge
Host: Erez Berg
Thursday, May 10, 2018, 4pm
Probing Sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium
Daniel McKinsey, The University of California, Berkeley
Host: Luca Grandi
Thursday, May 17, 2018, 4pm
Catching and Reversing a Quantum Jump Mid-flight
Michel Devoret, Yale University
Host: David Schuster
Thursday, May 24, 2018, 4pm
Impurities in an ultracold Fermi sea: Quasiparticles, phase separation, and more
Rudolf Grimm, The University of Innsbruck
Host: Cheng Chin
Thursday, May 31, 2018, 4pm
Why is negative energy density bad, and how does quantum information constrain it
Thomas Faulkner, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Host: Dam Son
Friday, June 8, 2018, 2:30pm
Stephanie Palmer, The University of Chicago
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Winter Quarter 2018
Thursday, Janurary 4, 2018, 4pm
Exploring Matter Made of Light
Jon Simon, The University of Chicago
Host: Cheng Chin
Thursday, Janurary 11, 2018, 4pm
A Hundred Years of Modeling Solids
Marvin Cohen, The University of California Berkeley
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, Janurary 18, 2018, 4pm
Physics and Chemistry with Diatomic Molecules Near Absolute Zero
Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia University
Host: Cheng Chin
Thursday, Feburary 1, 2018, 4pm
GW170817: Hearing and seeing a binary neutron star merger
Dan Holz, The University of Chicago
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, Feburary 8, 2018, 4pm
In Proximity to Novel Physics: Topological Insulators coupled to Superconductors
Nadya Mason, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: David Schuster
Thursday, Feburary 15, 2018, 4pm
The Future of Small
Paul McEuen, Cornell University
Host: Jiwoon Park, Vincenzo Vitelli
Thursday, Feburary 22, 2018, 4pm
Mesoscopic Optics
Hui Cao, Yale University
Host: Linda Young
Thursday, March 1, 2018, 4pm
From LEGO to Active Fluids
Vincenzo Vitelli, The University of Chicago
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Thursday, March 8, 2018, 4pm
Future of Particle Physics: LHC and beyond
Liantao Wang, The University of Chicago
Host: Young-Kee Kim
Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 4pm
Computing in the Los Alamos Weapons Program
Bill Archer, Los Alamos Laboratory
Autumn Quarter 2017
Thursday, October 5, 2017, 4pm
Nuclear Physics: Then and Now
Barbara Jacak, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 4pm
Nuclear Energy (co-sponsored by the Enrico Fermi Institute)
Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize in Physics 1984
Thursday, October 19, 2017, 4pm
Dear Maria, Oh My, How Particle Physics has Changed
Melissa Franklin, Harvard University
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 4pm
The Fallout of Chicago Pile-1
Robert (Bo) Jacobs, Hiroshima Peace Institute and Hiroshima City University
Thursday, November 2, 2017, 4pm
"Atoms for Peace" in Medicine and Biology
Chin-Tu Chen, University of Chicago
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 1:30pm
Projecting Risk into the Future: Failure of a Geologic Repository and the Sinking of the Titanic
Rodney Ewing, Stanford University
Thursday, November 16, 2017, 4pm
CP-1: The 'Big Bang' of Big Science
Eric Isaacs, University of Chicago
Thursday, November 30, 2017, 4pm
Enrico Fermi: The Pope of Physics
Bettina Hoerlin and Gino Segrè
Spring Quarter 2017
March 30
New forms of matter with ultracold atoms: synthetic gauge fields and supersolidity
Wolfgang Ketterle
April 13
Intertwined Order in Highly Correlated Electron Fluids
Steven Kivelson
April 20
Quantum gas in a box
Zoran Hadzibabic
April 27
The Manhattan Project: A Look at the Physics
Cameron Reed
April 28
Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and Quantum Theory
Einstein Prize Lecture
Bob Wald
May 4
Physics of Sustainability
Peter Littlewood
May 11
Jamming in biological tissues
Lisa Manning
May 18
From the Higgs to dark matter: the search for the underlying code of our universe
Zachariasen Lecture
Joseph Incandela
May 25
Critical Metals: Lessons from quantum Monte Carlo studies
Erez Berg
June 1
Towards the identification of Earth-like worlds with MAROON-X
Jacob Bean
Winter Quarter 2017
January 12
Self Organization of chromosomes and the loop-extrusion model"
John Marko
January 19
Physics of Polygons and 2D Melting
Sharon Glotzer
January 26
Mapping New Physics with Cosmic Microwave Background
Jeff McMahon
February 2
Topological insulators and superconductors -- from band theory to interacting system
Shinsei Ryu
February 9
The Higgs portal onto the dark universe
Jessie Shelton
February 16
Quantum Dynamics of Inflation
Cheng Chin
February 23
Observations of binary black hole mergers: the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy
Rainer Weiss
March 2
Time Reversal Symmetry Breaking in Unconventional Superconductors
Aharon Kapitulnik
March 9
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe with Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiments
Mayly Sanchez
Autumn Quarter 2016
September 29
Seeing the unseeable: boosting discoveries at the LHC by imaging quarks and gluons with jets and jet substructure
David Miller
October 6
Exploring the Extreme Universe with Gamma Rays
Elizabeth Hays
October 13
Paper and Circuits, only Atoms Thick
Jiwoong Park
October 20
Looking Back: A personal view
Hellmut Fritzche and panel discussion
October 27
Understanding the Origin of Mass and Matter
Carlos Wagner
November 3
Dark Energy Science with the Dark Energy Survey, and Beyond
Elisabeth Krause
November 10
Modeling Elections
Daniel Diermeier
November 17
The Matter – Anti-matter Asymmetry of the Universe: Why is there something, rather than nothing?
David Nygren
December 1
Future of High Energy Physics
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Spring Quarter 2016
March 31
Symmetry, topology and electronic phases of matter
Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
April 7
John Madey, University of Hawaii, Manoa
April 14
Michelle Dolinski, Drexel University
April 21
Anna Grassellino, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
April 28
Paul Sereno, University of Chicago
May 5
Jesse Thaler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
May 12
Tadashi Tokeida, University of Cambridge
May 19
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
May 26
June 2
Physics Student Awards Physics Student Awards
Winter Quarter 2016
January 7
First results from the Fermilab Holometer testing space-time correlations at the Planck scale
Stephan Meyer, University of Chicago
January 14
Cold Atom Magic
Jason Ho, Ohio State University
January 21
Visualizing Spatially Ordered Phases in Complex Materials
Abhay Pasupathy, Columbia University, NY
January 28
Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago
February 4
Chris Monroe, University of Maryland
February 11
February 18
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
February 25
Scott Wakely, University of Chicago
March 3
David Biron, University of Chicago
March 10
Autumn Quarter 2015
October 1
Michael Levin, University of Chicago
October 8
John Grunsfeld, University of Chicago
October 15
October 22
October 29
November 5
Wendy Freedman, University of Chicago
November 12
Ayana Arce, Duke University
November 19
November 26
December 3
Spring Quarter 2015
April 2
Self-Organization and Mechanics of Active Matter
Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
April 9
Geometry in Physics: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect- a Case Study
Paul Wiegmann, University of Chicago
April 10
Special Colloquium
William Irvine, University of Chicago
April 16
Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory
April 23
Ayana Arce, Duke University
April 30
Mott-Hubbard Transition in Ruthenium Perovskites
John Goodenough, Zachariasen Lecture
May 7
Gabriel Orebi, University of California, Berkeley
May 14
Ana Maria Rey, University of Colorado, Boulder
May 21
Zheng-Tian Lu, University of Chicago
May 28
John Coster-Mullen
June 4
Laura Baudis, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Winter Quarter 2015
January 8
Bob Rosner, University of Chicago
January 15
Marcela Carena, University of Chicago
January 22
John Carlstrom, University of Chicago
January 29
Jamie Carpenter, James Carpenter Design Associates
February 5
Jamie Rosenzweig, UCLA
February 12
Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University
February 19
Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Leiden, Netherlands
February 26
Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago
March 5
Sam Zeller, Fermilab
March 12
Andrea Liu, University of Pennsylvania
Autumn Quarter 2014
October 2
The proton and the future of particle physics
Richard Hill, University of Chicago
October 9
The twist matrix: a handle to organize asymmetric colloids
Tom Witten, University of Chicago
October 16
The future of high-energy colliders
Fabiola Gianotti, CERN
October 23
David Gross, UCSB
October 30
Henriette Elvang, University of Michigan
November 6
John Carlstrom, University of Chicago
November 13
Heinrich Jaeger, University of Chicago
November 20
Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado, Boulder
December 4
Sue Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Spring Quarter 2014
April 3
Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance from a Muon Neutrino Beam
Chang-Kee Jung, State University Of New York, Stony Brook
April 10
Unraveling knotted fields
William Irvine, University of Chicago
April 17
Dripping, jetting, drops and wetting: the magic of microfluidics
David Weitz, Harvard University
April 24
The Hubble Constant and Dark Energy from Supernovae, Cepheids and Parallax
Adam Riess, John Hopkins University
May 1
How Nambu's ideas led to The Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble prediction of the once Elusive Boson (Cancelled)
Gerald Guralnik, Brown University
May 8
Towards a final push in axion dark matter search in the 1-100 micro-eV mass range
Yannis Semertzidis, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology(KAIST)
May 15
Experimental measurement tradeoffs, from Heisenberg to Aharonov to quantum data compression
Aephriam Steinberg, University of Toronto
May 29
Controlling photons in a box and raising Schrodinger cats of light: when thought experiments become real
Serge Haroche, College de France
June 5
The Hottest, and Most Liquid, Liquid in the Universe
Krishna Rajagopal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Winter Quarter 2014
January 9
Kurt Hinterbichler
January 16
David Awschalom
January 23
Slava G. Turyshev
January 30
February 6
Nai Phuam Ong
February 13
Steve Chu
February 20
February 27
Deborah Jin
March 13
Eugene Demler
Autumn Quarter 2013
October 3
Some thoughts about how to define quantum gravity in an accelerating universe
Savdeep Sethi/Jeff Harvey, University of Chicago
October 10
Listening to the Universe with gravitational wave astrophysics
Daniel Holz/Robert Wald, University of Chicago
October 17
Gestalt of Strongly Correlated Superconductivity
J.C. Seamus Davis/Michael Levin, Cornell University
October 24
Status and prospects for DM detection
Daniel Hooper/Steve Meyer, University of Chicago
October 31
Are We Descended From Heavy Neutrinos?
Boris Kayser/Henry Frisch, University of Chicago
November 7
Majorana Materializes
Jason Alicea/Michael Levin, California Institute of Technology(Caltech)
November 14
Taming the World's Largest Schrodinger Cat
Steve Girvin/David Schuster, Yale University
November 21
Macroscopic Quantum Geometry:Testing the Fidelity of Space-time with Interferometry
Craig Hogan/Steve Meyer, University of Chicago
December 5
The History of Vector Analysis
Michael Crowe/Henry Frisch, University of Notre Dame
Spring Quarter 2013
April 4
Living Matter: Elucidating mechanisms of the protein-based materials underlying cellular movement
Margaret Gardel/Scott Wakely, University of Chicago
April 11
Atomtronic circuitry: A Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring
Bill Phillips/Cheng Chin, Nat'l Institute of Standards and Technology
April 18
Probing strongly correlated quantum systems with single-atom resolution
Stefan Kuhr/Jon Simon, University of Strathclyde
April 25
Basic (but cool!) Physics with Millisecond Pulsars
Scott Ransom/Scott Wakely, University of Virginia
May 2
First Result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station
Samuel Ting/Juan Collar, MIT
May 9
Topological insulators and their implications for electronic order
Joel Moore/Jon Simon, University of California/Berkeley
May 16
Large Liquid Xe Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Rick Gaitskell/Juan Collar, Brown University
May 23
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search with Silicon Detectors
Lauren Hsu/Juan Collar, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
May 30
Higgs and Dark Matter Variations
Cliff Cheung/Jon Simon, California Institute of Technology
June 6
Using neutrino oscillation to study the matter/antimatter asymmetry of the universe
Morgan Waskco/Scott Wakely, Imperial College, London
Winter Quarter 2013
January 10
Robust Circadian Rhythms from Coupled CatalyticDomains
Michael Rust/Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago
January 17
Probing the Universe with TeV Gamma Rays
Frank Krennrich/Scott Wakely, Iowa State University
January 24
Ultracold molecules - New frontiers in quantum & chemical physics
Jun Ye/Jon Simon, JILA, National Inst. of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado
January 31
Big Computing or Big Data? Trends and Challenges Facing Researchers in the Third Pillar: An Intro. to the UChicago Research Computing Center
Birali Runesha/Scott Wakely, University of Chicago
February 7
Integrable Systems for Accelerators
Sergei Nagaitsev/Young-Kee Kim, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
February 14
EXO and the quest for Majorana Neutrino Masses
Giorgio Gratta/Juan Collar, Stanford University
February 21
Quantum optomechanics: a mechanical platform for quantum foundations and quantum information processing
Markus Aspelmeyer/Jon Simon, University of Vienna
February 28
Order out of chaos:towards understanding galaxy formation in the cosmological context
Andrey Kravstov/Scott Wakely, University of Chicago
March 7
New Physics at the LHC: Higgs and beyond
Lian-Tao Wang/Scott Wakely, University of Chicago
March 14
Kathryn Zurek/Juan Collar, University of Michigan
March 21
Optical Tweezers:Gene Regulation, Studied One Molecule at a Time
Steve Block, Stanford University
Autumn Quarter 2012
October 4
Turbulent Rayleigh-B\'enard and Taylor-Couette flow
Detlef Lohse/Tom Witten, University of Twente
October 11
Progress in the development of the ARIANNA high energy neutrino detector
Steve Barwick/Scott Wakely, UC Irvine
October 25
Optical Metamaterials: Negative Refraction, Superlens and Plasmon Lasers
Xiang Zhang/Jon Simon, UC Berkeley
November 1
Discovering the Higgs Boson - latest results from the CERN LHC
Jim Pilcher/Scott Wakely, University of Chicago
November 8
Hundred Years of Cosmic Rays: Some Reflections on the Research in Chicago
Dietrich Müller/Scott Wakely, University of Chicago
November 15
What has the Large Hadron Collider done to Theory?
Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University
William H. Zachariasen Memorial Lecture
November 29
Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Randy Hulet/Cheng Chin, Rice University
December 6
Engineering Quantum Materials from Cold Atoms: Mott Insulators to Emergent Crystals
Jonathan Simon, University of Chicago
Spring Quarter 2012
March 29
Eric Isaacs
*Cancelled
April 5
Do worms sleep?
David Biron, University of Chicago
April 12
Probing The Structure of the Electron
Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard
Host: Cheng Chin
APS Lilienfeld Prize Lecture
April 19
Extreme Physics of Marginal Matter
Martin van Hecke, University of Leiden
Host: Wendy Zhang
April 26
Open System Quantum Simulation with Atoms, Molecules and Ions
Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck
Host: Stephen Berry
Fano Lecture
May 3
Portals for New Physics at the Intensity Frontier
Ann Nelson, University of Washington
Host: Carlos Wagner
May 10
The Biophysics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting and its Regulation
Graham Fleming, UC Berkeley
Joint Biophysics & Physics
May 24
Twenty-first Century Lattice Gauge Theory: Consequences of the QCD Lagrangian
Host: Carlos Wagner
Andreas Kronfeld, Fermilab
May 31
Physics Exotica: Some New Results and Ideas
Dmitry Budker, UC Berkeley
Host: David Schuster
June 7
ExoPlanets: From Jupiters to Earths
Geoff Marcy, Joint Physics, Astronomy & KICP
Winter Quarter 2012
January 12
Petawatt to Exawatt Lasers: The Science and Technology of the Highest Power Lasers Ever Built
Todd Ditmire, University of Texas
Host: Carlos Wagner
January 19
Multivalent Ionic Interactions in Multicomponent Polyelectrolyte Mixtures: From New Physics to New Materials
Matthew Tirrell, University of Chicago
Host: Wendy Zhang
January 26
The Intensity Frontier on the Great Plains: Fermilab's Current Programs and Future with Project X
Young-Kee Kim, University of Chicago, Fermilab
Host: Paolo Privitera
February 2
Cosmic Rays, Climate and the CERN CLOUD Experiment
Jasper Kirby, CERN
Host: Paolo Privitera
February 9
Results from the latest run of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search
Franz Proebst, Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik
Host: Paolo Privitera
February 16
Charge Transmutation in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Hubert Saleur, Saclay
Host: Ilya Gruzberg
February 23
Spin Ice, Monopoles, Fractionalization and Topological Order
Shivaji Sondhi, Princeton
Host: Paul Wiegmann
March 1
The Higgs Identity
Ian Low, Northwestern University, Argonne
Host: Carlos Wagner
Autumn Quarter 2011
September 29
The Brave nu World
André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University
October 6
Effective field theory and the 2011 Standard Model
Richard Hill, University of Chicago
October 13
The Measurement of Time in the 21st Century
Christophe Salomon, Ecole Normale Superieure
October 20
Deformation of crystals, granular materials, and earthquakes:Using simple models to understand slip avalanches, crackling noise, and universal noise statistics
Karin Dahmen, University of Illinois at Urbana
October 27
Granular Landscapes
Ned Kahn, Ned Kahn Studios
November 3
The Kondo Effect in a Single Electron Transistor: Learning New Physics using Nano-Technology
Marc Kastner, MIT
Zachariasen Lecture
November 10
Geophysical Constraints on Glacial Earthquakes and Glacier Dynamics in Greenland
Meredith Nettles, Columbia University
November 17
Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theory
D. T. Son, University of Washington, Seattle
Spring Quarter 2011
| Mar. 31 | Jonathan Rosner |
Unfinished Business in Particle Physics |
| Apr. 7 | Carlos Wagner |
High Energy Physics at the beginning of the LHC Era |
| Apr. 14 | Florencia Canelli |
Recent Results from Collider Experiments |
| Apr. 21 | Rob Phillips/Scott Wakely |
How Viruses Make New Viruses: A Single Molecule View |
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Apr. 28 |
Mark Saffman/Cheng Chin |
Strongly interacting Rydberg atoms: from quantum gates to matter wave solitons |
| May 5 | Frans Pretorius/Wendy Zhang |
Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics |
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May 12 |
Aldo Antognini/Florencia Canelli | The proton radius puzzle |
| May 19 |
No Colloquium |
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| May 26 | Stuart Henderson /Florencia Canelli |
Accelerators Across Physics and Society |
| June 2 |
No Colloquium |
Winter Quarter 2011
| Jan. 6 | Walter Lawrence Host: Levin |
Quantum Information and Paradoxes of Physics |
| Jan. 13 | Paolo Privitera Host: Wakely |
Tuning the Radio to Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays |
| Jan. 20 |
David Schuster |
Cavity QED with electrons on helium |
| Jan. 27 | Charles Kane Host: Levin |
Topological Insulators and Topological Band Theory |
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Feb. 3 |
Hugh Montgomery |
Jefferson Lab - The Next Ten Years and Beyond |
| Feb. 10 | William Irvine |
Curved crystals and knotted fields |
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Feb. 17 |
Brian de Marco Host: Chin |
Experiments with Dirty Bosons University of Illinois, Urbana |
| Feb. 24 | Dirk Bouwmeester Host: Witten |
Towards quantum superpositions of a mirror |
| Mar. 3 | Xiao Gang Wen Host: Levin |
From highly entangled quantum matter to a unification of light and electrons |
| Mar. 10 | Ben Newling Host: Wakely |
THE SOUND OF SCIENCE |
Autumn Quarter 2010
| Sept. 30 | Scott Wakely |
Eyes on the TeV Sky: Astrophysics with VERITAS |
| Oct. 7 | Margaret Gardel |
Cellular Mechanics |
| Oct. 14 | Roger Penrose/Carlos Wagner |
Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: latest results |
| Oct. 21 | Tony Tyson/Florencia Canelli |
LSST and the physics of the dark universe |
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Oct. 28 |
George E. Smith/Ed Blucher |
Spring Quarter 2010
| April 1 | S. C. Zhang/P. Wiegmann |
Topological insulators and topological superconductors |
| April 8 | Lian-Tao Wang/C. Wagner |
Using LHC Data to Explore New Physics at the Terascale |
| April 15 | Helmut Dosch/Y.-K. Kim |
Grand Challenges for Megafacilities |
| April 22 | Michael Ramsey-Musolf/J. Rosner |
The Precision Frontier and the New Standard Model |
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April 29 |
Gennady Stupakov/M. Oreglia |
Using echo effect in accelerators: how to measure diffusion |
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May 6 |
Philip Kim/W. Kang |
Graphitic Carbon Nanostructures: From Analogy of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to Carbon Based Electronics |
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May 13 |
Neil Turok/L. Kadanoff |
Was the Big Bang the Beginning? |
| May 20 |
Evan Finch/F. Merritt |
Recent results from STAR at RHIC |
| May 27 | Paul Goldbart/F. Merritt | Strands of Superconductivity at the Nanoscale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| June 3 | Guy Savard/F. Merritt |
The CARIBU facility: making r-process nuclei available in the laboratory |
| June 10 | *Robert Kirshner/M. Turner |
*Joint Astronomy/KICP/Physics Colloquium The Past, Present, and Future of Supernova Cosmology |
Winter Quarter 2010
| Jan. 7 | Fred MacKintosh/T. Witten |
Non-equilibrium aspects of the cytoplasm: the cell as an active state of soft matter |
| Jan. 14 | Robert Wald |
Self-Force on a Classical Point Charge |
| Jan. 21 | Woowon Kang |
Topological quantum computing |
| Jan. 28 | James Evans/T. Witten |
The Google Effect on Science and Scholarship: By broadening individual reach, the Internet narrows global understanding |
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Feb. 4 |
John Galayda/K.-J. Kim |
Report of Early Experience with the Linac Coherent Light Source as a User Facility |
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Feb. 11 |
Jim Pilcher |
Opening a new window - the start of the LHC physics program |
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Feb. 18 |
Z. X. Shen/K. Levin |
Photoemission in strongly correlated systems |
| Feb. 25 | Christopher Stubbs |
Confronting the Dark Energy Crisis in Fundamental Physics |
| Mar. 4 | Kameshwar Wali |
Cremona Violins: A Physicist’s Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari. William F. “Jack” Fry |
| Mar. 11 | Dan Hooper |
The Hunt For Dark Matter Continues |
Autumn Quarter 2009
| Oct. 1 | Stuart Freedman/J. Rosner |
The Decade of the Neutrino |
| Oct. 8 | Cheng Chin |
Having your cake and seeing it too - Exploring quantum criticality and critical dynamics in ultracold atomic gases |
| Oct. 15 | Ali Yazdani/K. Levin |
Spring Quarter 2009
| Apr. 2 | Wendy Zhang | Memory as vibration in a disconnecting air bubble University of Chicago |
| Apr. 9 | L. Mahadevan | Geometric mechanics: from the atomic to the tectonic Harvard University |
| Apr. 16 | Ben Kilminster |
Massive search pushes Higgs particle into corner at Fermilab |
| Apr. 23 | Tim Tait | Unravelling the Nature of Dark Matter Northwestern University and Argonne |
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Apr. 30 |
Cary B. Forest |
Turbulent Liquid Metal Dynamo Experiments |
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May 7 |
V. Ramanathan |
Strategies for containing climate change below dangerous levels |
| May 14 | R. Sekhar Chivukula | The Symmetries of QCD Michigan State University |
| May 21 | TBA | |
| May 28 | Jack Cowan |
Statistical Mechanics of Large-Scale Brain Activity |
| June 4 | Piergiorgio Picozza |
Searching for Dark Matter with Cosmic Antiparticles: the PAMELA Experiment |
Winter Quarter 2009
| Jan. 8 | David Raizen |
When the wiggling stops: round worm quiescence as a model for sleep |
| Jan. 15 |
No colloquium today |
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| Jan. 22 | Edward Stone |
Zachariasen Lecture Voyager's Journey to Interstellar Space |
| Jan. 29 | Eric Weeks | Colloidal crystals, liquids and glasses: Insights from microscopy Emory University |
|
Feb. 5 |
Wei-Shu Hou |
CP violation for the heaven and the earth |
|
Feb. 12 |
O. W. Greenberg |
The discovery of color; a personal perspective |
| Feb. 19 | Debbie Jin | Making Ultracold Polar Molecules JILA, NIST/University of Colorado |
| Feb. 26 | Hamish Robertson | Neutrino Physics for the Masses University of Washington, Seattle |
| Mar. 5 | Blayne Heckel |
Recent Results from a Search for the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment (EDM) of 199Hg |
| Mar. 12 | John Thomas | Searching for perfect fluidity in an Atomic Fermi Gas Duke University |
Autumn Quarter 2008
| Oct. 2 | Mark Raizen |
Comprehensive Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion |
| Oct. 9 | Ilya Gruzberg |
Critical wave functions, conformal invariance, and theories for quantum Hall transitions. |
| Oct. 16 | Joseph Lykken | Is it SUSY? - first steps after an LHC discovery Fermi National Laboratory |
| Oct. 23 | Rajendran Raja | Nuclear Energy using Accelerator Driven Sub-Critical systems--The Thorium Option Fermi National Laboratory |
| Oct. 30 | John Learned | New Directions in Neutrino Research: Mobile Detectors for Geology, Neutrino Mixing and Mass Hierarchy, Neutrino-astrophysics and Anti-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons University of Hawaii, Manoa |
| Nov. 6 | J.C. Séamus Davis |
How the Cooper Pairs vanish as the Mott Insulator state is approached in High-Tc Superconductors |
| Nov. 13 | Robin Santra | High-intensity laser control of x-ray processes Argonne National Laboratory |
| Nov. 20 | Perry Wilson | The
Physics
Underlying
RF
Breakdown
in
Accelerating
Structures
at
High
Gradients
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University |
| Nov. 27 |
Spring Quarter 2008
| April 3 | Burton Richter Mark Oreglia |
Energy in the 21st Century |
| April 10 | Elena Aprile Juan Collar |
CANCELLED |
| April 17 | Steve Ritz Scott Wakely |
GLAST: Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope Goddard Space Flight Center |
| April 24 | Angela Belcher Tom Witten |
From Nature and Back Again...Giving New Life to Materials for Energy, Electronics, and the Environment MIT |
| May 1 | Bill Phillips Cheng Chin |
Rotating atoms with light: a new twist on coherent deBroglie-wave optics NIST |
| May 8 | Joseph R. Dwyer Scott Wakely |
X-ray Emission from Thunderstorms and Lightning Florida Institute of Technology |
| May 15 | Roy Schwitters Mark Oreglia |
Imaging Large Objects with Cosmic Rays: Lessons Being Learned in the UT Maya Muon Project |
| May 22 | Stanislas Leibler Tom Witten |
Fluctuations, Information, and Survival: Some Lessons learned from Bacteria The Rockefeller University |
| May 29 | Ian Foster Tom Witten |
Computation and Knowledge University of Chicago |
| June 5 | Tim Hallman Mark Oreglia |
Characterizing the new state of strongly interacting quark-gluon matter discovered at RHIC Brookhaven National Lab |
| June 12 | Kip Thorne Bob Wald |
The Warped Side of the Universe California Institute of Technology |
Winter Quarter 2008
| Jan. 10 | Wim Leemans Mark Oreglia |
High energy particle accelerators that can fit on a (large) tabletop by using lasers |
| Jan. 17 | Phil Bucksbaum Scott Wakely |
Ultrafast Quantum Control |
| Jan. 24 | Joseph Silk Scott Wakely |
Formation of the Galaxies: A Primer for Physicists University of Oxford |
| Jan. 31 | Arjun Yodh Sidney Nagel |
Functional Imaging and Spectroscopy With Diffuse Light University of Pennsylvania |
| Feb. 7 | Zheng-Tian Lu Mark Oreglia |
Simple Atom, Extreme Nucleus: Laser Trapping and Probing of Helium-8 Argonne and UChicago |
| Feb. 14 | Abhay Ashtekar Bob Wald |
Quantum Nature of the Big Bang in Simple Models |
| Feb. 21 | David J. Pine Tom Witten |
Random Organization: A Nonequilibrium Phase Transition in Periodically Sheared Suspensions New York University |
| Feb. 28 | Seth Putterman Mark Oreglia |
Energy Concentration Phenomena: From Sonoluminescence To Crystal Fusion
University of California at Los Angeles |
| Mar. 6 | Margaret Gardel Tom Witten |
Mechanisms of Force Transmission in Metazoan Cells University of Chicago |
Autumn Quarter 2007
| Sept. 27 | Scott Wakely |
Our Violent Universe: Gamma-ray Astrophysics with VERITAS |
| Oct. 2 | Serge Haroche |
Counting photons without destroying them: an ideal measurement of light |
| Oct. 4 | Juan Collar | Something Old, Something New University of Chicago |
| Oct. 11 | Thomas Bogdan | Space Weather NOAA |
| Oct. 18 | Olgica Bakajin | Carbon Nanotube Nanofluidics Lawrence Livermore Laboratory |
| Oct. 25 | Thomas Halsey |
Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Through Carbon Capture and Storage |
| Nov. 1 | Don Lamb | New Insights into Type Ia Supernova Explosions from Large-Scale Simulations University of Chicago |
| Nov. 8 | Laurence Yaffe | Strongly Coupled Plasmas and Gauge/String Duality
University of Washington |
| Nov. 22 | Thanksgiving Day - No Colloquium | |
| Nov. 29 | Nod Lipson |
Cognitive Robotics and other self-modeling physical systems |
Spring Quarter 2007
|
Mar. 29 |
Marvin L. Cohen Univ. of California, Berkeley |
Zachariasen Lecture - "The World Year of Physics, Einstein, Nanoscience, and Superconductivity" |
|
Apr. 5 |
Gabriella Sciolla |
Beauty in the Mirror: Looking for New Physics in CP Violation |
|
Apr. 12 |
Paul McEuen |
Nano carbon: from molecular transistors to atomic drumheads |
|
Apr. 19 |
Eric Cornell |
Set My Vortices Free: Observing the Kosterlitz-Thouless Crossover in an Optical Lattice |
|
Apr. 26 |
Boris Shklovskii |
Entropy driven insulator-metal transition in ion channels and nanopores |
|
May 3 |
Jean-Francois Joanny |
Active gels: toward a generic approach of cell mechanics |
|
May 10 |
Eric Adelberger |
Recent Gravitational Experiments and their Implications for Particle Physics |
|
May 17 |
Keith Schwab |
Quantum Electro-Mechanics |
|
May 24 |
Steve Girvin |
Circuit QED:What is the Electric Field of a Single Photon? |
|
May 31 |
Janet Conrad |
Catch me if you can! Sterile Neutrinos and the MiniBooNE Experiment |
|
June 7 |
John Hopfield |
The brain as a physical dynamical system |
Winter Quarter 2007
|
Jan. 11 |
Peter Lepage Cornell University |
The Fall and Rise of Lattice QCD: High-Precision Numerical QCD Confronts Experiment |
|
Jan. 18 |
Werner Hoffman |
The Galaxy in a New Light: High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy with H.E.S.S. |
|
Jan. 25 |
Charles Falco |
The Science of Optics; The History of Art |
|
Feb. 1 |
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest |
Nanophysics with colloidal materials |
|
Feb. 8 |
Gabriela Gonzalez |
Searching for Gravitational Waves: news from the front |
|
Feb. 15 |
Dan Eisenstein |
Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound |
|
Feb. 22 |
David Saltzberg |
TBD |
|
Mar. 1 |
Paul Horn |
TBD |
|
Mar. 8 |
Warren Washington |
Climate Modeling of the 20th and 21st Centuries |
|
Mar. 15 |
TBD |
TBD |
Autumn Quarter 2006
|
Sep. 28 |
Philippe Cluzel University of Chicago |
From Random Walks to Predictive Biology |
|
Oct. 5 |
Wendy Zhang University of Chicago |
Memory in Topological Transitions on Liquid Interfaces |
|
Oct. 12 |
Lisa Randall Harvard University |
Warped Geometry: Consequences and Signatures |
|
Oct. 19 |
Dietrich Müller University of Chicago |
Spring Quarter 2006
|
Mar. 30 |
Sav Sethi University of Chicago |
From the Beginning to the End of Time |
|
Apr. 6 |
Stephan Meyer University of Chicago |
Three Year WMAP Results |
|
Apr. 13 |
Moses Chan Penn State |
Can a solid be a superfluid? |
|
Apr. 20 |
Matias Zaldiarriaga Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
TBD |
|
Apr. 27 |
Subir Sachdev Harvard |
TBD |
|
May 4 |
Christopher Monroe Univ. of Michigan |
TBD |
|
May 11 |
Robert Wald University of Chicago |
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime |
|
May 18 |
Leo Kadanoff University of Chicago |
Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck: The Development of Complexity in Physical Systems |
|
May 25 |
Leo Stodolsky Max-Planck-Institut |
Bursts from the early universe and seeing the very beginning |
|
June 1 |
TBD |
Winter Quarter 2006
|
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 |
Stephan Meyer Univ. of Chicago |
TBA |
|
Feb. 2 |
Peter Garnavich Univ. of Notre Dame |
Measuring Dark Energy with Supernovae |
|
Feb. 9 |
TBA |
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|
Feb. 16 |
Jun Ye |
TBA |
|
Feb. 23 |
Benoit Mandelbrot IBM, Yale |
TBA |
|
Mar. 2 |
Gordon Baym UIUC |
TBA |
|
Mar. 9 |
TBA |
Autumn Quarter 2005
|
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 |
Spring Quarter 2005
|
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 |
Winter Quarter 2005
|
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 |
TBD |
|
Feb. 24 |
Maria Spiropulu CERN |
Physics at 14 TeV |
|
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 |
TBD |
Autumn Quarter 2004
|
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 |
Spring Quarter 2004
|
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 |
TBD |
|
May 6 |
Alexei Abrikosov Bell Laboratories Argonne Nat. Lab. |
Superconductivity:history and modern state |
|
May 13 |
Jerry Gollub Haverford College |
TBD |
|
May 20 |
Peter Galison Harvard University |
Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps |
|
May 27 |
TBD |
Winter Quarter 2004
|
Jan. 8 |
Alexei Abrikosov Bell Laboratories Argonne National Lab |
Superconductivity:history and modern state |
|
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 |
TBD |
Autumn Quarter 2003
|
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 |
Spring Quarter 2003
|
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 |
|
|
May 1 |
Raymond Chiao UC Berkeley |
Photon tunneling times and superluminality |
|
May 8 |
David Awschalom UC Santa Barbara |
Manipulating Quantum Information with Semiconductor Spintronics |
|
May 15 |
William A. Zajc Columbia University |
|
|
May 22 |
Raman Sundrum |
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May 29 |
Frank Wilczek MIT |
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Jun. 5 |
Roger Hildebrand University of Chicago |
Winter Quarter 2003
|
Jan. 9 |
Chris Quigg Fermi Lab |
The Futures of Particle Physics |
|
Jan. 16 |
Valery Nesvizhevsky Institute Laue-Langevin Grenoble, France |
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, Diffusions, and Supersymmetry for fun and profit. |
|
Feb. 13 |
Harry L. Swinney Univ. of Texas at Austin |
Patterns and shock waves in rapid granular flows |
|
Feb. 20 |
Carlos Wagner Argonne National Lab. |
Supersymmetry, the Baryon Asymmetry and the Origin of Mass |
|
Feb. 27 |
Zheng-Tien Lu Argonne National Lab. |
Catching Rare Atoms with Light |
|
Mar. 6 |
Hitoshi Murayama UC Berkeley |
TBD |
|
Mar 13 |
William Bialek Princeton University |
TBD |
Autumn Quarter 2002
|
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 |
|
|
Oct. 24 |
Daniel Tsui |
Spring Quarter 2002
|
Mar. 28 |
Eric J. Heller Harvard University |
Making Waves: Quantum Billiards to Concert Halls |
|
Apr. 4 |
John Beacom Theoretical Astrophysics Group, 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 |
TBD |
|
|
May 30 |
Peter Freund University of Chicago |
Winter Quarter 2002
|
Jan. 3 |
No colloquium today |
|
|
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 |
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Jan. 31 |
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Feb. 7 |
Dava Sobel Author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter |
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Feb. 14 |
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Feb. 21 |
Jayanth R. Banavar Pennsylvania State Univ. |
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Feb. 28 |
David Kestenbaum National Public Radio |
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|
Mar. 7 |
Philippe Cluzel University of Chicago |
Autumn Quarter 2001
|
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 |
Spring Quarter 2001
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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? N.B. Special Time: 2:30 p.m. (tea at 2:00 in KPTC 206) |
|
May 10 |
Hamish Robertson University of Washington |
Solar Neutrinos Meet 1000 Tonnes of Heavy Water: Report from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory |
|
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 N.B. Fri., 6/1, EFI Mini-symposium, "Polarization of the CMBR" |
Winter Quarter 2001
|
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 |
Autumn Quarter 2000
|
Sept. 28 |
James Buckley Washington University |
TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy: The Most Violent Places in the Universe |
Spring Quarter 2000
|
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? |
Winter Quarter 2000
|
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 |
Autumn Quarter 1999
|
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 |
Spring Quarter 1999
Apr. 1
Yau Wah
University of Chicago
Symmetry and Conservation Laws:
New Results from Kaon and Pion Decays
Apr. 8
Thomas J. Greytak
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen
Apr. 15
Donald Saari
Northwestern University
Math of Different Dimensional Spaces
Apr. 22
Michael Marder
University of Texas/Austin
How Things Break
Apr. 29
David Griffiths
Reed College
The Power of Instruction: Teaching and Writing about Physics
May 6
Gordon A. Thomas
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
The Physics Behind an Optical Communications Breakthrough
May 13
J. Craig Wheeler
University of Texas
Asymmetric Supernovae, Magnetars, and Gamma-Ray Bursts
May 20
Steven Kivelson
University of California/Los Angeles
Relieving the Frustration:
High Tc superconductivity in Doped Antiferromagnets
May 27
Norbert F. Scherer
University of Chicago
The Institute for Biophysical Dynamics and
a Tale of Biology Impacting Chemical Physics
June 3
Roland Winston
University of Chicago
The Fluid Mechanics of Light
Winter Quarter 1999
Jan. 7
Michael Paesler
North Carolina State University
Near Field Microscopy
Jan. 14
Narkis E. Shatz
Science Applications lnt'l Corp.
Advances in Global Optimization with Application to the Physical Sciences
Jan. 21
H. Jeff Kimble
California Inst. of Technology
Quantum Information Science: The Promise, the Problems, and the Plumbing
Jan. 28
Kwang-Je Kim
Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago
From Synchrotron Radiation to Free Electron Lasers:
Current and Future Light Sources
Feb. 4
Thomas E. Henkel
Wagner College
Cooling with the Sun: Solar-Powered Thermal Air Conditioning
Feb. 11
Rainer Weiss
Mass. Inst. of Technology
An Update on LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory
Feb. 18
Thomas A. Witten
The University of Chicago
Crumpling: How Smooth Space Makes Sharp Structures
Feb. 25
Allan Kaufman
Univ. of California/Berkeley
Ray Phase-Space Methods for Wave Conversion Processes
in Plasma Physics and Oceanography
Mar. 4
Robert Littlejohn
Univ. of California/Berkeley
Falling Cats, Phases, and the N-Body Problem
Mar. 11
Emil Wolf
University of Rochester
The Development of Optical Coherence Theory
Autumn Quarter 1998
Oct. 8
Heinrich Jaeger
University of Chicago
Mesoscopic Self-Assembly with Polymers
Oct. 15
Harvey Moseley
Goddard Space Flight Center
The Submillimeter Probe of the Evolution of Cosmic Structure (SPECS)
Oct. 22 Jerome Friedman
Mass. Institute of Technology
New Horizons in Particle Physics
Zachariasen Lecture
Oct. 29
Type Ia Supernovae Conference Sessions
Alexei Filippenko, Univ of California/Berkeley
Cosmology with Type Ia Supemovae by the High-z Supenova Search Team
Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supenovae:
Is the Universe Really Accelerating?
Nov. 5
Paul Chaikin
Princeton University
Hard Spheres in Space
Nov. 12
Robert Sachs
University of Chicago
Gibbs, Von Neumann, and the "QCD Vaccuum"
Nov. 19
Evan Evans
Univ of British Columbia
Using Dynamic Force Spectroscopy to Explore Energy Landscapes
of Biomolecular Bonds and Structural Cohesion
Nov. 26
Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec. 3
Roger Hildebrand
University of Chicago
The Polarization Spectrum: Magnetic Fields and Embedded Stars
Dec. 10
Lawrence R. Sulak
Boston University
Discovery of Neutrino Oscillations...
First Indication of Physics Beyond the Standard Model?
Spring Quarter 1998
Apr. 2
R. Stephen Berry
University of Chicago
Topographies and Dynamics in Many Dimensions: Clusters and Protein Models
Apr. 9
Paul C. Sereno
University of Chicago
Bones, Ashes, and Island Continents: A Global Look at Dinosaur Evolution
Apr. 16
Valentine L. Telegdi
University of California/San Diego
Leo Szilard as an Inventor: Accelerators and More
Apr. 23
Cumrun Vafa
Harvard University
Strings, Geometry and Physics
Apr. 30
Edward Farhi
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology
Computational Speedup from Quantum Mechanics
May 7
Paul Steinhardt
University of Pennsylvania
Penrose Tiling and Quasicrystals Revisited
May 14
Kevin Corlette
University of Chicago
Harmonic Maps between Surfaces
May 21
Peter Galison
Harvard University
Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
May 28
Astronomy & Astrophysics Bishop Lecture
Scott Tremaine
Princeton University
The Case for Massive Black Holes in the Centers of Nearby Galaxies
June 4
Michael A. Weiss
University of Chicago
The Polymer Physics of DNA: Beyond the Flexible Worm
June 11
George Zweig
Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory
Listening to the Ear
Winter Quarter 1998
Jan. 5
Steven M. Block
Princeton University
Using Optical Tweezers to Study Biological Motors
Jan. 15
Emil J. Martinec
University of Chicago
Gravitons, Membranes, Black Holes, and Matrix Mechanics
Jan. 22
Patrick A. Lee
Mass Inst. of Technology
High Tc Superconductors:
Unconventional Normal State & Newly Conventional Superconducting State
Jan. 29
Alan T. Dorsey
University of Florida
From Dendrites to Labyrinths:
The Morphology of Magnetic Flux Patterns in Superconductors
Feb. 5
James W. Dufty
University of Florida
Statistical Mechanics, Kinetic Theory and Hydrodynamics of Uniform Shear Flow
Feb. 6
Steven Chu
Stanford University
Experiments with Single Biomolecules
Feb. 12
Robert M. Wald
University of Chicago
Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and the Information "Paradox"
Feb. 19
Charles Marcus
Stanford University
Small Electronics and Quantum Chaos
Feb. 26
Alexander L. Fetter
Stanford University
Physics of Dilute Bose-Einstein Trapped Condensates
Mar. 5
Stephen L. Sass
Cornell University .
The Substance of Civilization: Materials Through the Ages
Mar. 12
Yuhai Tu
IBM Watson Research Center
Dynamics of Flocking: How Birds Fly Together
Autumn Quarter 1997
Oct. 2
René Ong
University of Chicago
Exploring a New Window in Gamma-Ray Astrophysics
Oct. 9
Woowon Kang
University of Chicago
Probing the Unknowns of Sonoluminescence with Magnetic Fields
Oct. 16
David Grier
University of Chicago
Microscopic Origins of Macroscopic Phenomena in Model Condensed Matter Systems
Oct. 23
Elizabeth Simmons
Boston University
Why is This Quark Different from All Other Quarks?
Oct. 30
John N. Bahcall
Inst for Advanced Studies
What Have We Learned about Solar Neutrinos?
Nov. 6
Elizabeth Praton
Franklin & Marshall College
At the Center of the Bull's-Eye: A Curious Illusion in Galaxy Maps
Nov. 13
Marvin L. Goldberger
Univ of Califomia/San Diego
The Chicago Atom Bomb Project and Its Legacy
Zachariasen Lecture
Nov. 20
William Purcell
Ball Aerospace Corp.
Galactic Positron Production and Annihilation Processes
Nov. 27
Thanksgiving Holiday
no colloquium
Dec. 4
Jonathan Widom
Northwestern University
Biophysical Studies of Chromosomes:
Structure and Function of DNA, from Angstroms to Meters
Spring Quarter 1997
Apr. 3
Mark Oreglia
University of Chicago
A Guide to Electron-Positron Annihilation Physics:
The Past, Present, and Future at LEP
Apr. 10
Charles Steidel
California Institute of Technology
The Epoch of Galaxy Formation: Found?
Apr. 17
Alan Dressler
Carnegie Observatories
Galaxy Evolution:
Clues from the Hubble Space Telescope about the Role of Environment
Apr. 24
David R. Nelson
Harvard University
Localization and Population Biology
May 1
No colloquium today, deferring to U of C Ryerson Lecture
Eugene N. Parker
Probing Space Through Measurements and Meditations on Your Porch
May 8
Fred C. Adams
University of Michigan
A Dying Universe: The Long Term Fate and Evolution of Astrophysical Objects
May 15
Albert Libchaber
Rockefeller University
Playing with DNA: Information Retrieval and Computation
May 22
John Carlstrom
University of Chicago
Imaging the Sunyaev Zel'dovich Effect: Measuring the Age of the Universe
May 29
David Black
NASA Lunar Planetary Inst
The Search for Habitable Planets in Other Planetary Systems
June 5
Sidney Coleman
Harvard University
Quantum Mechanics in Your Face
June 12
Carl Wieman
Univ of Colorado at Boulder
Parity Violation in Atomic Cesium:
Atomic, Particle, and Nuclear Physics on the Same Table
Winter Quarter 1997
Jan. 9
Paul Mackenzie
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Progress in Lattice QCD
Jan. 16
Brian Greene
Cornell University
Strings, Black Holes, and the Structure of Spacetime
Jan. 23
Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University
CPT Tests with Antiprotons and Antihydrogen
Jan. 30
James Shapiro
University of Chicago
Bacterial Pattem Formation: Does It Hold Lessons for Physics?
Feb. 6
Donald Schneider
Pennsylvania State Univ
Scanning for Violence at the Edge of the Universe
Feb. 13
David Goodstein
Calif Inst of Technology
The Big Crunch: The End of Expansion in Science
Feb. 20
Sidney Nagel
University of Chicago
Granular Liquids, Gases and Solids: What is Sand Anyway?
Feb. 27
Kenneth Lane
Boston University
TECHNICOLOR or How We Learned to Replace Ugly Higgs Bosons
with Beautiful New Strong Forces at High Energies
Mar. 6
Richard Garwin
IBM Watson Research Center
Adventures of a Physicist in National Security Technology and Policy
Zachariasen Lecture
Mar. 7
Steven Chu
Stanford University
Ultra-high Precision Atom Interferometry
Mar. 13
Henry Frisch
University of Chicago
The Top Quark and Beyond
Autumn Quarter 1996
Oct. 3
Peter Saulson
Syracuse University
Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection at LIGO '
Oct. l0
Andrew Strominger
University of California/Santa Barbara
String Theory and Black Holes
Oct. 17
Corbin Covault
University of Chicago
Gamma-Ray Astronomy with Solar Towers: Cracking men the Window
Oct. 24
David Kutasov
University of chicago
New Phenomena in Strongly Coupled Field and String Theories
Oct. 31
Special colloquium in honor of John Simpson
Eugene Parker, Heinrich Vök, Edward Stone, Roald Sagdeev, Juan Roederer, Reimar Lüst
Nov. 7
Stephan Meyer
University of Chicago
Precision Mapping of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) Anisotropy
Nov. 14
Chryssa Kouveliotou
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Three-Decade Mystery
Nov. 21
Kenneth Wilson
Ohio State University
Building a 2 lst Century Research University
Nov. 28
Thanksgiving
Dec. 5
Gregory Boebinger
AT&T BellLabs
Correlated Electrons in a Million Gauss
Dec. 12
Abhay Ashtekar
Penn State University
Quantum Theory of Geometry
Spring Quarter 1996
March 28
Roger Penrose, FRS
University of Oxford
Twistors and General Relativity: Some New Developments
Apri1 4
James P. Wolfe
University of Illinois
Seeing Sound in Solids
April 11
Alain Connes
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette
Gravity Coupled with Matter and the Spectral Action Principle
April 18
James W. Cronin
University of Chicago
The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatories
April 25
Susan N. Coppersmith
University of Chicago
Force Fluctuations in Granular Materials
May 2
Robert P. Geroch
University of Chicago
Whither Path Integrals?
May 9
Marc Kastner
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Phase Transitions in a Droplet of 30 Electrons
May 16
Jabez McClelland
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Nanofabrication Using Atom Optics
May 23
John Clarke
University of California/Berkeley
High-Tc SQUIDS: An Emerging Technology
May 30
Anthony J. Tyson
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Weighing the Universe with Weak Lensing
June 6
David T. Wilkinson
Princeton University
Even Closer Looks at the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Winter Quarter 1996
Jan. 4
No colloquium
Happy new year!
Jan. 11
Michael Brenner
Mass. Inst. of Technology
Bouncing Through Minefields: A Bubble's Route to Sonoluminescence
Jan. 18
A. Polyakov
Princeton University
Turbulence and Quantum Field Theory
Jan. 25
Woowon Kang
University of Chicago
What is a Composite Fermion, Anyway?
Feb. 1
Jeffrey Harvey
University of Chicago
Duality in Field, Sting and Brane
Feb. 8
David Schramm
University of Chicago
Shadows of Creation: The Dark Matter of the Universe
Feb. 15
Gabriel Aeppli
NEC Research Institute
From Insulator to Superconductor with Hot and Cold Neutrons
Feb. 22
Robert Laughlin
Stanford University
Numerical Evidence for Strong Interaction Physics in Quantum Antiferromagnets
Feb. 29
AkiraTonomura
Hitachi, Ltd. Advanced Research Lab
Electron Holography
Mar. 7
Boris Altshuler
NEC/MIT
From Anderson Localization to Quantum chaos
Autumn Quarter 1995
Oct. 5
Robert Eisenstein
National Science Foundation
The Times, They Are a-Changin'
Oct. 12
Carl Wieman
University of Colorado
Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Gas
Oct. 19
Research Institutes' 50th Anniversary Symposium
A two-day program, Oct. 19-20, at Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street
Interdisciplinary Science and Technology: Past Experience and Prospects for the 21st Century
Oct. 26
Robert L. Jaffe
Mass. Institute of Technology/Harvard University
Quantum Mechanics in Twisting Tubes
Nov. 2
Christopher Hill
Fermi Nat'l Accelerator Lab
The Top Quark and the Origin of Mass
Nov. 9
T-D- Lee
Columbia University
Symmetry and Asymmetry
Zachariasen Lecture
Nov. 16
Norval Fortson
University of Washington
Using Atoms to Probe the Particle Physics Frontier
Nov. 23
Thanksgiving
Nov. 30
David B. Malament
University of Chicago
An Old Question about Newtonian Gravitation Theory
Dec. 7
Hellmut Fritzsche
University of Chicago
Puzzling Interactions of Light with Matter
Spring Quarter 1995
Mar. 30
Michael Zeller
Yale University Studying Decays of the Other K Meson
Apr. 6
Alexei Abrikosov
Argonne National Laboratory
Quantum Phenomena in Conductivity and Mesoscopics
Apr. 13
Walter F. Henning
Argonne National Laboratory
Nuclei Far from Stability: Physics Opportunities with Radioactive Beams
Apr. 20
Leonard Mandel
University of Rochester
Quantum and Non-local Effects in Optical Interference
Apr. 27
Nathan Seiberg
Rutgers University
Exact Results in Four Dimensional Field Theory
May 4
Sidney Drell
Stanford University
Technical Issues of a Test Ban
May 11
Owen Gingerich
Harvard -Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Circles of the Gods: Copemicus, Kepler, and the Ellipse
May 18
Robert Kirshner
Harvard University
Taking the Measure of the Universe
May 25
William Beckman
University of Wisconsin
Impact on a Utility, Utility Customers, and the Environment of an Ensemble of Solar Domestic Hot Water Systems
June 1
Eugene Parker
University of Chicago
Spontaneous Discontinuities in Magnetic Fields. The Optical Analogy and Stellar X-ray Emissions
Winter Quarter 1995
Jan. 5
Carlos Bustamante
University of Oregon
Measurement of Elastic Response of Single DNA Molecules Using Magnetic Beads
Jan. 12
Charles K. Rhodes
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Since We Must Be Strong, We Must Also Be One": Coherence Decree for X-ray Amplification
Jan, 19
Michael Turner
University of Chicago
Toward a Grander Big Bang Model
Jan. 26
Leonid Levitov
Mass. Institute of Technology
Plants, Packing, and Number Theory
Feb. 2
Earl Peterson
University of minnesota
Do Neutrinos Oscillate?
Feb. 9
Gene F. Mazenko
University of Chicago
Science in the National Interest: Directions for US Science Policy
Feb, 16
C. Robert O'Dell
Rice University
The First Year of the Repaired Hubble Space Telescope
Feb. 23
David DiVencenzo
IBM/Yorktown Heights
Quantum Computing Using Spins
Mar.2
John Kirtley
IBM Yorktown Heights
Half-integer Flux Quanta and the Symmetry of the High-T c Superconducting Order Parameter
Mar. 9
Boris Shklovskii
University of Minnesota
How Perfect is he Quantum Hall Effect?
Autumn Quarter 1994
Oct. 6
S. Chandrasekhar
University of Chicago
The Series Paintings of Claude Monet and the Landscape of General Relativity
OCT 13
Robert Janssens
Argonne Nat'l Laboratory
Superdeformation and New Nuclear Symmetries
Oct. 20
Elias Snitzer
Rutgers University
Fiber optics
Oct. 27
Marshall Rosenbluth
Univ, of Calif./San Diego
Physics Issues for Fusion Zachariasen Lecture
Nov. 3
Eric Mazur
Harvard University
Understanding or memorization: Are we Teaching the Right Thing?
Nov. 10
James Hartle
Univ. of Calif./Sta. Barbara
Quantum Mechanics in the Light of Quantum Cosmology
Nov. 17
Aron Pinczuk
AT&T; Bell Laboratories
Roton Excitations in Quantum Hall Systems
Nov. 24
Thanksgiving
Dec. 1
Hugh Wilson
University of Chicago
Non-linear Dynamics and Human Retinal Function
Dec. 8
Robert Sachs
University of Chicago
Schroedinger's Cat Revisited: Relation between Theory and Experiment in Physics
Spring Quarter 1994
Mar. 31
Dale Meade
Princeton University
Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Experiments in Princeton
Apr.7
Lincoln Wolfenstein
Carnegie Mellon University
Lepton-Hadron Symmetry and Neutrino Mass
Apr. 14
Carl Fichtel
NASA Goddard Space Center
High Energy Gamma Ray Astrophysics: Results from the Compton Observatory
Apr. 21
Konrad Mauersberger
University of Minnesota Another Ozone Problem?
Apr. 28
Brian Schwartz
APS/Brooklyn College
Life After the Ph.D.
May 5
Melvyn Shochet
University of Chicago
A view from the Top
May 12
Malcolm Beasley
Stanford University
Experimental Tests of the Symmetry of the Pair Wave Function in High-Temperature Superconductors
May 19
David Grier
University of Chicago
Interactions, Microsttucture, and Dyuarnics in Colloidal Phase Transitions
May 26
Christopher Stubbs
University of California/Sauta Barbara
Searching for Baryonic Dark Matter: A Report from the MACHO Collaboration
June 2
Pierre Sokolsky
University of Utah
Joules from the Sky: Fly's Eye Results on Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays
Winter Quarter 1994
Jan. 6
George Crabtree
Argonne National Laboratory
Vortex Melting Phenomena in Superconductors
Jan. 13
David Kutasov
University of Chicago
QCD and String Theory
Jan. 20
David Thouless
University of Washington
Topological Quantum Numbers and the Quantum Hall Effect
Jan. 27
John Schiffer
University of Chicago/ Argonne National Laboratory
A Unique Form of Matter in the Condensed State: Cold Classical Coulombic Systems
Feb. 3
Andre Leclair
Cornell University
On the Universality of Exact Solvability in Two Dimensional Physics
Feb. 10
Karl Rubin
Ohio state University
The Solving of Fermat's Last Theorem
Feb. 17
Stephan Meyer
University of Chicago
Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
Feb. 24
Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study
Reflections Concerning the Fate of Space-Time
Mar. 3
A. C. Newell
University of Arizona
Do Resonantly Forced Internal Solitary waves Protect the fuel of Hurricanes?
Mar. 10
Morris Swartz
Stanford Linear Accel. Center
A Precise Test of the Electroweak Standard Model at the Polarized SLC
Autumn Quarter 1993
OCT 7
Michael J. O'Donnell
University of Chicago
Electronic Publication, Refereeing, and the Economy of Attention
Oct. 14
Albert Libchaber
Princeton University
Playing with Proteins: Polymers and Motors
OCT 21
no colloquium
Inaugural week
Oct. 28
E. Flanagan
Calif. Inst. of Technology
Gravitational Waves from Coalescing Compact Binaries and the Information They Carry
Nov. 4
Stephen H. Shenker
Rutgers University
Random Matrices and Random Surfaces
Nov. 11
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Mass. Inst. of Technology
Fullerenes, Tubules and Their Unique Properties
Zachariasen Lecture
Nov. 18
Geoffrey Grinstein
IBM/Watson Research Center
Coherent Periodic Oscillations in Noisy Systems
Nov. 25
no colloquium
Thanksgiving
Dec. 2
Leo P. Kadanoff
University of Chicago
From lnterfaces to Singularities
Dec. 9
Jeffrey Harvey
University of Chicago
Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics