2020
Proton and Nuclear Structure From the Standard Model
Phiala Shanahan, October 26, 2020
Exploring Symmetry Violations with Free Neutrons
Bradley W. Filippone, October 19, 2020
Overcoming Barriers to Engagement of Underrepresented Students in Stem PhD Programs
Alexander L. Rudolf, October 12, 2020
Future Directions For Nuclear Energy
Per F. Peterson, September 28, 2020
Time Series Analysis of COVID-19 Excess Mortality Rates
Uros Seljak / Vir Bulchandani, May 4, 2020
Lightning in a Canteen: The Promise of Plasma-Treated Refreshment for Survival
John Foster, March 2, 2020
Nanomaterials and Light for Sustainability and Societal Impact
Naomi J. Halas, February 24, 2020
Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
John Martinis, January 27, 2020
2019
Constraints on Quantum Gravity
Hirosi Ooguri, November 25, 2019
To The Corona and Back with a NASA Spacecraft: The First Perhelia of Parker Solar Probe
Stuart Bale, November 18, 2019
The Discovery of Pulsars: A Graduate Student's Tale
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, November 1, 2019
Catching and Reversing a Quantum Jump Mid-Flight
Michael Devoret, October 24, 2019
The Berkeley Applied Nuclear Physics Program
Kai Vetter, October 14, 2019
Searching for Axion Dark Matter Below 1 Micro-EV: The Dark Matter Radio
Kent Irwin, October 7, 2019
New States in Complex Systems
Adilson E. Motter, September 30, 2019
Physics/SQB Presents: Dimensionless Numbers in Brain Science
Markus Meister, September 23, 2019
Supersymmetry and Dark Matter: From the Weak Scale to the Planck Scale
Keith Olive, September 16, 2019
Exploiting the Malleability of Disorder to Design Biologically-Inspired Function
Andrea J. Liu, September 9, 2019
Visiting Newton's Atelier Before the Principia, 1679-1684
Michael Nauenberg, April 29, 2019
The Black Hole Shadow in the M87 Galaxy
Dimitrios Psaltis, April 22, 2019
New Insights into the Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black Holes
Meg Urry, April 5, 2019
When a Symmetry Breaks
Hitoshi Murayama, March 18, 2019
2019 Oppenheimer Lecture: Teaching for Learning
Helen R. Quinn, March 13, 2019
Exploring Embryonic Patterning with Colonies of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Eric D. Siggia, March 4, 2019
Magic Angle Graphene: A New Platform for Strongly Correlated Physics
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, February 11, 2019
Correlated Electrons: The Dark Energy of Quantum Materials
Laura H. Greene, January 28, 2019
2018
2018 Segre Lecture Featuring Xiawei Zhuang
Xiaowei Zhuang, November 21, 2018
Physics at LHCB (Large Hadron Collider Beauty Experiment)
Sheldon Stone, October 28, 2018
S-TI-S (Superconducting-Topological Insulator-Superconductor) Josephson Junction Networks: A Platform for Exploring Majorana Fermions for Quantum Information Processing
Dale Van Harlingen, October 23, 2018
The Radiative Drivers of Climate Change: Known Knowns and Known Unknowns
William Collins, October 15, 2018
Phases of Particle Dark Matter
Josh Ruderman, October 8, 2018
Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions
Christopher Monroe, September 17, 2018
Black Holes, Quantum Information, and Unification
Raphael Bousso, September 10, 2018
Ultracold Atom Quantum Simulations: From Exploring Many-Body Localization to Low Temperature Fermi-Hubbard Phases
Markus Greiner, April 23, 2018
Cooperative Interactions as a Route to High Temperature Superconductivity
Zhi-Xun Shen, April 16, 2018
A Neutron Star Merger Seen in Both Gravitational Waves and Light
Dan Kasen, April 9, 2018
Droplet Microfluids: Biology One Picoliter at a Time
David Weitz, April 2, 2018
Theory of Quantum Anomolous Hall and Axian Insulators
David Vanderbilt, March 19, 2018
Neutrino Physics From Cosmological Surveys
Jo Dunkley, March 12, 2018
Detecting and Correcting Quantum Errors
Kenneth Brown, March 5, 2018
2018 Oppenheimer Lecture: What Happened Before the Big Bang & Other Questions about the Universe
Michael S. Turner, February 26, 2018
Ultra-Light Axion Dark Matter
Lam Hui, February 12, 2018
Opportunities for Science to Shape the Global Energy System
Arun Majumdar, February 5, 2018
Searching for New Physics with Small Scale Experiments and LIGO
Savas Dimopoulos, January 29, 2018
The Ubiquitous Squid: From Cosmology to Medicine
John Clarke, January 22, 2018
2017
CEvNS and NINs: Observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering by Coherent
Kate Scholberg, December 14, 2017
Warm Dense Matter: Investigating Planets and Stars in the Laboratory
Dominik Kraus, November 13, 2017
Science at the Timescale of the Electron: Coherent X-Ray Beams from Tabletop Femtosecond Lasers
Margaret Murnane, November 6, 2017
2017 Emilio Segre Lecture: Neutrino Oscillations at the Super-Kamiokande Detector
Takaaki Kajita, November 3, 2017
The Extreme Energy Cosmic Frontier
Angela Olinto, October 23, 2017
Fundamental Physics with (Weird) Magnetic Resonance
Dmitry Budker, October 16, 2017
High-Temperature Superconductivity
Dung-Hai Lee, October 11, 2017
Cleaning Up Teller's Mess: Radiation Studies in the Northern Marshall Islands
Emlyn Willard Hughes, October 2, 2017
The Rise and Fall of the Fermi Liquid: The Strange Metal Near a Quantum Critical Point
James Analytis, September 25, 2017
Bacterial Motility: Swim or Glide
Howard C. Berg, September 18, 2017
Testing General Relativity with Infrared Interferometry of the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center: An Homage to Charles Hard Townes
Reinhard Genzel, September 11, 2017
Soft Matter-Based Scaling in Matrix & Nuclear Biology
Dr. Dennis Discher, April 24, 2017
New Physics Gets a Boost: Jet Substructure at the Large Hadron Collider
Dr. Jesse Thaler, April 10, 2017
Discrete Time Crystals: Rigidity, Criticality and Realizations
Norman Yao, Assistant Professor, April 3, 2017
Astrophysical Neutrinos: What Do They Tell Us About the Cosmic Accelerators?
Dr. Spencer Klein, March 13, 2017
New Topological States of Matter: Platform for Emergent Dirac, Majorana and Weyl Fermions
Zahid Hasan, March 6, 2017
2017 Oppenheimer Lecture: Quantum Computing & the Entanglement Frontier
John Preskill, February 27, 2017
Particle Physics Beyond Colliders
Asimina Arvanitaki, February 13, 2017
Adventures in Urban Informatics
Dr. Steven Koonin, February 6, 2017
Solving Big Problems with Small Accelerators: From Colliders to Medical Devices Based on Laser Plasma Accelerators
Dr. Wim Leemans, January 30, 2017
The Tiniest Perfect-Liquid Droplets
Julia Velkovska, Professor, January 23, 2017
2016
Ultrasensitive Searches for the Axion
Karl van Bibber, Chair & Professor, November 28, 2016
Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter
David Pines, November 14, 2016
Our Quantum Society: Living with Entanglement
Panel, November 8, 2016
Supermassive Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies
Chung-Pei Ma, October 31, 2016
What Prevents Negative Energy From Violating Causality?
Aron Wall, October 24, 2016
Exploring Nanoscale Physics: From Leapfrogging Atoms to Relativistic Quantum Craters
Alex Zettl, October 17, 2016
Emergent Locality and Gravity From Quantum Error Correction
Daniel Harlow, PhD, October 10, 2016
2016 Segre Lecture: Beginning the Exploration of the Universe with Gravitational Waves
Rainer Weiss, October 4, 2016
Today's Fresh Sheet: Latest Results on Demixing of Lipids and Proteins in Membranes
Sarah Keller, Professor, September 26, 2016
The Role of Chance in the Survival of the Fittest
Oskar Hallatschek, Assistant Professor, September 19, 2016
Public Research Universities: Recommitting to Lincoln's Vision
Robert J. Birgeneau, September 12, 2016
Protein Mechanics
Rama Ranganathan, April 25, 2016
The Atlas Experiment @ 13 TEC: Dispatches from the Energy Frontier
Lauren Tompkins, April 18, 2016
Probing Dirac Electron Physics in Graphitic Materials
Feng Wang, April 11, 2016
The Event Horizon Telescope: Imaging and Time-Resolving a Black Hole
Shep Doeleman, April 4, 2016
Making an Effort to Listen: Mechanical Amplification by Myosin Molecules and Ion Channels in Hair Cells of the Inner Ear
Jim Hudspeth, March 28, 2016
Decoding Spacetme
Patrick Hayden, March 14, 2016
New Insights into Cosmic Reionization
Steven Furlanetto, March 7, 2016
The Physics and Engineering of Advanced Microscopes for Biological Discovery
Eric Betzig, February 29, 2016
Designing Superconductivity: Manipulating Interactions in Arrays of Superconducting Islands
Nadya Mason, February 22, 2016
2016 Oppenheimer Lecture: Symmetry, Topology & Electronic Phases of Matter
Charles Kane, February 8, 2016
Critical Phenomena and the Conformal Bootstrap
David Poland, February 1, 2016
Tackling Neutrino Oscillation with Nuclear Reactors
Kam-Biu Luk, January 25, 2016
2015
What Does the Golden Ratio Have to do With Friction? An Answer Atom by Atom
Vladan Vuletic, November 30, 2015
Exploration in the Physics and Mathematics of Moonshine
Shamit Kachru, November 23, 2015
Probing the Heart of Neutrinos in the Coldest Cubic Meter in the Universe
Yury Kolomensky, November 16, 2015
Wavefront Shaping for in Vivo Brain Imaging
Na Ji, November 9, 2015
Strongly Coupled QCD Matter: Very Hot and Very Cold
Barbara Jacak, November 2, 2015
The Origin of Mass of the Visible Universe
Zoltan Fodor, October 26, 2015
Solar Neutrinos
Frank Calaprice, October 19, 2015
A Random Walk in Science: The 2015 Emilio Segre Lecture
Steven Chu, October 16, 2015
The Statistical Physics of Deep Learning: On the Beneficial Roles od Dynamic Criticality, Random Landscapes, and the Reversal of Time
Surya Ganguli, October 5, 2015
Quantum Quenches: A Probe of Many-Body Quantum Dynamics
John Cardy, September 28, 2015
The Physics of Atmospheric Instability, Lightning, and Global Warming
David Romps, September 21, 2015
Where Are We With Dark Matter?
Peter Fisher, September 14, 2015
Where Are We Heading?
Nathan Seiberg, April 27, 2015
Creating, Diagnosing, and Controlling High Energy Density Matter with the National Ignition Facility
Mark Herrmann, April 20, 2015
Unraveling the Quantum Ensemble
Irfan Siddiqi, April 13, 2015
Quantum Mechanics and Geometry of Spacetime
Juan Maldacena, April 6, 2015
Tensor Network Renormalization
Guifre Vidal, March 30, 2015
Quantum Physics with Molecules Near the Absolute Zero
Tanya Zelevinsky, March 16, 2015
Imaging Life at High Spatiotemporal Resolution
Eric Betzig, March 9, 2015
Exploring the Sun at High Energies
Lindsay Glesener, March 2, 2015
2015 Oppenheimer Lecture: Universe or Multiverse
Andrei Linde, February 23, 2015
Coaxing Universal Insights from Few-Body Systems
Chris Greene, February 9, 2015
Atomic Giants in a New Light: Quantum Many-Body Physics with Rydberg Atoms and Photons
Thomas Pohl, February 2, 2015
Frontiers in Many-Body Physics of Atoms
Ehud Altman, January 26, 2015
2014
The Mechanism of Cytoplasmic Dynein Motility
Ahmet Yildiz, December 1, 2014
Materials in 2-Dimension and Beyond: 10 Years After Graphene
Philip Kim, November 24, 2014
A Tabletop-Scale Probe for TeV Physics: The Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
David DeMille, November 17, 2014
Topological Insulators and Topological Superconductors
Shoucheng Zhang, November 10, 2014
Engaging Students in Modeling Instruction
Eric Brewe, November 3, 2014
Quantum Information, Decoherence-Free Subspaces and a Michelson-Morley Test with Electrons
Hartmut Haeffner, October 27, 2014
Physics Based Approaches to Quantum Computing
Eddie Farhi, October 20, 2014
2014 Emilio Segre Lecture: Superconductors: Old and New
Chancellor Emeritus Robert J. Birgeneau, October 18, 2014
Micromechanics: A New Quantum Technology
Konrad Lehnert, October 13, 2014
Detecting Ultra-Light Dark Matter with Precision Metrology
Surjeet Rajendran, October 6, 2014
Eight Dimensions is Big Enough: Surprises in the Prisoner's Dilemma Game
Bill Press, September 29, 2014
How, When and Where in Pattern Formation: Spying on Embryonic Development One Molecule at a Time
Hernan Garcia, September 22, 2014
Gravitational Lensing and the Search for Inflation in the Cosmic Background Polarization
Adrian T. Lee, Professor of Physics, September 15, 2014
Panel Discussioni of Movie: Particle Fever
Panel, September 13, 2014
Quasiparticle Extinction with Approaching Mottness - The Achilles' Heel of High-TC Superconductivity?
J. C. Séamus Davis, July 6, 2014
Anomolous Hall Effect in Ferromagnets
Ivo Souza, May 5, 2014
Slip Sliding Away: Atomic Scale Processes That Govern Friction and Wear
Robert Carpick, April 28, 2014
Sloppy Models, Differential Geometry, and How Science Works
James Sethna, April 21, 2014
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Steve Kahn, April 20, 2014
Physics with Antihydrogen Atoms
Joel Fajans, April 14, 2014
Visualizing Topological Quantum States: From Dirac Edge States to Majorana Zero Modes
Ali Yazdani, April 7, 2014
Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Spins in Solids
Amir Yacoby, March 31, 2014
2014 Oppenheimer Lecture: Did an "Evolutionary" Process Leaed to Supersymmtry in our Universe?
Sylvester Gates, March 17, 2014
Magneto-Optical Control of Atomic Motion
Mark Raizen, March 10, 2014
The Voyager Journey to Interstellar Space (Colloquia)
Edward C. Stone, March 3, 2014
Regent's Lecture: From Berkeley to NASA, Stockholm, and the Beginning of the Universe (Colloquia)
John Mather, February 24, 2014
Are We Descended from Heavy Neutrinos?
Boris Kayser, February 22, 2014
Laser-Driven High Energy Density Physics (Colloquia)
David Meyerhofer, February 10, 2014
Bio-Inspired Wind Energy: From Fish Schools and Seagrass to Better Wind Farms (cancelled)
John O. Dabbiri, February 3, 2014
Validation of Quantum Devices: From Quantum Random Numbers to the D-Wave Devices
Matthias Troyer, January 27, 2014
2013
Topological Matter and Why You Should Care
Steven Simon, November 25, 2013
Visualization and Characterization of Quantum Fluid Flows
Dan Lathrop, November 18, 2013
(Anti-) Matter Waves for Researching Time, Mass, and Gravity
Holger Mueller, October 28, 2013
Physics Education Research: The Role and Promise of Disciplinary Engagement in Education Transformation
Noah Finkelstein, October 21, 2013
Emilio Segre Lecture: Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schroedinger's Cat
David Wineland, October 5, 2013
Black Holes and Firewalls: Can We Take Nothing for Granted?
Raphael Bousso, September 30, 2013
Using the Earth as a Polarized Electron Source to Search for Long Range Spin-Spin Interactions
Larry Hunter, September 23, 2013
Exciting Times in Neutrino Physics
Lindley Winslow, April 22, 2013
Seeing Electrons in 2 Dimensions
Tony Heinz, April 15, 2013
Illuminating the Atomic World: The X-Ray Free Electron Laser at SLAC
Persis Drell, April 8, 2013
What Drives the Weather Changes?
Gregory Falkovich, April 1, 2013
Exploring New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science
Mikhail Lukin, March 18, 2013
Oppenheimer Lecture: Condensed Matter Physics: The Goldilocks Science
Marvin L. Cohen, March 12, 2013
Searching for Dark Matter a Mile Underground: The LUX and LZ Experiments
Daniel McKinsey, March 4, 2013
Creating a Thriving Physics Department for Students
Ed Bertschinger, February 25, 2013
Understanding the Cerebral Cortex: Principles and Mechanisms
Mike DeWeese, February 11, 2013
Physics of Graphene and Bilayer Graphene: Neutrino-Like Oscillations and Hofstadter Butterflies
Mei-Yin Chou, January 28, 2012
2012
Certifiable Quantum Dice
Umesh Vazirani, November 26, 2012
Spinoptics in Nanoscale Structures
Erez Hasman, November 19, 2012
2012 Segre Lecture: Hunting for the Higgs Boson and More at the LHC
Dr. Peter Jenni, November 5, 2012
Quantum Dots in Optical Nanocavities: From Cavity QED to Applications
Jelena Vuckovic, October 29, 2012
Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics of Biochemical Systems: Phase Transition, Thermodynamics and Analytical Mechanics
Hong Qian, October 22, 2012
Neutrino Quantum Spookiness: Collapsing Stars, Supernovae, and the Cosmos
George Fuller, October 8, 2012
Training Spin for Substance Detection
Karen Sauer, October 8, 2012
Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice
Roderich Moessner, October 1, 2012
Emergent Phenomena and Universality in Quantum Systems Far From Thermal Equilibrium
Ehud Altman, September 24, 2012
he Opto-Electronic Physics Which Just Broke the Efficiency Record in Solar Cells
Eli Yablolovitch, September 17, 2012
The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time
Sean Carroll, September 10, 2012
Oppenheimer Lecture: The Higgs Particle: Pivot of Symmetry and Mass
Gerardus 't Hooft, April 10, 2012
Closing in on the Higgs Boson...Can it Escape?
Brig Williams, April 2, 2012
Quantum Oscillations as a Tool to Crack the Mystery of Unconventional Superconductivity
Suchitra Sebastian, March 19, 2012
Black Holes - The Harmonic Oscillations of the 21st Century
Andrew Strominger, March 12, 2012
Dynamics of Radiation Belt Electrons and the BARREL Experiment
Robyn Millan, March 5, 2012
KamLAND: A Decade of Pure and Applied Neutrino Science
Stuart Freedman, February 27, 2012
Ultra-Sensitive Searches for Dark-Matter Axions
Leslie Rosenberg, February 13, 2012
Quantum Gravity with Anisotropic Scaling and the Multicritical Universe
Petr Horava, February 6, 2012
Cosmic Rays, Climate and the CERN CLOUD Experiment
Jasper Kirkby, January 30, 2012
Boxcounting and its Uses
Andrei Okounkov, January 23, 2012
2011
Proposed Experimental Probes of Non-Abelian Anyons
Ady Stern, November 29, 2011
Black-Hole Research: A New Golden Age
Kip Thorne, November 14, 2011
A Reexamination of Global Warming
Richard Muller, November 7, 2011
A Sharper Image: Adaptive Optics and Laser Guide Star for Astronomy
Claire Max, October 31, 2011
Segre Lecture: What Makes Up the Dark Matter of our Universe
Blas Cabrera, October 25, 2011
The Picture of Elementary Particle Physics a Year Two of the Large Hadron Collider
Andreas Hoecker, October 17, 2011
The Fluid Nature of Quark-Gluon Plasma
William Zajc, October 10, 2011
What Can String Theory Teach Us Aout Condensed Matter Physics?
Subir Sachdev, October 3, 2011
Certainty and Uncertainty in Dark Matter Searches
Juan Collar, September 26, 2011
Supernova Remnants as Cosmic Accelerators
Stephen Reynolds, September 19, 2011
Quantum Information Can Be Negative
Jonathan Oppenheim, September 12, 2011
Matter-Wave Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle
Holger Mueller, April 25, 2011
Nonradiative Wireless Power Transfer
Marin Soljacic, April 23, 2011
Control of Light by Light in the Resonant Medium
Olga Korcharovskaya, April 18, 2011
Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?
Alan Guth, April 11, 2011
Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality?
William Bialek, April 4, 2011
Portals into Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Ann Nelson, March 28, 2011
Oppenheimer Lecture: What's So Small to Your is So Large to Me
Lisa Randall, March 15, 2011
Tests of Lorentz and CPT Invariance with Atomic Spin Magnetometers
Michael Romalis, March 7, 2011
Electronic Liquid Crystals
Steve Kivelson, February 28, 2011
How to Create and Trap Anti-Hydrogen
Joel Fajans, February 14, 2011
Regent's Lecture: Reach for the Stars
Sally Ride, February 8, 2011
In the Beginning: Determining the Initial Conditins of the Big Bang
Mattias Zaldarriaga, January 31, 2011
The Pioneer Spacecraft and Beyond
Hans Mark, January 24, 2011
2010
Efficient Description of Quantum Many-Body Systems
Ignacio Cirac, November 29, 2010
Semiconductor-Based Architectures for Quantum Bits: Early Steps
Belita Koiller, November 22, 2010
The Electrons in Your Pencil: Observations of a Carbon Flatland
Mike Crommie, November 15, 2010
85 Years of Electron Spin
Eugene Commins, November 8, 2010
Carbon Dioxide, Friend or Foe?
William Happer, November 1, 2010
Symmetry Breakiing and Topological Excitations in Ultracold Atomic Gases
Masahito Ueda, October 25, 2010
Segre Lecture: Understanding Neutrinos Using Deep Dark Science
Arthur B. McDonald, October 18, 2010
Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory
Dam Thanh Son, October 11, 2010
Tailoring light-matter interactions in graphene
Feng Wang, October 4, 2010
Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits
Irfan Siddiqi, September 27, 2010
Is the Universe (Statistically) Isotrophic?
Mark Kamionkowski, September 20, 2010
Ultrafast Physics in Photosynthesis: Mapping Sub-Nanometer Energy Flow
Naomi Ginsberg, September 13, 2010
Fundamental Experiments with Entangled Photons: Status and Future Prospects
Anton Zeilinger, September 8, 2010
Electrons, Energy and Health: The Sometimes Hidden Role of High Magnetic Fields and Invisible Light
Greg Boebinger, May 3, 2010
From Carbon Nanotubes to Graphene Nanoribbons
Hongjie Dai, April 26, 2010
Photoemission Spectroscopy for Ultracold Atoms
Deborah Jin, April 19, 2010
Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics with Quantum Optical Systems
Peter Zoller, April 12, 2010
Particle Physics in the 21st Century
Savas Dimopoulos, April 1, 2010
Energy Security and Frontier Science at the National Ignition Facility
Ed Moses, March 29, 2010
Photons, Qubits and Computers - A Quantum Mechanics Lab on a Chip
Andreas Wallraff, March 15, 2010
Predicting Gravitational Waves from Stellar Collapse with Computers: Current State of the Art, Application in Detectors, and a Glimpse into the Future
Harold Dimmelmeier, March 8, 2010
Oppenheimer Lecture: Anticipating a New Golden Age
Frank Wilczek, March 2, 2010
The Formation of Massive Stars
Mark Krumholz, February 16, 2010
Superconducting Fe-Pnictides: Lessons From the Normal State
Ian Fisher, February 8, 2010
Spintronics at the Atomic Limit
Andreas Heinrich, February 1, 2010
Laserfest
Charles Townes, Roger Falcone and Bob Byer, January 25, 2010
2009
Polar Molecules Near Quantum Degeneracy
Jun Ye, November 30, 2009
Physics of Nanofilms and Nanowires
Mei-Yin Chou, November 23, 2009
Nanocrystal Based Solar Cells
Paul Alivisatos, November 16, 2009
Segre Lecture: How Did the Universe Begin?
Andrew E. Lange, November 9, 2009
Searching for Understanding of Water Interfaces
Yuen-Ron Shen, November 2, 2009
New Topologically Ordered Phases of Condensed Matter
Joel Moore, October 26, 2009
The Ancestor's Footprints
Leonard Susskind, October 19, 2009
Hitchcock Lecture: A Scientist Addresses Science Education
Leon Lederman, October 14, 2009
Correlated Oxide Heterostructures
R. Ramesh, October 5, 2009
Dark Matters
Joseph Silk, September 28, 2009
Star Formation Now and Then
Tom Abel, September 21, 2009
Physics For Future Presidents
Richard Muller, September 14, 2009
The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
Brad DeLong, May 11, 2009
Angels & Demons the Science Revealed: Why Physicists Would Love to Tap Antihydrogen, But the Vatican Need Not Fear...
Joel Fajans, May 5, 2009
Exciton Condensation and the Quantum Hall Effect
Jim Eisenstein, May 4, 2009
One Physicist's View of the Cerebral Cortex
Mike DeWeese, April 27, 2009
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics in Few-Particle Systems
Ken Dill, April 13, 2009
Stringy Predictions for Particle Physics
Cumrun Vafa, April 6, 2009
Confronting the Dark Energy Crisis in Fundamental Physics
Chris Stubbs, March 30, 2009
Seismic Imaging of the Earth's Interior
Barbara Romanowicz, March 16, 2009
Oppenheimer Lecture: Quantum Degenerate Gases Achievements and Perspectives
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, March 9, 2009
Quantum Networks
Jeff Kimble, March 2, 2009
Quantum Networks of Atoms
Chris Monroe, February 9, 2009
Black Holes as Mirrors
Patrick Hayden, February 2, 2009
Frustrated Pairs: Magnon BEC in Geometrically Frustrated Spin Dimer Compounds
Ian Fisher, January 26, 2009
2008
Exploring the Tera-Scale at the Large Hadron Collider: Status and Perspectives
Beate Heineman, December 8, 2008
Planckian Dissipation
Jan Zaanen, December 1, 2008
Recreating Core States of Giant Plants in the Laboratory: A New Generation of Condensed Matter Science
G.W. Collins, November 24, 2008
Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture: Testing Einstein's Happiest Idea by Watching Things Fall Sideways
Eric Adelberger, November 17, 2008
Climate Change: New Scientific Challenges
Inez Fung, November 10, 2008
Dark Foces for Dark Matter
Nima Arkani Hamed, November 3, 2008
Quantum Mechanics on Giant Scales
Nergis Mavalvala, October 27, 2008
The Transient Revolution in Astrophysics
Eliot Quataert, October 20, 2008
The Search for Complex Order Parameter Symmetry in Unconventional Superconductors
Dale Van Harlingen, October 13, 2008
New Imaging Methods Applied to Recorded Sound Preservation and Access
Carl Haber, October 6, 2008
Chupp Lecture: Richard Muller
September 30, 2008
Single Molecular Studies on Molecular Motors with Nanometer Accuracy
Ahmet Yildez, September 29, 2008
Segre Lecture: Why Are We So Excited About Carbon Nanostructures?
Mildred Dresselhaus, September 22, 2008
The Multiverse of String Theory, the Measure Problem, and the Cosmological Constant
Raphael Bousso, September 15, 2008
Science at X-Ray Light Source Facilities
Roger Falcone, September 8, 2008
Experimental Observation of New Topological - Phases of Quantum Matter and the Frontier
Zahid Hasan, May 12, 2008
Physics with Thin Monolitic Si Pixel Sensors from Future Collider Experiments to Fast Nano Imaging
Marco Battaglia, April 28. 2008
Energy and Information Fluxes in Biology
Jan Liphardt, April 14, 2008
Casimir Effects
Peter Milonni, April 7, 2008
The ATA-42: Life, The Universe, and a Wide-Angle, Panchromatic Radio Camera for SETI and Radio Astronomy
Jill Tarter, March 31, 2008
Oppenheimer Lecture:...Spooky Actions at a Distance?
N. David Mermin, March 17, 2008
Comprehensive Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion
Mark Raizen, March 10, 2008
Regent's Lecture "Energy Trends & Technologies"
Steve Koonin, March 3, 2008
Entropy, Counting, and Energy
Steve Chu, Februart 25, 2008
Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions
Dr. Hartmut Haeffner, February 11, 2008
Massive Black Holes
Reinhard Genzel, February 4, 2008
Solar Neutrinos: Old Questions About Hydrogen-Burning Stars
Wick Haxton, January 28, 2008
2007
Segre Lecture: Elementary Particle Physics: A Personal Look Ahead
Burt Richter, December 10, 2007
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: What is the Electric Field of a Single Photon?
Steve Girvin, December 3, 2007
Inflation and String Cosmology
Andrei Linde, November 26, 2007
A Wrinkle in Space: Quantum Isospectral Nanostructures
Hari Manoharan, November 19, 2007
Chupp Lecture: Responding to the Gathering Storm: Innovations in Math and Science in Teacher Preparation
Mary Ann Rankin, November 8, 2007
Fluorescence Mapping of Microbes in Polar Ice: What We Are Learning About Metabolism at Low-Temperature and the Archaeology of Storms
Buford Price, November 5, 2007
Thermal and Quantum Phases of a Spin-1 Bose Gas
Dan Stamper-Kurn, October 29, 2007
Warped Geometry: Consequences and LHC Signatures
Lisa Randall, October 22, 2007
Will a New Milli-Volt Switch Replace the Transistor for Digital Applications?
Eli Yablonovitch, October 15, 2007
Quantum Spin Liquid: From Drought to Deluge
Patrick Lee, October 8, 2007
The Black Hole Singularity in a Quark Gluon Plasma
Steve Shenker, October 1, 2007
The High-Energy Earth: Gamma-Ray Flashes and Electron Beams from Lightning
David M. Smith, September 24, 2007
Exotic Orders from Geometrical Frustration
Ashvin Viswanath, September 17, 2007
Some Views on the Einstein Year, Condensed Matter Physics Nanoscience, and Superconductivity
Marvin Cohen, September 10, 2007
From the Big Bang to COBE, The Nobel Prize, and James Webb Space Telescope
Dr. John C. Mather, May 7, 2007
An Observationalist Take on Dark Energy: The Return of the Optimists
Saul Perlmutter, April 30, 2007
Matter-Antimatter Transformations at 3 Trillion Hertz
Joseph Kroll, April 23, 2007
Entanglement of Josephson-Junction Quantum Bits
John Martinis, April 16, 2007
Further Reflections on the Dismal Future of the Universe
Lawrence M. Krauss, April 9, 2007
Heterogeneous Dynamics in Biology and Nanoscience
Kingshuk Ghosh, April 2, 2007
To Boldly Go: My Life in Physics
Steven Hawking, March 12, 2007
Test of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law at the Dark-Energy Length Scale
Eric Adelberger, February 26, 2007
Nanotubes, Nanomotors, and the Raising of Statues on Easter Island
Alex Zettl, February 12, 2007
DNA Origami
Dr. Paul W. K. Rothemund, February 5, 2007
Ultrafast Coherent Diffractive Imaging with X-Ray Free-Electron Lasers
Dr. Henry Chapman, January 29, 2007
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