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2007/2008
May 5, 2008: "Quantum
Mechanics on Giant Scales", Nergis
Mavalvala, MIT.
Apr 28, 2008: "Nano
Carbon: From Terahertz Transistors to Atomic Membranes",
Paul McEuen, Cornell.
Apr 21, 2008: "Which
Path to Metallic Hydrogen: High or Low Temperature", Isaac F. Silvera, Harvard.
Apr 14, 2008: "Unparticle
Physics", Howard Georgi, Harvard,
Apr 7, 2008: "The
Black Hole Paradox, Past and Future", Joseph
Polchinski, UCSB
Mar 31, 2008: "The
Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations and
Correlations Tell the Story", Marian Scully,
Texas A&M Univ and Princeton Univ. [Loeb Lecture]
Mar 24, 2008: No Colloquium
Mar 17, 2008: "What Does The Eye Tell The Brain:
A Journey from High Energy Physics to Neural Systems",
Alan Litke, UCSC.
Mar 10, 2008: "The Search For Gravitational Radiation",
Rainer Weiss, MIT.
Mar 3, 2008: "The Flexibility Window in Materials",
Michael Thorpe, Arizona State.
Feb 25, 2008: No Colloquium
Feb 18, 2008: No Colloquium
Feb 11, 2008: "The Next Great Particle Accelerator:
A Linear Collider", Barry Barish, Caltech.
Feb 4, 2008: "Quantum Optics with Cold Atoms",
Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, Austria.
Jan 28, 2008: "New Clues about Inflation, dark
matter and Dark Energy", Max Tegmark, MIT.
Jan 21, 2008: No Colloquium
Jan 14, 2008: No Colloquium
Jan 7, 2008: No Colloquium
Dec 31, 2007: No Colloquium
Dec 24, 2006: No Colloquium
Dec 17, 2007: "Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy",
Stefan Hell, Max Plank (Gottingen).
Dec 10, 2007: "There's Plenty of Room in the Middle:
A View from the Bottom", Don Eigler, IBM.
Dec 3, 2007: "Quasicrystals
in Medieval Islamic Architecture", Peter J.
Lu, Harvard.
Nov 26, 2007: "Spins and Charges in Low dimensions",
Amir Yacoby, Harvard.
Nov 19, 2007: "The Complexity of Electronic Matter
in High-Tc Superconductors", Seamus Davis, Cornell.
Nov 12, 2007: "The Good the Bad and the Awful
- Scientific Simulation and Prediction", Leo Kadanoff,
University of Chicago.
Nov 5, 2007: "New Insights into Hard Problems
with Soft Materials", David Weitz, Harvard.
Oct 29, 2007: "Testing Relativity", Alan
Kostelecky, Indiana University.
Oct 22, 2007: "Atom Interferometry", Mark
Kasevich, Stanford.
Oct 15, 2007: "Warped Geometry: Consequences and
LHC Signatures", Lisa Randall, Harvard.
Oct 8, 2007: No Colloquium
Oct 1, 2007: "The Path To Extrasolar Earths",
Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard.
Sep 24, 2007: "Trapping and Manipulating Single
Molecules in Solution", Adam Cohen, Harvard.
Sep 17, 2007: "Sea Sponges: A Textbook in Materials
Physics", Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard.
2006/2007
May 21, 2007: No Colloquium
May 14, 2007: "Universal Scaling Laws from Genomes
and Cells to Ecosystems and Cities; Towards a Unified
Quantitative Theory of Biological Structure and Organization",
Geoffrey West, Los Alamos.
May 7, 2007: No Colloquium
Apr 30, 2007: "Quantum Phase Transitions",
Subir Sachdev, Harvard.
Apr 23, 2007: "Beyond Computation: The P versus
NP Question", Michael Sipser, MIT.
Apr 16, 2007: "Cold atoms in Flatland", Jean
Dalibard, ENS, France.
Apr 9, 2007: "Three Astrophysical Laboratories
for Particle Physics", Avi Loeb, Harvard.
Apr 2, 2007: "The Scientific Work of Andrei Dmitreyvich
Sakharov", Richard Wilson, Harvard, and Bruno
Coppi, MIT.
Mar 26, 2007: No Colloquium
Mar 19, 2007: "The Art of Light-Based Precision
Measurement", Jun Ye, JILA, U. Colorado.
Mar 12, 2007: "A Cloak of Invisibility: Harry
Potter Does Electromagnetism", John Pendry, Imperial
College, London.
Mar 5, 2007: "Phase Transitions in DNA:Temperature
Matters", Mara Prentiss, Harvard.
Feb 26, 2007: "Matter-Antimatter Transformations
at 3 Trillion Hertz", Joseph Kroll, U-Penn.
Feb 19, 2007: No Colloquium
Feb 12, 2007: "Vorticity and high-Tc Superconductors",
Phuan Ong, Princeton.
Feb 5, 2007: "Discovery Physics at the LHC",
Maria Spiropulu, CERN.
Jan 29, 2007: No Colloquium
Jan 22, 2007: No Colloquium
Jan 15, 2007: No Colloquium
Jan 8, 2007: No Colloquium
Jan 1, 2007: No Colloquium
Dec 25, 2006: No Colloquium
Dec 18, 2006: "Colloids in Electric Fields",
Alfons van Blaaderen, Utrecht.
Dec 11, 2006: "Taking Sides on the Dark Energy
Issue", Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago.
Dec 4, 2006: "Defects in Diamond: New Hardware
for the Quantum World?", Joerg Wrachtrup, Univ.
of Stuttgart, Germany.
Nov 27, 2006: "QED in a Pencil Trace", Andre
Geim, Univ. Manchester, UK.
Nov 20, 2006: "Physics of Viruses", Robijn
Bruinsma, UCLA .
Nov 13, 2006: "Searching for New Physics in CP
Violation with BABAR", Masahiro Morii, Harvard.
Nov 6, 2006: "Testing the Gravitational Inverse-Square
Law below the Dark-Energy Length Scale", Eric
Adelberger, Washington U.
Oct 30, 2006: "Extrasolar Planets: Seeing the
Light", David Charbonneau, Harvard.
Oct 23, 2006: "Complex Networks: From the Web
to the Cell", Albert-Laszlo Barabas, Notre Dame.
Oct 16, 2006: "Search for Yukawa-Type Gravity-like
Forces at sub-mm distance", Aharon Kapitulnik,
Stanford.
Oct 10, 2006: No Colloquium
Oct 2, 2006: "Bringing Hearing to the Deaf, Cochlear
Implants: A Technical and Personal Account", Ian
Shipsey, Purdue Univ.
Sep 25, 1006: "Ultrafast Quantum Control",
Philip H. Bucksbaum, Stanford..
Sep 18, 1006: "A new measurement of the electron
magnetic moment and the fine structure constant",
Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard.
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2004/2005
May 15, 2006: "The 17th Street Canal: Anatomy
of an Engineering Disaster", David Kestenbaum,
National Public Radio.
May 8, 2006: "The Cusp at Optimum Doping in the
Low-Temperature Hall Number of the High-Temperature
Superconductors", Greg Boebinger, Ntl. Magnetic
Lab.
May 1, 2006: "Torsion Balance Tests of Gravity
at Short Distances & Spin Coupled Forces",
Blayne Heckel, U-Washington.
Apr 24, 2006: "Multi Modal Functional Brain Imaging",
Bruce Rosen, MGH/Harvard Medical School.
Apr 17, 2006: "Looking Inside The Sand Pile",
Donald Candela, University of Massachusetts.
Apr 10, 2006: "Embedded Clusters: Laboratories
for Understanding the Origin of Stars and Planets",
Elizabeth Lada, U Florida.
Apr 3, 2006: "Science Under Attack", Lawrence
Krauss, Case Western Reserve University.
Mar 27, 2006: No Colloquium
Mar 20, 2006: "Quantum Universe", Persis
Drell, SLAC.
Mar 13, 2006: "The Origin of Mass and the Feebleness
of Gravity", Frank Wilczek, MIT.
Mar 6, 2006: "Putting Weirdness to Work: Quantum
Information Science, John preskill, Caltech.
Feb 27, 2006: "Extra Dimensions, ATLAS, and COSM",
Keith Baker, Hampton University.
Feb 20, 2006: No Colloquium
Feb 6, 2006: "New Forms of Quantum Matter Near
Absolute Zero Temperature", Wolfgang Ketterle,
MIT.
Feb 6, 2006: "Topological Quantum Computation",
Chetan Nayak, UCLA.
Dec 26, 2005 – Jan31, 2005: No Colloquium
Dec 19, 2005: "Assassin of Relativity", Peter
Galison, Harvard.
Dec 12, 2005: "The Neutrinos as a Window into
the Dark", Ann Nelson, Univ. of Washington, Seattle.
Dec 5, 2005:"The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays",
Stefan Westerhoff, Columbia Univ.
Nov 21, 2005: "Cosmology from X-ray observations
of galaxy clusters", Alexey Vihklinin, Harvard
Smithsonian Ctr. for Astrophysics.
Nov 14, 2005: "Superfluidity in Solid Helium and
Solid Hydrogen", Moses Chan, Penn State.
Nov 7, 2005: "What Do Semiconductor Electrons
and Freak Waves Have In Common?", Eric Heller,
Harvard University.
Oct 24, 2005: "Physics of Semiconductor Nanowires",
Lars Samuelson, Lund Univ., Sweden.
Oct 17, 2005: "The Quantum Optics with Quantum
Dots", Atac Imamoglu, ETH Zurich.
Oct 10, 2005: No Colloquium
Oct 3, 2005: "Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics",
David DeMille, Yale.
Sep 26, 2005: "Fermi Condensates", Markus
Greiner, Harvard University.
Sep 19, 2005: "DNA Unzipping & Motor Proteins:
Effect of the Genetic Code", David Nelson, Harvard.
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2004/2005
Apr 18, 2005: Quantum Optics with Superconducting Circuits,
Robert Schoelkopf, Yale University.
Apr 11, 2005: Particle Physics Circa 2010, Savas Dimopoulos,
Stanford University.
Apr 4, 2005: The End of the Semiconductor Roadmap:
The Collision of Physics, Economics, and Sociology",
Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA.
Mar 28, 2005: No Colloquium
Mar 21, 2005: "Nonlinear Optics in Vivo",
Christopher Schaffer, UCSD.
Mar 14, 2005: "Quantum Criticality and Event Horizons",
George Chapline, LLNL.
Mar 7, 2005: "Electron in 1D, Amir Yacoby",
Weizmann Inst.
Feb 28, 2005: "Quantum Foam and Melting Crystal",
Cumrun Vafa, Harvard.
Feb 21, 2005: No Colloquium
Feb 14, 2005: "Quantum Cyclotron Yields New Value
for the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure
Constant", Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard.
Feb 7, 2005: "Magnetic Fusion Science and ITER",
Robert Goldston, Princeton.
Dec 20, 2004 - Jan 31, 2005: No Colloquium
Dec 13, 2004: "Mechanics of DNA at High Curvature",
Philip Nelson, Pennsylvania University.
Dec 6, 2004: "Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy",
Daniel Ruger, IBM Almaden.
Nov 29, 2004: "Quantum Information Processing
with Atoms and Ions", Peter Zoller, Innsbruck
University.
Nov 22, 2004: "Boost-Phase Intercept and the National
Missile Defense", Daniel Kleppner, MIT.
Nov 15, 2004: "Mars Exploration", Daniel
McCleese, JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory).
Nov 8, 2004: "The Quest for the Mass of the Neutrino",
Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University.
Nov 1, 2004: "From NMR to the Imaging of the Diffusion
Tensor Field in the Brain and Beyond", Andrew
Kiruluta, Harvard.
Oct 25, 2004: "A Standard Model for Solids",
Marvin L. Cohen, Berkeley.
Oct 11 & Oct 18, 2004: No Colloquium
Oct 4, 2004: "Mechanical Amplification in the
Ear", James Hudspeth, The Rockefeller University.
Sep 27, 2004: No Colloquium
Sep 20, 2004: "Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
and Magnetic Microtraps", Eugene Demler, Harvard.
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2003/2004
May 10, 2004: No Colloquium
May 3, 2004: "How Auditory Space is Represented
in the Brain", Mark Konishi, Caltech.
Apr 19, 2004: NSCE Lecture, "Virus Based Hybrid
Materials", Angela Belcher, MIT.
Apr 12, 2004: "Looking for Life in Unlikely Places",
Freeman Dyson, IAS Princeton.
Apr 5, 2004: "Quantum Entanglement With Atoms",
David Wineland, NIST.
Mar 29, 2004: No Colloquium
Mar 22, 2004: "Cold Molecules", Gerard Meijer,
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.
Mar 15, 2004: "Transport in a Luttinger Liquid",
Leonid Glazman, Minnesota University.
Mar 8, 2004: "Semiconductor Spintronics",
David Awschalom, U-CA, Santa Barbara.
Mar 1, 2004: No Colloquium
Feb 23, 2004: "Carbon Nanotubes-Electons in a
1D World", Paul McEuen, Cornell.
Feb 16, 2004: No Colloquium
Feb 9, 2004: "Anomalous Focusing in Elastic Sheets",
Thomas Witten, Chicago University.
Jan 19 - Feb 2, 2004: No Colloquium
Jan 12, 2004: "Transport & Scanned Probe Investigations
of Chemical Nanostructures", Hongkun Park, Harvard.
Dec 22, 2003 - Jan 5, 2004: No Colloquium
Dec 15, 2003: "Jammed Ellipsoids Beat Jammed Spheres",
Paul Chaikin, Princeton.
Dec 8, 2003:. "Polymer Physics and the Cell",
Fred MacKintosh, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Dec 1, 2003: "The Physics of Light Transport",
Georg Maret, Konstanz University.
Nov 24, 2003: "Towards a Complete Theory of Gamma-Ray
Bursts", Alvaro De Rujula, CERN and BU.
Nov 17, 2003: "An Update on the Linear Collider",
Sekazi Mtingwa, North Carolina A&T State University
and Harvard.
Nov 10, 2003: "Double Simplex: Envisioning",
Christopher Quigg, FNAL .
Nov 3, 2003: "Neutrino Oscillations: What We Know,
What We Want to Know, and How We Get From Here to There",
Gary Feldman, Harvard.
Oct 27, 2003: "How Analogy Drives Physics",
Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University.
Oct 20, 2003: "Pattern Formation in a Cold Exciton
System", Leonid Levitov, MIT.
Oct 6 & Oct 13, 2003: No Colloquium
Sep 29, 2003: "On the Trail of the Quark Gluon
Plasma at RHIC", Barbara Jacak, SUNY.
Sep 22, 2003: "Why Keep Doing B Physics?",
Helen Quinn, Stanford.
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2002/2003
May 12, 2003: "Seeing Particles Beneath
Waves", Immanuel Bloch, Ludwig-Maximilians-University,
Munich.
May 5, 2003: "Locally Crystalline Electron Liquids",
Steve Kivelson, UCLA.
Apr 14, 2003: "Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures",
Ellen D. Williams, UMD.
Apr 7, 2003: "The New Science of Quantum Information",
Jeff Kimble, Caltech.
Mar 17, 2003: "1D Antiferromagnets: A Laboratory
for Low Dimensional Quantum Field Theory", Ian
Affleck, BU.
Mar 10, 2003: "Charge Inversion and Gene Delivery",
Boris Shklovskii, Univ. Minnesota.
Mar 3, 2003: No Colloquium
Feb 24, 2003: "Surprises in 2 Dimensions: From
the Quantized Hall Effect to Exciton Condensation",
James Eisenstein, Caltech.
Feb 10, 2003: "Making Sense of the New Cosmology",
Michael Turner, U-Chicago.
Dec 23, 2002 - Feb 3, 2003: No Colloquium
Dec 16, 2002: "Quantum Physics and Mathematics",
Robert Dijkgraaf.
Dec 9, 2002: "Big World of Small Neutrinos">,
Hitoshi Murayama, Berkeley.
Dec 2, 2002: "QD-Spin", Seigo Tarucha, Univ.
Tokyo.
Nov 25, 2002: TBA, Cumrun Vafa, Harvard.
Nov 18, 2002: "Semiconductor Nanostructues",
A.C. Gossard, UC Santa Barbara.
Nov 11, 2002: No Colloquium
Nov 4, 2002: "The Condensed Matter Physics of
QCD", Krishna Rajagopal, MIT.
Oct 28, 2002: "Background-free Observation of
Cold Antihydrogen with a First Glimpse of Its Atomic
State", Gerald Gabrielse, Havard.
Oct 21, 2002: "The Rise of Complexity in Nature",
Eric Chaisson, Tufts.
Oct 14, 2002: No Colloquium
Oct 7, 2002: "What Is Really Measured in the Mesoscopic
Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer", Amnon Aharony,
Tel Aviv University.
Sep 30, 2002: "Prospects for Quantum Computation",
David DiVincenzo, IBM .
Sep 23, 2002: "The World as a Hologram",
Raphael Bousso, Harvard.
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2001/2002
May 13, 2002: "ManipulatioMonColloqArchiven
of Quantum State of Electrical Circuit", Michel
Devoret, Yale.
May 6, 2002: "Generation of Photons from a Quantum
Dot", Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Stanford.
Apr 29, 2002: "Loeb Lecture: "Anisotropies
in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Short Course",
S. Weinberg, U-TX .
Apr 22, 2002: "Splitting the Electron", Leon
Balents, UC Santa Barbara.
Apr 15, 2002: "Mechanical devices for single-molecule
and single-quantum nanoscience", Michael Roukes,
CalTech.
Apr 8, 2002: "Many Body Physics in Cuprate Superconductors",
Zhi-xun Shen, Stanford.
Apr 1, 2002: "Jets, Rogue Waves, Turbulence and
Tornados", Daniel Lathrop, U-Maryland.
Mar 25, 2002: No Colloquium
Mar 18, 2002: "The Physics of Musical Instruments",
John Huth, Harvard.
Mar 11, 2002: "Elastic Properties Biological Springs",
George Benedek, MIT.
Mar 4, 2002: >"Quantum Fields and Numbers",
Dirk Kreimer, BU.
Feb 25, 2002: "The First Sources of Light in the
Universe", Abraham Loeb, Harvard.
Feb 18, 2002: No Colloquium
Feb 11, 2002: "Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave
Background and the South Pole DASI Experiment",
John Carlstrom, Univ. Chicago.
Feb 4, 2002: "Physical Science Research at Bell
Labs", Cherry Murray, Bell Labs.
Jan 14 - Jan 28, 2002: No Colloquium
Jan 7, 2002: "Modeling Genetic Networks",
Boris Shraiman, Lucent.
Dec 17 - Dec 31, 2001: No Colloquium
Dec 10, 2001: "Self Assembly", G. Whitesides,
Harvard.
Dec 3, 2001: "Massive Thoughts", Young-Kee
Kim, Univ. CA., Berkeley.
Nov 26, 2001: "Science and Public Policy",
Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard President.
Nov 19, 2001: "DC Transformer and DC Josephson(-like)
Effect in Quantum Hall Bilayers", Steven M. Girvin,
Yale.
Nov 12, 2001: No Colloquium
Nov 5, 2001: "Quantum Information with Quantum
Optics", P. Zoller, Innsbruk.
Oct 29, 2001: "Bose-Einstein Condensation",
W. Ketterle, MIT.
Oct 22, 2001: "Micromanipulation Study of Physical
Properties of DNA and Chromosomes", J. Marko,
U. Illinois.
Oct 15, 2001: "Competing Orders and Quantum Phase
Transitions in the Cuprate High Temperature Superconductors",
S. Sachdev, Yale.
Oct 8, 2001: No Colloquium
Oct 1, 2001: "The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory:
Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem", A. McDonald,
Queen's.
Sep 24, 2001: "Deconstructing Dimensions: Adventures
In Theory Space", N. Arkani-Hamed, Harvard.
Sep 17, 2001: "Nanowires as Building Blocks for
Nanoscale Science and Technology", C. Lieber,
Harvard.
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2000/2001
May 7, 2001: "New Ways to Find New Planets",
Costas Papaliolios, Harvard University
Apr 30, 2001: Macroionic Mysteries: Many-body Interactions
in Strongly Coupled Classical Systems, David Grier,
U.Chicago.
Apr 23, 2001: "New Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity",
Lisa Randall.
Apr 16, 2001: "Quantum Explosions and Implosions
in a Bose-Einstein Condensate", Carl Wieman.
Apr 9, 2001: "Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Brightest
Explosions in the Universe", Shri Kulkarni, California
Tech.
Apr 2, 2001: "Viruses, Vesicles and Multi-electron
Bubbles: the Thomson Problem Revisited", David
Nelson, Harvard.
Mar 19 & Mar 26, 2001: No Colloquium
Mar 12, 2001: "A New Precision Measurement of
the Muon (g-2) Value at the level of 1.3 ppm",
Robert Carey, Boston U.
Mar 5, 2001: No Colloquium
Feb 26, 2001: "The Complexity of Materials",
Susan Coppersmith, Chicago U.
Feb 12, 2001: "Organic Molecular Crystals: Amazing
New Opportunities for Science and Technology",
Bertram Batlogg, ETH Zurich and Bell Laboratories.
Feb 5, 2001: "The Neural Code of the Retina",
Mark Meister, Harvard.
Dec 18, 2000 - Jan 29, 2001: No Colloquium
Dec 4, 2000: "Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic
Hydrogen", Thomas Greytak, MIT.
Nov 20, 2000: No Colloquium
Nov 20, 2000: "Coherence and Quantum Information
in Modern Optics", Mikhail Lukin, ITAMP, Smithsonian
Ctr. for Astrophysics.
Nov 13, 2000: "Mesomagnetic Tests of Mechanisms
of Superconductivity", Prof. Kathryn Ann Moler,
Stanford.
Nov 6, 2000: "Were Newton and Einstein Right?",
Prof. Blayne Heckel, Univ. of Washington in Seattle.
Oct 30, 2000: "Quantum Computing Using Electrons
Floating On Liquid Helium", Dr. Phillip Platzman,
Lucent Technologies.
Oct 23, 2000: "Decoherence, or Why the Macroworld
Behaves Classically", Dr. Fritz Haake, University
of Essen.
Oct 16, 2000: "Stretching the Vacum: Precision
Measurements of the Weak Interaction and the Search
for the Higgs Boson", Prof. Peter Fisher, MIT.
Oct 9, 2000: No Colloquium
Oct 2, 2000: Loeb Lecture: "String Duality and
D-Branes", Joseph Polchinski, UC Santa Barbara.
Sep 25, 2000: No Colloquium
Sep 18, 2000: "Exploring the Universe with Atomic
Clocks", Prof. Norman Ramsey, Harvard.
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