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| Year | Loeb and Lee Lecturers | Lecture/Course Titles |
| 2007-2008 | Lee
Historical Lecturers: Daniel Kleppner, MIT |
Lecture: "How Physics Became Precise" (Apr 16) |
| 2007-2008 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University and Princeton University |
Colloquium: "The
Photon Sheds Light on the Quantum: Fluctuations
and Correlations Tell the Story" (Mar
31) Lecture I: "Using Quantum Mechanics to Detect Anthrax" (Apr 2) Lecture II: "The Laser-Bec Analogy" (Apr. 8) |
| 2007-2008 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Steven M. Block, Stanford University |
Colloquium: “Single
Molecule Biophysics: Reading the Genetic Code" (Feb
25) Lecture I: "Single Molecule Biophysics: How Nucleic Acids Fold" (Feb. 26) Lecture II: "Single Molecule Biophysics: How Kinesin Motors Move" (Feb. 28) |
| 2007-2008 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Don Eigler, IBM |
Colloquium: "There’s
Plenty of Room in the Middle: A View from the Bottom" Lecture I: "Computation in Nanometer-Scale Structures: Molecule Cascades" Lecture II: "Classical Computation in Quantum Nanostructures: A Long Road to an Uncertain Future" |
| 2006-2007 | Lee
Historical Lecturers: David M. Lee, Cornell Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford |
Lecture: "Probing the World Near Absolute Zero: The Discovery of Superfluidity in Helium Three" |
| 2006-2007 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Rocky Kolb, University of Chicago |
Colloquium: "Taking
Sides on the Dark Energy Issue" Lecture I: "Inflation and the Origin of Structure" Lecture II: "Dark Matters" |
| 2006-2007 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Eric Adelberger, University of Washington |
Colloquium: "Testing
the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law below the
Dark-Energy Length Scale" Lecture I: "Modern Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle" Lecture II: "Probes of Lorentz-Symmetry Violation and other Exotica using a Spin Pendulum" |
| 2005-2006 | Lee
Historical Lecturer: Charles Slichter |
Lecture: "The Flowering of Magnetic Resonance & Condensed Matter Physics--Some History, Ancient & in the Making" |
| 2005-2006 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Persis Drell, SLAC |
Colloquium: "Quantum
Universe" Lecture I: "GLAST: The Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope" Lecture II: "The Future of High Energy Physics: A Personal Perspective" |
| 2005-2006 | Short-Term
Lecturer: John Preskill, Caltech |
Colloquium: "Putting
Wierdness to Work: Quantum Information Science" Lecture I: "Battling Decoherence: The Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer" Lecture II: "Topological Quantum Computation" |
| 2005-2006 | Short-Term
Lecturer: John Hopfield, Princeton |
Colloquium: "A
Physics View of Brain Computation" Lecture I: " The Dynamics of Spike-Timing Computation: Olfaction" Lecture II: "A Neural Approach to Recognizing Brief Dynamical Patterns: Speech" |
| 2004-05 | Lee
Historical Lecturer: P. James E. Peebles, Princeton |
Lecture: “The
Expanding Universe” |
| 2004-05 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Eli Yablonovitch, UCLA |
Colloquium: "The
End of the Semiconductor Roadmap: The Collision
of Physics, Economics, and Sociology" Lecture I: "What Specific Physics will the End-of-Roadmap Technology Consist Of?" Lecture II "What New Roadmap Concept Might Emerge Afterward?" |
| 2004-05 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Marvin Cohen, University of California, Berkeley |
Colloquium: "A
Standard Model for Solids" Lecture I:"Nanoscience: Small is Sometimes Different" Lecture II "Mostly Superconductivity" |
| 2003-04 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Georg Maret, University of Konstanz |
Colloquium: "The
Physics of Light Transport" Lecture I: "Multiple Light Scattering in Anisotropic Media: Principles and Applications" Lecture II "Melting and Glass Transition in 2D Model Colloids" |
| 2003-04 | Lee
Historical Lecturer: Prof. Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study |
Lecture: "How We Might Have Gone to Mars in 1965: History of Project Orion" |
| 2003-04 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Brian Greene, Columbia University |
Colloquium: "Searching
for the Unified Theory" Lecture I: "String Theory and Geometry" Lecture II "String Theory and Cosmology" |
| 2002-03 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. James P. Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: "Surprises
in Two Dimensions: From the Quantized Hall Effect
to Exciton Condensation" Lecture I: "Liquid Crystals of Electrons?" Lecture II "Evidence for a New Kind of Superfluid" |
| 2002-03 | Lee
Historical Lecturer: Dr. Richard L. Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus, Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
Colloquium: "Fun with Muons, GPS, Radar, etc." |
| 2002-03 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Dr. David DiVincenzo, IBM Watson Research Center |
Colloquium: "Prospects
for Quantum Computation. Lecture I: "Exchange Gates for Spin Qubits" Lecture II "The New Quantum Cryptography" |
| 2001-02 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Professor John Carlstrom, University of Chicago |
Colloquium: "Cosmology
with the Cosmic Microwave Background and the South
Pole DASI Experiment" Lecture I: "CMB Polarization and Future Directions" Lecture II "Cosmology with the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect" Lecture III: "Probing the Dark Energy Equation of State with New SZE Surveys" |
| 2001-02 | Lee
Historical Lecturer: Professor Walter Kohn, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Lecture: "The Birth and Early Decades of Solid State Physics Remembered" |
| 2001-02 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin; Morris Loeb Visiting Professor of Physics |
Colloquium: "Anisotropies
in the Cosmic Microwave Background: The Short Course" Lecture I: "Cosmological Fluctuations: From Inflation through the Era of Radiation Dominance" Lecture II "Cosmological Fluctuations: From the Era of Matter Dominance to Now" |
| 2000-01 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Joseph Polchinski, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Colloquium: "String
Duality and D-Branes." Lectures I: "Gage/Gravity Duality" Lecture II "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part I" Lecture III: "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part II"-Lecture IV. "N = 1 Gauge/Gravity Duals, Part III" |
| 2000-01 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Sheldon Glashow, Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, and Boston University |
Lecture: "Half a Century of Particle Physics at Harvard" |
| 2000-01 | Lee
Historical Lecturer: Prof. I.M. Khalatnikov, Honorary Director of Landau Institute, Academician, and Foreign Member Royal Society |
Lecture: "The Landau School and the Landau Institute" |
| 2000-01 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Margaret Murnane, University of Colorado |
Colloquium: "Control
of Atoms and Molecules Using Shaped Pulses" Lecture I: "Direct Observation of Surface Chemistry Using Ultrafast Soft-X-Ray Pulses" Lecture II "Nonlinear Optics at Short Wavelengths" |
| 2000-01 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Lisa Randall, M. I. T. |
Colloquium: "New
Dimensions to Einstein's Gravity" Lecture I: "Localizing Gravity" Lecture II "Localized Gravity and the Weak Scale" Lecture III: "Locally Localized Gravity, Holography, and String Theory" Lecture IV "Holography, Phenomenology, and Model Building" |
| 1999-00 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, University of Cambridge |
Colloquium: "The
Shape of Time" Lecture I: "Nuts, Bolts and Branes" Lecture II "Finite But Unbounded" |
| 1999-00 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago |
Colloquium: "Physics
at the Breakfast Table" Lecture I: "Exciting Granular Materials" Lecture II "Jamming: From Glasses to Granular Matter" Lecture III: "Singularities and Cascades in Droplet Fission" Lecture IV "Breaking Away, Selective Withdrawal, and Islets in the Stream" |
| 1999-00 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Charles Townes, University of California, Berkeley |
Lecture: "The Sociology of Science Illustrated by Laser History" |
| 1999-00 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Ashoke Sen, Mehta Research Institute |
Colloquium: "Duality
and Supersymmetry" Lecture I-IV: "Non-Supersymmetric Configurations in Supersymmetric String Theories" |
| 1999-00 | Long-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Sebastien Balibar, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure |
Colloquium: "Crystal
Surfaces: From Facets to Crystallization Waves" Lecture I: "Crystal Steps: Experimental Checks of a Renormalization Theory" Lecture II "Nucleation: Bubbles, Crystals and Superfluids" |
| 1998-99 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Leonard Susskind, Stanford University |
Colloquium: "The
Holographic Principle: A New Paradigm for the Foundations
of Physics" Lecture I: "String Theory and M-Theory" Lecture II "M(atrix) Theory as a Holographic Theory" Lecture III: "Black Holes in Matrix Theory" Lecture IV "Holography and Maldacena's Conjecture" |
| 1998-99 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Roger Angel, University of California |
Colloquium: "Searching
for Spectroscopic Signs of Primitive Life on Extra-Solar
Planets: A Realistic Goal for NASA" Lecture I: "Building Big Mirrors for Telescopes on the Ground and in Space" Lecture II "Adaptive Optics: A Tool to Remove Atmospheric Blurring" |
| 1998-99 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Albert J. Libchaber, Rockefeller University |
Colloquium: "Biology
and the Flow of Molecular Information" Lecture I: "DNA Mode d'Emploi: Reading, Editing, Translating" Lecture II "The One Molecule Approach: Optical Tweezer and Fluorescence Marker" Lecture III: "Evolution: Ribosome Display and In-Vitro Protein Evolution"-Lecture IV "Gene Expression and Molecular Computing" |
| 1998-99 | Short-Term
Lecturer:s Prof. H. Günter Dosch and Prof. Hans J. Specht, University of Heidelberg |
Colloquium: "Musical
Harmony: Physics, Physiology and Psychology" Lecture I: "Musical Pitch: Temporal vs. Spectral Perception" Lecture II "Physics of Musical Instruments and Pitch Perception" |
| 1998-99 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Murray Gell-Mann, The Santa Fe Institute |
Lecture: "Some Adventures Among the Elementary Particles" |
| 1997-98 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Philip Anderson, Princeton University |
Lecture: "Mott, Slater, and the Magnetic State" |
| 1997-98 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Mark Wise, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: "The
Uses of Heavy Quark Symmetry" Lectures I & II: "Recent Developments in Heavy Quark Theory" Lectures III & IV: "A New Approach to Effective Field Theory for Nuclear Physics" |
| 1997-98 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. David Stephenson, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: "The
Interior of Jupiter Illuminated by Galileo and
Condensed Matter Physics" Lecture I: "History of Earth's Core" Lecture II "Lunar Structure and Evolution: Clues to Origin?" Lecture III: "Why Do Some Planets Have Large Magnetic Fields (and What About Others)?" Lecture IV "What's Going on Inside the Galilean Satellites?" |
| 1997-98 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. J.E. Mooij, Delft University of Technology |
Colloquium: "Quantum
Transport of Electrons in Fabricated Nanostructures" Lecture
I: "Semiconductor Quantum Dots" Lecture II "Vortices in Josephson Junction Arrays as Quantum Particles" Lecture III: "Electron Transport in Single Carbon Nanotubes" Lecture IV "Quantum Computation with Superconducting Tunnel Junction Circuits" |
| 1996-97 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Yuri Kagan, Kurchatov Institute |
Colloquium: "Formation
of a Bose-Einstein Condensate and Macroscopic Quantum
Properties" Lecture I: "Evolution of Bose Condensate in a Time-Dependent External Field" Lecture II "Light Induced Change of Scattering Length and Optical Manipulation of a Bose-Condensed Gas" Lecture III: "Bose Condensation and Collapse in the Case of a Negative Scattering Length" Lecture IV "Kinetics of Bose-Einstein Condensation in Highly Nonequilibrium Gas" |
| 1996-97 | Short-Term
Lecturer: (Special) The Hon. Vernon J. Ehlers, Member, United States Congress (R-Michigan) |
Lecture: "A Physicist in Congress: The Clash of Two Cultures" |
| 1996-97 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Paul Chaikin, Princeton University |
Colloquium: "Hard
Spheres in Space: Colloidal Crystals in Microgravity" Lecture I: "Dynamic Light Scattering from Jello and Yogurt and Other Nonergodic Stuff" Lecture II "Sedimentation and Fluidization: Turbulent Flow Through Liquids and Crystals" Lecture III: "A Frustrating Game of Chinese Checkers: Order from Disorder on a Superconducting Kagome Lattice" Lecture IV "The Umklapp Painter and Other Problems with Periodic Electrons and Magnetic Fields in Organic Superconductors" |
| 1996-97 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Nathan Seiberg, Rutgers University |
Colloquium: "The
Superworld" Lectures: "Supersymmetric Dynamics I, II, III and IV" |
| 1996-97 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Chen-Ning Yang, State University of New York |
Lecture: "Vector Potential, Gauge Field and Connection on a Fiber Bundle" |
| 1995-96 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Ad Lagendijk, University of Amsterdam |
Colloquium: "Can
Light be Localized?" Lecture I: "Propagation of Diffuse Light" Lecture II "Weak Localization" Lecture III: "Strong Localization"-Lecture IV. "Quantum Optics" |
| 1995-96 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University |
Colloquium: "Duality,
Space-Time, and Quantum Mechanics" Lecture I-IV: "Duality in Field Theory and String Theory" |
| 1995-96 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Nicolaas Bloembergen, Gerhard Gade University Professor Emeritus |
Lecture: "Nonlinear Optics: A Historical Perspective" |
| 1995-96 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure |
Colloquium: "Atoms
in Electromagnetic Fields" Lecture I-IV: "Laser Manipulation of Atoms-Methods, Problems and Perspectives" |
| 1995-96 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Steven Weinberg, Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin |
Colloquium: "Changing
Views of Renormalization" Lectures I & II: "Antibrackets, Symmetries, and Renormalization" |
| 1994-95 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Alex Pines, Department of Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley |
Colloquium: "Some
Magnetic Moments" Lecture I: "NMR with and without Magnets" Lecture II "Gauge Kinematics of Spins and Cats" Lecture III: "NMR with Lots of Quanta" Lecture IV "Iterative Control of Spins and Vehicles" |
| 1994-95 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Bohdan Paczynski, Princeton University |
Colloquium: "Gamma
Ray Bursts: Facts and Speculations" Lecture I:. "Theory of Gravitational Lensing and Microlensing" Lecture II "Gravitational Lensing and the Search for Dark Matter" Lecture III: ."Results and Interpretation of the Searches for MACHOs" Lecture IV "Diverse Astrophysics from Massive Photometric Projects" |
| 1994-95 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Dr. Linn F. Mollenauer, AT&T Bell Laboratories |
Colloquium: "Long-Distance
Transmission for the Information Age: Solitons
in Optical Fibers" Lecture I: "The Non-Linear Schrödinger Equation and Solitons" Lecture II "The Rate-Limiting Effects of Amplifier Spontaneous Emission, and Amelioration with 'Guiding' Filters" Lecture III: "Soliton-Soliton Interactions: Nearest Neighbor Effects, and Collisions in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing" Lecture IV "Fiber Birefringence and Polarization in Soliton Transmission" |
| 1994-95 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Hans Bethe, John Wendell Anderson Professor of Physics Emeritus, Cornell University |
Lecture: "Energy in the Stars" |
| 1993-94 | Historical
Lecturer: Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Lecture: "Reminiscences of the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930's" |
| 1993-94 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Gerald Holton, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Professor of the History of Sciences, Emeritus |
Lecture: "The Place of Science in our Culture at the End of the Modern Era" |
| 1993-94 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Elliott H. Lieb, Princeton University |
Colloquium: "The
Stability of Matter: From Atoms to Stars" Lecture I: "The Structure of Large Atoms" Lecture II "Why the Fine Structure Constant Must be Small" Lecture III: "Topics in the Theory of Magnetism" Lecture IV "The Hubbard Model of Interacting Electrons" |
| 1993-94 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Stephen Shenker, Rutgers University |
Colloquium: "Random
Matrices and Random Surfaces" Lectures: "Matrix Models, I, II, III & IV" |
| 1993-94 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Giorgio Frossati, Leiden University. |
Colloquium: "GRAIL:
A Fourth Generation Gravitation Wave Antenna" Lecture I: "Dilution Refrigeration-1" Lecture II "Dilution Refrigeration-2" Lecture III: "Pomeranchuk Cooling" Lecture IV "Nuclear Demagnetization" |
| 1992-93 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Peter Goldreich, California Institute of Technology |
Colloquium: "Solar
Phonons" Lecture I: "Neutron Star Magnetic Fields" Lecture II "Scale Invariant Spectra in Nature" |
| 1992-93 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Douglas Gough, University of Cambridge |
Colloquium: "Helioseismology:
Measuring the Inside of the Sun" Lecture I: "The Techniques of Helioseismic Inference" Lecture II "The Hydrostatic Structure of the Sun" Lecture III: "The Internal Solar Rotation" Lecture IV "On the Solar Neutrino Problem" |
| 1992-93 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Stanislas Leibler, Princeton University |
Colloquium: "Membranes,
Molecular Motors, Microtubules, Mitosis: Mytacism
or More?" Lecture I: "Membranes: Self-Assembly of Fluctuating Surfaces" Lecture II "Molecular Motors as Stochastic Machines" Lecture III: "Regulated Assembly of Microtubules, Cell Cycle and Mitosis" |
| 1992-93 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Steven Weinberg, Josey Regental Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin |
Colloquium: "Effective
Field Theories" Lecture I: "Effective Field Theories of Superconductivity" Lecture II "Effective Field Theories of Strong Interactions" Lecture III: "Effective Field Theories of Everything" |
| 1991-92 | Historical
Lecturer: Prof. Robert Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus |
Lecture: "Weighing Photons-The Story of an Experiment" |
| 1991-92 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Nathan Isgur, CEBAF |
Colloquium: "Where's
the Glue?: Comments on a Puzzle in Strong Interaction
Spectroscopy" Lecture I: "A Rationalization of the Quark Model (with Strings Attached)" Lecture II "The Quark Model Beyond the 'Quenched' Approximation" Lecture III: "The Heavy Quark Symmetry of QCD (Introduction and Some Applications)" Lecture IV "The Heavy Quark Symmetry of QCD (Some Implications for Light Quark Spectroscopy)" |
| 1991-92 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Alain Aspect, Director, Institut d'Optique Théorique et Appliquée |
Colloquium: "Experimental
Tests of Quantum Mechanics with Bell's Inequalities" Lecture I: "Wave-Particle Duality for a Single Photon Lecture II "Laser Cooling of Atoms: Below the Limits" Lecture III: "Laser Manipulation of Metastable Helium: Limits of the Classical Description" Lecture IV "Magneto-Optical Trapping of Metastable Helium: The (Good and Bad) Role of Collisions" |
| 1991-92 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes Director, ESPCI, Collège de France |
Colloquium: "Physics
of Soft Interfaces" Lecture I: "Polymer Surfaces and the Welding Problem" Lecture II "Dynamics of Wetting and Drying" |
| 1990-91 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania |
Colloquium: "Cosmology
at the Boiling Point" Lecture I: "Inflation: Cosmology's Dorian Gray?" Lecture II "Extended Inflation: Restoring the Original Picture" Lecture III: "Is the Gravitational Constant Oscillating?" |
| 1990-91 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof. Carl Wieman, University of Colorado at Boulder |
Colloquium: "TeV
Physics on an eV Budget; Measurement of Parity
Nonconservation in Atomic Cesium" Lecture I: "The Technical Challenges and Innovations in the Colorado Cesium Parity Nonconservation Experiment" Lecture II "Laser Trapping and Cooling I: The Curious Behavior of Optically Trapped Neutral Atoms" Lecture III: "Laser Trapping and Cooling II: Laser Trapping as an Exciting New Tool" |
| 1990-91 | Short-Term
Lecturer: Prof.Jerry Gollub, Haverford College and the University of Pennsylvania |
Colloquium: "Nonlinear
Dynamics of Waves on Fluid Interfaces" Lecture I: "Pattern Formation in Non-equilibrium Growth Processes" Lecture II "The Physics of Thermal Convection: From Order to Chaos and Turbulence" |
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