Physics Colloquia Archives

Fall 2012 - Spring 2013
GAVIN SALAM CERN and Princeton University Hosted by: Jesse Thaler
EDWARD WRIGHT University of California, Los Angeles Hosted by Josh Winn
JOHN MCGREEVY MIT Hosted by Eddie Farhi
PHIL NELSON University of Pennsylvania Hosted by Jeff Gore
PAUL GINSPARG Cornell University Hosted by PGSC
ROB SIMCOE MIT Hosted by Deepto Chakrabarty
ANDRE DE GOUVEA Northwestern University Hosted by Janet Conrad
ALAN GUTH MIT  Hosted by The MIT Society of Physics Students
ZVONIMIR DOGIC Brandeis University  Hosted by Mehran Kardar
TIMOTHY M. SWAGER MIT Hosted by Nuh Gedik
JOEL MOORE University of California Berkeley  Hosted by Liang Fu
GEOFF MARCY 
PAPPALARDO DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN PHYSICS 		University of California Berkeley  Hosted by Sara Seager
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012
LEON BALENTS University of California - Santa Barbara  Hosted by Senthil Todadri
STANISLAS LEIBLER  Rockefeller University and Institute for Advanced Study  Hosted by Mehran Kardar
MICHAEL NIELSEN   Hosted by The Society of Physics Students
JAN EGEDAL-PEDERSEN MIT Hosted by Patrick Lee
JOSEPH FORMAGGIO MIT  Hosted by Peter Fisher
MARKUS GREINER Harvard University  Hosted by Martin Zwierlein
ADAM RIESS
Distinguished Pappalardo Lecture  		Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute Hosted by Edmund Bertschinger
JOSHUA WINN MIT  Hosted by Sara Seager
RICHARD GARWIN IBM Fellow Emeritus Hosted by Aron Bernstein
HAROLD HWANG Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Hosted by Patrick Lee
JELENA VUCKOVIC Stanford University  Hosted by Vladan Vuletic
ZHI-XUN SHEN Stanford University   Hosted by The Physics Graduate Student Council
STEVEN NAHN MIT  Hosted by Christoph Paus
Adam Cohen Harvard University  
Martin Zwierlein MIT  
Xiao-Gang Wen MIT  
Robert Geroch University of Chicago  
Deborah Jin NIST and University of Colorado  
Ray Jayawardhana University of Toronto  
Ian Spielman Joint quantum institute; NIST and the University of Maryland   
Tony Heinz Columbia University  
Nadya Mason University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Andreas Karch University of Washington  
Taekjip Ha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Gunther Roland MIT  
Seth Lloyd MIT  
Eric Mazur Harvard University  
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011
Jennifer Chayes Microsoft Research New England  
Jack Lissauer NASA Ames Research Center  
Bernd Surrow MIT  
Marin Soljačić MIT  
Leonid Mirny MIT  
David Leeson Stanford University  
Homer Neal University of Michigan  
Charles Dermer Naval Research Laboratory  
Tom Levenson MIT  
Naama Barkai Weizmann Institute of Science  
Philip Kim Columbia University  
Adam Bernstein Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  
Julianne Dalcanton University of Washington  
Yuri Oganessian Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR  
David DeMille Yale University  
John Bush MIT  
Amir Yacoby Harvard University  
Daniel Eisenstein University of Arizona  
François Bouchet Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS & UPMC-Sorbonnes Universités  
Charles Kane University of Pennsylvania  
David Kleinfeld University of California at San Diego  
Ann Nelson University of Washington  
Steve Simon University of Oxford  
Raphael Bousso University of California at Berkeley  
Steve Giddings University of California at Santa Barbara  
Yves Couder Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Diderot -Paris  
Fall 2009 — Spring 2010
Shoucheng Zhang Stanford University  
Gabriella Sciolla MIT  
Owen Gingerich Harvard University  
Scott Hughes MIT  
Vladan Vuletic MIT  
Paula Apsell PBS-NOVA  
Wojciech Zurek Los Alamos  
Hong Liu MIT  
Robert McKeown California Institute of Technology  
Sean Carroll California Institute of Technology  
Eric Hudson MIT  
John Morgan Columbia University  
Claire Max UC Santa Cruz  
Andrew Strominger Harvard University  
Frank Wilczek MIT  
Samuel Ting MIT  
Daniel Prober Yale University  
Heidi Newberg Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  
Margaret Gardel University of Chicago  
Mikhail Lukin Harvard University  
Jack Harris Yale University  
S. James Gates, Jr. University of Maryland  
Felicitas Pauss CERN and ETH Zurich  
Leo Kouwenhoven Delft University of Technology  
Reshmi Mukherjee Barnard College  
Alan Nathan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Matthew Strassler Rutgers University  
Fall 2008 — Spring 2009
Lisa Randall Harvard University  
Edward Farhi MIT  
Adam Cohen Harvard University  
Phuan Ong Princeton University  
Christopher Stubbs Harvard University  
Boris Kayser Fermilab  
Sara Seager MIT  
Geoffrey West Santa Fe Institute  
David Wineland National Institute of Standards and Technology  
Peter Borden Solar Business Group, Applied Materials, Inc.  
Steven Kivelson Stanford University  
Angela Olinto University of Chicago  
Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Research  
Nat Fisch Princeton University  
Paul Canfield Iowa State University  
Jochen Schneider LCLS Experimental Facilities Divsion, SLAC, CA and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Germany  
Matthias Burkardt New Mexico State University / Jefferson Lab  
Zoltan Fodor University of Wuppertal, Eotvos University of Budapest, John von Neumann Institute for Computing, DESY-Zeuthen, and Forschungszentrum-Juelich  
Marc Kamionkowski Caltech  
Margaret Murnane JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST  
Jeff Kimble Caltech  
George Whitesides Harvard University  
Dam Thanh Son University of Washington  
Sidney Drell SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory  
Alain Aspect Institut d'Optique  
Michael Brown Caltech  
Kip Thorne Caltech  
Felicitas Pauss Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich  
Xiaowei Zhuang Harvard University  
Fall 2007 — Spring 2008
Barry Barish Caltech  
Gabriella Sciolla MIT  
Shamit Kachru Stanford University  
Dan Kleppner MIT  
Steve Chu Lawrence Berkeley National Lab  
Dimitrios Psaltis University of Arizona  
Erik Katsavounidis MIT  
Young Lee MIT  
John Mather NASA  
Gregor Herten Albert-Ludwigs-Univeritat Freiburg  
Charles Falco University of Arizona  
Ted Haensch Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen  
Serge Haroche Ecole normale Superieure and College de France  
Michael Campbell    
Wim Leemans Lawrence Berkeley National Lab  
Nergis Mavalvala MIT  
Michael Peskin Stanford University  
Alex Filippenko UC Berkeley  
Rob Schoelkopf Yale University  
Marin Soljacic MIT  
Robert Redwine MIT  
Joseph Formaggio MIT  
Jun Ye University of Colorado  
Karin Rabe Rutgers University  
Peter F. Michelson Stanford University  
Lyn Evans CERN-LHC  
Iain Stewart MIT  
David Griffiths Reed College  
Fall 2006 — Spring 2007
Lyman Page Princeton University  
Senthil Todadri MIT  
Amber Miller Columbia University  
Donald F. Geesaman Argonne National Laboratory  
Alan Guth MIT  
Virginia Trimble UC Irvine  
Eugene Chiang UC Berkeley  
Gunther Roland MIT  
Vladan Vuletic MIT  
Janet Conrad Columbia University  
Christof Wetterich Universität Heidelberg  
Allen Caldwell Max-Planck-Institute  
Shelley Page University of Manitoba  
Arup Chakraborty MIT  
Peter Zoller Universität Innsbruck  
Gerald Gabrielse Harvard University  
Ben Oppenheimer American Museum of Natural History  
Michael Sipser MIT  
Tom Levenson MIT  
Joan Centrella NASA  
William Bialek Princeton University  
Jim Kakalios University of Minnesota  
Hong Liu MIT  
Alessandra Lanzara UC Berkeley  
James E. Gunn Princeton University  
John Beacom Ohio State  
Mildred Dresselhaus MIT  
Benoit Mandelbrot Yale University  
Sebastien Balibar Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS  
Bert Halperin Harvard University  
 
Fall 2005 — Spring 2006
Wolfgang Ketterle MIT  
Sean Carroll University of Chicago  
Pier Oddone Fermi National Laboratory  
David Nelson Harvard University  
Ed Bertschinger MIT  
Eric Adelberger University of Washington  
Masahiro Morii Harvard University  
Charles Alcock Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  
Andrei Linde Stanford University  
Christoph Paus MIT  
Iain Stewart MIT  
Andreas Hoecker CERN  
Catherine Kallin McMaster University  
Urs Achim Wiedemann SUNY Stony Brook, NY  
Raymond E. Goldstein University of Arizona  
Adam G Riess Space Telescope Science Institute  
Mehran Kardar MIT  
Moses H. W. Chan Pennsylvania State University  
Edward C. Stone California Institute of Technology  
Leonard Susskind Stanford University  
Bernhard Keimer Max-Planck-Institut for Solid State Research, Stuttgart  
Tom Murphy UC San Diego  
Richard A. Muller UC Berkeley  
Hans-Walter Rix Max-Planck-Institut for Astronomy  
A. Douglas Stone Yale University  
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi University of Notre Dame  
Clifford M. Will Washington University  
Fall 2004 — Spring 2005
Edward Farhi MIT  
Max Tegmark MIT  
Joe Polchinski UC-Santa Barbara  
Larry Abbott Brandeis University  
Robert Buderi Technology Review  
Chris Quigg Fermi National Laboratory  
Peter Galison Harvard University  
Maria Zuber MIT  
Lee Smolin Perimeter Institute  
Amihay Hanany MIT  
Steven Weinberg University of Texas, Austin  
Anthony Leggett University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign  
Vicki Kaspi McGill University  
Debbie Jin JILA/University of Colorado  
Peter Goldreich California Institute of Technology  
Dan Rugar IBM Almaden Research Center  
Martin Bezant MIT  
Jeff Richman UC-Santa Barbara  
Andrea Liu UCLA  
Ian Shipsey Purdue University  
Wendy Freedman OCIW  
Fall 2003 — Spring 2004
Seamus Davis Cornell University  
Diandra Leslie-Pelecky University of Nebraska  
Robert Kirshner Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics  
James Bergquist NIST  
Natalie Roe Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  
David Gross UC-Santa Barbara  
Peter Lepage Cornell University  
Deepto Chakrabarty MIT  
Gerard 't Hooft University of Utrecht  
Andrea Ghez UCLA  
Donald Monroe Agere Systems  
John Schwarz California Institute of Technology  
Nicholas Giordano Purdue University  
Franklin Chang-Diaz NASA Johnson Space Center  
Kathryn Moler Stanford University  
David Kaiser MIT  
Alexander van Oudenaarden MIT  
Stanislas Leibler Rockefeller University  
Charles Holbrow Colgate University  
Aharon Kapitulnik Stanford University  
Paul McEuen Cornell University  
Michael Peskin SLAC/Stanford University  
Nora Volkow National Institute on Drug Abuse  
Wolfgang Ketterle MIT  
Dan Akerib Case Western Reserve University  
Michael Turner University of Chicago  
Frank Wilczek MIT  
Fall 2002 — Spring 2003
Steven Girvin Yale University  
Daniel Dubin UC-San Diego  
Daniel Fisher Harvard University  
Neil deGrasse Tyson AMNH, NY  
Freeman Dyson Institute for Advanced Study  
Edward Shuryak SUNY, Stony Brook  
Robert Jaffe MIT  
David Kestenbaum National Public Radio  
John Bahcall Institute for Advanced Study  
Pawan Kumar University of Texas, Austin  
Bob Rosner University of Chicago  
Matthew Strassler University of Washington  
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi University of Notre Dame  
Piers Coleman Rutgers University  
Lyman Page Princeton University  
David Wineland NIST  
Bart de Smit University of Leiden  
Walter Lewin MIT  
Frithjof Karsch University of Bielefeld  
Paul Horowitz Harvard University  
David Wark Oxford University  
Stuart Freedman UC-Berkeley  
Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard University  
Angela Olinto University of Chicago  
Immanuel Bloch University of Munich  
Fall 2001 — Spring 2002
Lee Roberts Boston University  
Linda Griffith MIT  
David Weitz Harvard University  
Paul Steinhardt Princeton University  
Wolfgang Ketterle MIT  
Edward Wright UCLA  
Matias Zaldarriaga New York University  
Wick Haxton University of Washington  
Eric Cornell JILA/University of Colorado  
Albrecht Wagner DESY  
Jim Eisenstein California Institute of Technology  
Arthur McDonald Queen's University  
Hitoshi Murayama UC-Berkeley  
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji ENS, Paris  
Bertram Batlogg ETH, Zurich  
Raman Sundrum Johns Hopkins University  
Neil Calder SLAC/Stanford University  
Samuel Ting MIT  
Craig Sarazin University of Virginia  
Bernard Schutz Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics  
Chung Pei-Ma UC-Berkeley  
Umar Mohideen UC-Riverside  
Richard Lovelace Cornell University  
Alex Filippenko UC-Berkeley  
Timothy Chupp University of Michigan  
Alexander van Oudenaarden MIT  
Fall 2000 — Spring 2001
Max Tegmark University of Pennsylvania  
Peter Fisher MIT  
Eric Mazur Harvard University  
Luis Orozco SUNY, Stony Brook  
Takashi Imai MIT  
Blayne Heckel University of Washington  
Shrinivas Kulkarni California Institute of Technology  
Uwe-Jens Wiese MIT  
Stephan Quake California Institute of Technology  
David Hitlin California Institute of Technology  
Krishna Rajagopal MIT  
Wit Busza MIT  
Frank Wilczek MIT  
Fulvia Pilat Brookhaven National Laboratory  
Greg Boebenger Los Alamos National Laboratory  
Sascha Hilgenfeldt University of Twente  
Jean Dalibard ENS, Paris  
Washington Taylor MIT  
Eric Heller Harvard University  
Adam Falk Johns Hopkins University  
Charles Marcus Harvard University  
Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin  
Ashoke Sen Mehta Research Institute  
Tony Readhead California Institute of Technology  
Fall 1999 — Spring 2000
Leslie Rosenberg MIT  
Richard Muller UC-Berkeley  
Maria Zuber MIT  
John Preskill California Institute of Technology  
David Grier University of Chicago  
Hans Bethe Cornell University  
Tony Barker University of Colorado  
Vicky Kaspi MIT  
David Kaplan University of Washington  
Douglas Stone Yale University  
Steven Girvin Indiana University  
Michel Devoret Yale University  
Lisa Randall MIT  
Myriam Sarachik CUNY  
Marc Kamionkowski California Institute of Technology  
Christof Wetterich University of Heidelberg  
Claude Canizares MIT  
Nathan Isgur Jefferson Laboratory  
John Grunsfeld NASA Johnson Space Center  
Maurice Jacob CERN  
Bruce Remington Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  
Mark Johnson Naval Research Laboratory  
John Ruhl UC-Santa Barbara  
Fall 1998 — Spring 1999
Marc Kastner MIT  
Craig Ogilvie MIT  
Jack Steinberger CERN  
Jerry Mahlman Princeton University  
Fred Adams University of Michigan  
Donald Lynden-Bell University of Cambridge  
Boris Kayser National Science Foundation  
Paul Schechter MIT  
Jean Zinn-Justin CEA, Saclay  
Fredrico Capasso Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies  
Charles Baltay Yale University  
Larry Sulak Boston University  
Bernhard Keimer Princeton University  
Charles Lieber Harvard University  
Cumrun Vafa Harvard University  
Farid Abraham IBM, Almaden Research Center  
Cyrus Taylor Case Western Reserve University  
Ruth Sime Sacramento City College  
Henry Kendall MIT  
Jonathan Bagger Johns Hopkins University  
Alan Guth and Philip Morrison MIT  
Peter Armbruster GSI, Darmstadt  
Jan van Paradijs University of Amsterdam  
Robert Jaffe MIT  
Saul Perlmutter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  
Partha Mitra Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies  
Robert Mawhinney Columbia University  
Wolfgang Ketterle MIT  
Frederick Salvucci MIT  
John Ralston University of Kansas  
Lawrence Krauss Case Western Reserve University  
Charles Alcock Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory  
Michael Turner University of Chicago/Fermilab  
Tom Greytak and Daniel Kleppner MIT