Spring 2025
Colloquium Schedule

THURSDAYS // All talks will take place at 4:00pm ET and held in 10-250 (unless noted).

Note: Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Erin Kara, MIT
Host: Robert Simcoe

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 3-270, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


FEBRUARY 13, 2025

TBA

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


FEBRUARY 20, 2025

TBA

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Chris Reynolds, University of Maryland
Host: Erin Kara

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


MARCH 6, 2025

Andrea Liu, UPenn
Host: Nikta Fakhri

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


MARCH 13, 2025

Serge Haroche, 2012 Nobel Laureate, Collège de France
Host: Wolfgang Ketterle

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


MARCH 20, 2025

TBA

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


MARCH 27, 2025

Spring break. No colloquium.


APRIL 6, 2025

Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium
TBA

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


APRIL 10, 2025

Gary Horowitz, UCSB
Host: Netta Engelhardt

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


APRIL 17, 2025

Julio Navarro, University of Victoria
Host: Anna Frebel

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


APRIL 24, 2025

David Hsieh, Caltech (Former Pappalardo Fellow in Physics, 2009-2012)
Host: Nuh Gedik

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


MAY 1, 2025

Surya Ganguli, Stanford
Host: Marin Soljacic

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Refreshments at 3:30pm in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room)*
*There cannot be any eating or drinking in 10-250, so please plan to finish your food/drink in 4-349


MAY 8, 2025

Tilman Pfau, University of Stuttgart
Host: Martin Zwierlein

Title and abstract to be posted.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

Note: There is no cookie social in 4-349 (Pappalardo Community Room) this week


  • Frank Wilczek, MIT
    “My Life in QCD”
    Host: TBA
  • Zhixun Shen, Stanford University
    “High-Temperature Superconductivity in Cuprates – towards a comprehensive picture”
    Host: Liang Fu
  • Nir Navon, Yale
    “Fermions in an Optical Box”
    Host: Richard Fletcher
  • John M. Doyle, Harvard
    “Searches for beyond the Standard Model particles using cold and ultra-cold molecules”
    Host: Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Heather Knutson, Caltech
    “Terrestrial Worlds Outside the Solar System”
    Host: Andrew Vanderburg
  • Chris Hayward, Flatiron Institute
    “Solving the puzzle of galaxy formation”
    Host: Lina Necib
  • Kyle Dawson, University of Utah
    “Cosmology from DESI’s First Year of Large-Scale Structure Measurements”
    Host: Philip Harris
  • Luca Iliesiu, UC Berkeley
    “New developments in black hole thermodynamics”
    Host: Daniel Harlow
  • Samuel C.C. Ting, MIT
    “The November Revolution and Fifty Years of Electron and Positron Physics”
    Host: Bolek Wyslouch
  • Max Metlitski, MIT
    “Bounding boundaries at phase transitions”
    Host: Xiao-Gang Wen
  • Philip Harris, MIT
    “Around the Forces in 80 Microseconds”
    Host: Mike Williams
  • Monika Aidelsburger, MPQ/LMU
    “Quantum simulation – Engineering & understanding quantum systems atom-by-atom”
    Host: Marianne Moore (GWIP)

Spring 2024

  • Frank Wilczek, MIT (Cancelled)
    Host: Iain Stewart
  • Lindley Winslow and Jesse Thaler, MIT
    “The Coming Decade of Nuclear and Particle Physics”
    Host: TBA
  • Samuel C.C. Ting, MIT
    “Latest Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station”
    Host: Bolek Wyslouch
  • Matthew Reece, Harvard
    “Broken Symmetry Clues for Fundamental Physics”
    Host: Daniel Harlow
  • Saori Pastore, WUSTL
    “Fundamental Physics with Nuclei”
    Host: Graduate Womxn in Physics
  • Sara Pozzi, University of Michigan
    “Radiation Detection and Imaging for Nuclear Treaty Verification”
    Hosts: Robert Redwine and William Barletta
  • Jon Simon, Stanford
    TBA
    Host: Vladan Vuletic
  • Tanya Zelevinsky, Columbia
    “Clocks and precision measurements with ultracold molecules”
    Host: Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Rob Pisarski, Brookhaven
    “The Ugly Duckling and the Swan: the Quark-Gluon Plasma and heavy ion collisions”
    Host: Salvatore Pace
  • Philip Phillips, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
    “Solving the Mott Problem”
    Host: Liang Fu
  • Sakura Schafer-Nameki, Oxford
    “New Phases of Matter from New Symmetries”
    Host: Hong Liu
  • Simona Vegetti, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and Former Pappalardo Fellow, 2010–2013
    “Strong Gravitational Lensing as a Probe of Dark Matter”
    Host: Paul Schechter
  • Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
    “Spatiotemporal computation in collectives”
    Host: Nikta Fakhri

Fall 2023

  • Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
    “Quantum Technologies for New-physics Searches in the Laboratory and in Space”
    Host: Vladan Vuletic
  • Xiaodong Xu, University of Washington
    “Observation of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect”
    Host: Liang Fu
  • Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Drexel University
    “Neutrino Astronomy, From Dream to Reality”
    Host: Janet Conrad
  • Fiona Harrison, Caltech
    “The Science of NuSTAR – a Decade Exploring the Energetic Universe”
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Salvatore Vitale, MIT
    “Gravitational-wave astrophysics, today and tomorrow”
    Host: TBA
  • Stefania Gori, UC Santa Cruz
    “Dark sectors: from theory to accelerator experiments and beyond”
    Host: Marianne Moore (GWIP)
  • Brian Metzger, Columbia University
    “Shining Light on the Physics of Neutron Star Mergers”
    Host: Salvatore Vitale
  • William Bialek, Princeton
    “Physics for maggots”
    Host: Arup Chakraborty
  • Tracy Northup, University of Innsbruck
    “Building quantum networks, one ion at a time”
    Host: Marianne Moore (GWIP)
  • Robert Schoelkopf, Yale
    “Hardware-efficient Quantum Error Correction”
    Host: Isaac Chuang
  • Nathan Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study
    “Quantum Field Theory, Separation of Scales, and Beyond”
    Host: Daniel Harlow
  • Carl Bender, Washington University in St. Louis
    “PT-symmetric quantum mechanics”
    Host: Stella Schindler
  • Peter Zoller, Univ Innsbruck & IQOQI
    TBA
    Host: Soonwon Choi

Spring 2023

  • Liam McAllister, Cornell
    “String Theory, the Cosmological Constant, and the Quantization of Parameters”
    Host: Washington Taylor
  • Netta Engelhardt, MIT
    “The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon?”
    Host: Washington Taylor
  • Evelyn Tang, Rice
    “Topological invariants protect robust chiral currents in active matter”
    Host: Salvatore Pace
  • Maura McLaughlin, West Virginia University
    “Pulsar Timing Arrays See Red: The Era of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection”
    Host: Salvatore Vitale
  • Aram Harrow ’01 PhD ’05, MIT
    2023 Graduate Open House Colloquium
    “Many-body entanglement in quantum computing”
    Host: TBA
  • David Keith, UChicago
    “My adventures with climate systems engineering”
    Host: David Pritchard
  • Kyle Leach, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Colorado School of Mines
    “Model-Independent BSM Physics Searches using Rare-Isotope-Doped Superconducting and Optomechanical Sensors”
    Host: Joseph Formaggio
  • Antoine Browaeys, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS
    “Exploring many-body problems with a “few” atoms”
    Host: Vladan Vuletic
  • Julianne DalCanton, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
    “PHAT & PHATTER: Dissecting the Nearest Spiral Galaxies with the Hubble Space Telescope”
    Host: Rob Simcoe
  • Michal Lipson, Columbia
    “The Revolution of Silicon Photonics”
    Host: Marin Soljacic
  • Yonit Hochberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    “New Directions for Light Dark Matter”
    Host: Sarah Geller, Graduate Womxn in Physics (GWIP)
  • Vincenzo Vitelli, UChicago
    “Non reciprocal phase transitions”
    Host: Riccardo Comin

Fall 2022

  • Michelle Soley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    “From Ultracold Molecules to Quantum Computing: Collisions Under Quantum Control”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Shinsei Ryu, Princeton
    “Multipartite entanglement in quantum many-body systems”
    Host: Salvatore Pace
  • Clifford Johnson, USC
    “Wigner Meets ’t Hooft Near the Black Hole Horizon”
    Host: Netta Engelhardt
  • Michal Lipson, Columbia University
    “The Revolution of Silicon Photonics”
    Host: Marin Soljacic
  • Brian Nord, FNAL
    2022 Pappalardo Fellowships Colloquium
    “Imagining scientific advancement in the era of AI: implications for discovery and community”
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Feng Wang, UC Berkeley
    “Designing Artificial Quantum Materials with van der Waals Heterostructures”
    Host: Long Ju
  • Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton
    “Galactic Probes of Fundamental Dark Matter Physics”
    Host: GWIP (Sarah Geller)
  • Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna
    “How does a quantum object gravitate?”
    Host: Vladan Vuletic
  • Victoria Kaspi, McGill University
    “Fast Radio Bursts”
    Host: Kiyoshi Masui
  • Or Hen, MIT
    “QCD and Nuclei”
    Host: TBD
  • Marcia Rieke, U Arizona
    “The Webb Telescope’s First Months: A Treasure Trove of Results”
    Host: Rob Simcoe
  • Riccardo Comin, MIT
    “Topology and symmetry breaking in quantum solids”
    Host: Nuh Gedik
  • Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke
    “The Heavyweight W boson – an Upset to the Standard Model of Particle Physics”
    Host: Phil Harris

Spring 2022

  • Annie Kritcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    “Recent inertial confinement fusion experiments at NIF reaching 1.35 MJ”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Martin Greenwald, MIT-PSFC
    “SPARC and the High Magnetic Field Path to Fusion Energy”
    Host: Miklos Porkolab
  • Phiala Shanahan, MIT
    “From quarks to nuclei: a computational revolution”
    Host: Iain Stewart
  • Andrei Bernevig, Princeton
    “From Material Classification to Interacting Flat Bands”
    Host: Salvatore Pace
  • Chris Monroe, Duke
    “Quantum Computing with Atoms”
    Host: Aram Harrow
  • Almudena Arcones, TU Darmstadt
    “Cosmic Laboratories for Nuclear Physics”
    Host: Phiala Shanahan
  • Caterina Vernieri, SLAC
    “A “cool” route to unveil the Higgs boson’s secrets”
    Host: Phil Harris
  • Lina Necib, MIT
    “Searching for the Dark with the Light: Stars as Tracers of Dark Matter”
    Host: Robert Simcoe
  • Justin Read, University of Surrey
    “Precision cosmology with dwarf galaxies”
    Host: Lina Necib
  • Alison Sweeney, Yale
    “Why aren’t forests black? Lessons in solar energy conversion from giant clams”
    Host: MIT Graduate Womxn in Physics
  • Richard Milner, MIT
    “Visualization of the Subatomic World”
    Host: Or Hen
  • Or Hen, MIT
    2022 Graduate Open House Colloquium
    “Neutron Star Droplets and the Quarks Within”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Jie Shan, Cornell
    “Moiré quantum materials: a new platform for strong correlation and topology”
    Host: Long Ju
  • Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo (Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018)
    “From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics”
    Host: Sarah Geller, Graduate Womxn in Physics

Fall 2021

  • Benjamin Safdi, University of California at Berkeley
    “Compact stars as axion laboratories”
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Geoff Penington, University of California at Berkeley
    “Black holes, information and wormholes”
    Host: Netta Engelhardt
  • Alejandro Rodriguez, Princeton University
    TBA
    Host: Marin Soljačić
  • Julien Tailleur, Université de Paris-CNRS
    “The many surprises of active matter”
    Host: TBA
  • Joshua Frieman, University of Chicago/Fermilab
    2021 Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    TBA
    Host: Paul Schechter
  • Selim Jochim, Universität Heidelberg
    “Juggling with single atoms to build many-body systems”
    Hosts: Martin Zwierlein
  • Sarah T. Stewart, University of California, Davis
    “The Infinite Game of the Origin of the Earth and Moon”
    Host: Nergis Mavalvala
  • Michael McDonald, MIT
    “Probing the Limits of Black Hole Feedback in the Most Massive Galaxies”
    Host: Robert Simcoe
  • Daniel Harlow, MIT
    “Symmetry in quantum gravity”
    Host: Barton Zwiebach
  • Klaus Baum, MPI Heidelberg
    “Precision Tests of Fundamental Interactions and Their Symmetries using Exotic Ions in Penning Traps”
    Host: Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz
  • Ana Maria Rey, JILA/NIST
    “Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to quantum computers”
    Host: Sarah Geller, Graduate Womxn in Physics
  • Nikta Fakhri, MIT
    “Broken symmetries in living matter”
    Host: Mehran Kardar

Spring 2021

  • CHRISTOPHER HENDON, University of Oregon
    TBA
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • KERSTIN PEREZ, MIT
    TBA
    Host: Tracy Slatyer
  • REBECCA SURMAN, University of Notre Dame
    TBA
    Host: Tracy Slatyer
  • HOLGER MÜLLER, University of California, Berkeley
    TBA
    Host: Vladan Vuletić
  • PETER SHOR, MIT
    TBA
    Host: Aram Harrow
  • DORIT AHARONOV, Hebrew University
    TBA
    Hosts: Sarah Geller and Wenzer Qin of Graduate Womxn in Physics (GWIP)
  • ISAAC CHUANG, MIT
    TBA
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • MARLA GEHA, Yale University
    “Our Galaxy in Context: Exploring Satellite Galaxies Around Milky Way Analogs”
    Host: Michael McDonald
  • JELENA VUČKOVIĆ, Stanford University
    “Scalable semiconductor quantum systems”
    Host: Marin Soljacic
  • DAVID MOORE, Yale University
    “Mechanical sensors for dark matter”
    Host: Philip Harris
  • LEE ROBERTS, Boston University
    “Exploring Terra Incognita with the World’s Largest Penning Trap”
    Host: Philip Harris
  • ANDRÉ DE GOUVÊA, Northwestern
    “Majorana or Dirac, That Is The Question”
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • VEDIKA KHEMANI, Stanford University
    “Many-body physics in the NISQ era”
    Host: Shreya Vardhan, Physics Graduate Students Council
  • ALI YAZDANI, Princeton University
    “Moiré Quantum Matter Under the Microscope”
    Host: Long Ju

Fall 2020

  • Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    “The life and death of turbulence”
    Host: Hong Liu
  • Andrey Varlamov, Institute of Superconductivity and Innovation Materials (SPIN-CNR), Italy
    “Physics in the Kitchen”
    Host: Leonid Levitov
  • Frank Wilczek, MIT
    “Quanta of the Third Kind: Anyons”
    Host: Phiala Shanahan
  • Max Shulaker, MIT
    TBA
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Joseph Checkelsky, MIT
    TBA
    Host: Ray Ashoori
  • Sara Seager, MIT
    PAPPALARDO LECTURE
    TBA
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Mei-Yin Chou, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
    TBA
    Host: Wenzer Qin/Sarah Geller
  • Mari Carmen Bañuls
    “Tensor Networks for numerical studies of quantum many-body dynamics”
    Host: William Detmold
  • Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh
    “Facilitating thinking and learning in and beyond the physics classrooms”
    Host: Edmund Bertschinger
  • Natalia Toro, Stanford University
    “Shining New Lights on Dark Matter”
    Host: Philip Harris
  • Peter Onyisi, University of Texas, Austin
    “Top Quarks: The New Flavor”
    Host: Philip Harris
  • Nadar Engheta, University of Pennsylvania
    “Structuring Light with Spatiotemporal Metamaterials”
    Host: Marin Soljačić

Spring 2020

  • NADYA MASON, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    “Controlling Dissipation in Superconductors: the Oxymoron that Leads to New Superconducting Phases and Transitions”
    Host: Graduate Women in Physics
  • LINDLEY WINSLOW, MIT
    “Axion Dark Matter and Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay: New Techniques for New Physics”
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • L. MAHADEVAN, Harvard University
    “Collective problem solving by social insects: physics, physiology and behavior”
    Host: Nikta Fakhri
  • SHAHAL ILANI, Weizmann Institute
    “Visualizing the Quantum Phases of Strongly Interacting Electrons”
    Host: Raymond Ashoori
  • ADAM RIESS, Johns Hopkins University
    “The Present Expansion rate of the Universe, Evidence of New Physics?”
    Host: Salvatore Vitale
  • CANCELLED
    DONNA STRICKLAND, University of Waterloo
    “Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses”
    Host: Graduate Women in Physics
  • RESCHEDULED
    SCOTT GAUDI, Ohio State University
    “The Demographics of Exoplanets”
    Host: Scott Hughes
  • VIRTUAL
    ALAN GUTH, MIT
    Graduate Student Open House Colloquium
    “Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • CANCELLED
    JOHN MARTINIS, Google and UCSB
    Host: Aram Harrow
  • CANCELLED
    ASIMINA ARVANITAKI, Perimeter Institute
    “Dark Matter halos from parametric resonance and their signatures”
    Host: Tracy Slatyer
  • RESCHEDULED
    JENNY GREENE, Princeton University
    “Dwarf Galaxies and Their Black Holes”
    Host: Mike McDonald/Scott Hughes
  • DAVID KAISER, MIT
    “Cosmic Bell Tests: Using Quasars to Test Quantum Theory”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • CANCELLED
    KYLE CRANMER, New York University
    Host: Phiala Shanahan

Fall 2019

  • John Parmentola, RAND Corporation
    Physics in the Interest of Society Lecture
    “The Great Mystery of Economic Growth”
    Host: Robert Jaffe
  • Mark Vogelsberger, MIT
    “Exploring the Universe with Cosmological Simulations”
    Host: Robert Simcoe
  • Dan Marrone, University of Arizona
    “The Black Hole Shadow in M87”
    Host: Salvatore Vitale & Scott Hughes
  • Yen-Jie Lee, MIT
    “Probing the Trillion Degree Quark Soup”
    Host: Bolek Wyslouch
  • Nick Giordano, Auburn University
    “Physics of Wind Musical Instruments”
    Host: Greg Fiete
  • Joseph Formaggio, MIT
    “Weighing Neutrinos”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley
    Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    “Neutron Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves and the Origin of the Elements”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Haiyan Gao, Duke University
    “The Proton Remains Puzzling”
    Host: Phiala Shanahan
  • Aleksandra Walczak, CNRS and ENS, Paris
    “Prediction in immune repertoires”
    Host: Leonid Levitov and Arup Chakraborty
  • Erwin Frey, Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center, LMU Munich
    “Emergence and Self-Organization in Biological Systems”
    Host: Nikta Fakhri
  • Allan MacDonald, University of Texas, Austin
    “Electrons, Holes, and Photons in Two-Dimensional Materials”
    Host: Long Ju
  • Uwe-Jens Wiese, Institute for Theoretical Physics; Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern
    “Quantum Simulation of Abelian and non-Abelian Gauge Theories”
    Host: William Detmold and Phiala Shanahan
  • Ibrahim Cissé, MIT
    “Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells”
    Host: Mehran Kardar

Spring 2019

  • Frederick Salvucci, MIT
    “Thinking globally, while acting locally at MIT”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Douglas Stanford, IAS/Stanford University
    “Black holes, chaos, and random matrix statistics”
    Host: Daniel Harlow
  • Joel Fajans, UC Berkeley
    “Fundamental Tests with Antihydrogen Atoms”
    Host: Miklos Porkolab
  • Andrea Young, UC Santa Barbara
    “Designer topological ground states of electrons in van der Waals heterostructures”
    Host: Ray Ashoori
  • Gianluca Gregori, Oxford University
    “Magnetic field generation and amplification in laboratory experiments and in the Universe”
    Host: Nuno Loureiro
  • Nilanga Liyanage, University of Virginia
    “Proton Radius puzzle and new results from Jefferson Lab”
    Host: Or Hen
  • Gregory Eyink, Johns Hopkins University
    “Surprising Turbulent Phenomena and their Explanation — An Untold Story”
    Host: Hong Liu
  • Marin Soljačić, MIT
    “Enabling novel light phenomena at the subwavelength scale”
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
    “Space Probes of the Highest Energy Particles: POEMMA & EUSO-SPB”
    Host: Jacqueline Hewitt
  • Alexander Grosberg, New York University
    “To Knot or Not to Knot”
    Host: Arup Chakraborty
  • Hans-Walter Rix, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
    “Reading physics from stellar spectra”
    Host: Paul Schechter
  • Francesca Ferlaino, University of Innsbruck
    “The quantum phases of ultracold dipolar gases”
    Host: Martin Zwierlein
  • Clifford Cheung, Caltech
    “Unification from Scattering Amplitudes”
    Host: SPS/UWIP

Fall 2018

  • Tracy Slatyer, MIT
    “The Dark Matter Mystery Hunt – Seeking Clues in the Sky”
    Host: TBA
  • George Zweig, Signition, LP & RLE@MIT
    “Remembering Feynman”
    Host: Robert Jaffe
  • Ila Fiete, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT
    “Brain Dynamics and Codes for Navigation”
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Waseem Bakr, Princeton University
    “Quantum gas microscopy of strongly interacting fermions in optical lattices”
    Host: Martin Zwierlein
  • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT
    “Magic Angle Graphene: a New Platform for Strongly Correlated Physics”
    Host: Raymond Ashoori
  • Ramesh Narayan, Harvard University
    Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    “Observing Black Holes Up Close and Personal”
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Jochen Mannhart, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
    “Loss-Free Charge Transport without Superconductivity?”
    Host: Riccardo Comin
  • David DeMille, Yale University
    “A tabletop-scale probe for TeV physics: the electric dipole moment of the electron”
    Host: David Pritchard
  • Nevin Weinberg, MIT
    “When stars go nonlinear: large amplitude tides and stellar oscillations”
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Mike Williams, MIT
    “Searching for physics beyond the Standard Model at the LHCb experiment”
    Host: Robert Redwine
  • William Detmold, MIT
    “The secret life of quarks”
    Host: Iain Stewart

Spring 2018

  • Jennifer Hoffman, Harvard University
    Host: SPS
  • Raphael Bousso, University of California, Berkeley
    Host: Daniel Harlow
  • Lorenzo Sironi, Columbia University
    Host: Nuno Loureiro
  • Eli Zeldov, Weizmann Institute of Science
    Host: Leonid Levitov
  • Licia Verde, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and Institute of Cosmological Sciences – University of Barcelona
    Host: Salvatore Vitale
  • Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University
    Host: GWIP
  • Feryal Ozel, University of Arizona
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Rainer Weiss, MIT on behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Jian-Wei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China
    Host: PGSC
  • Gregory Falkovich, Weizmann Institute of Science
    Host: Leonid Levitov
  • Kate Scholberg, Duke University
    Host: Lindley Winslow
  • Daniel Ralph, Cornell University
    Host: Ray Ashoori
  • Joshua Frieman, Fermilab and the University of Chicago
    Host: Paul Schechter

Fall 2017

  • Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Jeremy England, MIT
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Eric Cornell, JILA, NIST, and the Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Host: Wolfgang Ketterle/David Pritchard
  • Dmitri Basov, Columbia University
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero/Nuh Gedik
  • Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
    Host: PGSC
  • Tulika Bose, Boston University
    Host: GWIP
  • Thomas Sunn Pedersen, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
    Host: Nuno Loureiro
  • Eliezer Rabinovici, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Host: Daniel Harlow
  • Doug Finkbeiner, Harvard University
    Host: Tracy Slatyer
  • Andrea Ghez, UCLA
    Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Wei Li, Rice University
    Host: Yen-Jie Lee
  • Xiangdong Ji, University of Maryland, College Park & Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Host: Tracy Slatyer
  • Steven Gubser, Princeton University
    Host: SPS

Spring 2017

  • Bernhard Keimer, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research
    Host: Riccardo Comin
  • Samuel C.C. Ting, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Zoran Hadzibabic, University of Cambridge
    Host: Martin Zwierlein
  • Liang Fu, MIT
    Host: Senthil Todadri
  • Amanda Weltman, University of Cape Town
    Host: Janet Conrad
  • James J. Collins, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Matthew Schwartz, Harvard University
    Host: SPS
  • Edmund Bertschinger, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher & SPS
  • Sarah Demers, Yale University
    Host: GWIP
  • Deborah Harris, Fermilab
    Host: Lindley Winslow
  • Volker Springel, Heidelberg University
    Host: Mark Vogelsberger
  • Dragan Huterer, University of Michigan
    Host: PGSC
  • Edward Prather, University of Arizona
    Host: Matthew Evans
  • Chung-Pei Ma, University of California, Berkeley
    Host: TBD
  • Ulf-G. Meissner, University of Bonn & Forschungszentrum Julich
    Host: William Detmold

Fall 2016

  • Matthew P.A. Fisher, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Host: PGSC
  • Jeff Gore, MIT
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Robert Schoelkopf, Yale University
    Host: Isaac Chuang
  • Anna Frebel, MIT
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Eliezer Piasetzky, Tel Aviv University
    Host: Or Hen
  • Jesse Thaler, MIT
    Host: Krishna Rajagopal
  • Aram Harrow, MIT
    Host: Edward Farhi
  • Risa Wechsler, Stanford University
    Host: Nergis Mavalvala
  • Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton University
    Host: GWIP
  • M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Mordechai (Moti) Segev, Israel Institute of Technology
    Host: Marin Soljačić
  • Kerstin Perez, MIT
    Host: Yen-Jie Lee
  • Sean Carroll, Caltech
    Host: SPS

Spring 2016

  • Dan Harlow, Harvard University
    Host: Hong Liu
  • Zheng-Tian Lu, University of Science and Technology of China
    Host: Yen-Jie Lee
  • Zohar Komargodski, Weizmann Institute of Science
    Host: Hong Liu
  • Rainer Weiss, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Sheperd Doeleman, MIT Haystack Observatory
    Host: Scott Hughes
  • Hari Manoharan, Stanford University
    Host: Ray Ashoori
  • Michael Desai, Harvard University
    Host: Jeff Gore
  • Terence Hwa, University of California, San Diego
    Host: PGSC
  • R. Scott Kemp, MIT
    Host: SPS
  • Nai Phuan Ong, Princeton University
    Host: Joe Checkelsky
  • Alexandra von Meier, California Institute for Energy and Environment
    Physics in the Interest of Society Colloquium
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Lindley Winslow, MIT
    Host: GWIP
  • Savas Dimopoulos, Stanford University
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Tilman Pfau, University of Stuttgart
    Host: Martin Zwierlein

Fall 2015

  • Suchitra Sebastian, University of Cambridge
    Host: MIT GWIP
  • Markus Klute, MIT
    Host: Bolek Wyslouch
  • Gregory Boebinger, National HIgh Magnetic Field Laboratory
    Host: Patrick Lee
  • Paul Schechter, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • John Carlstrom, University of Chicago
    Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    Host: Robert Simcoe
  • Homer Reid, MIT
    Host: MIT SPS
  • Joerg Schmiedmayer, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ), Atominstitut, TU-Wien
    Host: Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Brian Keating, University of California, San Diego
    Host: Andrew Friedman
  • Gavin Crooks, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Host: MIT PGSC
  • Xiaowei Zhuang, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Harvard University
    Host: Ibrahim Cissé
  • Alberto Nicolis, Columbia University
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Pratheev Sreetharan, Vibrant Composites Inc.
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Selim Jochim, University of Heidelberg
    Host: Martin Zwierlein

Spring 2015

  • Markus Oberthaler, University of Heidelberg
    Host: Vladan Vuletić
  • Anna Watts, University of Amsterdam
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Jean Dalibard, Collège de France
    Host: Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Andrei Kounine, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Francis Gavin, MIT
    Physics in the Interest of Society Colloquium
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Surya Ganguli, Stanford University
    Host: Nikta Fakhri
  • Christopher Fryer, Los Alamos National Laboratory
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Jacqueline Hewitt, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Cristian Urbina, CEA-Saclay
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed, Institute for Advanced Study
    Host: MIT Society of Physics Students
  • Alexander Polyakov, Princeton University
    Host: MIT Physics Graduate Student Council
  • Arup Chakraborty, MIT
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Michael Brenner, Harvard University
    Host: Jeremy England
  • Michel Devoret, Yale University
    Host: Isaac Chuang

Fall 2014

  • David Pritchard, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Allan Adams, MIT
    Host: Edward Farhi
  • Duncan Brown, Syracuse University
    Host: Matthew Evans
  • Steven Johnson, MIT
    Host: MIT SPS
  • Alyssa Goodman, Harvard University
    Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Nuh Gedik, MIT
    Host: Marc Kastner
  • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, MIT
    Host: Raymond Ashoori
  • Beate Heinemann, University of California Berkeley
    Host: Markus Klute
  • Juan Maldacena, Institute for Advanced Study
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Steven Block, Stanford University
    Host: Ibrahim Cissé
  • John Marko, Northwestern University
    Host: Leonid Mirny
  • John Preskill, California Institute of Technology
    Host: MIT PGSC
  • Omar Hurricane, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
    Host: Peter Fisher

Spring 2014

  • John Doyle, Harvard University
    Host: Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Daniel Rothman, Lorenz Center, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • James Acton, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
    Physics in the Interest of Society Colloquium
    Host: Aron Bernstein
  • Ashvin Vishwanath, University of California, Berkeley
    Host: Nuh Gedik
  • Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
    Host: Society of Physics Students
  • Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
    Host: Physics Graduate Student Council
  • Ken Alder, Northwestern University
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Max Tegmark, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Andrea Cavalleri, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg; Department of Physics, University of Oxford
    Host: Nuh Gedik
  • Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley
    Host: Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Michael Ramsey-Musole, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Fiona Harrison, California Institute of Technology
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Itai Cohen, Cornell University
    Host: Jeremy England
  • Ana Maria Rey, JILA, NIST and, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Host: Undergraduate Women in Physics

Fall 2013

  • Barbara Jones, IBM Almaden Research Center
    Host: Graduate Women in Physics
  • Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Host: Markus Klute
  • Vladan Vuletic, MIT
    Host: Wolfgang Ketterle
  • Samuel Ting, MIT
    Host: Robert Redwine
  • Vicky Kaspi, McGill University
    Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences
    Host: David Pritchard
  • Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich
    Host: Edward Farhi
  • David Griffiths, Reed College
    Host: MIT Society of Physics Students
  • Maria Zuber, MIT
    Host: Matthew Evans
  • Stephan Grill, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
    Host: Jeremy England
  • Immanuel Bloch, Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
    Host: PGSC
  • Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford
    Host: Jeremy England

Spring 2013

  • MIchael Berry, Bristol University, UK
    Host: PGSC
  • Bulbul Chakraborty, Brandeis University
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Frank Von Hippel, Princeton University, Co-chair, International Panel on Fissile Materials and MIT ‘59
    Physics in the Interest of Society Colloquium
    Host: Aron Bernstein
  • Shrinivas Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology
    Host: Nevin Weinberg
  • Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich
    Host: Vladan Vuletic
  • Young Lee, MIT
    Host: Society of Physics Students
  • Norman Christ, Columbia University
    Host: William Detmold
  • Markus Klute, MIT
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Megan Urry, Yale University
    Host: Graduate Women In Physics
  • Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
    Host: Nuh Gedik
  • Jan Zaanen, Leiden University
    Host: Hong Liu
  • Andreas Adelmann, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
    Host: Markus Klute
  • Eva Andrei, Rutgers University
    Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  • Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard University
    Host: Jeff Gore

Fall 2012

  • Gavin Salam, CERN and Princeton University
    Host: Jesse Thaler
  • Edward Wright, University of California, Los Angeles
    Host: Josh Winn
  • John McGreevy, MIT
    Host: Eddie Farhi
  • Phil Nelson, University of Pennsylvania
    Host: Jeff Gore
  • Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University
    Host: PGSC
  • Rob Simcoe, MIT
    Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
  • Andre De Gouvea, Northwestern University
    Host: Janet Conrad
  • Alan Guth, MIT
    Host: Society of Physics Students
  • Zvonimir Dogic, Brandeis University
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Timothy M. Swager, MIT
    Host: Nuh Gedik
  • Joel Moore, University of California, Berkeley
    Host: Liang Fu
  • Geoff Marcy, University of California, Berkeley
    Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    Host: Sara Seager

Spring 2012

  • 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 2011

  • Leon Balents, University of California – Santa Barbara
    Host: Senthil Todadri
  • Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University and Institute for Advanced Study
    Host: Mehran Kardar
  • Michael Nielsen
    Host: Society of Physics Students
  • Jan Egedal-Pedersen, MIT
    Host: Patrick Lee
  • Joseph Formaggio, MIT
    Host: Peter Fisher
  • Markus Greiner, Harvard University
    Host: Martin Zwierlein
  • Adam Riess, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute
    Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
    Host: Edmund Bertschinger
  • Joshua Winn, MIT
    Host: Sara Seager
  • Richard Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus
    Host: Aron Bernstein
  • Harold Hwang, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
    Host: Patrick Lee
  • Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University
    Host: Vladan Vuletic
  • Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University
    Host: Physics Graduate Student Council
  • Steven Nahn, MIT
    Host: Christoph Paus

Spring 2011

  • 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 2010

  • 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

Spring 2010

  • 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 2009

  • 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

Spring 2009

  • 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 2008

  • 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

Spring 2008

  • 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 2007

  • Barry Barish, Caltech
  • Gabriella Sciolla, MIT
  • Shamit Kachru, Stanford University
  • Daniel 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

Spring 2007

  • 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 2006

  • 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

Spring 2006

  • 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 2005

  • 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

Spring 2005

  • 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 2004

  • 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

Spring 2004

  • 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 2003

  • 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

Spring 2003

  • 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
  • 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 2002

  • 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

Spring 2002

  • 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 2001

  • 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

Spring 2001

  • 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 2000

  • 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

Spring 2000

  • 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 1999

  • 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

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

Fall 1998

  • 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