David & Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
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
Colloquium Archives
Fall 2024
- 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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