David & Edith Harris Physics Colloquium Series
Fall 2023
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
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Host: Vladan Vuletic
“Quantum Technologies for New-physics Searches in the Laboratory and in Space”
The extraordinary advances in quantum control of matter and light have been transformative for atomic and molecular precision measurements enabling probes of the most basic laws of Nature to gain a fundamental understanding of the physical Universe. Exceptional versatility, inventiveness, and rapid development of precision experiments supported by continuous technological advances and improved atomic and molecular theory led to rapid development of many avenues to explore new physics. I will give an overview of atomic physics searches for physics beyond the standard model (BSM) and focus on dark matter searches with atomic and nuclear clocks and new ideas for BSM searches with quantum sensors in space. I will also dicuss quantum algorithms that can aid the dark matter searches.
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
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
Xiaodong Xu, University of Washington
Host: Liang Fu
“Observation of Fractional Quantu. Anomalous Hall Effect”
The interplay between spontaneous symmetry breaking and topology can result in exotic quantum states of matter. A celebrated example is the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) state, which exhibits an integer quantum Hall effect at zero magnetic field due to topologically nontrivial bands and intrinsic magnetism. In the presence of strong electron-electron interactions, fractional-QAH (FQAH) states at zero magnetic field can emerge, which is a lattice analog of fractional quantum Hall effect without Landau level formation. In this talk, I will present experimental observation of FQAH states in twisted MoTe2 bilayer, using combined magneto-optical and -transport measurements. In addition to the Chern number -1 integer, and -2/3 and -3/5 fractional QAH states, we find an anomalous Hall state near the filling factor -1/2, whose behavior resembles that of the composite Fermi liquid in the half-filled lowest Landau level of a two-dimensional electron gas at high magnetic field. Direct observation of the FQAH and associated effects paves the way for researching charge fractionalization and Anyonic statistics at zero magnetic field.
Reference
1. Observation of Fractionally Quantized Anomalous Hall Effect, Heonjoon Park et al., Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06536-0 (2023);
2. Signatures of Fractional Quantum Anomalous Hall States in Twisted MoTe2 Bilayer, Jiaqi Cai et al., Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06289-w (2023);
3. Programming Correlated Magnetic States via Gate Controlled Moiré Geometry, Eric Anderson et al., Science, https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adg4268 (2023).
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
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, Drexel University
Host: Janet Conrad
“Neutrino Astronomy, From Dream to Reality”
The Universe has been studied using light since the dawn of astronomy, when starlight captured the human eye. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, observes the Universe in a different and unique way: in high-energy neutrinos. IceCube’s discovery in 2013 of a diffuse celestial neutrino radiation started an era of neutrino astronomy. Searches for astronomical sources responsible for creating these neutrinos have been ongoing for over a decade, covering broad categories of signal hypotheses while combating background rates that are many orders of magnitude higher. This year, the first observation of our own Milky Way galaxy in neutrinos was announced, marking the start of Galactic neutrino astronomy. This talk will cover how this observation was made, other milestone observations by IceCube, and the state of neutrino astronomy.
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
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Fiona Harrison, Caltech
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
PAPPALARDO DISTINGUISHED LECTURE
“The Science of NuSTAR – a Decade Exploring the Energetic Universe”
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) turned 10 last year. Launched on June 13, 2012, this space telescope has opened our eyes to the energetic universe. As the first space telescope capable of taking focused high energy X-ray observations, NuSTAR has provided an unprecedented view of high energy objects, such as remnants of stellar explosions, black holes and neutron stars, as well as the black holes that live in the centers of galaxies. In this lecture I will talk about how X-ray observations provide unique information on the universe, and discuss highlights from NuSTAR’s decade on orbit.
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
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Salvatore Vitale, MIT
Host: Deepto Chakrabarty
“Gravitational-wave astrophysics, today and tomorrow”
Eight years after the discovery of the first gravitational-wave signal, the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have observed more than 100 mergers of black holes and neutron stars. After describing what gravitational waves can reveal, both about individual sources and their underlying populations, I will summarize some of the results obtained with the most recent dataset. These include measurements of the mass and spin distribution of black holes in binaries and hints of how their astrophysical formation channels might have evolved with redshift. I will then describe the scientific potential of next-generation gravitational-wave observatories such as Cosmic Explorer, which will detect hundreds of thousands of mergers per year, exploring the high-redshift universe and the formation and death of the first stars.
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
OCTOBER 19, 2023
Stefania Gori, UC Santa Cruz
Host: Graduate Womxn in Physics
“Dark sectors: from theory to accelerator experiments and beyond”
Dark matter is believed to make up most of the matter of our Universe, but its particle origin remains a mystery. Historically, experimental searches for dark matter particles have primarily focused on the mass window around the Higgs boson mass. At the same time, lighter dark matter candidates in a dark sector are theoretically well-motivated and arise generically in many theories beyond the Standard Model. Dark sectors can also address several other open problems in particle physics and cosmology, such as the strong CP problem and the baryon anti-baryon asymmetry problem.
In this colloquium, I will first present an overview of recent theoretical and phenomenological progress in the exploration of light dark sectors. Then I will motivate new experimental searches and high-intensity accelerator experiments that have a unique opportunity to broadly explore viable light dark sector models in the coming years.
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
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Brian Metzger, Flatiron University
Host: Salvatore Vitale
“Shining Light on the Physics of Neutron Star Mergers”
In 2017 the LIGO/Virgo observatory detected gravitational waves from the merger of two neutron stars for the first time. This cataclysmic event was followed within seconds by a burst of gamma-rays and a bright but rapidly fading thermal optical/infrared thermal glow over the ensuing days and weeks. The latter matched remarkably well predictions for the transient emission powered by the radioactive decay of heavy nuclei, synthesized in the expanding neutron-rich debris of the merger via the rapid neutron capture process. I will describe ongoing and evolving efforts to interpret this event from both the electromagnetic and gravitational wave sides, and the resulting implications for the origin of the heaviest elements in the universe and the equation of state of nuclear density matter. Time permitting, I will preview the predicted diversity in the electromagnetic counterparts of future merger events and in the context of additional discoveries made during LIGO/Virgo’s recent and ongoing observing runs.
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
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
William Bialek, Princeton University
Host: Arup Chakraborty
“Physics for maggots”
The development of a single cell into a fully functional organism is one of Nature’s most extraordinary phenomena. In the case of a fruit fly, the larva—a maggot—can walk away from the discarded egg shell just 24 hours after the egg is laid. Even more strikingly, if we measure the concentrations of fewer than a dozen crucial molecules we can see a “blueprint” for the segmented body plan of the maggot after just three hours, and this happens before cells start to move. These patterns are the result of information flow through a network of interacting genes, and the fly embryo provides a laboratory for studying the physics of this information flow. It turns out that development is extraordinarily precise and reproducible despite the fact that relevant molecules are at low concentrations and hence signals must be noisy. This motivates a physical principle: the relevant network is tuned to extract as much information as possible from a limited number of molecules. We’ll see how this theory can be connected to experiments, generating quantitative and parameter-free predictions.
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
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Tracy Northup, University of Innsbruck
Host: Graduate Womxn in Physics
“Building quantum networks, one ion at a time”
Quantum states are both powerful and fragile. We anticipate that new technologies based on quantum superposition and entanglement will allow us to solve problems in computation and communication beyond our reach today. However, to do so, we will need to manipulate quantum states with exquisite precision while protecting them from the classical world outside. Moreover, to build networks of quantum computers and sensors, we will need to transfer quantum information between light and matter — and distribute that information, potentially over long distances. I will describe why trapped ions under ultra-high vacuum are promising candidates for quantum computers, and I will present a prototype network in which two calcium ions are entangled with one another across the University of Innsbruck campus. We will consider how this work can be extended to build long-distance networks and hybrid networks linking different types of quantum processors.
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
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Robert Schoelkopf, Yale University
Host: Isaac Chuang
“Hardware-efficient Quantum Error Correction”
In the two decades since the beginning of the field, dramatic progress has been made towards realizing solid-state systems for quantum information processing with superconducting circuits. Superconducting qubits have improved their coherence by more than a million-fold, and they can be controlled and manipulated to perform quantum algorithms. These devices have also proven to be a wonderful platform for exploring the concepts of entanglement, quantum information, and quantum measurement.
The next challenge for the field is demonstrating quantum error correction (QEC) that actually improves the lifetimes of superpositions and entangled states and makes these systems robust by increasing the fidelity of gates. Developing practical schemes for quantum error correction is a requirement for building more complex systems and realizing the potential of quantum computing. Today this topic is entering an exciting new stage, where experiment and theory begin to productively overlap, and one can begin to “co-design” the quantum hardware and QEC codes to other’s strengths.
At Yale, our team has been pursuing a novel, “hardware-efficient” approach for quantum error correction, based on encoding information in the multiple energy levels of a harmonic oscillator such as a microwave cavity. By allowing for redundancy without necessarily introducing more error channels, the “cat code” and other such bosonic error correction codes allow us to experimentally explore the concepts and the practice of QEC today, with smaller and less complex systems. Recent experimental breakthroughs (https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11929) on this type of quantum hardware and has dramatically improved our ability to perform high-fidelity operations in this platform.
I will present a new architecture for bosonic error correction (https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12077) which adapts and extends the well known “dual-rail” encoding, where a single photon can be superposed between two distinguishable microwave cavity modes. When the techniques of circuit QED are applied to this system, we can develop a full family of universal gates (https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.11196) in which all of the known decoherence errors can be efficiently detected, allowing postselected gate fidelities higher than any other solid-state platform. Finally, if these qubits are implemented in a higher-level scheme such as a surface code, the dominant errors can be converted to erasures, easing the required performance levels by orders of magnitude. This approach therefore opens a new and dramatically faster path to fault-tolerant computing.
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
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
Thanksgiving break. No colloquium.
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Nathan Seiberg, Institute for Advanced Study
Host: Daniel Harlow
“Quantum Field Theory, Separation of Scales, and Beyond”
We will review the role of Quantum Field Theory (QFT) in modern physics. We will highlight how QFT uses a reductionist perspective as a powerful quantitative tool relating phenomena at different length and energy scales. We will then discuss various examples motivated by string theory and lattice models that challenge this separation of scales and seem outside the standard framework of QFT. These lattice models include theories of fractons and other exotic systems.
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
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Carl Bender, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Salvatore Pace
“PT-symmetric quantum mechanics”
The average quantum physicist on the street would say that a quantum-mechanical Hamiltonian must be Dirac Hermitian (invariant under combined matrix transposition and complex conjugation) in order to guarantee that the energy eigenvalues are real and that time evolution is unitary. However, the Hamiltonian $H=p^2+ix^3$, which is obviously not Dirac Hermitian, has a positive real discrete spectrum and generates unitary time evolution, and thus it defines a fully consistent and physical quantum theory. Evidently, the axiom of Dirac Hermiticity is too restrictive. While $H=p^2+ix^3$ is not Dirac Hermitian, it is PT symmetric; that is, invariant under combined parity P (space reflection) and time reversal T. The quantum mechanics defined by a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian is a complex generalization of ordinary quantum mechanics. When quantum mechanics is extended into the complex domain, new kinds of theories having strange and remarkable properties emerge. In the past few years, some of these properties have been verified in beautiful laboratory experiments. A particularly interesting PT-symmetric Hamiltonian is $H=p^2-x^4$, which contains an upside-down potential. We discuss this potential in detail, and we explain in intuitive and in rigorous terms why the energy levels of this potential are real, positive, and discrete.
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
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck & IQOQI
Host: Soonwon Choi
Title and abstract to be announced
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
Colloquium Archives
Spring 2023
Spring 2023
- Liam McAllister, Cornell
Host: Washington Taylor - Netta Engelhardt, MIT
Host: Washington Taylor - Evelyn Tang, Rice
Host: Salvatore Pace - Maura McLaughlin, West Virginia University
Host: Salvatore Vitale - Aram Harrow ’01 PhD ’05, MIT
Host: TBA
2023 Graduate Open House Colloquium - David Keith, UChicago
Host: David Pritchard - Kyle Leach, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and Colorado School of Mines
Host: Joseph Formaggio - Antoine Browaeys, Institut d’Optique Graduate School, CNRS
Host: Vladan Vuletic - Julianne DalCanton, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
Host: Rob Simcoe - Michal Lipson, Columbia
Host: Marin Soljacic - Yonit Hochberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Host: Sarah Geller, Graduate Womxn in Physics (GWIP) - Vincenzo Vitelli, UChicago
Host: Riccardo Comin
Fall 2022
Fall 2022
- Michelle Soley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Peter Fisher - Shinsei Ryu, Princeton
Host: Salvatore Pace - Clifford Johnson, USC
Host: Netta Engelhardt - Michal Lipson, Columbia University
Host: Marin Soljacic - Brian Nord, FNAL
2022 Pappalardo Fellowships Colloquium
Host: Jesse Thaler - Feng Wang, UC Berkeley
Host: Long Ju - Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton
Host: GWIP (Sarah Geller) - Victoria Kaspi, McGill U.
Host: Kiyoshi Masui - Or Hen, MIT
Host: TBD - Marcia Rieke, U Arizona
Host: Rob Simcoe - Riccardo Comin, MIT
Host: Nuh Gedik - Ashutosh Kotwal, Duke
Host: Phil Harris
Spring 2022
Spring 2022
- Annie Kritcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Host: Peter Fisher - Martin Greenwald, MIT-PSFC
Host: Miklos Porkolab - Phiala Shanahan, MIT
Host: Iain Stewart - Andrei Bernevig, Princeton
Host: Salvatore Pace - Chris Monroe, Duke
Host: Aram Harrow - Almudena Arcones, TU Darmstadt
Host: Phiala Shanahan - Caterina Vernieri, SLAC
Host: Phil Harris - Lina Necib, MIT
Host: Robert Simcoe - Justin Read, University of Surrey
Host: Lina Necib - Alison Sweeney, Yale
Host: MIT Graduate Womxn in Physics - Richard Milner, MIT
Host: Or Hen - Or Hen, MIT
Host: Peter Fisher
2022 Graduate Open House Colloquium - Jie Shan, Cornell
Host: Long Ju - Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo (Nobel Laureate, Physics 2018)
Host: Sarah Geller, Graduate Womxn in Physics
Fall 2021
Fall 2021
- Benjamin Safdi, University of California at Berkeley
Host: Jesse Thaler - Geoff Penington, University of California at Berkeley
Host: Netta Engelhardt - Alejandro Rodriguez, Princeton University
Host: Marin Soljačić - Julien Tailleur, Université de Paris-CNRS
Host: TBA - Joshua Frieman, University of Chicago/Fermilab
Host: Paul Schechter
2021 Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture - Selim Jochim, Universität Heidelberg
Hosts: Martin Zwierlein - Sarah T. Stewart, University of California, Davis
Host: Nergis Mavalvala - Michael McDonald, MIT
Host: Robert Simcoe - Daniel Harlow, MIT
Host: Barton Zwiebach - Klaus Baum, MPI Heidelberg
Host: Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz - Ana Maria Rey, JILA/NIST
Host: Sarah Geller, Graduate Womxn in Physics - Nikta Fakhri, MIT
Host: Mehran Kardar
Spring 2021
Spring 2021
- CHRISTOPHER HENDON, University of Oregon
- KERSTIN PEREZ, MIT
Host: Tracy Slatyer - REBECCA SURMAN, University of Notre Dame
Host: Tracy Slatyer - HOLGER MÜLLER, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Vladan Vuletić - PETER SHOR, MIT
Host: Aram Harrow - DORIT AHARONOV, Hebrew University
Hosts: Sarah Geller and Wenzer Qin of Graduate Womxn in Physics (GWIP) - ISAAC CHUANG, MIT
Host: Peter Fisher - MARLA GEHA, Yale University
Host: Michael McDonald - JELENA VUČKOVIĆ, Stanford University
Host: Marin Soljacic - DAVID MOORE, Yale University
Host: Philip Harris - LEE ROBERTS, Boston University
Host: Philip Harris - ANDRÉ DE GOUVÊA, Northwestern
Host: Jesse Thaler - VEDIKA KHEMANI, Stanford University
Host: Shreya Vardhan, Physics Graduate Students Council - ALI YAZDANI, Princeton University
Host: Long Ju
Fall 2020
Fall 2020
- Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Hong Liu - Andrey Varlamov, Institute of Superconductivity and Innovation Materials (SPIN-CNR), Italy
Host: Leonid Levitov - Frank Wilczek, MIT
Host: Phiala Shanahan - Max Shulaker, MIT
Host: Peter Fisher - Joseph Checkelsky, MIT
Host: TBD - Sara Seager, MIT
PAPPALARDO LECTURE
Host: Peter Fisher - Mei-Yin Chou, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Host: Wenzer Qin/Sarah Geller - Mari Carmen Bañuls
Host: William Detmold - Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Edmund Bertschinger - Natalia Toro, Stanford University
Host: Philip Harris - Peter Onyisi, University of Texas, Austin
Host: Philip Harris - Nadar Engheta, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Marin Soljačić
Spring 2020
Spring 2020
- NADYA MASON, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Graduate Women in Physics - LINDLEY WINSLOW, MIT
Host: Jesse Thaler - L. MAHADEVAN, Harvard University
Host: Nikta Fakhri - SHAHAL ILANI, Weizmann Institute
Host: Raymond Ashoori - ADAM RIESS, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Salvatore Vitale - CANCELLED
DONNA STRICKLAND, University of Waterloo
Host: Graduate Women in Physics - RESCHEDULED
SCOTT GAUDI, Ohio State University
Host: Scott Hughes - VIRTUAL
ALAN GUTH, MIT
Graduate Student Open House Colloquium
Host: Peter Fisher - CANCELLED
JOHN MARTINIS, Google and UCSB
Host: Aram Harrow - CANCELLED
ASIMINA ARVANITAKI, Perimeter Institute
Host: Tracy Slatyer - RESCHEDULED
JENNY GREENE, Princeton University
Host: Mike McDonald/Scott Hughes - CANCELLED
LEE ROBERTS, Boston University
Host: Philip Harris - CANCELLED
KYLE CRANMER, New York University
Host: Phiala Shanahan
Fall 2019
Fall 2019
- John Parmentola, RAND Corporation
Physics in the Interest of Society Lecture
Host: Robert Jaffe - Mark Vogelsberger, MIT
Host: Robert Simcoe - Dan Marrone, University of Arizona
Host: Salvatore Vitale & Scott Hughes - Yen-Jie Lee, MIT
Host: Bolek Wyslouch - Nick Giordano, Auburn University
Host: Greg Fiete - Joseph Formaggio, MIT
Host: Peter Fisher - Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley
Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
Host: Peter Fisher - Haiyan Gao, Duke University
Host: Phiala Shanahan - Aleksandra Walczak, CNRS and ENS, Paris
Host: Leonid Levitov and Arup Chakraborty - Erwin Frey, Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center, LMU Munich
Host: Nikta Fakhri - Allan MacDonald, University of Texas, Austin
Host: Long Ju - Uwe-Jens Wiese, Institute for Theoretical Physics; Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern
Host: William Detmold and Phiala Shanahan - Ibrahim Cissé, MIT
Host: Mehran Kardar
Spring 2019
Spring 2019
- Frederick Salvucci, MIT
Host: Peter Fisher - Douglas Stanford, IAS/Stanford University
Host: Daniel Harlow - Joel Fajans, UC Berkeley
Host: Miklos Porkolab - Andrea Young, UC Santa Barbara
Host: Ray Ashoori - Gianluca Gregori, Oxford University
Host: Nuno Loureiro - Nilanga Liyanage, University of Virginia
Host: Or Hen - Gregory Eyink, Johns Hopkins University
Host: Hong Liu - Marin Soljačić, MIT
Host: TBA - Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
Host: Jacqueline Hewitt - Alexander Grosberg, New York University
Host: Arup Chakraborty - Hans-Walter Rix, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Host: Paul Schechter - Francesca Ferlaino, University of Innsbruck
Host: Martin Zwierlein - Clifford Cheung, Caltech
Host: SPS/UWIP
Fall 2018
Fall 2018
- Tracy Slatyer, MIT
Host: TBA - George Zweig, RLE@MIT
Host: Frank Wilczek - Ila Fiete, MIT BCS
Host: Mehran Kardar - Waseem Bakr, Princeton University
Host: Martin Zwierlein - Ramesh Narayan, Harvard University
Pappalardo Distinguished Lecture
Host: TBA - Jochen Mannhart, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Host: Riccardo Comin - David DeMille, Yale University
Host: David Pritchard - Nevin Weinberg, MIT
Host: TBA - Mike Williams, MIT
Host: Robert Redwine - William Detmold, MIT
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