| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Affiliation |
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| 4/24/15 |
Dave Meyer |
Experiencing Hubble in the Classroom and Beyond |
Northwestern U |
| 1/23/15 |
Eric Braaten |
Ultracold Atoms: How Quantum Field Theory Invaded Atomic Physics |
Ohio State U |
| 11/25/14 |
Tal Heilpern |
Beam Based Imaging and Inverse Scattering |
Tel Aviv U |
| 11/14/14 |
Christoph Bostedt |
Research with free-electron lasers: new horizons for ultrafast x-ray sciences |
SLAC |
| 11/07/14 |
Mike Chapman |
Non-equilibrium dynamics of a quantum pendulum |
Georgia Tech |
| 5/16/14 |
A. Douglas Stone |
Einstein and Quantum Mechanics: It's Not What You Think |
Yale U |
| 4/28/14 |
Kirill Rivkin |
Challenges in Modern Magnetic Recording |
Seagate Technology |
| 4/25/14 |
Adam Riess |
Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe |
Johns Hopkins U |
| 4/23/14 |
Adam Riess |
The Hubble Constant and Dark Energy |
Johns Hopkins U |
| 4/11/14 |
Ian Shipsey |
Bionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience |
Oxford U |
| 4/04/14 |
James Wells |
The Meaning of the LHC's First Results |
U Michigan |
| 4/03/14 |
Albert Stebbins |
Informal seminar on B-modes, inflation, and the recent BICEP2 |
Fermilab |
| 4/02/14 |
Elsa Alvaro |
Retractions in the physical sciences: the case of chemistry |
Northwestern U |
| 11/15/13 |
Dan Stamper-Kurn |
Cavity Optomechanics with a Gas of Cold Atoms |
UC Berkeley |
| 10/18/13 |
David Awschalom |
Beyond Electronics: Abandoning Perfection for Quantum Technologies |
U Chicago |
| 8/15/13 |
Michael J. Gibbons |
Deterministic single atom loading, lossless qubit readout, and progress toward neutral atom quantum computing |
UW Madison |
| 8/13/13 |
Nicholas J. Condon |
Crystal Growth of and Spectroscopy of Optical Materials at the Naval Research Laboratory |
Naval Reseach Laboratory |
| 5/31/13 |
Matthew Huber |
Earth is a Planet, Too! Paleoclimate is Planetary Atmospheric Dynamics |
Purdue U |
| 5/10/13 |
Salman Habib |
Computing the Universe - How to Stuff a Supercomputer into a Laptop |
Argonne |
| 4/26/13 |
Aharon Kapitulnik |
Search for Time-Reversal-Symmetry-Breaking in Unconventional Superconductors |
Stanford U |
| 4/15/13 |
Carlo Rubbia |
Neutrinos: A Golden Field for Astroparticle Physics |
CERN |
| 4/08/13 |
Phil Hemmer |
Toward Molecule-Scale Imaging and Magnetic Sensing with Diamond |
Texas A&M |
| 4/02/13 |
Jeramy Hughes |
Prospects for BEC Interferometry and Cold Atom Physics |
Triad Technology |
| 2/27/13 |
Murray Peshkin |
Los Alamos in World War II and Some of Its People: A View from Below |
Los Alamos (retired) |
| 2/22/13 |
Joshua Winn |
Spin-Orbit Interaction for Exoplanetary Systems |
MIT |
| 1/29/13 |
Daniel A. Steck |
Continuous Measurement of the Position of a Single Cold Atom: Towards the Quantum-Classical Transition |
U Oregon |
| 1/25/13 |
Steven Kahn |
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) |
Stanford U |
| 11/30/12 |
Prashant Purohit |
Entropic Elasticity and Structural Change in Biofilament Networks |
U Penn |
| 11/13/12 |
Randall J Knize |
Alkali Lasers |
US Air Force Academy |
| 11/09/12 |
Koichiro Nishikawa |
What Could Neutrinos Tell Us? How Should We Ask Them? |
KEK |
| 6/01/12 |
Natalie Batalha |
The Kepler Mission: NASA's Exoplanet Census |
NASA Ames Research Center |
| 5/29/12 |
Irina Novikova |
Cool Quantum Optics with Hot Rb Atoms |
College of William & Mary |
| 5/23/12 |
Ronnie Kosloff |
Ultracold and Ultrafast: Impulsive Photoassociation from Cold Atomic Gases |
Hebrew U |
| 5/18/12 |
James Lattimer |
What Neutron Star Observations Tell Us About the Strong Nuclear Force |
SUNY Stony Brook |
| 5/16/12 |
Herschel Rabitz |
Control of Phenomena in the Sciences over Vast Length and Time Scales |
Princeton U |
| 5/11/12 |
Ian Walmsley |
Scalable Photonic Quantum Networks |
Oxford U |
| 5/04/12 |
Xiaowei Zhuang |
Bioimaging at the Nanoscale: Single-Molecule and Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard U |
| 4/27/12 |
Peter Littlewood |
Polariton Condensation and Collective Dynamics |
Argonne, U Chicago, Cambridge U |
| 4/17/12 |
Mark Saffman |
From Two-Qubit to Multi-Qubit Entanglement with Rydberg Blockade |
UW Madison |
| 4/13/12 |
Andrew Cleland |
Mechanical Resonators in the Quantum Regime |
UC Santa Barbara |
| 3/30/12 |
Jun Ye |
Molecules are Quantum - Chemistry Near Absolute Zero |
JILA, NIST, UC Boulder |
| 3/15/12 |
Ken Brown |
Probing Molecules with Laser-Cooled Atomic Ions |
Georgia Tech |
| 2/28/12 |
Michael Moore |
Laser Trapping in Solid-State Systems |
Michigan State U |
| 2/17/12 |
Michael Golay |
Fukushima: The Event and Implications |
MIT |
| 2/10/12 |
Vladan Vuletic |
Squeezed Atomic Clock Below the Standard Quantum Limit |
MIT |
| 1/18/12 |
James D. Franson |
Sensitivity of Entangled Photon Holes to Loss and Amplification |
UM Baltimore |
| 11/11/11 |
Mirjam Cvetic |
Modern String Theory and Particle Physics |
U Penn |
| 11/11/11 |
Masud Chowdhury |
Carbon Nanotubes for Next Generation Logic Circuits |
UI Chicago |
| 11/10/11 |
Renu Tripath |
Classical and Quantum Perspectives of Polarimetric Optical Coherence Tomograph |
Delaware State U |
| 11/09/11 |
Saikat Guha |
Attaining the ultimate limit of classical information transmission over an optical channel |
Raytheon BBN Technologies/MIT |
| 11/04/11 |
Tanya Zelevinsky |
Precision Metrology to Dark Matter Detectors with Ultracold Atoms and Molecules |
Columbia U |
| 11/01/11 |
Robert Kirshner |
Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe: Einstein's Blunder Undone |
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA |
| 10/26/11 |
Cheng Chin |
Observation of Scale Invariance and Quantum Criticality in Optical Lattices |
U Chicago |
| 10/12/11 |
Christophe Salomon |
From Ultracold Fermi Gases to Neutron Stars |
Ecole Normale Supérieure |
| 6/16/11 |
Barbara Liskov |
The Power of Abstraction |
MIT |
| 6/10/11 |
Margaret Murnane |
Attosecond Light and Science at the Time-scale of the Electron |
JILA and UC Boulder |
| 5/17/11 |
David D. Smith |
Coherence Phenomena in Coupled Optical Resonators |
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center |
| 5/11/11 |
Igor Melnikov |
Resonance Photonic Crystals: from Quantum Electrodynamics and PDEs to Slow Light, Memory Cell, and Optical Interconnects |
Laser System Elements |
| 4/29/11 |
Wendy W. Zhang |
Perfect-Fluid Flow from Jet Impact |
U Chicago |
| 4/28/11 |
Uriel Levy |
Resonances: Focusing, confinement and light matter interactions at the nanoscale |
Hebrew U Jerusalem |
| 4/27/11 |
Frank Narducci |
Successfully publishing in Physical Review Letters/The Physical Review |
Naval Air Systems Command |
| 4/26/11 |
Frank Narducci |
Gradient Magnetometry in Arbitrary Magnetic Fields |
Naval Air Systems Command |
| 4/22/11 |
Nandini Trivedi |
Cold Atoms Meets Condensed Matter Physics |
Ohio State U |
| 4/15/11 |
Michael E. Brown |
Tales from the Outer Solar System |
Caltech |
| 4/08/11 |
R. Bruce Partridge |
Dumpster Diving -- What CMB Experiments like Planck Have to Say about Foreground Radio Sources |
Haverford College |
| 3/14/11 |
Tony Abi-Salloum |
Resonances: The 'Roots' of Interaction of Light with Matter |
Widener U |
| 3/10/11 |
Edward Seidel |
The Data and Compute-Driven Transformation of Modern Science |
NSF |
| 3/04/11 |
Jason Steffen |
Insight into Planetary Systems from the NASA Kepler Mission |
Fermilab |
| 2/11/11 |
Nathaniel P. Stern |
Whispering with Atoms and Light: Probing Coherent Dynamics and Atomic Motion near Boundaries with Single Photons |
Caltech |
| 2/04/11 |
Kartik Srinivasan |
Nanophotonic Technologies for Quantum Optics and Metrology |
NIST CNST |
| 12/10/10 |
Andreas Nunnenkamp |
Introduction to Cavity Optomechanics |
Yale U |
| 12/03/10 |
Yitzhak Rabin |
Strings, Droplets & Tubes: How Does Phase Separation Take Place in Gel? |
Bar-Ilan U, Israel |
| 12/01/10 |
Robert Gordon |
Coherent Phase Control of Photoluminescence from Gallium Arsenide |
UI Chicago |
| 11/19/10 |
Andrew Houck |
Simulating Condensed Matter Systems with Interacting Photons |
Princeton U |
| 11/17/10 |
Ibrahim A. Sulai |
Search for Permanent Electric Dipole Moment in Radium Atoms |
U Chicago/Argonne |
| 11/12/10 |
Thomas C. Killian |
Quantum Degenerate Gases of Atomic Strontium |
Rice U |
| 11/11/10 |
David Schuster |
Hybrid Quantum Information Processing with Circuit QED |
U Chicago |
| 11/05/10 |
Shrinivas R. Kulkarni |
Charting the Dynamic Universe: The Palomar Transient Factory |
Caltech |
| 10/29/10 |
Priscilla Cushman |
The Elusive Wimp: The Trials… of Direct Detection of Dark Matter |
U Minnesota |
| 10/20/10 |
Chen-Lung Hung |
Scale Invariance and Universality in Two-Dimensional Bose Gases |
U Chicago |
| 10/15/10 |
Mayda Velasco |
Results from Early Large Hadron Collider Data |
Northwestern U |
| 10/08/10 |
Vinay Ambeagokar |
Entropy And Time |
Cornell U |
| 9/24/10 |
Zoltán Toroczkai |
Modeling the Functional Network of the Primate Cortex |
Notre Dame |
| 5/27/10 |
Sushmita Biswas |
Transport in nanocrystalline quantum dots for optoelectronic applications |
UI Chicago |
| 5/26/10 |
Daniel Gauthier |
Using Self-Assembly to Enable Single-Photon Nonlinear Optics |
Duke U |
| 5/21/10 |
Chuck Bennett |
WMAP and The Standard Model of Cosmology |
Johns Hopkins/WMAP |
| 5/21/10 |
Tian Xia |
(not sure) |
Princeton U |
| 5/05/10 |
Brian Odom |
Molecular ion trapping |
Northwestern U |
| 5/04/10 |
Douglas D. Osheroff |
The Life and Contributions of Richard Feynman |
Stanford U |
| 5/03/10 |
Douglas D. Osheroff |
NASA and the Columbia Shuttle Accident |
Stanford U |
| 4/23/10 |
David Reitze |
LIGO - Searching for Colliding Black Holes with Attometer Sensitivity |
U Florida |
| 4/21/10 |
Prem Kumar |
Entangled Photon Polarimetry |
Northwestern U |
| 4/07/10 |
RPH Chang |
The Use of Inverse Opals to Study the Coupling of Polaritons, Plasmons, and Excitons |
Northwestern U |
| 3/31/10 |
Moshe Shapiro |
Derivation of the quantum commutation relations and evolution equations from the invariance of entanglement to canonical transformation |
Canada Research, U British Columbia
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| 3/25/10 |
John Howell |
Table Top General Relativity |
U Rochester |
| 2/12/10 |
Yoshihisa Yamamoto |
Half-Matter, Half-Light Laser Diodes: Quantum Simulation and Computation Based on Bosonic Stimulated Cooling |
Stanford U |
| 2/05/10 |
Geoffrey Marcy |
The Race for Habitable Worlds and Life in the Universe |
UC Berkeley |
| 2/03/10 |
Shai Ronen |
Novel Many-Body Phenomena in Ultracold Dipolar Gases |
U Innsbruck |
| 1/08/10 |
Murray Gell-Mann |
Simplicity and complexity |
Caltech |
| 1/06/10 |
James Yorke |
Chaos |
U Maryland |
| 12/11/09 |
Ke-Xun Sun |
New Technologies for Future Gravitational Wave Detectors |
Stanford U |
| 12/02/09 |
Peter Rabl |
A Nano-Mechanical Quantum Transducer for Spin-Spin Interactions |
Harvard U |
| 11/20/09 |
Alex Kuzmich |
Distributed quantum systems / Nuclear laser spectroscopy |
Georgia Tech |
| 11/18/09 |
Kathy-Anne Soderberg |
Quantum Computing with Atoms and Ions |
U Chicago |
| 11/13/09 |
Gerald Gabrielse |
Tests of Fundamental Symmetries with Matter and Antimatter Particles at Low Energies |
Harvard U |
| 11/12/09 |
Zhigang Zhu |
Dynamic 3D Mosaics for Urban Scene Modeling and Target Detection |
CUNY |
| 11/11/09 |
John Ketterson |
The Quest for BEC in Cu2O |
Northwestern U |
| 10/30/09 |
Boldizar Janko |
Universal Emission Intermittency in Quantum Dots, Nanorods and Nanowires |
Notre Dame |
| 10/28/09 |
Joan Marler |
Strong Coupling of Light and Ions at the Single Photon Level |
Northwestern U |
| 10/09/09 |
Cheng Chin |
Having the cake and seeing it too - In Situ: Observation of Incompressible Mott Insulating Domains in Ultracold Gases |
U Chicago |
| 10/04/09 |
Adam Pelzer |
Optimal Control of Molecular Dynamics: Application to Rotational and Torsional Motion |
Northwestern U |
| 10/02/09 |
Clem Pryke |
Viewing the Beginning of the Universe from the Bottom of the World |
U Chicago |
