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

“Black hole accretion and growth in the Time Domain and Multi-Messenger Era”

The field of black hole accretion is seeing a renaissance in the past 5–10 years, thanks to the advent of time domain surveys across the electromagnetic spectrum. These surveys monitor hundreds of thousands of galaxies at unprecedented cadence, revealing the secrets black holes were keeping while we weren’t watching. In this talk, I will present recent highlights on black hole accretion and growth in two parts: (1) in “Standard Accretion” events like Active Galactic Nuclei and accreting stellar-mass black holes, where we can use Reverberation Echoes to map the inflowing gas and measure the black hole spin, (2) through the discovery and characterization of exotic transients, like Tidal Disruption Events, and a new phenomenon called Quasi-Periodic Eruptions (QPEs), which have been posited as due to the presence of an orbiting stellar mass object, or EMRI. We will discuss the current state of the field, and implications for joint detections in the next decade with future space missions like AXIS, the X-ray Probe recently selected for a NASA Phase A study, and the recently adopted LISA Gravitational Wave Observatory.

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

Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Eluned Smith

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

Merav Opher, Boston University
Host: Marianne Moore, Graduate Womxn in Physics

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

“Many more is more different: tunable matter”

In 1972 Phil Andersen articulated the motto of condensed matter physics as “More is different.” However, for most condensed matter systems many more is quite similar to more. Here I argue for a class of condensed matter, “tunable matter,” in which many more is different. The ultimate example of tunable matter is the brain, whose cognitive capabilities increase as size increases from 302 neurons (C. Elegans) to a million neurons (honeybees) to 100 billion neurons (humans). I propose that tunable matter provides a unifying conceptual framework for understanding not only a wide range of living systems responsible for function, but also non-biological systems capable of being trained to develop special collective behaviors without using a processor.

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

Joel Ullom, NIST
Host: Joseph Formaggio

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 3, 2025

Pappalardo Fellowships in Physics Symposium

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, Durham University, UK
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, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart
Host: Martin Zwierlein

“A molecular bond between ions and Rydberg atoms”

Atoms with a highly excited electron, called Rydberg atoms, can form unusual types of molecular bonds. The bond differs from the well-known ionic and covalent bonds not only by its binding mechanism, but also by its bond length ranging up to several micrometers. We report the observation a new type of molecular bond based on the interaction between the ionic charge and a flipping induced dipole of a Rydberg atom with a bond length of several micrometers. We measure the vibrational spectrum and spatially resolve the bond length and the angular alignment of the molecule using a high-resolution ion microscope. As a consequence of the large bond length, the molecular dynamics is slow and can be directly observed under the microscope. These results pave the way for future studies of spatio-temporal effects in molecular dynamics, e.g., beyond Born- Oppenheimer physics, and more generally on (ionic) impurities in quantum gases.

Time: 4:00 pm
Location: 10-250

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


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

Spring 2024

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

Fall 2023

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

Spring 2023

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

Fall 2022

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

Spring 2022

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

Fall 2021

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

Spring 2021

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

Fall 2020

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

Spring 2020

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

Fall 2019

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

Spring 2019

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

Fall 2018

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

Spring 2018

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

Fall 2017

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

Spring 2017

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

Fall 2016

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

Spring 2016

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

Fall 2015

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

Spring 2015

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

Fall 2014

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

Spring 2014

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

Fall 2013

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

Spring 2013

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

Fall 2012

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

Spring 2012

  • Adam Cohen, Harvard University
  • Martin Zwierlein, MIT
  • Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT
  • Robert Geroch, University of Chicago
  • Deborah Jin, NIST and University of Colorado
  • Ray Jayawardhana, University of Toronto
  • Ian Spielman, Joint quantum institute; NIST and the University of Maryland
  • Tony Heinz, Columbia University
  • Nadya Mason, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Andreas Karch, University of Washington
  • Taekjip Ha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Gunther Roland, MIT
  • Seth Lloyd, MIT
  • Eric Mazur, Harvard University

Fall 2011

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

Spring 2011

  • Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington
  • Yuri Oganessian, Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR
  • David DeMille, Yale University
  • John Bush, MIT
  • Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
  • Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona
  • François Bouchet, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS & UPMC-Sorbonnes Universités
  • Charles Kane, University of Pennsylvania
  • David Kleinfeld, University of California at San Diego
  • Ann Nelson, University of Washington
  • Steve Simon, University of Oxford
  • Raphael Bousso, University of California at Berkeley
  • Steve Giddings, University of California at Santa Barbara
  • Yves Couder, Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Université Paris Diderot -Paris

Fall 2010

  • Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research New England
  • Jack Lissauer, NASA Ames Research Center
  • Bernd Surrow, MIT
  • Marin Soljačić, MIT
  • Leonid Mirny, MIT
  • David Leeson, Stanford University
  • Homer Neal, University of Michigan
  • Charles Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory
  • Tom Levenson, MIT
  • Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Philip Kim, Columbia University
  • Adam Bernstein, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Spring 2010

  • Andrew Strominger, Harvard University
  • Frank Wilczek, MIT
  • Samuel Ting, MIT
  • Daniel Prober, Yale University
  • Heidi Newberg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Margaret Gardel, University of Chicago
  • Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University
  • Jack Harris, Yale University
  • S. James Gates, Jr., University of Maryland
  • Felicitas Pauss, CERN and ETH Zurich
  • Leo Kouwenhoven, Delft University of Technology
  • Reshmi Mukherjee, Barnard College
  • Alan Nathan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Matthew Strassler, Rutgers University

Fall 2009

  • Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford University
  • Gabriella Sciolla, MIT
  • Owen Gingerich, Harvard University
  • Scott Hughes, MIT
  • Vladan Vuletic, MIT
  • Paula Apsell, PBS-NOVA
  • Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos
  • Hong Liu, MIT
  • Robert McKeown, California Institute of Technology
  • Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology
  • Eric Hudson, MIT
  • John Morgan, Columbia University
  • Claire Max, UC Santa Cruz

Spring 2009

  • Paul Canfield, Iowa State University
  • Jochen Schneider, LCLS Experimental Facilities Divsion, SLAC, CA and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Germany
  • Matthias Burkardt, New Mexico State University/Jefferson Lab
  • Zoltan Fodor, University of Wuppertal, Eotvos University of Budapest, John von Neumann Institute for Computing, DESY-Zeuthen, and Forschungszentrum-Juelich
  • Marc Kamionkowski, Caltech
  • Margaret Murnane, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder and NIST
  • Jeff Kimble, Caltech
  • George Whitesides, Harvard University
  • Dam Thanh Son, University of Washington
  • Sidney Drell, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
  • Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique
  • Michael Brown, Caltech
  • Kip Thorne, Caltech
  • Felicitas Pauss, Institute for Particle Physics, ETH Zurich
  • Xiaowei Zhuang, Harvard University

Fall 2008

  • Lisa Randall, Harvard University
  • Edward Farhi, MIT
  • Adam Cohen, Harvard University
  • Phuan Ong, Princeton University
  • Christopher Stubbs, Harvard University
  • Boris Kayser, Fermilab
  • Sara Seager, MIT
  • Geoffrey West, Santa Fe Institute
  • David Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Peter Borden, Solar Business Group, Applied Materials, Inc.
  • Steven Kivelson, Stanford University
  • Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
  • Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research
  • Nat Fisch, Princeton University

Spring 2008

  • Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Nergis Mavalvala, MIT
  • Michael Peskin, Stanford University
  • Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley
  • Rob Schoelkopf, Yale University
  • Marin Soljacic, MIT
  • Robert Redwine, MIT
  • Joseph Formaggio, MIT
  • Jun Ye, University of Colorado
  • Karin Rabe, Rutgers University
  • Peter F. Michelson, Stanford University
  • Lyn Evans, CERN-LHC
  • Iain Stewart, MIT
  • David Griffiths, Reed College

Fall 2007

  • Barry Barish, Caltech
  • Gabriella Sciolla, MIT
  • Shamit Kachru, Stanford University
  • Daniel Kleppner, MIT
  • Steve Chu, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  • Dimitrios Psaltis, University of Arizona
  • Erik Katsavounidis, MIT
  • Young Lee, MIT
  • John Mather, NASA
  • Gregor Herten, Albert-Ludwigs-Univeritat Freiburg
  • Charles Falco, University of Arizona
  • Ted Haensch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
  • Serge Haroche, Ecole normale Superieure and College de France
  • Michael Campbell

Spring 2007

  • Peter Zoller, Universität Innsbruck
  • Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
  • Ben Oppenheimer, American Museum of Natural History
  • Michael Sipser, MIT
  • Tom Levenson, MIT
  • Joan Centrella, NASA
  • William Bialek, Princeton University
  • Jim Kakalios, University of Minnesota
  • Hong Liu, MIT
  • Alessandra Lanzara, UC Berkeley
  • James E. Gunn, Princeton University
  • John Beacom, Ohio State
  • Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT
  • Benoit Mandelbrot, Yale University
  • Sebastien Balibar, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l’ENS
  • Bert Halperin, Harvard University

Fall 2006

  • Lyman Page, Princeton University
  • Senthil Todadri, MIT
  • Amber Miller, Columbia University
  • Donald F. Geesaman, Argonne National Laboratory
  • Alan Guth, MIT
  • Virginia Trimble UC Irvine
  • Eugene Chiang, UC Berkeley
  • Gunther Roland, MIT
  • Vladan Vuletic, MIT
  • Janet Conrad, Columbia University
  • Christof Wetterich, Universität Heidelberg
  • Allen Caldwell, Max-Planck-Institute
  • Shelley Page, University of Manitoba
  • Arup Chakraborty, MIT

Spring 2006

  • Urs Achim Wiedemann, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
  • Raymond E. Goldstein, University of Arizona
  • Adam G Riess, Space Telescope Science Institute
  • Mehran Kardar, MIT
  • Moses H. W. Chan, Pennsylvania State University
  • Edward C. Stone, California Institute of Technology
  • Leonard Susskind, Stanford University
  • Bernhard Keimer, Max-Planck-Institut for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
  • Tom Murphy, UC San Diego
  • Richard A. Muller, UC Berkeley
  • Hans-Walter Rix, Max-Planck-Institut for Astronomy
  • A. Douglas Stone, Yale University
  • Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame
  • Clifford M. Will, Washington University

Fall 2005

  • Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
  • Sean Carroll, University of Chicago
  • Pier Oddone, Fermi National Laboratory
  • David Nelson, Harvard University
  • Ed Bertschinger, MIT
  • Eric Adelberger, University of Washington
  • Masahiro Morii, Harvard University
  • Charles Alcock, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • Andrei Linde, Stanford University
  • Christoph Paus, MIT
  • Iain Stewart, MIT
  • Andreas Hoecker, CERN
  • Catherine Kallin, McMaster University

Spring 2005

  • Steven Weinberg, University of Texas, Austin
  • Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Vicki Kaspi, McGill University
  • Debbie Jin, JILA/University of Colorado
  • Peter Goldreich, California Institute of Technology
  • Dan Rugar, IBM Almaden Research Center
  • Martin Bezant, MIT
  • Jeff Richman, UC-Santa Barbara
  • Andrea Liu, UCLA
  • Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
  • Wendy Freedman, OCIW

Fall 2004

  • Edward Farhi, MIT
  • Max Tegmark, MIT
  • Joe Polchinski, UC-Santa Barbara
  • Larry Abbott, Brandeis University
  • Robert Buderi, Technology Review
  • Chris Quigg, Fermi National Laboratory
  • Peter Galison, Harvard University
  • Maria Zuber, MIT
  • Lee Smolin, Perimeter Institute
  • Amihay Hanany, MIT

Spring 2004

  • Franklin Chang-Diaz, NASA Johnson Space Center
  • Kathryn Moler, Stanford University
  • David Kaiser, MIT
  • Alexander van Oudenaarden, MIT
  • Stanislas Leibler, Rockefeller University
  • Charles Holbrow, Colgate University
  • Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
  • Paul McEuen, Cornell University
  • Michael Peskin, SLAC/Stanford University
  • Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
  • Dan Akerib, Case Western Reserve University
  • Michael Turner, University of Chicago
  • Frank Wilczek, MIT

Fall 2003

  • Seamus Davis, Cornell University
  • Diandra Leslie-Pelecky, University of Nebraska
  • Robert Kirshner, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
  • James Bergquist, NIST
  • Natalie Roe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • David Gross, UC-Santa Barbara
  • Peter Lepage, Cornell University
  • Deepto Chakrabarty, MIT
  • Gerard ‘t Hooft, University of Utrecht
  • Andrea Ghez, UCLA
  • Donald Monroe, Agere Systems
  • John Schwarz, California Institute of Technology
  • Nicholas Giordano, Purdue University

Spring 2003

  • Matthew Strassler, University of Washington
  • Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame
  • Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
  • Lyman Page, Princeton University
  • David Wineland, NIST
  • Bart de Smit, University of Leiden
  • Frithjof Karsch, University of Bielefeld
  • Paul Horowitz, Harvard University
  • David Wark, Oxford University
  • Stuart Freedman, UC-Berkeley
  • Nima Arkani-Hamed, Harvard University
  • Angela Olinto, University of Chicago
  • Immanuel Bloch, University of Munich

Fall 2002

  • Steven Girvin, Yale University
  • Daniel Dubin, UC-San Diego
  • Daniel Fisher, Harvard University
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson, AMNH, NY
  • Freeman Dyson, Institute for Advanced Study
  • Edward Shuryak, SUNY, Stony Brook
  • Robert Jaffe, MIT
  • David Kestenbaum, National Public Radio
  • John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study
  • Pawan Kumar, University of Texas, Austin
  • Bob Rosner, University of Chicago

Spring 2002

  • Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, ENS, Paris
  • Bertram Batlogg, ETH, Zurich
  • Raman Sundrum, Johns Hopkins University
  • Neil Calder, SLAC/Stanford University
  • Samuel Ting, MIT
  • Craig Sarazin, University of Virginia
  • Bernard Schutz, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics
  • Chung Pei-Ma, UC-Berkeley
  • Umar Mohideen, UC-Riverside
  • Richard Lovelace, Cornell University
  • Alex Filippenko, UC-Berkeley
  • Timothy Chupp, University of Michigan
  • Alexander van Oudenaarden, MIT

Fall 2001

  • Lee Roberts, Boston University
  • Linda Griffith, MIT
  • David Weitz, Harvard University
  • Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
  • Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
  • Edward Wright, UCLA
  • Matias Zaldarriaga, New York University
  • Wick Haxton, University of Washington
  • Eric Cornell, JILA/University of Colorado
  • Albrecht Wagner, DESY
  • Jim Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology
  • Arthur McDonald, Queen’s University
  • Hitoshi Murayama, UC-Berkeley

Spring 2001

  • Frank Wilczek, MIT
  • Fulvia Pilat, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Greg Boebenger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Sascha Hilgenfeldt, University of Twente
  • Jean Dalibard, ENS, Paris
  • Washington Taylor, MIT
  • Eric Heller, Harvard University
  • Adam Falk, Johns Hopkins University
  • Charles Marcus, Harvard University
  • Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin
  • Ashoke Sen, Mehta Research Institute
  • Tony Readhead, California Institute of Technology

Fall 2000

  • Max Tegmark, University of Pennsylvania
  • Peter Fisher, MIT
  • Eric Mazur, Harvard University
  • Luis Orozco, SUNY, Stony Brook
  • Takashi Imai, MIT
  • Blayne Heckel, University of Washington
  • Shrinivas Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology
  • Uwe-Jens Wiese, MIT
  • Stephan Quake, California Institute of Technology
  • David Hitlin, California Institute of Technology
  • Krishna Rajagopal, MIT
  • Wit Busza, MIT

Spring 2000

  • Lisa Randall, MIT
  • Myriam Sarachik, CUNY
  • Marc Kamionkowski, California Institute of Technology
  • Christof Wetterich, University of Heidelberg
  • Claude Canizares, MIT
  • Nathan Isgur, Jefferson Laboratory
  • John Grunsfeld, NASA Johnson Space Center
  • Maurice Jacob, CERN
  • Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Mark Johnson, Naval Research Laboratory
  • John Ruhl, UC-Santa Barbara

Fall 1999

  • Leslie Rosenberg, MIT
  • Richard Muller, UC-Berkeley
  • Maria Zuber, MIT
  • John Preskill, California Institute of Technology
  • David Grier, University of Chicago
  • Hans Bethe, Cornell University
  • Tony Barker, University of Colorado
  • Vicky Kaspi, MIT
  • David Kaplan, University of Washington
  • Douglas Stone, Yale University
  • Steven Girvin, Indiana University
  • Michel Devoret, Yale University

Spring 1999

  • Marc Kastner, MIT
  • Craig Ogilvie, MIT
  • Jack Steinberger, CERN
  • Jerry Mahlman, Princeton University
  • Fred Adams, University of Michigan
  • Donald Lynden-Bell, University of Cambridge
  • Boris Kayser, National Science Foundation
  • Paul Schechter, MIT
  • Jean Zinn-Justin, CEA, Saclay
  • Fredrico Capasso, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
  • Charles Baltay, Yale University
  • Larry Sulak, Boston University
  • Bernhard Keimer, Princeton University
  • Charles Lieber, Harvard University
  • Cumrun Vafa, Harvard University
  • Farid Abraham, IBM, Almaden Research Center
  • Cyrus Taylor, Case Western Reserve University

Fall 1998

  • Ruth Sime, Sacramento City College
  • Henry Kendall, MIT
  • Jonathan Bagger, Johns Hopkins University
  • Alan Guth and Philip Morrison, MIT
  • Peter Armbruster, GSI, Darmstadt
  • Jan van Paradijs, University of Amsterdam
  • Robert Jaffe, MIT
  • Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  • Partha Mitra, Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies
  • Robert Mawhinney, Columbia University
  • Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT
  • Frederick Salvucci, MIT
  • John Ralston, University of Kansas
  • Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
  • Charles Alcock, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Michael Turner, University of Chicago/Fermilab
  • Tom Greytak and Daniel Kleppner, MIT