Previous Lectures

2023

"ICECUBE: Opening a Neutrino Window on the Universe from the South Pole"

Francis Halzen

Vilas and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison

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2019

"Quantum Computing: Why, How, and When"

Charles Marcus

Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute

Microsoft Quantum Lab in Copenhagen

2017

"The Universe Continues to Reveal Surprises"

Wendy L. Freedman

University of Chicago

2015

"Spacetime Versus the Quantum"

Joseph Polchinski

The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics & the University of California, Santa Barbara

2013

"Why is Warm Glass Stickier than Cold Glass"

Eric Cornell

University of Colorado, Boulder

2011

"The Dark Side of the Universe"

Roger Blandford

Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

2009

"Wandering Planets, Falling Apples, Curving Spaces, Whirling Stars: How Unraveling the Mysteries of Gravity Has Taught Us About the Universe"

Helen Quinn

Stanford University & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

2007

"Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck: the Development of Complexity in Physical Systems"

Leo P. Kadanoff

University of Chicago