Previous Lectures
![2023 Misel Family Lecture](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/IMG_7277.jpeg.webp?itok=WQ5dQcQa)
![2022 Misel lecture](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/IMG_6082.jpeg.webp?itok=BzqSm655)
![2019 Misel Lecture in progress](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2019%20Misel%20Lecture.jpg.webp?itok=TWj5oy96)
![Prof. Quinn & Mrs. Misel](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Quinn%20%26%20Misel.JPG.webp?itok=jzQ8iNRr)
![Prof. Mavalvala answering questions](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mavalvala%20Q%26A.jpg.webp?itok=yEdQjw_V)
![2017 Misel Lecture](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2017%20Misel.JPG.webp?itok=VSxC6Qt-)
![2015 Misel Lecture Q&A](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2015%20Misel%20Q%26A.JPG.webp?itok=fTOMO47k)
![2015 Misel Lecture](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2015%20Misel.JPG.webp?itok=2QBqgGwp)
![2017 Misel Lecture Q&A](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2017%20Misel%20Q%26A.JPG.webp?itok=wTXlrwcI)
![2014 Misel Lecture afterwards](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2014%20Misel%20after.JPG.webp?itok=5rIe617f)
![2014 Misel Lecture](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2014%20Misel.JPG.webp?itok=CvYp2ITW)
![2013 Misel Lecture in process](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2013%20Misel.JPG.webp?itok=cVqCRsrP)
![2014 Misel Lecture Q&A](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2014%20Misel%20Q%26A.JPG.webp?itok=vChyAuFQ)
![2018 Misel Lecture](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Mavalvala%202018%20talk.jpg.webp?itok=0o3JTyB0)
![2016 Misel Lecture](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2016%20Misel.JPG.webp?itok=m2Ieb5pP)
![Prof. Marcus answering questions](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Marcus%20Q%26A.jpg.webp?itok=MfvSJ3cx)
![2016 Misel Lecture Q&A](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2016%20Misel%20Q%26A.JPG.webp?itok=kwjGZaQR)
![2013 Misel Lecture Q&A](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2013%20Misel%20Q%26A.JPG.webp?itok=3n3CnDgk)
![2013 Misel Lecture afterwards](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/2013%20Misel%20after.JPG.webp?itok=z8cmKKJG)
![Professor Francis Halzen and IceCube research center](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Halzen.jpg.webp?itok=i1rNVHMa)
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
![Carlos Frenk](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/CarlosFrenk.jpg.webp?itok=U_Qoonob)
2022
"How Our Universe Was Made: All From Nothing"
Carlos Frenk
Institute for Computational Cosmology
Durham University, England
![Professor Charles Marcus](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Charles%20Marcus.jpg.webp?itok=1Oebp0Jd)
2019
"Quantum Computing: Why, How, and When"
Charles Marcus
Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute
Microsoft Quantum Lab in Copenhagen
![Professor Nergis Mavalvala](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Nergis%20Mavalvala.jpg.webp?itok=5mqraMip)
2018
"Gravitational Waves: A New Window to the Universe"
Nergis Mavalvala
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
![Wendy Freedman](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Wendy%20Freedman_0.jpg.webp?itok=cuBKciBP)
2017
"The Universe Continues to Reveal Surprises"
Wendy L. Freedman
University of Chicago
![Professor John Preskill](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/John%20Preskill.jpg.webp?itok=COeAZOQ0)
2016
"Quantum Computing & the Entanglement Frontier"
John Preskill
California Institute of Technology
![Professor Joseph Polchinski](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Joseph%20Polchinski.jpg.webp?itok=TBxEZZnv)
2015
"Spacetime Versus the Quantum"
Joseph Polchinski
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics & the University of California, Santa Barbara
![Professor Andre Linde](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Andre%20Linde.jpeg.webp?itok=dn-08PJy)
![Professor Eric Cornell](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Eric%20Cornell.jpg.webp?itok=1mc-MVvG)
![Professor John Ellis](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/John%20Ellis.jpg.webp?itok=sVS61XD1)
2012
"Answering Gauguin's Questions with the LHC:
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"
John Ellis
Kings College London & CERN
![Professor Roger Blandford](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Roger%20Blandford.jpg.webp?itok=ISdPCiof)
2011
"The Dark Side of the Universe"
Roger Blandford
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
![Professor N. David Mermin](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/N.%20David%20Mermin.jpg.webp?itok=Nnh9S39Y)
![Professor Helen Quinn](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Helen%20Quinn.jpg.webp?itok=EKn-glmG)
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
![Professor P. James E. Peebles](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/P.%20James%20E.%20Peebles.JPG.webp?itok=8kDe8pAC)
![Professor Leo P. Kadanoff](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Leo%20P.%20Kadanoff.jpg.webp?itok=rzr3WiXn)
2007
"Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck: the Development of Complexity in Physical Systems"
Leo P. Kadanoff
University of Chicago
![Professor Frank Wilczek](/sites/cse.umn.edu/files/styles/folwell_full/public/Frank%20Wilczek.jpg.webp?itok=yskUv5HZ)
2006
"The Origin of Mass and Feebleness of Gravity"
Frank Wilczek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology