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
2022
"How Our Universe Was Made: All From Nothing"
Carlos Frenk
Institute for Computational Cosmology
Durham University, England
2019
"Quantum Computing: Why, How, and When"
Charles Marcus
Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute
Microsoft Quantum Lab in Copenhagen
2018
"Gravitational Waves: A New Window to the Universe"
Nergis Mavalvala
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2017
"The Universe Continues to Reveal Surprises"
Wendy L. Freedman
University of Chicago
2016
"Quantum Computing & the Entanglement Frontier"
John Preskill
California Institute of Technology
2015
"Spacetime Versus the Quantum"
Joseph Polchinski
The Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics & the University of California, Santa Barbara
2014
"Universe or Multiverse"
Andrei Linde
Stanford University
2013
"Why is Warm Glass Stickier than Cold Glass"
Eric Cornell
University of Colorado, Boulder
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
2011
"The Dark Side of the Universe"
Roger Blandford
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University, & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
2010
"Spooky Actions at a Distance?"
N. David Mermin
Cornell University
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
2008
"Finding the Big Bang"
P. James E. Peebles
Princeton University
2007
"Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck: the Development of Complexity in Physical Systems"
Leo P. Kadanoff
University of Chicago
2006
"The Origin of Mass and Feebleness of Gravity"
Frank Wilczek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology