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Anna I. McPherson Public Lectures
- 2024/25
- Lighting a path for clock and fundamental physics
- Jun Ye
- JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Colorado
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Poster
- Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, 18:00
- Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
Past Lectures
- 2023/24
- IceCube: Opening a Neutrino Window on the Universe from the South Pole
- Francis Halzen
- Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center & Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Poster
- Thursday, March 21st 2024, 19:30
- Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2022/23
Our Expanding Universe
James Peebles
Nobel Laureate
Department of Physics, Princeton University
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Poster
Thursday, September 15th 2022, 19:30
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2020/21
Gravitational waves: a new window to the Universe
Nergis Mavalvala
Department of Physics, MIT
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Poster
Thursday, October 1st 2020, 18:30
Tele-lecture (YouTube livestream)
2019/20
Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses
Donna Strickland
Nobel Laureate
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo
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Thursday, November 7th 2019, 18:30
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2018/19
New Windows on the Cosmos
Wendy Freedman
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Chicago
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Thursday, January 24th 2019, 18:30
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2017/18
Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse
Alan Guth
Department of Physics, MIT
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Thursday, January 18th 2018, 18:30
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2016/17
Exploring the universe with gravitational waves
Rainer Weiss
Department of Physics, MIT
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Thursday, March 9th 2017, 18:30
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2015/16
From Einstein to Wheeler: Wave Particle Duality for a Single Photon
Alain Aspect
Institut d'Optique
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Thursday, November 19th 2015, 19:00
Frank Dawson Adams Building, Adams Auditorium
2014/15
Quantum computers and Schrödinger's cat
David Wineland
Nobel Laureate
NIST & University of Colorado, Boulder
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Thursday, November 6th 2014, 18:00
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2013/14
The Monster at the Heart of the Milky Way
Andrea Ghez
Division of Astronomy & Astrophysics, UCLA
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Thursday, November 21st 2013, 18:00
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2012/13
The Accelerating Universe
Brian Schmidt
Nobel Laureate
The Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National
University
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Thursday, January 31st 2013, 18:00
Stephen Leacock Building, Leacock Auditorium - room 132
2011/12
Passion for Precision
Theodor Hänsch
Nobel Laureate
Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics & Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
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2010/11
Role of Diverse Physical Phenomena during the Origin
of Life
Jack Szostak
Nobel Laureate in Medicine
Center for Computational & Integrative Biology, Department of
Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital / Department of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School / Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Poster
2009/10
The Future of Physics
David Gross
Nobel Laureate
Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
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2008/09
The LHC: the world's most powerful microscope and
telescope
John Ellis
CERN
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2007/08
Relics of the Big Bang
George
Smoot
Nobel Laureate
University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
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2006/07
Bose-Einstein condensates - the coldest matter in the
universe
Wolfgang Ketterle
Nobel Laureate
MIT
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2005/06
Einstein's Dream: An Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
Department of Physics and Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
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2004/05
Manipulating Atoms with Light
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Nobel Laureate
Collège de France & Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, École Normale Supérieure
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2003/04
Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity
Joseph Taylor
Nobel Laureate
Princeton University
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2002/03
Physics in the Communication Industry
Horst Stormer
Nobel Laureate
Columbia University & Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
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2001/02
The Quest for Quantum Gravity
Stephen Shenker
Theory Institute, Stanford University
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2000/01
The Earliest Moments of Creation: What We Know, How We Know It and
What We Are Trying to Find Out
Michael S. Turner
University of Chicago and Fermilab
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1999/00
The Theory of Everything
Robert B. Laughlin
Nobel Laureate
Physics Department, Stanford University
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1998/99
Optical Tweezers: Holding Atoms and Bio-molecules with Lasers
Steven Chu
Nobel Laureate
Stanford University
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1997/98
Are worlds determined by grains of sand?
Per Bak
The Niels Bohr Institute
University of Copenhagen
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