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Anna I. McPherson Public 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
Past Lectures
- 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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- 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
- Abstract
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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
- Abstract
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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
- Abstract
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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
- Abstract
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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
- Abstract
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- 2008/09
- The LHC: the world's most powerful microscope and
telescope
- John Ellis
- CERN
- Abstract
/ Poster
- 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
- Abstract
- 2002/03
- Physics in the Communication Industry
- Horst Stormer
- Nobel Laureate
- Columbia University & Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
- Abstract
- 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
- Abstract
- 1997/98
- Are worlds determined by grains of sand?
- Per Bak
- The Niels Bohr Institute
University of Copenhagen
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