| 2 Oct 1981 | Zeev Vager, Weizmann and ANL Physics Div., A controversy - are there quantum mechanical limits on the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors? |
| 9 Oct 1981 | D. Ayers, ANL High Energy Physics Div., Are protons forever? |
| 7 May 1982 | Stuart J. Freedman, ANL Physics Div., Quantum Mechanics, Reality and All That |
| 17 Sep 1982 | K. Huang, MIT, Why is the electron so light? |
| 15 Oct 1982 | H. Hill, Arizona, Testing general relativity - a helio-seismological determination of the gravitational quadrupole moment of the sun |
| 19 Oct 1984 | Yoichiro Nambu, U. of Chicago, Fermion-boson Relations in BCS-type Theories |
| 14 Dec 1984 | James Cronin, U. of Chicago, CP Violation: What Have We Learned in Twenty Years? |
| 1 Nov 1985 | Zeev Vager, Weizmann and ANL Physics Div., New Progress in the Detection of Gravitational Radiation |
| 7 Feb 1986 | David Albert, U. of South Carolina, Some New Kinds of Quantum Mechanical Measurements |
| 7 Nov 1986 | Norman Ramsey, U. of Colorado, Experiments is Time Reversal Symmetry and Parity |
| 3 Apr 1987 | R. E. Slusher, Bell Labs., Squeezed States: Silent Light and its Applications |
| 15 May 1987 | Eric Adelberger, U. of Washington, Search for New Interactions Weaker than Gravity: Is there a Fifth Force? |
| 20 Nov 1987 | Peter Thieberger, BNL, Possible Evidence for a Fifth Force |
| 11 Nov 1988 | Carlos Aiken, U. of Texas at Dallas, Geophysical Search for non-Newtonian Gravity |
| 20 Jan 1989 | Murray Peshkin, ANL Physics Div., What Did We Learn from the Aharonov-Bohm Effect? |
| 3 Mar 1989 | Carl E. Wieman, U. of Colorado, Parity Nonconservation in Atoms: Nuclear Spin Dependent Effects |
| 19 Jan 1990 | Helmut Rauch, Atominstitut der Osterreichischen Universitaten, The Neutron Interferometer as a Quantum and Measuring Device |
| 5 Oct 1990 | Samuel A. Werner, University of Missouri, Neutron Interferometric Measurement of the Topological Aharonov-Casher Phase Shift |
| 12 Oct 1990 | John J. Bollinger, NIST, Atomic Physics Tests of Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics |
| 15 Feb 1991 | Clifford M. Will, Washington U., General Relativity at 75: How Right Was Einstein? |
| 1 Mar 1991 | Rainer Weiss, MIT, Gravitational Wave Astrophysics |
| 19 Apr 1991 | Roger A. Hegstrom, Wake Forest U., Handed Electrons, Atoms, and Molecules |
| 17 May 1991 | Wojciech Zurek, LANL, Quantum, Classical and the Environment |
| 21 Jun 1991 | Harry Lipkin, Weizmann Institute of Science, The Clock Paradox in Quantum Tunnelling: Is the Twin Who Tunnels Through the Mountain Older or Younger Than His Brother |
| 23 Sep 1991 | Harry Lipkin, Weizmann Institute of Science, Applications of Quantum Mechanics and Isospin, CP, and CPT Symmetries to Experimental Tests of CP Violation in B Decays |
| 18 Jun 1993 | Robert L. Jaffe, MIT, Novel Quantum Phenomena in Twisting Tubes |
| 25 Aug 1995 | Boris Kayser, National Science Foundation, CP Violation, Beauty, and Quantum Mechanics |
| 4 Nov 1996 | Michael Berry, Bristol U., Chaos and Classical Limits |
| 4 Apr 1997 | Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT, Atoms Behave as Waves: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser |
| 9 May 1997 | Rolf Landauer, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Information is Physical |
| 13 Mar 1998 | Anton Zeilinger, Universitat Innsbruck, Quantum Teleportation and the Nature of Information |
| 23 Oct 1998 | Eric Adelberger, U. of Washington, A New Look at Einstein's Equivalence Principle |
| 22 Jan 1999 | Yau Wah, U. of Chicago, Symmetry and Conservation Laws: New Results from Kaon and Pion Decays |
| 12 Feb 1999 | Tom O'Neill, ANL Physics Div., Are Virtual Particles Real? |
| 19 Feb 1999 | Cosmas Zachos, ANL High Energy Physics Div., Quantum Mechanics Lives and Works in Phase Space |
| 28 May 1999 | Sheldon Goldstein, Rutgers U., Quantum Theory Without Observers |
| 1 Oct 1999 | Wai-Yee Keung, U. of Illinois, Chicago, CP Violation: A Window to See New Physics |
| 14 Jan 2000 | Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard U., Observing the Quantum Limit of an Electron Cyclotron: QND Measurements of Quantum Jumps Between Fock States |
| 15 Dec 2000 | Robert Wald, U. of Chicago, Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and the `Information Paradox' |
| 19 Jan 2001 | Jens Gundlach, U. of Washington, Big G and Gravity Close Up |
| 11 May 2001 | Paul Kwiat, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Entangled Photons for Quantum Information: 101 Uses for a Schroedinger Kitten-Embryo |
| 15 Jun 2001 | Gabriel Karl, U. of Guelph, Quantum Variations and Least Action Principles for Pedestrians |
| 9 Nov 2001 | Philip Mannheim, U. of Connecticut, Gravitationally Induced Quantum Interference |
| 8 Feb 2002 | Tom Witten, U. of Chicago, Generalized crumpling: how smooth forces make sharp structures. |
| 7 Jun 2002 | Sam Finn, Penn State U., Gravitational Wave Phenomenology |
| 27 Sep 2002 | J. David Jackson, UC Berkeley and LBNL, Historical Roots of Gauge Invariance |
| 1 Nov 2002 | David DeMille, Yale U., Tabletop probes for TeV physics: searches for the electric dipole moment of the electron |
| 10 Jan 2003 | Valery Nesvizhevsky, Institute Laue and Langevin, France, Quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field |
| 21 Mar 2003 | J. Murray Gibson, ANL OTD, Music, Fourier and Wave-Particle Duality |
| 23 May 2003 | Shoucheng Zhang, Stanford U., Can Relativity be an Emergent Principle? |
| 30 May 2003 | Scott Thomas, Stanford U., High Energy Colliders as Black Hole Factories: The End of Short Distance Physics |
| 5 Sep 2003 | Jainendra K. Jain, Pennsylvania State U., The role of analogy in unraveling the fractional quantum Hall effect mystery |
| 16 Jan 2004 | Barry Barish,, CalTech, Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves |
| 28 May 2004 | Lee Smolin, Waterloo, Canada, Loop Quantum Gravity |
| 22 Oct 2004 | Robert Geroch, U. of Chicago, Faster than light? |
| 5 Nov 2004 | Raman Sundrum, Johns Hopkins U., The Superworld, The Braneworld, and Our World |
| 12 Nov 2004 | Jennie Traschen, U. of Massachusetts, Black Holes and Thermodynamics |
| 25 Feb 2005 | Seth Lloyd, MIT, Fundamental limits to measuring space and time |
| 9 Sep 2005 | David Campbell, Boston U., From Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) to Intrinsic Localized Modes (ILMs) |
| 16 Sep 2005 | Dmitry Budker, U. of California, Berkeley, Crossing the P's (and T's) and Dotting the α: an Update on Fundamental-Symmetry Tests at Berkeley. |
| 2 Dec 2005 | Blayne Heckel, U. of Washington, Testing the Gravitational Inverse Square Law at Sub-Millimeter Distances |
| 9 Dec 2005 | Victor Flambaum, U. of New South Wales, Parity and Time Reversal Violation in Atoms and Nuclei and Tests of the Standard Model |
| 26 May 2006 | Matthew Strassler, U. of Washington, Magical Metamorphoses: Duality in Quantum Theory |
| 26 Jan 2007 | Michael Romalis, Princeton U., Atomic Magnetometers for Fundamental Physics and Applications |
| 6 Apr 2007 | Krishna Kumar, U. of Massachusetts, Electrons and Mirror Symmetry |
| 15 Feb 2008 | Abhay Ashtekar, Penn State U., Gravity, Geometry and the Quantum |
| 29 Feb 2008 | Savdeep Sethi, U. of Chicago, Time and String Theory |
| 9 Jan 2009 | Daniel R. Stinebring, Oberlin College, Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsars |
| 13 Feb 2009 | Dragan Huterer, U. of Michigan, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe |
| 6 Mar 2009 | Blayne Heckel, U. of Washington, Recent Results from a Search for the EDM of 199Hg |
| 20 Mar 2009 | Yanbei Chen, CalTech, Gravitational-Wave Astronomy |
| 10 Apr 2009 | Subir Sachdev, Harvard U., Quantum Criticality and Black Holes |
| 2 Oct 2009 | Stuart J. Freedman, U. of California at Berkeley and LBNL, Oscillating Neutrinos and Oscillating Decay Probabilities |
| 15 Jan 2010 | Craig Hogan, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Holographic Noise in Michelson Interferometers: a Direct Experimental Probe of Unification at the Planck Scale |
| 7 May 2010 | Philip Kim, Columbia U., Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon |
| 14 May 2010 | David Wineland, NIST Physics Lab., Quantum Computers and Raising Schrödinger's Cat |
| 18 Feb 2011 | Scott Ransom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Basic Physics with Millisecond Pulsars |
| 2 Dec 2011 | C.W. Francis Everitt, Stanford U., Frame-Dragging, Cryogenics, and Space: The Gravity Probe B Experiment |
| 16 Nov 2012 | Susan Gardner, U. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Dark Matter in a Weakly Coupled Universe |
| 14 Dec 2012 | Chris Greene, Purdue U., Universal few-body states related to Efimov physics: 3, 4, and 5 particles, and beyond |
| 25 Jan 2013 | Jun Ye, JILA and U. Colorado, Boulder, CO, Precision metrology and many-body quantum physics |
| 1 Feb 2013 | Holger Müller, U. California, Berkeley, Matter-wave Clocks |
| 8 Mar 2013 | Haiyan Gao, Duke U., Durham NC, New searches on parity and time-reversal symmetry violating quantities or interactions |
| 19 Apr 2013 | Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard U., First Precision Measurement of the Antiproton Magnetic Moment |
| 26 Apr 2013 | Stacy McGaugh, Case Western Reserve, Modified Gravity as a Possible Approach to the Missing Mass Problem |
| 10 May 2013 | Gerald Gwinner, U. of Manitoba, Fundamental symmetry tests with cooled atoms: From Lorentz invariance to parity |
| 22 Nov 2013 | Lisa Kaufman, Indiana U., Back to the Salt Mines: The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Xe-136 |
| 10 Jan 2014 | Ian Spielman, NIST & U. of Maryland, Gauge Fields with Cold Atoms |
| 6 Feb 2015 | Keith Schwab, Caltech, Look, but don't touch: mechanically detecting and evading the quantum fluctuations of a microwave field |
| 6 Mar 2015 | Eric Dahl, Northwestern U., The Hunt for Dark Matter, or things that go bump in the detector |
| 15 May 2015 | Ana Maria Rey, JILA, NIST and U. of Colorado, Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers |
| 8 Jan 2016 | Michael Levin, U. of Chicago, The Puzzling Boundaries of Topological Quantum Matter |
| 29 Apr 2016 | Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern U., LIGO discovery of a Binary Black Hole Merger |
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