19 Dec 1980 | G. LaRue, Stanford, Observation of fractional charge on matter |
10 Apr 1981 | A. Benade, Case, Wall Material Effects on wind instruments' sound production |
2 Nov 1984 | Walter Kutschera, ANL Physics Div., Dating and Mass Spectrometry with Acccelerators |
7 Dec 1984 | Robert Mark, Princeton U., The Physics of Gothic Cathedrals |
15 Mar 1985 | Joseph P. Allen, NASA, Satellite Retrieval: An Example of a Two-body (Inelastic) Scattering Problem |
7 Aug 1985 | A. E. Litherland, U. of Toronto, 14C Dating and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) |
28 Mar 1986 | John W. Firor, NCAR, Atmospheric Effects and Soaring |
16 Sep 1988 | G. Michael Morris, U. of Rochester, Pattern Recognition with Photon-Limited Images |
24 Feb 1989 | Douglas Donahue, U. of Arizona, Radiocarbon Dating with Accelerators: Methods and Applications |
16 Nov 1990 | Walter Kutschera, ANL Physics Div., Searching in the Dark: The Quest for Hypothetical Particles |
15 Mar 1991 | Lee Grodzins, MIT, Nuclear Techniques for Finding Chemical Explosives in Airport Luggage |
12 Apr 1991 | Richard A. Webb, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Low Temperature Physics as an Aid for the Quantum Mechanic |
4 Dec 1992 | Ugo Fano, U. of Chicago, A Common Mechanism of Collective Phenomena |
30 Apr 1993 | Kenneth Evenson, NIST, Boulder CO, The Final Measurement of the Speed of Light |
28 May 1993 | Dana Z. Anderson, U. of Colorado & JILA, Adaptation, Decision Making and Self-Organization in Holographic Optical Systems |
5 Nov 1993 | Gary Taubes, Contributing Correspondent, Science Magazine, Bad Science, The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion |
21 Jan 1994 | David K. Campbell, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Nonlinear Science: From Paradigms to Practicalities |
1 Dec 1995 | Madhusree Mukerjee, Scientific American, Probing the Real World |
28 Jan 2000 | John M. Goodkind, U. California, San Diego, Using Superconductivity to Measure Slow Changes in Gravity |
25 Feb 2000 | Mark Kasevich, Yale U., Atom Interferometers as Inertial Force Sensors |
8 Feb 2002 | Tom Witten, U. of Chicago, Generalized crumpling: how smooth forces make sharp structures. |
20 Sep 2002 | Alan Nathan, U. of Illinois, Urbana, The Physics of Hitting a Home Run |
17 Oct 2003 | Robert L. Park, American Physical Society and U. of Maryland, Being there: the Rise of the Virtual Astronaut |
19 Dec 2003 | Charles Falco,, U. of Arizona, The Science of Optics; The History of Art |
27 Feb 2004 | Spencer Wells, National Geographic Society, The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey |
21 May 2004 | Al Seckel, CalTech, The World's Most Powerful Illusions: An Interactive Journey Through Your Mind's Eye |
22 Oct 2004 | Robert Geroch, U. of Chicago, Faster than light? |
7 Dec 2004 | Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford U., Understanding the Columbia Space Shuttle Accident |
7 Jan 2005 | Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Argonne National Lab., Mexico City Revisited: Natural Radioactivity, Ammonia, and Black Carbon Measurements in April 2003 |
17 Feb 2006 | Arlene Lennox, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Neutrons Against Cancer |
24 Mar 2006 | Michael Peshkin, Northwestern U., Kinesthetically Linked Dyads: Are Two Motor-Control Systems Better Than One? |
15 Sep 2006 | Sidney Nagel, U. of Chicago, Breaking Away, Selective Withdrawal and Islets in the Stream: The Role of Singularities in Fluid Flow |
30 Mar 2007 | Neil Shubin, U. of Chicago, Discovering a Link Between Fish and Limbed Animals: The Story of Tiktaalik roseae |
13 Apr 2007 | Young-Kee Kim, U. of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Lab., E=mc2 Opening Windows on the World |
14 Oct 2008 | Inez Fung, U. of California at Berkeley, The Warming Will Accelerate the Warming |
3 Apr 2009 | Alain Haché, Université de Moncton, Ice Hockey Seen Through the Lens of Physics |
3 Dec 2010 | Michael J. North, ANL Decision and Information Sciences Div., Introduction to Agent-based Modeling and Simulation |
7 Jan 2011 | James Kakalios, U. of Minnesota, The Uncanny Physics of Superhero Comic Books |
9 Sep 2011 | John P. Schiffer, ANL Physics Div., 100th Anniversary of the Nucleus |
30 Sep 2011 | Daniel Baker, U of Colorado, The Impacts of Space Weather on Society and the Economy |
11 Nov 2011 | Jeffrey S. Hangst, Aarhus U., Trapped Antihydrogen - Stable, Neutral Antimatter |
16 Dec 2011 | Timothy Gay, U. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, Football Physics |
14 Sep 2012 | Heinrich Jaeger, U. of Chicago, Dynamically Jammed Liquids: A New Perspective on Shear Thickening of Dense Suspensions |
19 Oct 2012 | Allan Franklin, U. Colorado, Boulder, CO, Experiment, Then and Now |
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 |
5 Apr 2013 | Steven E. Koonin, New York U., New York, NY, The Promise of Urban Science |
18 Oct 2013 | Don Geesaman, ANL Physics Div., Nuclear Physics Serving Society |
7 Mar 2014 | Larry Weinstein, Old Dominion U., Guesstimation: Solving the World's Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin |
28 Mar 2014 | Paul Steinhardt, Princeton U., Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals |
16 May 2014 | William Noel, U. of Pennsylvania, EUREKA! The Archimedes Palimpsest |
20 Jun 2014 | Zeev Vager, Weizmann Institute of Science, Molecular Handedness with Don Gemmell |
3 Oct 2014 | José Francisco Salgado, Adler Planetarium, Science, Symphony, and the Northern Lights |
20 Feb 2015 | Peter Littlewood, Lab. Director, ANL National Lab., Physics of Sustainability |
24 Apr 2015 | Ramille Shah, Northwestern U., Expanding the Material Toolbox for 3D Printing: From Biomedical to Energy Applications |
8 May 2015 | Paul Ginsparg, Cornell U., At a Physics/InfoSci Intersection |
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