5 Mar 1982 | L. T. Wos, ANL Mathematics and Computer Science Div., AURA: A Program that Actually Reasons |
19 Mar 1982 | A. V. Crewe, Chicago, Digital Image Processing in Scanning Microscopy |
4 Mar 1983 | D. Christian, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., A Super High Speed Data Driven Processor |
27 May 1983 | E. Hunt, Ohio U., The Road to Chaos |
4 Nov 1983 | Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Cornell U., Scaling and the Onset of Chaos |
11 Nov 1983 | John Kogut, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Lattice Gauge Theory, Heavy-Ion Collisions, and Supercomputers |
3 Feb 1984 | Carson D. Jeffries, U. of California, Experiments on Chaotic Dynamics |
24 Feb 1984 | Larry Smarr, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Supercomputer Simulations of Active Galactic Nuclei, RadioJets and Black Holes |
18 May 1984 | Gerard Vichniac, MIT, Simulating Physics with Cellular Automata |
25 Jan 1985 | Gustavus Simmons, Sandia National Lab., Contemporary Cryptology |
12 Apr 1985 | Eugene Parker, U. of Chicago, A Mathematical Nonequilibrium Theorem and the X-ray Coronas of Stars |
16 May 1986 | Jack Dongarra, ANL Mathematics and Computer Science Div., Algorithms for Parallel Computers |
10 Oct 1986 | A. Libchaber, U. of Chicago, Quasiperiodicity and Chaos: An Experimental Study |
30 Jan 1987 | Leo Kadanoff, U. of Chicago, Measuring Fractals: Comparison of Theory and Experiment on the Global Properties of a Strange Attractor |
20 Feb 1987 | Joan Centrella, Drexel U., Exploring the Universe Using a Computer |
4 Mar 1988 | Enrico Clementi, IBM Corp., Attempting to Simulate Water as a Liquid and a Solvent on Supercomputers |
16 Sep 1988 | G. Michael Morris, U. of Rochester, Pattern Recognition with Photon-Limited Images |
7 Oct 1988 | John Hoffnagle, IBM Almaden Research Center, Chaotic Motion of Two Ions in a Paul Trap |
10 Feb 1989 | Jack Wisdom, MIT, Chaotic Dynamics in the Solar System |
28 Apr 1989 | Robert Wilhelmson, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Storms, Supercomputing, and Visualization |
26 Jan 1990 | Sara A. Solla, Bell Labs., Learning and Generalization in Layered Neural Networks |
21 Sep 1990 | John W. Dawson, Jr., Penn State U., The American Career of Kurt Goedel |
10 Jan 1992 | Thomas Nash, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Future of Computing in High Energy Physics |
7 Feb 1992 | Michael Peshkin, Northwestern U., Passive Robotics and Mechanical Computation |
10 Apr 1992 | Gene Rackow, ANL Mathematics and Computer Science Div., Computer Viruses, Worms, and Other Miscreants of Magnetized Rust |
1 Oct 1993 | Wolfgang Bauer, Michigan State U., Chaotic Scattering |
8 Apr 1994 | Michail Zak, JPL, Nondeterministic-Dynamics Approach to Neural Intelligence |
15 Mar 1995 | Charles Bennett, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Quantum Information Theory, Cryptography, and Computation |
26 Jan 1996 | Rick Stevens, ANL Mathematics and Computer Science Div., Wide Area Multimedia Supercomputing |
4 Nov 1996 | Michael Berry, Bristol U., Chaos and Classical Limits |
11 Apr 1997 | Yoram Alhassid, Yale U., Chaos in Mesoscopic Systems: from Nuclei to Quantum Dots |
30 May 1997 | Malvin Kalos, Cornell Theory Center, The Future of High-Performance Computational Science |
11 Dec 1998 | Andrei Mirzabekov, ANL Biology Div. & Engelhart Institute of Molecular Biology, Biological Microchips: A Challenge for Engineers, Physicists and Computer Scientists |
19 Mar 1999 | Erick Cantu-Paz, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Recent Results in Parallel Genetic Algorithms |
12 Nov 1999 | Carlton M. Caves, U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Quantum Information and Quantum Computation, or Why Quantum Mechanics Is Good for You |
8 Dec 2000 | Susan Landau, Sun Microsystems Labs., Cryptology: Technology and Policy |
7 Mar 2003 | David Wineland, NIST, Quantum games with trapped atomic ions; whither quantum computation? |
21 Mar 2003 | J. Murray Gibson, ANL OTD, Music, Fourier and Wave-Particle Duality |
10 Apr 2003 | Achim Richter, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Darmstadt U. of Technology, Playing Billiards with Microwaves - Quantum Manifestations of Classical Chaos |
24 Oct 2003 | Daniel Lidar, Toronto U., Quantum Computers and Decoherence: Exorcising the Demon from the Machine |
12 Dec 2003 | Norman Christ, Columbia U., QCD on a chip |
9 Apr 2004 | Mike Wilde, ANL Mathematics and Computer Science Div., The Virtual Data Grid: A New Model and Architecture for Data-Intensive Collaboration |
7 Oct 2005 | Robert Lang, Alamo, Ca, From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami |
20 Jan 2006 | Fausto Cattaneo, ANL Mathematics and Computer Science Div., The Magneto-Rotational-Instability and Angular Momentum Transport |
24 Mar 2006 | Michael Peshkin, Northwestern U., Kinesthetically Linked Dyads: Are Two Motor-Control Systems Better Than One? |
7 Sep 2007 | Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Google Inc., Google: Building Scalable Systems and Moving Large Datasets |
10 Oct 2008 | Rajat Mittal, The George Washington U., Computational Modeling and Analysis of the Fluid Dynamics of Competitive Swimming |
9 Oct 2009 | Rick Stevens, ANL Computing, Environment and Life Sciences Directorate; Computer science and Computation Institute, U. of Chicago, Building the Science Case for Exascale Computing |
14 May 2010 | David Wineland, NIST Physics Lab., Quantum Computers and Raising Schrödinger's Cat |
8 Oct 2010 | David J. Dean, DOE Office of the Under Secretary for Science, Advancing Simulations for Science and Innovation |
3 Dec 2010 | Michael J. North, ANL Decision and Information Sciences Div., Introduction to Agent-based Modeling and Simulation |
15 Feb 2013 | Luming Duan, U. of Michigan, Recent progress in quantum computation, networking, and simulation with trapped ions |
24 May 2013 | Peter J. Lu, Harvard U., Modern math in medieval Islamic architecture |
12 Sep 2014 | Mark Snir, Mathematics and Computer Science Div., ANL National Lab., High-Performance Computing: Exascale and Beyond |
3 Apr 2015 | Laura DeMarco, Northwestern U., The Mandelbrot set, equidistribution, and arithmetic |
5 Feb 2016 | Jeffrey W. Elam, Energy Systems Div., ANL National Lab., Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Tunable Resistance Coatings Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition |
27 May 2016 | Paul A. Benioff, ANL Physics, Quantum computing, the early days & Effect of scalar scaling Field on physics, geometry |
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