GWPI Distinguished Lecturer Series
| term | speaker | title |
|---|---|---|
| Winter 2010 | Dr. David R. Nelson Lyman Laboratory of Physics Harvard University |
Gene Surfing in Microorganisms |
| Fall 2009 | Dr. William G. Unruh University of British Columbia |
Deaf and Dumb Holes-- Analogs to White and Black Holes |
| Summer 2009 | Dr. Brian Schmidt Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics |
Observational Evidence for Dark Energy |
| Winter 2009 | Dr. David Goodstein California Institute of Technology |
Out of Gas: the End of the Age of Oil |
| Fall 2008 | Dr. Neil G. Turok Executive Director, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
What Banged? |
| Winter 2008 | Dr. Steven W. Squyres Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University |
Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission |
| Fall 2007 | Dr. Martin Moskovits University of California, Santa Barbara CTO, API Nanotronics Corporation |
Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and its Progeny |
| Winter 2007 | Professor Wolgang Ketterle Nobel laureate Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
New Forms of Quantum Matter Near Absolute Zero Temperature |
| Fall 2006 | Professor Richard Ellis Steele Professor Caltech, Pasadena |
Gravitational Lensing: Einstein's Unfinished Symphony |
| Winter 2006 | Professor Robert Brout Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2004 Wolf Foundation Prize in Physics |
Why is There Something and Not Nothing? |
| Fall 2005 | Professor Robert P. Kirshner Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
A Blunder Undone: Albert Einstein and the Accelerating Universe |
| Winter 2005 | Professor Alain Aspect Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, Universite de Paris-Sud |
Atom Interferometers, Atom Chips, and Bose-Einstein Condensation from Coerent to Quantum Atom Optics |
| Fall 2004 | Professor Gerald Gabrielse Leverett Professor of Physics Harvard University |
Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced slow Antihydrogen |
| Winter 2004 | Dr. Anthony J. Leggett 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Superfluid 3He: The Early Days as Seen by a Theorist |
| Fall 2003 | Professor Charles Slichter University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
50 Years of Surprises: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, A Scientific Evergreen |
| Winter 2003 | Professor George Ellis University of Cape Town,South Africa |
The State of Cosmology 2003: A Critical Review |
| Fall 2002 | Dr. Michael Wortis Simon Fraser University |
The mechanical basis of human red-blood-cell shapes: discocytes, stomatocytes, echinocytes and beyond |
| Winter 2002 | Dr. Melissa Franklin Harvard University |
Measuring this particular elegant universe: From top to bottom |
| Fall 2001 | Dr. William D. Phillips 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics National Institute of Standards and Technolgoy Gaithersburg, Maryland |
Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping |
| Winter 2001 | Professor Gerardus ‘t Hooft 1999 Nobel Laureate in Physics University of Utrecht, Utrecht The Netherlands |
From Subatomic Particle Physics to the Gravitational Force – a Path through the Desert |
| Winter 2001 | Professor Robert J. Birgeneau President, University of Toronto |
Stars, Stripes and high Temperature Superconductors |
| Fall 2000 | Professor Anton Naumovets Institute of physics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine |
Surface Physics and Nanophysics |
| Winter 2000 | Professor Michael S. Turner Department of Asronomy and Astrophysics University of Chicago |
Cosmology: From Quantum Fluctuations to the Accelerating Universe |
| Fall 1999 | Dr. Paul Corkum Steacie Institute for Meolecular Sciences National Research Council of Canada Ottawa, ON |
Ultra short Pulse Science: From Femtoseconds to Attoseconds |
| Winter 1999 | Dr. John N. Bahcall Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey |
What Have We Learned About Solar Neutrinos? |
| Fall 1998 | Professor V. Adrian Parsegian Natl. Inst. Of Child Health and Development Bethesday, MD |
Forces Between Biomolecules: where Physics, Chemistry and Biology Meet |
| Fall 1997 | Professor Alan Astbury TRIUMF University of BC |
TRIUMF and Its Science |
| Spring 1997 | Professor George F.R. Ellis University of Cape Town |
Modern Cosmology and the Limits of Science V. |
| Fall 1996 | Professor E.J. Heller Harvard University |
Quantum Billiards: Theory and Experiment |
| Spring 1996 | Professor C.W.F. Everitt Stanford University |
Testing Einstein in Space: A Marriage of Physics & Technology |
| Fall 1995 | Professor Werner Israel University of Alberta |
Black Holes: The Inside View |
| Spring 1995 | Professor Alec Stewart Queen's University |
Early Days of Neutron Scattering |
| Fall 1994 | Professor J. Woodland Hastings Harvard University |
Biological Clocks |
| Spring 1994 | Dr. G. Brassard University of Montreal |
Quantum Cryptograpghy and Other Magic |
| Fall 1993 | Professor Nicholas Kaiser University of Toronto |
Testing the "Cold Dark Matter" model for cosmological structure |
| Spring 1993 | Dr. Anthony J. Leggett University of Illinois |
Quantum Mechanics and Macroscopic Realism AND The Great 3He-B Nucleation Mystery - A Real-life Physics Whodunit |
| Fall 1992 | Dr. George Stegeman University of Central Florida |
Nonlinear Optics of Linear Conjugated Polymers AND Nonlinear Optical Materials: From Physics to All-Optical Switching Devices |
| Spring 1992 | Dr. Donald R. Huffman University of Arizona |
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| Fall 1991 | Dr. Peter Carruthers University of Arizona |
From Photons to Hadrons to Galaxies: How to analyze the texture of matter distributions |
| Spring 1991 | Professor Gordon S. Kino Stanford University |
Scanning Optical Microscopy |
| Fall 1990 | Dr. Digby J. McLaren The Royal Society of Canada |
Geological Consequences of Giant Impacts |
| Spring 1990 | Professor Neil W. Ashcroft Cornell University |
Closing-in on the metal-insulator transition in dense hydrogen |
