July - December, 2018 |
10/17, 3:30pm |
Michael Nauenberg
UC Santa Cruz |
Visiting Newton's atelier before the Principia, 1679-1684[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2018 |
6/05, 4:00pm |
Wolfgang Ketterle
MIT |
How to simulate new forms of matter with ultracold atoms -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
5/30, 2:00pm |
Laura Baudis
Univ. of Zurich & KITP |
Results from the 1 tonne*year dark matter search with XENON1T[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
5/29, 4:00pm |
Zvonimir Dogic
UCSB |
Topological defects in active nematics -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
5/15, 4:00pm |
Josh Deutsch
UCSC |
Making a computer out of junk DNA -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
5/08, 4:00pm |
Ehud Altman
UC Berkeley |
Chaos, thermalization and many-body localization: how quantum butterflies produce classical storms -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
5/02, 2:00pm |
Dennis Lehmkuhl
Caltech |
General Relativity as a Hybrid theory: The Genesis of Einstein's work on the problem of motion[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
4/24, 4:00pm |
Benjamin A. Mazin
UCSB |
Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for Astronomy -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
4/17, 4:00pm |
Andre Moreira
Novihum Technologies |
An Alternative Career -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
4/04, 2:00pm |
Brad Marston
Brown Univ & KITP |
Topological Origin of Equatorial Waves[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Video] |
4/03, 4:00pm |
Hugh Lippincott
Fermilab |
Searching for dark matter -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
3/1, 12:15pm |
Douglas Jerolmack
Univ. of Penn & KITP |
Making the Montecito Mudslides: Unpacking the physics of debris flows[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
2/22, 4:00pm |
Xiao Luo
Yale |
Neutrinos: A ν torch to new physics -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
2/14, 2:00pm |
Eric DeGiuli
École normale supérieure |
From neural networks to the structure of language: a physicist's perspective[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
1/09, 4:00pm |
Cristina Marchetti
Syracuse University |
The Physics of Active Matter -- Physics Department Colloquium[Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2017 |
12/13, 2:00pm |
Masaki Oshikawa
ISSP-Tokyo |
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition and Haldane Gap Phenomena -- an extraordinary story behind the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016[Embargoed] |
11/15, 4:00pm |
Konstantin Batygin
Caltech |
Planet Nine from Outer Space[Podcast][Video] |
11/03, 4:00pm |
Iair Arcavi
(UCSB)
Curtis McCully
(LCOGT)
Andy Howell
(UCSB) |
A kilonova discovered from the gravitational waves from merging neutron stars[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Video] |
January - June, 2017 |
3/08, 3:30pm |
Doug Scalapino
UCSB |
Why did it take over 40 years from the experimental discovery of superconductivity to the BCS theory and will it take this long to understand the high Tc superconductors?[Podcast][Video] |
3/09, 4:00pm |
Federico Marinacci
MIT |
Challenges and future directions in cosmological simulations[Podcast][Video] |
3/02, 4:00pm |
Xi Dong
Institute for Advanced Study |
Spacetime and Gravity from Quantum Error Correction[Podcast][Video] |
2/28, 12:30pm |
Chang-Goo Kim
Princeton |
Supernova driven galactic winds and synthetic observations using TIGRESS[Podcast][Video] |
2/27, 4:00pm |
Chang-Goo Kim
Princeton |
Galactic star formation rates regulated by star formation feedback[Podcast][Video] |
2/23, 12:30pm |
Thomas Dumitrescu
Harvard |
How Many Degrees of Freedom Can Fit in a Quantum Field?[Podcast][Video] |
2/14, 12:30pm |
Mike McCourt
KITP |
Adventures in Galaxy Gas Physics[Podcast][Video] |
1/19, 11:30am |
Marie Farge
(ENS Paris)
Laurette Tuckerman
(PMMH) |
Open Access Publishing: How to disseminate our articles as efficiently as possible? Is open access a good solution? (Informal discussion)[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2016 |
11/30, 2:00pm |
Mike Zaletel
Princeton |
Symmetry constraints in quantum materials: making the most of seeing nothing[Podcast][Video] |
11/09, 2:00pm |
Lars Brink
Chalmers |
Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prizes[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2016 |
6/15, 11:15am |
Charlie Marcus
NBI |
New Materials for Quantum Computing[Video] |
4/20, 2:00pm |
Yitang Zhang
UCSB |
Small gaps between prime numbers[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
2/24, 2:00pm |
Phillip Schewe
Univ. Maryland & KITP Journalist in Residence |
Spacetraveler's Manifesto: the Other-worldly Career of Freeman Dyson[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
3/11, 2:00pm |
Rainer Weiss
MIT |
100 Years of gravitational waves: The observation of a binary black hole collision[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Video] |
3/09, 2:00pm |
Brandon Brown
University of San Francisco |
The Historical Max Planck[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
3/02, 2:00pm |
Jorge José
Indiana University |
How the statistical properties of human motions reveal some of the workings of our nervous system[Podcast][Video] |
2/24, 2:00pm |
Phillip Schewe
Univ. Maryland & KITP Journalist in Residence |
Science and Sublime: Two ways of viewing the world[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
1/13, 2:00pm |
Phillip Schewe
Univ. Maryland & KITP Journalist in Residence |
Physics by Press Conference: How discoveries get announced[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
July - December, 2015 |
10/28, 2:00pm |
Zohar Komargodski
Weizmann Inst. |
The Space of Quantum Field Theories[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
10/26, 11:00am |
Zohar Komargodski
Weizmann Inst. |
Comments on Disordered Conformal Field Theories[Podcast][Video] |
9/30, 2:00pm |
Ken Kosik
UCSB |
Everything known about Alzheimer's disease that a physicist might want to know[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2015 |
5/06, 2:00pm |
Peter Pesic
St. John's College and Harvard University |
Music and the making of modern science[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Video] |
3/09, 12:30pm |
Radu Coldea
University of Oxford |
Experimental realization of Ising quantum criticality: Dirac spectrum and emergent E8 symmetry[Embargoed] |
2/18, 2:00pm |
Sheldon Lee Glashow
Harvard University, Boston University |
A Parable of the Pure and the Practical: Why We Must Pursue Basic Scientific Research[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2014 |
11/14, 3:30pm |
Albert Libchaber
Rockefeller University |
Microbes (bacteria and ciliates) in the soil ecosystem[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2014 |
5/12, 1:30pm |
Kyle Shen
Cornell |
Shining Light on Correlated Quantum Materials: The Story from Einstein's Photoelectrons[Podcast][Video] |
3/06, 3:30pm |
David Gross
KITP |
Yang-Mills Theory[Podcast][Video] |
2/05, 2:00pm |
Walter Kohn, Jim Klingshirn
UCSB |
Visual Distortions in Macular Degeneration: Quantitative Diagnosis and Correction[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
1/15, 2:00pm |
Mike Gazzaniga
Director of Sage Center for the Study of Mind, UCSB |
Unity in a Modular World[Embargoed] |
1/09, 3:30pm |
Satoru Nakatsuji
Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Tokyo |
Emergent Quantum Phenomena in Novel Correlated Materials[Embargoed] |
1/08, 2:00pm |
Philip Kim
Columbia University |
Bloch, Landau, and Dirac: Hofstadter's Butterfly in Graphene[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2013 |
11/26, 12:30pm |
Xi Dong
Stanford |
Holographic Entanglement Entropy for General Higher Derivative Gravity[Podcast][Video] |
10/30, 2:00pm |
Harry Nelson
UCSB |
First Science Results from the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) Dark Matter Experiment[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
8/23, 4:00 p.m. |
Joe Incandela
UCSB |
Inauguration to the Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Chair in Experimental Science[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2013 |
2/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Paul Hansma
UCSB, Physics |
From Broida to Bedside: From Fundamental to Clinical Research on Bone Fracture[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2012 |
6/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Mark Dennis
University of Bristol |
Knotting Nodes of Light[Podcast][Video] |
5/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Bill Unruh
UBC & KITP |
Measurement of the Hawking Temperature for an Analog Horizon[Podcast][Video] |
04/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dam Thanh Son
UW |
Triangle Anomalies in Landau's Fermi Liquid Theory[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
03/01, 3:30 p.m. |
Edward Seidel
NSF |
The Data and Computer-Driven Transformation of Modern Science[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2011 |
10/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Joseph Avron
Technion |
Baron von Munchhausen and the Cat: Swimming in Curved Space[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2011 |
5/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Kenneth Kosik
UCSB |
Encoding Contingency[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
5/13, 12:00 p.m. |
Avi Loeb
Harvard CfA |
Future Frontiers in Astrophysics: Suggestions for Young Researchers[Podcast][Video] |
5/11, 2:00 p.m. |
John Learned
Univ. Hawaii |
Review of Discoveries and Preview of Exciting Prospects in the Study of the Ghostly Neutrino[Podcast][Video] |
3/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Peter Mucha
University of North Carolina |
Community Detection in Multislice Networks[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
3/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Manfred Eigen
Max Planck, Gottingen |
The Origin and Evolution of Life: A Physical Problem?[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
2/02, 4:00 p.m. |
Ed Bertschinger
MIT |
Diversity and Excellence in Physics[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2010 |
11/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Chuck Stevens
The Salk Institute |
Physics-style Theory Can be Used to Discover a Universal Principle Governing the Design of Neural Network[Podcast][Video] |
10/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Michael Hausser
Univ. College London |
Using Light to Control Behaviour - the Promise of Optogenetics[Embargoed] |
9/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Chris Greene
Univ. of Colorado |
Universality in Few-body Systems[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2010 |
4/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dieter Luest
LMU |
Strings at the LHC[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
4/06, 3:30 p.m. |
David MacKay
University of Cambridge |
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air[Podcast][Video] |
3/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Robert Brandenberger
McGill Univ. & KITP |
Testing String Theory with Cosmological Observations[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
3/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Stanley Deser
Brandeis Univ. and Caltech |
Quantum Gravity and Its (Dis)contents[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
2/02, 4:00 p.m. |
Walter Kohn
UCSB |
A World Powered Predominantly by Solar and Wind Energy[Podcast][Video] |
2/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Miguel Eckstein
UCSB |
Linking Neurons to Individual Differences in Perceptual Skill[Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2009 |
11/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Charles Bennett
IBM |
Quantum Information and the Birth and Death of Complexity[Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2009 |
5/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Victor Yakovenko
Univ. of Maryland |
New Developments in Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Video] |
5/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Robijn Bruinsma
UCLA |
Physics and Mathematics of Cancer Metastasis[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
3/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Zohar Nussinov
Wash Univ.-St. Louis |
Glassy Dynamics and Unusual Thermodynamics on Curved Surfaces[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
2/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Rajan Gupta
LANL |
The Many Faces of the Global Energy Challenge Viewed Through a Global Observatory[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2008 |
12/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Zvi Bern
UCLA |
Harmony in Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Gravity[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
12/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Dennis Atterton, J. Kuchera-Morin
L. Putnam, C. Roads, & B. Sturm |
Sonal Atoms - Atomic Decomposition/Composition of Sound and, Experiencing the Quantum Realm - Visualizing and Sonifying the Bloch Sphere and Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation[Podcast][Video] |
10/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Mehran Kardar
MIT & KITP |
The Elusiveness of Polymer Knots[Podcast][Video] |
10/08, 2:00pm |
Yoseph Imry
Weizmann Inst. of Science |
Slow Relaxation and Aging in the Electron Glass[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
9/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Luca Peliti
Univ. Federico II |
The Puzzle of the Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
8/12, 5:00 p.m. |
Robert Socolow
Princeton Univ. |
Technologies for Living in a Greenhouse[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2008 |
5/22, 4:00 p.m. |
John Learned
Univ. of Hawaii |
Hanohano: Mobile Neutrino Detectors for Mixing, Masses, Geology, and Reactor Snooping[Slides] |
5/21, 2:00 p.m. |
David Awschalom
UCSB |
Engaging Diamonds in the Quantum Age -- UCSB Faculty Research Lectureship[Podcast][Video] |
4/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Eva Silverstein
Stanford University |
Inflationary Theory, String Theory and the CMB[Podcast][Video] |
2/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Eliezer Rabinovici
Hebrew Univ., Racah Inst |
SESAME- Reality or a Parallel Universe?[Podcast][Protected][Video] |
2/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Roni Harnik
Stanford |
The LHC, New Symmetries and New Forces[Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2007 |
8/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Reinhard Genzel
Max Planck & UC Berkeley |
The Nuclear Star Cluster and Central Massive Black Hole[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Video] |
9/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Karin Dahmen
UIUC |
Crackling Noise: Learning from Magnets about Earthquakes?[Podcast][Video] |
10/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Doug Scalapino
UCSB, Physics |
The Question of Pairing Glue in the Cuprate Superconductors[Podcast][Video] |
11/28, 2:00 p.m. |
David Hitlin
Caltech |
The Future of Heavy Flavor Physics[Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2007 |
4/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Stefania Tutino
UCSB |
Copernicanism and the Catholic Church in the Early Seventeenth Century: New and Old Science in Context[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
5/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Ed van den Heuvel
University of Amsterdam |
The European Discovery of Australia[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
5/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Yves Pomeau
Ecole Normale Sup, Paris |
Optical Solitons as Quantum Objects[Podcast][Video] |
5/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Burkhard Militzer
Carnegie Institution of Washington |
Understanding the Interiors and Evolution of Giant Planets Through First-Principles Computer Simulations[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
5/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Gabriela Gonzalez
LSU |
Searching for Gravitational Waves[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2006 |
9/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Giuseppe Mussardo
SISSA |
Ludwig Boltzmann -- A Disordered Genius[Podcast][Video] |
10/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Mr. George Johnson
KITP |
Strange Beauty: The Unauthorized Biography of Murray Gell-Mann[Podcast][Video] |
12/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Prof. Shri Kulkarni
Caltech |
The Space Interferometer Mission: Parallaxes, Planets and More[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2006 |
1/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andreas Albrecht
UC Davis |
Fun with Dark Energy[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
2/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Morrison
Duke University |
Decay of False Vacua[Podcast][Video] |
2/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ruth Gregory
University of Durham |
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That String ... or, Can We Really Have Black Strings in Higher Dimensions?[Podcast][Video] |
4/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ed van den Heuvel
Universiteit van Amsterdam |
Historical Notes on the Dutch and American-Dutch "schools" in Astronomy and Their Relations with Physics[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
4/24, 12:15 p.m. |
Dr. John Clarke
UC Berkeley |
Two-Coupled Flux Qubits with Controllable Interaction[Slides] |
5/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Rajnish Mehra
UCSB & National Bureau of Economic Research |
The Equity Premium: Why is it a Puzzle?[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
5/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Bill Rice
UCSB |
Reproductive Interactions Between the Sexes: Sexual Conflict or Mutualistic Sexual Selection?[Podcast][Video] |
5/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Andrew Hamilton
University Colorado |
Inside Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
5/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Adrian Parsegian
NIH & KITP |
Van der Waals Forces for Geeks, Geckos, and Grad Students[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
July - December, 2005 |
9/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Dave Morrison
KITP & Duke University |
How Much Mathematics Does a Theoretical Physicist Need to Know?[Podcast][Video] |
10/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. James Bjorken
Stanford |
From Dark Energy to the Multiverse[Podcast][Video] |
11/09, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alexei Kitaev
KITP & Microsoft |
Anyons in an Exactly Solved Model and Beyond[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
January - June, 2005 |
1/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ralph Archuleta
Institute for Crustal Studies, UCSB |
Earthquakes May be Even More Dangerous: Supershear Rupture Velocities[Slides][Video] |
1/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Albert Libchaber
Rockefeller |
Some Physical Aspects of the Origin of Life and of Artificial Cells[Slides][Video] |
1/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ned Wright
UCLA |
Fact and Fiction in the Cosmological Literature[Slides][Video] |
3/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eric Siggia
Rockefeller University |
Computing Evolution and Development from the Genome |
4/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sara Diamond
Banff & UCLA |
Science and the Art of Visualization[Slides][Video] |
4/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Gary Horowitz
UCSB |
Spacetime in String Theory[Slides][Video] |
6/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Petr Hořava
Berkeley |
Universality in Fermi Liquids, D-Branes and K-Theory[Slides][Video] |
July - December, 2004 |
8/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Tom Siegfried
Reporter, Dallas Morning News |
Scientists and Journalists: Worlds in Collision, or Ships Passing in the Dark[Slides][Video] |
10/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. W. Patrick McCray
UCSB |
Planning Astronomy's Next Big Machines: Reflections on Some Recent History[Slides][Video] |
January - June, 2004 |
1/20, 1:00 p.m. |
Dr. Bob Kirshner
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
The Stop and Go Universe: Observing the Era of Cosmic Deceleration[Video] |
1/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Nate Lewis
Caltech |
The Future of Power and Energy in the World[Video] |
2/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Arkady Vainshtein
University of Minnesota |
Can the Graviton Have Mass?[Video] |
2/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jeffrey Goldstone
MIT/Caltech |
Quantum Algorithms[Video] |
3/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Zvi Bern
KITP & UCLA |
Magic Tricks for Scattering Amplitudes[Slides][Video] |
3/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Raphael Bousso
Berkeley |
Space, Time and Information[Video] |
3/10, 4:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Pine
UCSB |
Colloidal Molecules and Finite Sphere Packings[Video] |
4/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Duncan Haldane
KITP & Princeton |
Exotic Photonics[Slides][Video] |
4/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Brad Marston
Brown University |
The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming[Slides][Video] |
4/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alex Filippenko
Berkeley |
Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for a Decelerating, then Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy[Slides][Video] |
4/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jason Ho
KITP & Ohio State University |
The Exploding Field of Quantum Gases[Video] |
5/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ila Prasad Fiete
KITP |
From Neural Activity to Behavior: Dynamics and Learning in the Brain |
5/18, 2:15 p.m. |
Dr. Alain Aspect
Institut d'Optique, Universitaire d'Orsay |
Einstein Podolsky Rosen Correlations, Bell's Theorem, and Quantum Entanglement: The Naive View of an Experimentalist[Slides][Video] |
6/02, 0:00 |
Dr. Victor Yakovenko
University of Maryland |
Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth[Slides][Video] |
July - December, 2003 |
7/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan
KITP & University of Missouri |
A Model for Perceptual Space[Slides][Video] |
9/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Gabriele Veneziano
CERN/TH & KITP |
The Beginning of String Theory or: How Nature Deceived Us in the Sixties[Slides][Video] |
9/17, 0:00 |
Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob
KITP & Tel-Aviv University |
Unfolding of Recorded Brain Activity |
9/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Herbert Levine
UCSD |
Non-Equilibrium Physics Underlying Biological Function: The Case of Bacterial Colony Patterns[Slides][Vid][Video] |
10/01, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Tom Banks
UC Santa Cruz and Rutgers University |
Quantum Theories of Gravity and the Cosmological Constant[Slides][Video] |
10/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Albert Wheelon |
Corona: The First Reconnaissance Satellites[Video] |
10/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Leda Cosmides, UCSB
Dr. John Tooby, UCSB |
Coalitional Psychology and Social Categorization[Video] |
11/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Pierre Coullet
KITP & University of Nice |
Hooke and Newton[Video] |
11/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Leonard Sander
University of Michigan |
Epidemics, Disorder, and Percolation[Slides][Video] |
12/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Tamás Vicsek
Eötvös University, Hungary |
Networks in Life: From Cellular Metabolism to Co-Authorship[Slides][Video] |
January - June, 2003 |
1/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Baltimore
Caltech |
Controlling Gene Expression in Immune Cells and Neurons[Video] |
1/22, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Lewis Wolpert
University College London |
Evolutionary Psychology of Depression[Slides][Video] |
2/05, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Lewis Wolpert
UCL |
Triumph of the Embryo[Slides][Video] |
2/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Hong Liu
Rutgers |
The Challenging Cosmological Singularity[Slides][Video] |
3/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ilya Nemenman
KITP |
A New Kind of Science?[Slides][Video] |
3/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Pierre-Gilles De Gennes
Paris Collège de France & Institute Curie |
The Dynamics of Cellular Adhesion[Slides][Video] |
3/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Murray Gell-Mann
Santa Fe Institute |
Distant Relationships Among Human Languages[Video] |
4/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Marc Mézard
CNRS - Université Paris Sud |
Glass Phases in Optimization Problems[Slides][Video] |
5/07, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Brenner
Harvard |
The Ongoing Saga Surrounding the Velocity Fluctuations in Sedimentation[Slides][Video] |
July - December, 2002 |
9/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Barbara Romanowicz
Berkeley |
Global Seismic Tomography: A Window into the Earth's Deep Interior[Slides][Video] |
9/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Jim Peebles
Princeton University |
Problems with the Standard Cosmological Model[Video] |
10/02, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Charles Townes
Berkeley |
Why Didn't We Have Lasers 25 Years Sooner?[Video] |
10/09, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Christian Jacob
University of Calgary |
If Darwin Had Been a Programmer -- Evolutionary Design by Computers[Video] |
10/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Steve Hsu
Institute of Theoretical Science, University Oregon |
Superconductivity in Quark Matter[Slides][Video] |
10/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Lawrence Krauss
Case Western Reserve |
Life, The Universe and Nothing: The Future of Life in and Ever-Expanding Universe[Video] |
11/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Julie Theriot
Stanford |
Crawling Cells & Comet Tails[Video] |
12/04, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Dickinson
Caltech |
How Flies Fly[Video] |
January - June, 2002 |
1/9, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Pierre Ramond
Univ of Florida |
Neutrinos: Windows Beyond the Standard Model[Slides][Video] |
1/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Washington Taylor
MIT |
Nonperturbative Approaches to String Theory[Slides] |
1/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Brewer
Monterey Bay Aquarium |
Holding Global Warming in Check? Advances in the Science of Deep Ocean CO2 Sequestration[Slides][Video] |
1/31, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Philippe Nozières
Institut Laue Langevin |
On the Bose Einstein Condensation and Superfluidity[Slides][Video] |
2/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. William Rice
UCSB |
Evolutionary Conflict Between the Sexes[Slides][Video] |
2/14, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Paul Wiegmann
James Franck Institute |
Viscous Fingering and a Shape of an Electronic Droplet in the Quantum Hall Regime[Video] |
2/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alessandra Buonanno
Caltech & Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects in the Search for Gravitational Waves[Slides][Video] |
3/06, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Ben Owen
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
The r-Mode Instability, or: How the Coriolis Force Makes Gravitational Waves[Video] |
3/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Matthew W. Choptuik
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UBC |
Simulating Black Hole Spacetimes: Successes and Challenges[Slides][Vid][Video] |
3/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Sean Carroll
Enrico Fermi Institute |
Dark Energy and the Preposterous Universe[Slides][Aud] |
4/03, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Stephen Hawking
University of Cambridge |
Why Does Inflation Start at the Top of the Hill?[Slides][Podcast][Video] |
4/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Terrence Sejnowski
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Salk Institute |
Visual Awareness: Back to the Future[Slides][Video] |
5/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Birgitta Whaley
Berkeley |
Flying Cryostats: Superfluid Solvation and Molecular Motions in Helium Droplets[Slides][Video] |
July - December, 2001 |
9/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Serge Haroche
École Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Paris |
Manipulating Entanglement in Cavity QED Experiments[Slides] |
10/08, 4:00 p.m. |
Dr. A. Yacoby
Weizmann Institute |
Tunneling Spectroscopy of Elementary Excitation in 1D |
10/10, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mehran Kardar
ITP & MIT |
The `Friction' of Vacuum, and other Fluctuation-Induced Forces[Slides][Video] |
10/12, 10:30 a.m. |
Dr. Ilya Nemenman
ITP |
Predictability, Complexity and Learning[Slides][Video] |
10/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Victor Gurarie
Oxford |
Disorder Symmetry and Universality Classes[Slides][Video] |
10/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. J. E. Mooij
ITP & Delft Technical University |
Persistent-Current Quantum Bits[Video] |
10/24, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. S. C. Zhang
Stanford University |
A Four Dimensional Generalization of the Quantum Hall Effect[Video] |
11/05, 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Neil Turok
Cambridge |
A Cyclic Model of the Universe[Video] |
11/06, 2:30 p.m. |
Dr. Kay Wiese
ITP |
Disordered Systems and the Functional Renormalization Group[Slides][Video] |
11/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. J. E. Mooij
ITP & Delft University of Technology |
Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Josephson Junction Circuits[Video] |
11/19, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Boris Shraiman
Bell Labs |
Statistical Mechanics in Modeling of Transcription Control Networks |
11/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Art Wolfe
UCSD |
Does the Fine Structure Constant Vary Over Cosmological Time Scales?[Slides][Aud] |
12/12, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mark Raizen
ITP & University of Texas |
New Frontiers in Controlling Matter with Light[Slides][Video] |
January - June, 2001 |
2/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. David Kleinfeld UCSD |
Phase Oscillators and Traveling Electrical Waves in Cortex[Slides][Aud] |
2/28, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Steven Girvin
ITP & Indiana University |
Physical Realizations of Quantum Bits: Trapped Ions and Cooper Pair Boxes[Slides][Aud] |
3/14, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Angela Olinto
U. Chicago |
The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays[Slides][Aud] |
3/21, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Henry W. Sobel
University of California, Irvine |
Neutrino Mass from Super-Kamiokande[Slides][Aud] |
4/11, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Peskin
SLAC |
A Decade of Precision Electroweak Experiments[Slides][Aud] |
4/13, 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Michael H. Freedman
Microsoft |
A Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnet Which "Knows" Chern-Simons Theory[Slides][Video] |
4/18, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Thomas Junk
CERN |
Searches for the Higgs Boson at LEP[Slides][Aud] |
5/18, 11:00 a.m. |
Dr. Alain Connes
IHES/MSRI |
Noncommutative Geometry[Aud] |
5/23, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Alex Filippenko
UC Berkeley |
Einstein's Biggest Blunder? The Case for an Accelerating Universe[Slides][Aud] |
5/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. John Schwarz
Caltech |
Early History of String Theory: A Personal Perspective[Slides][Aud] |
August - December, 2000 |
8/30, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. John Friedman
ITP & University Wisconsin |
Gravity Waves from Fast Pulsars: Surprise and Speculation[Slides][Aud] |
9/13, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Neil Turok
Cambridge University |
Before Inflation[Slides][Aud] |
9/27, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Mark Newman
Center for Applied Mathematics, Cornell University & Santa Fe Institute |
The Structure of Scientific Collaboration Networks[Slides][Aud] |
10/11, 0:00 |
Dr. H. Orland
ITP & Saclay |
Protein Folding: Simple Models[Slides][Video] |
10/18, 0:00 |
Dr. Steven Girvin
ITP & Indiana University |
Physics of "Which Layer?" Uncertainty[Slides][Video] |
10/25, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. James Cordes
ITP & Cornell |
Extraterrestrial Intelligence? Should We Search For It?[Slides][Aud] |
11/08, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Kevin Plaxco
UCSB |
Protein Folding Kinetics Made Simple(r)[Slides][Aud] |
11/15, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Darwin Chang
SLAC |
Overview on CP Violation[Slides][Aud] |
11/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Raymond Jeanloz
UCB |
High-Pressure Physics and Planetary Interiors[Slides][Aud] |
12/6, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Donald G. Saari
University of California, Irvine |
An Election Year Mess! Finding Relief through Tools of Chaos and Symmetry from Physics and Mathematics[Slides][Aud] |
January - June, 2000 |
1/19, 12:30 p.m. |
Dr. Luciano Pietronero
Rome |
Non Adiabatic Super Conductivity in Fullerenes and Oxides[Slides][Aud] |
1/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Rene Ong
University of Chicago |
Astronomy of the Very High Energy Universe[Slides][Aud] |
2/2, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. John Huchra
ITP & Harvard Smithsonian CfA |
Mapping the Nearby Universe: Cosmic Flows, the Density Field and the 2 Micron All Sky Survey[Slides][Aud] |
2/9, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Eric Siggia
Rockefeller |
Analysis of Gene Expression in Yeast[Slides] |
2/16, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Marc Kamionkowski
Caltech |
The First 10-36 Seconds[Aud] |
3/8, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Akikazu Hashimoto
ITP |
Non-Commutative Geometry[Slides][Aud] |
3/22, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Harald Fritzsch
Universitaet Muenchen |
The Problem of Mass for Quarks and Leptons[Slides][Aud] |
4/5, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Leslie Rosenberg
MIT |
Searching for Dark Matter Axions[Aud] |
4/6, 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Michael Freedman
Microsoft |
Quantum Computation and the Localization of Modular Functors[Slides][Aud] |
4/26, 2:00 p.m. |
Professor J. C. Seamus Davis
UCB |
Imaging the Effects on Superconductivity of Individual Impurity Atoms[Aud] |
5/3, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Meg Urry
STScI |
Blazars, Jets, and the Black Hole - Galaxy Connection[Slides][Aud] |
5/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Keith Moffatt
ITP & Cambridge |
Euler's Disk: A Physics Toy; Theory and Experiment[Aud] |
6/7, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Henry Abarbanel
U.C. San Diego |
Small Networks of Biological and Electronic Neurons[Slides][Aud] |
July-December, 1999 |
7/27 10:15 a.m. |
Dr. Amanda Peet
ITP |
Recent Developments in String Theory[Slides] |
9/29, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Steve Kivelson
UCLA and Stanford |
Stripe Phases in High-Temperature Superconductors[Slides][Aud] |
10/6, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. E. Sterl Phinney
Caltech |
LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna):the Gravitational Wave Detector Both Physicists and Astronomers Can Love[Aud] |
10/20, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Paul Hansma
UCSB Physics Dept. |
Single Molecule Biomechanics: A Theoretical Opportunity?[Slides][Aud] |
11/3, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Dr. Curtis Roads
CREATE, Department of Music, UCSB |
New Frontiers in Electronic Music |
12/1, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Lev Okun
ITEP, Russia |
Mass, Photons, Gravity[Aud] |
12/6, 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. William Clark
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, UCLA |
Sex and the Origin of Death[Slides][Aud] |
January - June, 1999 |
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
2/24 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Walter Kohn
UCSB Physics |
Electronic Structure of Matter: Wave Functions and Density Functionals[Aud] |
3/3 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. James Langer
UCSB Physics |
How Solids Break[Aud] |
3/24 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Thibault Damour
IHES, France |
Experimental Tests of Relativistic Gravity[Slides][Aud] |
4/14 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. James Bardeen
ITP & Univ Washington |
Fractal Landscape with Fractal Rivers[Slides][Aud] |
4/21 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Frank Wilczek
IAS
Princeton |
QCD in Extreme Conditions |
4/28 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. John Wikswo
Vanderbilt Univ. |
Cardiac Electrodynamics - the Good, the Bad, the Non-linear[Slides][Aud] |
4/29 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. John Wikswo
Vanderbilt Univ. |
Wavevector Dynamics and Reentrant Activation in the Heart |
5/5 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Deborah Fygenson
UCSB
Physics |
Why is a Microtubule a Tube?[Slides][Aud] |
5/13 3:00 p.m. |
Dr. Marcel Franz
Johns Hopkins Univ. |
Dirac Fermions, Gauge Fields, and the Mixed-state Electronic Structure of the High T_c Cuprates |
5/20 3:30 p.m. |
Dr. Martin Zirnbauer
ITP & Universitat Koln |
Conformal Field Theory of the Integer Quantum Hall Plateau Transition |
6/2 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Savas Dimopoulos
Stanford
Physics Dept. |
Sub-millimeter Size Dimensions and Quantum Gravity at a TeV[Slides][Aud] |
September - December, 1998 |
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
11/4 2:00 |
Dr. Mark Srednicki
UCSB, Physics |
Many Body Quantum Chaos[Slides][Aud] |
11/18 2:00 p.m. |
Dr. Brad Marston
ITP & Brown Univ |
The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming[Slides][Aud] |
January - June, 1998 |
Time |
Speaker |
Title |
2/19 2:00 |
Dr. Christine Davies
Univ of Glasgow |
The Physics of Bottom and Charm: Theory Confronts Experiment[Slides] |
2/20 3:00 |
Dr. Chris Quigg
Fermilab |
Physics with a Millimole of Muons[Slides][Aud] |
2/25 2:00 |
Dr. Leon Balents
ITP |
From meV to MeV and Back: Capitalizing on Field Theory in One-dimensional Correlated Insulators[Slides] |
3/4 2:00 |
Dr. Philip Lubin
UCSB |
The Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Measurements and What We Hope to Learn About the Early Universe[Slides][Aud] |
3/10 4:00 |
Dr. Stephen Shenker
ITP & Rutgers |
M Theory and Matrix Mechanics[Slides] |
3/18 2:00 |
Dr. Anthony Leggett
ITP & Univ of Illinois |
Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics?[Slides][Aud] |
4/1 1:30 |
Dr. Andrew Strominger
ITP & Harvard |
Six-Dimensional String Theories[Slides] |
4/8 2:00 |
Dr. Leo Radzihovsky
Univ of Colorado |
Elasticity, Shape Fluctuations and Phase Transitions of Anisotropic Membranes[Slides][Aud] |
4/15 2:00 |
Dr. Stephen Hawking
ITP & Cambridge Univ |
Inflation: An Open and Shut Case[Slides][Video] |
5/6 2:00 |
Dr. Steven Kivelson
UCLA |
Topological Doping[Slides][Aud] |
5/8 2:00 |
Dr. N. Katherine Hayles
UCLA |
How We Became Posthuman: Humanistic Implications of Recent Research into Cognitive Science and Artificial Life[Slides][Aud] |
5/20 2:00 |
Dr. Leda Cosmides
UCSB, Evolutionary Psychology
Dr. John Tooby
UCSB, Anthropology Dept. |
Has Natural Selection Shaped How Humans Reason?[Aud] |