| 17 Oct 1980 | R. H. Pantell, Stanford, Radiation from channeled electrons and positrons |
| 13 Feb 1981 | M. Parrinello, Trieste and ANL Materials Div., Molecular dynamics study of crystal structure transformations |
| 23 Sep 1981 | Peter Sigmund, Odense, Sputtering of multi-component targets |
| 6 Nov 1981 | I. Schuller, ANL Materials Science Div., Artificial metallic superlattices |
| 5 Feb 1982 | Roger A. Smith, Texas A&M, Many-body Theory Made Planar |
| 19 Nov 1982 | G. Lander, ANL IPNS, The Intense Pulsed Neutron Source - New Opportunities for Research at Argonne |
| 15 Apr 1983 | W. S. Bickel, Arizona, Polarized Light Scattering by Small Particles |
| 25 May 1984 | Horst Stormer, Bell Labs., Fractional Quantization of the Hall Effect |
| 7 Sep 1984 | Anthony J. Leggett, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Quantum Mechanics at a Macroscopic Level |
| 26 Oct 1984 | Sam Liu, ORNL, Heavy Fermion Systems |
| 8 Feb 1985 | R. Stephen Berry, U. of Chicago, Melting of Clusters and Melting |
| 17 May 1985 | David Moncton, BNL, Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering: Recent Accomplishments and Future Opportunities with a 6 GeV Ring |
| 15 Nov 1985 | J. A. Golovchenko, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, Studies of Crystal Surfaces |
| 7 Mar 1986 | K. Douglas Carison, ANL Materials Science Div., Superconductivity in BEDT-TTF-Based Organic Metals |
| 14 Mar 1986 | Innes MacKenzie, Guelph U., Positron Annihilation in Solids |
| 21 Mar 1986 | Gil Perlow, ANL Physics Div., Mossbauer Effect |
| 10 Oct 1986 | A. Libchaber, U. of Chicago, Quasiperiodicity and Chaos: An Experimental Study |
| 12 Dec 1986 | John Schiffer, ANL Physics Div., Is There a Condensed State in Ion Beams? |
| 30 Jan 1987 | Leo Kadanoff, U. of Chicago, Measuring Fractals: Comparison of Theory and Experiment on the Global Properties of a Strange Attractor |
| 10 Apr 1987 | D. W. Capone, II, ANL Materials Science Div., Superconductivity Above Liquid Nitrogen Temperatures in the Y-Ba-Cu-O System |
| 17 Apr 1987 | W. A. Little, Stanford U., Microminiature Refrigeration of the New High Tc Superconducting Chips |
| 30 Oct 1987 | Stephen J. Riley, ANL Chemistry Div., Physics and Chemistry of Isolated Transition Metal Clusters |
| 18 Dec 1987 | Frank Y. Fradin, ANL OTD, Scientific and Technical Opportunities in High Temperature Superconductivity |
| 29 Jan 1988 | David Moncton, ANL Advanced Photon Source, The Advanced Photon Source: a Step Closer to Reality |
| 4 Mar 1988 | Enrico Clementi, IBM Corp., Attempting to Simulate Water as a Liquid and a Solvent on Supercomputers |
| 11 Mar 1988 | Richard Freeman, Bell Labs., The Conductivity of a Simple Metal from Room Temperature to Greater than One Million Degrees |
| 8 Apr 1988 | Karl Hess, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Monte Carlo Simulations of Femtosecond Spectroscopy in Semiconductors |
| 3 Feb 1989 | John Schiffer, ANL Physics Div., Are Crystalline Ion Plasmas Attainable? |
| 14 Apr 1989 | Dieter M. Gruen, ANL Materials Science and Chemistry Divs., Lasers in Surface Science |
| 21 Apr 1989 | Malcolm R. Beasley, Stanford U., igh Temperature Superconductivity: The Questions, Some Answers |
| 5 May 1989 | Thomas F. Rosenbaum, U. of Chicago, Spin Glasses: Models and Methods |
| 12 May 1989 | Russell Messier, Pennsylvania State U., Artificial Diamond: Facts and Fantasies |
| 22 May 1989 | Miquel Salmeron, LBNL, The Study of Surface Structures with the Scanning Tunnelling Microscope |
| 6 Oct 1989 | Richard E. Smalley, Rice U., Photo-electron Spectroscopy of Metal and Semiconductor Clusters |
| 1 Dec 1989 | Katherine J. Strandburg, ANL Materials Science Div., Energy, Entropy, and Quasicrystal Structure |
| 1 Jun 1990 | Gopal Shenoy, ANL Advanced Photon Source, A Random Walk in Science at the Advanced Photon Source |
| 18 Jan 1991 | Peter Sigmund, Odense U. & ANL Physics Div., Cluster Bombardment of Solids; Cluster Fusion? |
| 11 May 1991 | Vladimir I. Man'ko, Lebedev Institute, Nonstationary Casimir Effect for Parametric Quantum Systems |
| 4 Oct 1991 | Kenneth E. Gray, ANL Materials Science Div., Flux Pinning and Dissipation in High-Temperature Superconductors |
| 11 Oct 1991 | D. Peter Siddons, National Synchrotron Light Source, Mossbauer Spectroscopy Using Synchrotron Radiation |
| 13 Dec 1991 | Lee C. Teng, ANL Accelerator Systems Div., Advanced Photon Source - A Third Generation Synchrotron Radiation Source |
| 3 Apr 1992 | Konstantin K. Likharev, SUNY, Stony Brook, Correlated Single-Electron Tunneling |
| 17 Apr 1992 | Alexei Abrikosov, ANL Materials Science Div., Superconductivity: History and Modern State |
| 30 Oct 1992 | Arthur F. Hebard, Bell Labs., C60: From Soot to Superconductivity and Beyond |
| 8 Jan 1993 | Samuel D. Bader, ANL Materials Science Div., Thin-Film Magnetism |
| 5 Mar 1993 | Alexander Pines, U. of California, Applications of Novel NMR Techniques to Solid Materials |
| 19 Mar 1993 | John C. Polanyi, U. of Toronto, Surface Aligned Photochemistry |
| 3 Sep 1993 | Michael Pepper, FRS, Cambridge U., Ballistic Transport in One-Dimensional Semiconductors |
| 3 Dec 1993 | Sidney R. Nagel, U. of Chicago, Relaxation at the Angle of Repose: Flow and Sound in Sand |
| 7 Jan 1994 | Richard W. Siegel, ANL Materials Science Div., Nanostructured Materials |
| 18 Mar 1994 | Donald M. Eigler, IBM Almaden Research Center, Quantum Corrals |
| 9 Sep 1994 | Harry Lipkin, Weizmann Institute of Science, The Mossbauer Effect and the Parton Model: from Crystals to Synchrotron Radiation and Heavy Quarks |
| 9 Dec 1994 | David Ceperley, U. of Illinois, Urbana, The Simulation of Quantum Systems |
| 27 Jan 1995 | Chang C. Tsuei, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Half Integer Flux Quanta in Tricrystal Cuprate Rings - Evidence for d-wave Pairing Symmetry |
| 10 Feb 1995 | John Schiffer, ANL Physics Div., The Way to Crystallization of Confined Ions: Phase Transitions, Normal Modes, and Experiments |
| 10 Mar 1995 | Michael J. Bedzyk, ANL Materials Science Div. & MSE/Northwestern U., X-ray Standing Waves: A Structural Probe for Surface Layers and Thin Films |
| 28 Apr 1995 | Leo Kadanoff, U. of Chicago, Topology Changes and Scaling for Fluid Interfaces |
| 13 Oct 1995 | Carl E. Wieman, U. of Colorado, Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Gas |
| 1 Mar 1996 | Akira Tonomura, Hitachi Advanced Research Lab., Electron Phase Microscopy To Observe Superconducting Vortices |
| 8 Mar 1996 | George Crabtree, ANL Materials Science Div., Dynamics of Vortices in Superconductors |
| 12 Apr 1996 | Edward S. Fry, Texas A&M U., Lasing Without Population Inversion - An Experimental Reality |
| 31 May 1996 | Susan Coppersmith, U. of Chicago, Force Fluctuations in Granular Materials |
| 18 Oct 1996 | Brian Stephenson, ANL Materials Science Div., Intensity Fluctuation Spectroscopy Using Coherent X-Rays: Nano-Scale and Atomic-Scale Dynamics |
| 15 Nov 1996 | Ercen E. Alp, ANL Advanced Photon Source Div., Lattice Dynamics with sub-mev Resolution: First Experimental Results at the APS |
| 24 Jan 1997 | Franco Nori, U. of Michigan, Vortex Dynamics: Plastic Flow, Voltage Bursts, and Avalanches in Superconductors |
| 31 Jan 1997 | Juan-Carlos Campuzano, U. of Illinois, Chicago & ANL Materials Science Div., Pairing and Boson Condensation in High Tc Materials |
| 4 Apr 1997 | Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT, Atoms Behave as Waves: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser |
| 3 Oct 1997 | David Price, ANL Materials Science Div., Stable and Supercooled Hot Liquids |
| 16 Jan 1998 | Anthony J. Leggett, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Superfluidity, Phase Coherence, and the New Bose-condensed Alkali Gases |
| 27 Feb 1998 | Hui Cao, Northwestern U., Semiconductor Cavity QED |
| 3 Apr 1998 | James S. Langer, U. of California, How Solids Break |
| 1 May 1998 | Moses H. Chan, Pennsylvania State U., Disorder and the Superfluid Transitions |
| 5 May 1998 | Daniel Kleppner, MIT, An Atomic Attack on the Semiclassical Gap |
| 29 May 1998 | Peter Schiffer, U. of Notre Dame, Beach Physics: Studies of Wetting and Drag Force in Granular Media |
| 18 Sep 1998 | Seth Putterman, U. of California at Los Angeles, Sonoluminescence: The Star in a Jar |
| 2 Oct 1998 | Wayne Itano, NIST, Boulder, Crystallized Ion Plasmas in a Penning Trap |
| 4 Dec 1998 | Gopal Shenoy, ANL Experimental Facilities Div., Scientific Research at the Advanced Photon Source |
| 14 May 1999 | A. W. Castleman, Penn State U., Atomic and Molecular Clusters: Matter of Nanoscale Dimensions |
| 17 Sep 1999 | David Tománek, Michigan State U., Self-Assembly and Dynamics of Carbon Nanotube Systems |
| 17 Dec 1999 | John R. Arthur, SLAC., Prospects for an X-ray Free-Electron-Laser Light Source and some Possible Scientific Applications |
| 7 Apr 2000 | David J. Dean, ORNL, Phases: From Nuclei to Quantum Dots |
| 5 May 2000 | Dieter Gruen, ANL Chemistry Div., The Egg as Eye: Ultrananocrystalline Diamond in the Cosmos and in the Laboratory |
| 26 May 2000 | Ralf Roehlsberger, U. Rostock, Resonant X-ray Scattering from Rotating Matter: The Nuclear Lighthouse Effect |
| 22 Sep 2000 | George Crabtree, ANL Materials Science Div., Driven Dynamics of Superconducting Vortices |
| 12 Jan 2001 | Thomas Mason, ORNL, The Spallation Neutron Source: A Powerful Tool for Materials Research |
| 26 Jan 2001 | Carl Wieman, U. of Colorado, Quantum Explosions and Implosions in a Bose-Einstein Condensate of Rubidium 85 |
| 2 Feb 2001 | Heinrich Jaeger, U. of Chicago, Is Sand a Solid, a Liquid or a Gas? The Physics of Granular Materials |
| 9 Feb 2001 | J. Murray Gibson, ANL Materials Science Div., Glimpsing Medium-range Order: The Structure of Glass from Fluctuation Electron Microscopy |
| 23 Mar 2001 | Sam D. Bader, ANL Materials Science Div., Nanomagnetism |
| 30 Mar 2001 | Keith Moffat, U. of Chicago, Picosecond Time-resolved Macromolecular Crystallography: Molecular Movies? |
| 7 Dec 2001 | Brent Fultz, Caltech, Vibrational Entropy and Inelastic Scattering |
| 22 Mar 2002 | Millicent Firestone, Argonne National Lab, Self-Assembled Nanostructures |
| 28 Mar 2003 | Steven Rolston, NIST, Ultracold Neutral Plasmas |
| 5 Sep 2003 | Jainendra K. Jain, Pennsylvania State U., The role of analogy in unraveling the fractional quantum Hall effect mystery |
| 10 Oct 2003 | Sam Bader, ANL Materials Science Div., Nanoscience A Source of Innovation for the 21st Century |
| 20 Feb 2004 | Roy Holt, ANL Physics Div., Frontiers at the Femtoscale |
| 17 Sep 2004 | Lev Pitaevskii, U. of Trento and Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, Bose-Einstein Condensate - a New State of Matter |
| 1 Oct 2004 | Ian McNulty, ANL Advanced Photon Source Div., X-ray Vortices |
| 7 Dec 2004 | Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford U., Understanding the Columbia Space Shuttle Accident |
| 9 Dec 2004 | Anthony Leggett, U. of Illinois - Urbama, Superfluidity, phase coherence and the new Bose-condensed alkali gases |
| 21 Jan 2005 | Dieter Gruen, ANL Materials Science Div., Fullerenes, nanotubes and ultrananocrystalline diamond: There's a bit less room at the bottom |
| 11 Mar 2005 | Cheng Chin, U. of Chicago, Converting a Bose-Einstein condensate into a Cooper-paired degenerate Fermi gas |
| 8 Apr 2005 | Moses Chan, Pennsylvania State U., Can a solid be superfluid? |
| 9 Sep 2005 | David Campbell, Boston U., From Fermi Pasta Ulam (FPU) to Intrinsic Localized Modes (ILMs) |
| 13 Jan 2006 | Hui Cao, Northwestern U., Chaotic Mircolasers |
| 3 Mar 2006 | Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Lab., Excitonic Solar Cells: from Quantum Dots and Proteins to Carbon Nanotubes |
| 7 Mar 2006 | Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT, New Forms of Quantum Matter Near Absolute Zero Temperature |
| 2 Jun 2006 | Evelyn L. Hu, U. of California at Santa Barbara, Quantum Dots in Photonic Crystal Cavities: Tuning the Optical Environment at the Nanoscale |
| 8 Sep 2006 | Gary Wiederrecht, ANL Chemistry Div., Imaging and spectroscopy of nanoscale plasmonic heterostructures |
| 23 Feb 2007 | HongWen Jiang, U. of California at Los Angeles, Manipulation and Detection of Individual Electron Spins in Nanostructured Semiconductors |
| 9 Mar 2007 | Dean Miller, ANL Materials Science Div., Correlating Microstructure and Current Transport in High Temperature Superconductor Wires |
| 28 Sep 2007 | Mike Norman, ANL Materials Science Div., High-Temperature Superconductivity - After 20 Years, Where Are We At? |
| 9 Nov 2007 | David S. Weiss, Penn State U., Experiments with Atoms in One and Zero Dimensions |
| 7 Dec 2007 | Chia-Ling Chien, Johns Hopkins U., Nanomagnets: Poles or no Poles |
| 4 Apr 2008 | Anneli Munkholm, Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, High Power Light Emitting Diodes: Progress & Challenges |
| 3 Oct 2008 | Mark G. Raizen, U. of Texas at Austin, Comprehensive Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion |
| 7 Nov 2008 | Andrew W. Sandorfi, Jefferson National Accelerator Lab., Novel Physics with Frozen-Spin Polarized Solid Hydrogen |
| 12 Dec 2008 | George Crabtree, ANL Materials Science Div., Superconductivity as an Energy Carrier |
| 20 Feb 2009 | Deborah Jin, JILA, U. of Colorado, Making Ultracold Polar Molecules |
| 24 Apr 2009 | Boldizsár Jankó, U. of Notre Dame, Universal Emission Intermittency in Quantum Dots, Nanorods and Nanowires |
| 30 Oct 2009 | Tijana Rajh, ANL Center for Nanoscale Materials, Healing of Nanoparticle Surfaces: An Opportunity for Improved Energy Conversion |
| 6 Nov 2009 | Joseph Carlson, LANL, Rich Physics from Simple Interactions |
| 13 Nov 2009 | Carlos Bustamante, U. California, Berkeley, Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Single Molecule Studies of a Viral DNA Packaging Motor. |
| 29 Jan 2010 | Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, U. of Chicago, Sparse density of states in colloidal quantum dots, tuning energy relaxation and transport |
| 2 Apr 2010 | Russell J. Hemley, Geophysical Lab., Carnegie Institution of Washington, Materials, Energy, and Extreme Environments |
| 7 May 2010 | Philip Kim, Columbia U., Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon |
| 17 Sep 2010 | Amanda K. Petford-Long, ANL CNM, The role of interfaces in the behavior of magnetic tunnel junction structures |
| 24 Sep 2010 | Linda Young, ANL XSD, Highlights and Future Directions in Hard X-Ray Sciences |
| 12 Nov 2010 | Kathryn Levin, U. Chicago, What do high Tc superconductors teach us about ultracold Fermi gases and vice versa? |
| 4 Feb 2011 | David Schuster, U. Chicago, Quantum Optics with Circuits |
| 25 Mar 2011 | Michelle Povinelli, U. Southern California, Applications of Nanophotonics: Absorption Engineering and Optomechanical Circuits |
| 20 May 2011 | Axel Hoffmann, ANL Materials Science Div., Pure Spin Currents: Discharging Spintronics (IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture) |
| 16 Sep 2011 | Margaret Gardel, U. of Chicago, Cellular Mechanics |
| 30 Sep 2011 | Daniel Baker, U of Colorado, The Impacts of Space Weather on Society and the Economy |
| 20 Jan 2012 | Elena Shevchenko, ANL Center for Nanoscale Materials, Design of nanostructures: synthesis and properties |
| 27 Jan 2012 | Piers Coleman, Rutgers U., Magnetism and Superconductivity: A new era of convergence in condensed matter physics |
| 24 Feb 2012 | Mark A. Ratner, Northwestern U., Molecular Mesoscopics: Transport in Molecular Junctions |
| 12 Mar 2012 | Peter B. Littlewood, ANL Physical Sciences & Engineering, U. of Chicago, and U. of Cambridge, Polariton Condensation and Collective Dynamics |
| 20 Apr 2012 | Lucas Platter, ANL Physics Div., From cold atoms to light nuclei |
| 18 May 2012 | Brian DeMarco, U.of Illinois, Urbana, 3D Anderson Localization of Ultracold Matter |
| 25 May 2012 | Nadya Mason , U. of Illinois, Urbana, Using graphene to study superconductivity (new tricks for an old dog) |
| 1 Jun 2012 | Dmitry Budker, U. of California, "Atomic physics" of nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond |
| 8 Jun 2012 | David Schuster, U. of Chicago, Cavity QED with electrons on helium |
| 14 Sep 2012 | Heinrich Jaeger, U. of Chicago, Dynamically Jammed Liquids: A New Perspective on Shear Thickening of Dense Suspensions |
| 11 Jan 2013 | Jonathan Simon, U. Chicago, Engineering Quantum Materials from Cold Atoms: Mott Insulators to Emergent Crystals |
| 18 Jan 2013 | Paul McEuen, Cornell U., Graphene at the Boundaries |
| 15 Feb 2013 | Luming Duan, U. of Michigan, Recent progress in quantum computation, networking, and simulation with trapped ions |
| 29 Mar 2013 | Kartik Srinivasan, NIST, Manipulating the Color and Shape of Single Photons generated by Quantum Nanophotonic Devices |
| 12 Apr 2013 | William Phillips, NIST, Atomtronic circuitry: A Bose-Einstein condensate in ring |
| 3 May 2013 | Ralf Gothe, U. of South Carolina, Experimental Probes into the Essence of Matter |
| 10 Jan 2014 | Ian Spielman, NIST & U. of Maryland, Gauge Fields with Cold Atoms |
| 17 Jan 2014 | Mike Norman, ANL Materials Science Div., Monopoles, Anapoles, Skyrmions, Majoranas and Higgs - Welcome to the New World of Condensed Matter Physics |
| 21 Mar 2014 | Evgeny Tsymbal, U. of Nebraska, Lincoln, Magnetoelectric Interfaces and Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions |
| 12 Dec 2014 | George W. Crabtree, Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), ANL National Lab., The Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR): One Year Later |
| 30 Jan 2015 | James A. Sauls, Northwestern U., Unconventional Superconductivity |
| 13 Feb 2015 | Jenny Hoffman, Harvard U., High Tc superconductivity in a single atomic layer of FeSe |
| 13 Mar 2015 | Jianguo Wen, Electron Microscopy Center, Center for Nanoscale Materials, ANL National Lab., Amplitude Contrast High-Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy for Advanced Materials |
| 24 Apr 2015 | Ramille Shah, Northwestern U., Expanding the Material Toolbox for 3D Printing: From Biomedical to Energy Applications |
| 9 Oct 2015 | Elena Rozhkova, Center for Nanoscale Materials, ANL National Lab., Cancer Nanotechnology: At the Interface of Engineered Nanomaterials and Living Systems |
| 9 Oct 2015 | Tijana Rajh, Center for Nanoscale Materials, ANL National Lab., Cancer Nanotechnology: At the Interface of Engineered Nanomaterials and Living Systems |
| 6 Nov 2015 | Bobby Kasthuri, Nanoscience and Technology Div., ANL National Lab., The BRAIN Initiative |
| 8 Jan 2016 | Michael Levin, U. of Chicago, The Puzzling Boundaries of Topological Quantum Matter |
| 15 Jan 2016 | Christopher M. Sorensen, Kansas State U., Of Soot and Sunflowers |
| 22 Apr 2016 | Aaron Greco, Energy Sciences Div., ANL National Lab., Modern Tribology with Application to Wind Turbine Drivetrain Reliability |
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