| 26 Sep 1980 | M. Gaillard, Lyon, Laser interactions with fast molecular ion beams |
| 20 Mar 1981 | E. H. Farnum, LANL, Fabrication of laser fusion targets |
| 7 Apr 1981 | J. J. Wynne, IBM Yorktown, Relative oscillator strength measurement by phase-matched nonlinear optics |
| 8 May 1981 | D. A. Lewis, ANL Physics Div. and Iowa State, Laser spectroscopy with radioactive atoms |
| 18 Sep 1981 | C. Brau, LANL, Free electron lasers |
| 11 Dec 1981 | M. Blume, BNL, Synchrotron radiation - its properties, sources and uses |
| 12 Nov 1982 | W. Happer, Princeton, Laser Polarization of Noble Gas Nuclei |
| 4 Feb 1983 | William J. Childs, ANL Physics Div., High-resolution Laser and RF Spectroscopy of Atomic and Molecular Beams |
| 15 Apr 1983 | W. S. Bickel, Arizona, Polarized Light Scattering by Small Particles |
| 2 Mar 1984 | T. W. Hansch, Stanford U., Pushing the Limits of Laser Spectroscopy |
| 9 Nov 1984 | Charles Shank, Bell Labs, Holmdel, Investigation of Ultrafast Events with Femtosecond Optical Techniques |
| 23 May 1986 | Stephen M. Younger, LLNL, The Importance of Atomic Processes in X-Ray Lasers and Thermonuclear Fusion |
| 24 Oct 1986 | Steven Chu, Bell Labs., Laser Cooling and Trapping of Atoms: Toward Ultracold Temperatures and High Density |
| 14 Apr 1989 | Dieter M. Gruen, ANL Materials Science and Chemistry Divs., Lasers in Surface Science |
| 8 Feb 1991 | Edward Kibblewhite, U. of Chicago, Adaptive Optics on the ARC Telescope in New Mexico |
| 14 Feb 1992 | William J. Childs, ANL Physics Div., Overview of Laser-Radiofrequency Double-Resonance Studies of Atomic, Molecular, and Ionic Beams |
| 13 Nov 1992 | William D. Phillips, NIST, Gaithersburg, Laser Cooling: the Coldest Atoms Ever! |
| 28 May 1993 | Dana Z. Anderson, U. of Colorado & JILA, Adaptation, Decision Making and Self-Organization in Holographic Optical Systems |
| 4 Jun 1993 | Ronald W. P. Drever, CalTech, Gravitational Wave Detection with Laser Interferometers: Physics behind it, and Physics ahead |
| 10 Sep 1993 | Chandrashekhar Joshi, U. of California, Progress Towards a Laser-Plasma Accelerator |
| 29 Oct 1993 | Cleanthes A. Nicolaides, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Computation of the Response of Many-Electron Atoms and Molecules to Strong Laser Fields |
| 2 Dec 1994 | Steven Rolston, NIST, Gaithersburg, Laser-cooled Atoms - The Coldest Things Around |
| 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 |
| 24 Mar 1995 | David E. Pritchard, MIT, Atom Optics and Atom Interferometers |
| 22 Sep 1995 | Gordon Cates, Princeton U., From Muons to MRI on Guinea Pigs - The Power of Optical Pumping |
| 11 Oct 1996 | Luiz Da Silva, LLNL, Soft X-ray Lasers and their Applications |
| 22 Nov 1996 | H. Fred Dylla, Jefferson Lab., Developing High-Average-Power Lasers for Material Processing |
| 10 Jan 1997 | Gene D. Sprouse, SUNY, Stony Brook, Laser Trapping of Radioactive Francium, Present Results and Future Prospects |
| 4 Apr 1997 | Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT, Atoms Behave as Waves: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Atom Laser |
| 25 Apr 1997 | Ming C. Wu, UCLA, Optical Applications of Micromachining Technology |
| 17 Oct 1997 | Margaret Murnane, U. of Michigan, Extreme Nonlinear Optics - Generation of Coherent, Femtosecond, X-Ray Pulses |
| 27 Feb 1998 | Hui Cao, Northwestern U., Semiconductor Cavity QED |
| 26 Feb 1999 | Philip Bucksbaum, U. of Michigan, The Phonon Bragg Switch: A Proposal to Generate Sub-Picosecond X-Ray Pulses |
| 27 Oct 2000 | Christopher Monroe, U. of Michigan, Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions |
| 17 Nov 2000 | Stephen Milton, ANL Advanced Photon Source Div., Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission: Extending Synchrotron Light Source Brightness by Many Orders of Magnitude |
| 1 Dec 2000 | Gordon Baym, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Hanbury Brown and Twiss Intensity Interferometry: From Stars to Nuclear Collisions to Atoms |
| 11 May 2001 | Paul Kwiat, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Entangled Photons for Quantum Information: 101 Uses for a Schroedinger Kitten-Embryo |
| 18 Oct 2002 | Jun Ye, Joint Institute for Lab. Astrophysics (JILA), Control of coherent light: Time meets Frequency |
| 14 Feb 2003 | Robert L. Merlino, The U. of Iowa, Dusty plasmas in the laboratory and space |
| 7 Mar 2003 | David Wineland, NIST, Quantum games with trapped atomic ions; whither quantum computation? |
| 19 Dec 2003 | Charles Falco,, U. of Arizona, The Science of Optics; The History of Art |
| 10 Sep 2004 | Paul Corkum, NRC Ottawa, Canada, Attosecond Lasers |
| 13 Jan 2006 | Hui Cao, Northwestern U., Chaotic Mircolasers |
| 1 Dec 2006 | Leo Hollberg, NIST, Stable Lasers and Cold Atoms |
| 5 Oct 2007 | Serge Haroche, Collège de France & École Normale Supérieure, Quantum Non-Demolition Measurement of Light: The Birth, Life and Death of Trapped Photons |
| 16 Nov 2007 | Peter Mueller, ANL Physics Div., Simple Atoms, Extreme Nuclei: Laser Spectroscopy of 6He and 8He |
| 25 Jan 2008 | Linda Young, ANL Chemical Science and Engineering Div., Towards Laser Control of Ultrafast X-Ray Processes |
| 21 Mar 2008 | Henry Kapteyn, JILA and U. of Colorado, Ultrafast Molecular X-Ray Science |
| 3 Oct 2008 | Mark G. Raizen, U. of Texas at Austin, Comprehensive Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion |
| 15 May 2009 | Robin Santra, ANL Chemical Sciences and Engineering Div., High-Intensity Laser Control of X-Ray Processes |
| 10 Dec 2010 | Christopher J. Keane, LLNL, Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Science Experiments at the National Ignition Facility |
| 19 Sep 2014 | Alexander Zholents, Accelerator Systems Div., ANL National Lab., A Light and a Beam: a Theme with Variations |
| 21 Nov 2014 | Margaret Murnane, JILA, NIST and U. of Colorado, Science at the Timescale of the Electron: Tabletop X-ray Lasers and Applications in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology |
| 15 May 2015 | Ana Maria Rey, JILA, NIST and U. of Colorado, Building with Crystals of Light and Quantum Matter: From clocks to computers |
| 2 Oct 2015 | S. Mark Ammons, LLNL, Trails and Dead Bodies: Directly Characterizing Extrasolar Planets with Adaptive Optics |
| 8 Apr 2016 | Henry C. Kapteyn, JILA, U. of Colorado at Boulder and NIST, Practical ultrashort pulse tabletop "x-ray lasers," and their applications |
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