| 31 Oct 1980 | G. J. Wasserburg, Caltech, Extinct Radioactivities and isotopic anomalies in the early solar system |
| 16 Jan 1981 | C. Rolfs, Muenster and Ohio State, The solar neutrino problem- or is it? |
| 30 Jan 1981 | E. B. Norman, Washington U., 26Al and 180Ta: two puzzles in nuclear astrophysics |
| 13 Mar 1981 | Edward C. Stone, Caltech, The Voyager encouter with Saturn |
| 3 Apr 1981 | W. Press, Harvard, Sunny weather - nonlinear hydrodynamics deep in the sun |
| 24 Apr 1981 | R. Geroch, Chicago, Distorted black holes |
| 16 Apr 1982 | J. S. Gallagher, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Confrontation between Galaxy Evolution Models and the Observations |
| 15 Oct 1982 | H. Hill, Arizona, Testing general relativity - a helio-seismological determination of the gravitational quadrupole moment of the sun |
| 3 Dec 1982 | David N. Schramm, U. of Chicago, The Very Early Universe |
| 18 Feb 1983 | Michael S. Turner, Chicago, Cosmology |
| 25 Mar 1983 | R. N. Clayton, Chicago, Isotopic Tracers and Clocks in Meteorites |
| 8 Apr 1983 | W. Ockels, European Space Agency, Spacelab I - The European Laboratory to be flown with the U. S. Space Shuttle |
| 16 Sep 1983 | Bernard Burke, MIT, High Resolution Radio Astronomy: Arcseconds to Milliarcseconds |
| 24 Feb 1984 | Larry Smarr, U. of Illinois, Urbana, Supercomputer Simulations of Active Galactic Nuclei, RadioJets and Black Holes |
| 16 Mar 1984 | Frank J. Low, U. of Arizona, IRAS: The Infrared Astronomy Satellite |
| 23 Mar 1984 | Edward W. Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Massive Magnetic Monopoles in Cosmology and Astrophysics |
| 15 Mar 1985 | Joseph P. Allen, NASA, Satellite Retrieval: An Example of a Two-body (Inelastic) Scattering Problem |
| 12 Apr 1985 | Eugene Parker, U. of Chicago, A Mathematical Nonequilibrium Theorem and the X-ray Coronas of Stars |
| 19 Apr 1985 | Jerry Nelson, LBNL, The Ten-meter Telescope Project |
| 3 May 1985 | Robert Harrington, U.S. Naval Observatory, Unseen Companions to Nearby Stars |
| 31 May 1985 | John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study, The Solar Neutrino Problem |
| 28 Feb 1986 | Edward W. Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., The Saga of Cygnus X-3 |
| 4 Apr 1986 | Margaret Geller, Cambridge Center for Astrophysics, Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble |
| 9 May 1986 | L. J. Lanzerotti, Bell Labs., Comparative Magnetospheres in the Solar System |
| 30 May 1986 | Steven Maran, Goddard Space Flight Center, Recent Observations of Halley's Comet |
| 19 Sep 1986 | Frank Asaro, LBNL, Asteroid or Comet Impacts and Massive Extinctions of Life on Earth |
| 30 Sep 1986 | H. A. Bethe, Cornell U., The Solar Neutrino Puzzle |
| 19 Dec 1986 | David T. Wilkinson, Princeton U., What's New in 3K Radiation |
| 6 Feb 1987 | Ellis D. Miner, JPL, Uranus Unveiled |
| 20 Feb 1987 | Joan Centrella, Drexel U., Exploring the Universe Using a Computer |
| 27 Mar 1987 | W. A. Fowler, CalTech, How Old is the Observable Universe |
| 8 May 1987 | Alan Guth, MIT, The Inflationary Universe |
| 29 May 1987 | R. Kirshner, Harvard Smithsonian Center Astrophysics, Supernova 1987a |
| 9 Oct 1987 | Peter Meyer, U. of Chicago, High Energy Cosmic Ray Experiment on the Space Shuttle |
| 25 Mar 1988 | Donald Q. Lamb, U. of Chicago, Neutrinos from Supernova 1987A and Cooling of the Nascent Neutron Star |
| 22 Apr 1988 | Neil Turok, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Strings in Cosmology |
| 13 May 1988 | David N. Schramm, U. of Chicago, Shadows of Creation: The Dark Matter of the Universe |
| 10 Feb 1989 | Jack Wisdom, MIT, Chaotic Dynamics in the Solar System |
| 31 Mar 1989 | Rene Ong, U. of Chicago, Results and Prospects for Ultra High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy |
| 8 Sep 1989 | Sam M. Austin, Michigan State U., Nuclear Physics of the Universe |
| 29 Sep 1989 | Alexander Dalgarno, Harvard U., Atomic and Molecular Processes in Supernova 1987A |
| 20 Oct 1989 | Gary Steigman, Ohio State U., Cosmic Lithium: Going Up or Coming Down? |
| 13 Apr 1990 | John P. Huchra, Harvard Smithsonian Center for AStrophysics, Searching for Structure in the Cosmos: Galaxy Redshift Surveys |
| 7 Dec 1990 | Michael S. Turner, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Nuclear Physics and Cosmology |
| 14 Dec 1990 | Ellis D. Miner, JPL, The Voyager Mission to the Outer Planets |
| 4 Jan 1991 | Takeshi Oka, U. of Chicago, H3+ in the Laboratory and in Jupiter Plasmas |
| 8 Feb 1991 | Edward Kibblewhite, U. of Chicago, Adaptive Optics on the ARC Telescope in New Mexico |
| 1 Mar 1991 | Rainer Weiss, MIT, Gravitational Wave Astrophysics |
| 5 Apr 1991 | Stephen Boughn, Haverford College, A 19 GHz Full-Sky Map: Snapshot of the Infant Universe |
| 10 May 1991 | Robert Smither, ANL Advanced Photon Source, Crystal Diffraction Gamma-Ray Telescope |
| 28 Feb 1992 | Wick Haxton, U. of Washington, The Neutrino and Nuclear Physics of Core Collapse Supernovae |
| 5 Feb 1993 | David T. Wilkinson, Princeton U., NASA's COBE Satellite Looks at the Big Bang |
| 19 Feb 1993 | Neil Gehrels, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Quasars, Pulsars and Bursts: Results from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory |
| 26 Mar 1993 | Leo Blitz, U. of Maryland, The Galactic Center |
| 7 May 1993 | Joseph H. Taylor, Princeton U., Gravitational Radiation from Binary Pulsars |
| 28 Jan 1994 | A. Baha Balantekin, U. of Wisconsin, A Theoretical Perspective on the Solar Neutrino Problem |
| 25 Feb 1994 | Gerald Brown, SUNY, Stony Brook, Supernova Explosions, Black Holes and Neutron Stars |
| 25 Mar 1994 | Gerald J. Fishman, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Gamma-Ray Bursts: Observational Overview |
| 1 Apr 1994 | Jacqueline Hewitt, MIT, Gravitational Lenses and Cosmology |
| 16 Sep 1994 | Charles Alcock, LLNL, The MACHO Project: A Search for Baryonic Dark Matter in the Milky Way |
| 23 Sep 1994 | Robert O'Dell, Rice U., Exploring the Stellar Nursery in Orion with the Hubble Space Telescope |
| 16 Dec 1994 | Stephen Saunders, JPL, Magellan Mission to Venus |
| 3 Mar 1995 | Heidi Hammel, MIT, Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Swan Song of Shoemaker-Levy 9 |
| 7 Apr 1995 | David N. Schramm, U. of Chicago, Recent Action with the Big Bang |
| 19 May 1995 | John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study, What Have We Learned About Solar Neutrinos |
| 29 Sep 1995 | Michael S. Turner, U. of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Big-Bang Cosmology: Successes and Challenges |
| 8 Dec 1995 | Dieter Muller, U. of Chicago, Cosmic Ray Positrons: Are There Too Many? |
| 9 Feb 1996 | Ernst K. Zinner, Washington U., Stardust in the Laboratory: New Constraints on Nucleosynthesis and Stellar Evolution |
| 22 Mar 1996 | Jon Morse, U. of Colorado, The Birth of Stars: Proto-Stellar Jets, Accretion and Proto- Planetary Disks |
| 27 Sep 1996 | Patrick Seitzer, U. of Michigan, Hubble Space Telescope: Tragedy to Triumph |
| 1 Nov 1996 | Edward C. Stone, JPL, The Search for Life Elsewhere |
| 14 Feb 1997 | Angela Olinto, U. of Chicago, Cosmological Magnetic Fields and Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays |
| 28 Mar 1997 | Terry Walker, Ohio State U., The Tension Over a Crisis in The Big Bang Nucleosynthesis |
| 19 Sep 1997 | Emil Wolf, U. of Rochester, The Redshift Controversy and Correlation-Induced Spectral Changes |
| 26 Sep 1997 | Wick Haxton, U. of Washington, The Question of Nonstandard Solar Models |
| 14 Nov 1997 | James J. Connell, U. of Chicago, Cosmic Ray Composition Studies: Nuclear Physics on a Galactic Scale |
| 21 Nov 1997 | David N. Schramm, U. of Chicago, Dark Matter and the Density of Baryons in the Universe |
| 23 Jan 1998 | Hans-Otto Meyer, Indiana U., The Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Studied With Cooled Beams |
| 13 Feb 1998 | Ernst Rehm, ANL Physics Div., Experiments with Radioactive Beams - Studying Stellar Explosions in the Laboratory |
| 24 Apr 1998 | Madappa Prakash, SUNY, Stony Brook, Photons and Neutrinos from Neutron Stars: Probes of Hot and Dense Matter |
| 11 Sep 1998 | Donald Clayton, Clemson U., Nuclear Astrophysics with Presolar Grains |
| 25 Sep 1998 | Edward W. Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Seeds of Cosmic Structure: Quantum Fluctuations in the Primordial Soup |
| 9 Apr 1999 | A. Baha Balantekin, U. of Wisconsin, Progress and Prospects in Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics |
| 10 Sep 1999 | James F. Bell, Cornell U., Strategy and Science Goals for NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission |
| 10 Dec 1999 | Edward J. Daw, MIT, LIGO - A Direct Experimental Search for Gravitational Radiation from Astrophysical Sources |
| 31 Mar 2000 | Joshua Frieman, U. of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Lab., The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Science Results |
| 21 Apr 2000 | Curtis J Struck, Iowa State U., Galaxy Collisions: The Driving Process of Galaxy Evolution |
| 19 May 2000 | Wayne Hu, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Ringing in the New Cosmology: Implications of Recent Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments |
| 2 Jun 2000 | Robert Rosner, U. of Chicago, Using Simulations to Connect Astrophysics to the Laboratory |
| 9 Jun 2000 | Sean Carroll, U. of Chicago, The Accelerating Universe: Enigmas and Nostrums |
| 29 Sep 2000 | Yongzhong Qian, U. of Minnesota, Recent Progress in Understanding Nucleosynthesis via Rapid Neutron Capture: from Rocks, Stars, and Galaxies to Neutrinos, Nuclei, and Nuclear Matter |
| 10 Nov 2000 | Francis Halzen, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, High-energy Neutrino Astronomy: Results from the South Pole |
| 15 Dec 2000 | Robert Wald, U. of Chicago, Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and the `Information Paradox' |
| 16 Feb 2001 | John Cowan, U. of Oklahoma, r-Process Abundances in Halo Stars and the Age of the Galaxy |
| 16 Mar 2001 | Edward Kibblewhite, U. of Chicago, Adaptive Optics in the 21st Century |
| 13 Apr 2001 | Chung-Pei Ma, U. Pennsylvania, New Perspectives on Cosmological Structure Formation |
| 1 Jun 2001 | Simon Swordy, U. of Chicago, The Cosmic Ray Conundrum - Does this make any sense? |
| 21 Sep 2001 | Hamish Roberston, U. of Washington, SNO Flies: The Solar Neutrino Problem Resolved |
| 26 Oct 2001 | Michael Turner, U. of Chicago, Making Sense of the New Cosmology |
| 15 Feb 2002 | Michael Wiescher, Notre Dame, The fate of matter on accreting neutron stars |
| 22 Feb 2002 | Jean-Michel Poutissou, TRIUMF, The initial science program of ISAC, the Canadian Isotope Accelerator |
| 3 May 2002 | John Carlstrom, U. of Chicago, Cosmology with Cosmic Microwave Background Observations |
| 6 Sep 2002 | Don Goldsmith, Self, The Runaway Universe |
| 13 Sep 2002 | Chris Fryer, LANL, Core-Collapse Supernovae |
| 25 Oct 2002 | Art McDonald, Queen's U., Kingston, Ontario, Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem |
| 24 Jan 2003 | Jim Truran, U. Chicago, Tracing the Abundance History of the Cosmos |
| 14 Feb 2003 | Robert L. Merlino, The U. of Iowa, Dusty plasmas in the laboratory and space |
| 2 May 2003 | Friedrich-K Thielemann, U. of Basel, Switzerland, Nuclei far from Stability: Their Role and Production in Astrophysical Events |
| 12 Sep 2003 | Andrew Cumming, U. of California, Lick Observatory, Neutron Stars on Fire |
| 3 Oct 2003 | Takeshi Oka, U. of Chicago, The Ubiquitous H3+, from Giant Planets to Star Forming Regions |
| 5 Dec 2003 | Monica Valluri, U. of Chicago, Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei |
| 16 Jan 2004 | Barry Barish,, CalTech, Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves |
| 12 Mar 2004 | Louis-Gregory Strolger, Space Telescope Science Institute, Supernovae and the Accelerating/Decelerating Universe |
| 26 Mar 2004 | S. R. Kulkarni, CalTech, Cosmic explosions |
| 30 Apr 2004 | Ernst Rehm, ANL Physics Div., 'Per aspera ad astra' - Nuclear astrophysics with radioactive beams |
| 7 May 2004 | Daniel Akerib, Case Western U., Looking for WIMPs in the Galactic Halo: the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (and some other dark matter experiments) |
| 19 Nov 2004 | Timothy C. Beers, Michigan State U., Mining the Milky Way Galaxy with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
| 18 Feb 2005 | Angela Olinto, U. of Chicago, Deciphering the Extreme Universe |
| 30 Sep 2005 | Francis L. Halzen, U. of Wisconsin, High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatories |
| 14 Oct 2005 | Rocky Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Lab. & U. of Chicago, Thoughts on Dark Matter and Dark Energy |
| 16 Dec 2005 | Donald Q. Lamb, U. of Chicago, Exciting Recent Discoveries About Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| 20 Jan 2006 | Fausto Cattaneo, ANL Mathematics and Computer Science Div., The Magneto-Rotational-Instability and Angular Momentum Transport |
| 27 Jan 2006 | Michael J. Pellin, ANL Materials Science Div., Atoms Returned from Our Sun: First Measurements from the Genesis Spacecraft |
| 24 Feb 2006 | Roland Diehl, Max and Planck and Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, High-Energy Astrophysics with Gamma-Ray Telescopes |
| 10 Mar 2006 | Michael Paul, Hebrew U., Laboratory View on Extinct Radioactivities, Galactic Radioactivities and Star Dust |
| 14 Apr 2006 | Adam Burrows, U. of Arizona, New Ideas Concerning the Mechanism for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions |
| 12 May 2006 | Kenneth M. Nollett, ANL Physics Div., Nuclear Physics in the pp Chain, r-Process, and x-Process |
| 13 Oct 2006 | Stephan Meyer, U. of Chicago, Three Years of WMAP |
| 17 Nov 2006 | Clive R. Neal, U. of Notre Dame, The Need for and Challenges of Installing a Global Lunar Seismic Network: The Notre Dame-led LuSeN Mission |
| 5 Jan 2007 | Birger Back, ANL Physics Div., Before Protons and Neutrons -- The Quark Gluon Era of the Universe |
| 2 Feb 2007 | John Beacom, The Ohio State U., Fossil Records of Star Formation: Supernova Neutrinos and Gamma Rays |
| 9 Feb 2007 | Gabriela González, Louisiana State U., Interferometric Detectors of Gravitational Waves: Opening a New Window to the Universe |
| 28 Mar 2007 | Bradley L. Jolliff, Washington U., Mars Exploration Rovers: Two Mars Years of Geologic Discovery |
| 26 Oct 2007 | Elena Aprile, Columbia U., The XENON Dark Matter Search |
| 7 Mar 2008 | Lloyd Knox, U. of California at Davis, Future Probes of Dark Energy |
| 24 Mar 2008 | Kenneth M. Nollett, ANL Physics Div., Some Puzzles in the Origins of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Oxygen |
| 27 Mar 2008 | Carlos Wagner, ANL High Energy Physics Div., Cosmology and the LHC |
| 29 Aug 2008 | James M. Lattimer, SUNY at Stony Brook, The Equation of State in Astrophysical Applications |
| 5 Sep 2008 | Akif Baha Balantekin, U. of Wisconsin at Madison, Neutrinos: Ghostly Messengers of Earth and Heavens |
| 19 Sep 2008 | Anna Frebel, U. of Texas at Austin, Observing the Signatures of the r-Process in Metal-Poor Stars |
| 21 Nov 2008 | Dan Hooper, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Hot On The Trail of Particle Dark Matter |
| 9 Jan 2009 | Daniel R. Stinebring, Oberlin College, Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsars |
| 16 Jan 2009 | Stephen Kuhlmann, ANL High Energy Physics Div., The Dark Energy Survey |
| 6 Feb 2009 | Jason Clark, ANL Physics Div., Star Bombs in the Lab: Using Nuclear Physics to Model Stellar Explosions |
| 13 Feb 2009 | Dragan Huterer, U. of Michigan, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe |
| 27 Feb 2009 | Andrey Kravtsov, U. of Chicago, Cosmological Constraints from Cluster Abundance Evolution |
| 20 Mar 2009 | Yanbei Chen, CalTech, Gravitational-Wave Astronomy |
| 12 Feb 2010 | Ronald L. Walsworth , Harvard U., Laser frequency combs for precision astrophysical spectroscopy |
| 19 Mar 2010 | Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena, CA, The Giant Magellan Telescope |
| 16 Apr 2010 | Peter Smith, U. of Arizona, The Journey of the Phoenix |
| 18 Feb 2011 | Scott Ransom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Basic Physics with Millisecond Pulsars |
| 4 Mar 2011 | Andrew Sonnenschein, Fermi National Accelerator Lab., Dark Matter Detection with Bubble Chambers |
| 22 Apr 2011 | Eugene Chiang, U. of California, Berkeley, Relics of Planet Formation, Here and Abroad |
| 23 Sep 2011 | Michael Wiescher, U. of Notre Dame, Nuclear Astrophysics Underground |
| 7 Oct 2011 | Larry Nittler, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Hermeochemistry: The composition of Mercury from MESSENGER X-ray, Gamma-ray, and Neutron Measurements |
| 14 Oct 2011 | Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale U., Mapping dark matter and dark energy in the Universe using gravitational lensing by clusters |
| 21 Oct 2011 | Salman Habib, ANL High Energy Physics Div., Precision Cosmology: Prospects and Challenges |
| 2 Dec 2011 | C.W. Francis Everitt, Stanford U., Frame-Dragging, Cryogenics, and Space: The Gravity Probe B Experiment |
| 17 Feb 2012 | Timothy C Beers , Kitt Peak National Observatory, Highly r-Process Enhanced Stars: New Perspectives on Old Stars |
| 6 Apr 2012 | Sudeep Das, LBNL, Gravitational Lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background: A New Frontier |
| 5 Oct 2012 | Sarah Milkovich, JPL, Mars Science Laboratory: Where Our Curiosity Is Taking Us |
| 12 Oct 2012 | Douglas Clowe, Ohio U., Athens, Ohio, Through a Lens, Darkly |
| 9 Nov 2012 | Dietrich Müller, U. of Chicago, Hundred Years of Cosmic Rays: Some Reflections on the Research in Chicago |
| 16 Nov 2012 | Susan Gardner, U. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Dark Matter in a Weakly Coupled Universe |
| 30 Nov 2012 | Daniel Fabrycky, U. of Chicago, Planetary System Architectures from Kepler |
| 26 Apr 2013 | Stacy McGaugh, Case Western Reserve, Modified Gravity as a Possible Approach to the Missing Mass Problem |
| 6 Sep 2013 | Madappa Prakash, Ohio U., Lessons from New Observations of Neutron Stars |
| 4 Oct 2013 | Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale U., Towards 1% Measurements of Cosmological Distances with Cosmic Sound |
| 8 Nov 2013 | Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, U. of California, Berkeley, Feedback-Regulated Star Formation on Galactic and Cosmological Scales |
| 13 Dec 2013 | Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State U., X-ray Bursts, Palladium Oceans and Rare Isotope Crusts - the Strange World of Accreting Neutron Stars |
| 31 Jan 2014 | Lloyd Knox, U. of California, Davis, Strength in Numbers: Studying the Cosmic Neutrino Background with Gravity |
| 4 Apr 2014 | Adam Burrows, Princeton U., Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Core-Collapse Supernovae |
| 24 Oct 2014 | Sanjay Reddy, Institute for Nuclear Theory, U. of Washington, Neutron Stars in the Multi-Messenger Era: Extreme Matter and Extreme Phenomena |
| 14 Nov 2014 | K. Ernst Rehm, ANL Physics Div., Studies of X-ray Bursts - Bringing Neutron Stars into the Laboratory |
| 9 Jan 2015 | Clarence Chang , U. Chicago, Status and Recent results from the South Pole Telescope (SPT): SPTpol and beyond |
| 23 Jan 2015 | Jacob L. Bean, U. of Chicago, Exoplanets in HD |
| 18 Sep 2015 | Andrew Geraci, U. of Nevada, Reno, Hunting for axions and new short-range gravitational forces using resonant sensors |
| 2 Oct 2015 | S. Mark Ammons, LLNL, Trails and Dead Bodies: Directly Characterizing Extrasolar Planets with Adaptive Optics |
| 11 Mar 2016 | Suzanne Staggs, Princeton U., Cosmology, the Polarized Cosmic Microwave Background, and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope |
| 1 Apr 2016 | Brian Fields, U. of Illinois, Urbana, When Stars Attack! In Search of Near-Earth Supernova Explosions |
| 13 Apr 2016 | Olga Botner, Uppsala U., Recent results from IceCube - the dawn of neutrino astronomy? |
| 29 Apr 2016 | Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern U., LIGO discovery of a Binary Black Hole Merger |
| 6 May 2016 | Leslie Rosenberg, U. of Washington, Searching for Dark-Matter Axions |
| 13 May 2016 | Daryl Haggard, McGill U., Interpreting Sgr A*'s Most Luminous X-ray Flares |
| 20 May 2016 | Scott Dodelson, Fermilab and U. of Chicago, Myth-Busters: Dark Energy Survey and South Pole Telescope |
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