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Colloquia and Special Seminars

July - December, 2009
11/18, 2:00 p.m.	Charles Bennett IBM	Quantum Information and the Birth and Death of Complexity[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
5/06, 2:00 p.m.	Robijn Bruinsma UCLA	Physics and Mathematics of Cancer Metastasis[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3/25, 2:00 p.m.	Zohar Nussinov Wash Univ.-St. Louis	Glassy Dynamics and Unusual Thermodynamics on Curved Surfaces[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/25, 2:00 p.m.	Rajan Gupta LANL	The Many Faces of the Global Energy Challenge Viewed Through a Global Observatory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
July - December, 2008
12/10, 2:00 p.m.	Zvi Bern UCLA	Harmony in Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Gravity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
10/15, 2:00 p.m.	Mehran Kardar MIT & KITP	The Elusiveness of Polymer Knots[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/08, 2:00pm	Yoseph Imry Weizmann Inst. of Science	Slow Relaxation and Aging in the Electron Glass[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/24, 2:00 p.m.	Luca Peliti Univ. Federico II	The Puzzle of the Evolutionary Dynamics of Influenza[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/12, 5:00 p.m.	Robert Socolow Princeton Univ.	Technologies for Living in a Greenhouse[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
4/16, 2:00 p.m.	Eva Silverstein Stanford University	Inflationary Theory, String Theory and the CMB[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/20, 2:00 p.m.	Eliezer Rabinovici Hebrew Univ., Racah Inst	SESAME- Reality or a Parallel Universe?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/06, 2:00 p.m.	Roni Harnik Stanford	The LHC, New Symmetries and New Forces[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
9/26, 2:00 p.m.	Karin Dahmen UIUC	Crackling Noise: Learning from Magnets about Earthquakes?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/24, 2:00 p.m.	Doug Scalapino UCSB, Physics	The Question of Pairing Glue in the Cuprate Superconductors[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/28, 2:00 p.m.	David Hitlin Caltech	The Future of Heavy Flavor Physics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
5/02, 2:00 p.m.	Ed van den Heuvel University of Amsterdam	The European Discovery of Australia[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/04, 2:00 p.m.	Yves Pomeau Ecole Normale Sup, Paris	Optical Solitons as Quantum Objects[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
5/30, 2:00 p.m.	Gabriela Gonzalez LSU	Searching for Gravitational Waves[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
July - December, 2006
9/20, 2:00 p.m.	Prof. Giuseppe Mussardo SISSA	Ludwig Boltzmann -- A Disordered Genius[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10/25, 2:00 p.m.	Mr. George Johnson KITP	Strange Beauty: The Unauthorized Biography of Murray Gell-Mann[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12/07, 2:00 p.m.	Prof. Shri Kulkarni Caltech	The Space Interferometer Mission: Parallaxes, Planets and More[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
January - June, 2006
1/11, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andreas Albrecht UC Davis	Fun with Dark Energy[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2/08, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. David Morrison Duke University	Decay of False Vacua[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
5/10, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Bill Rice UCSB	Reproductive Interactions Between the Sexes: Sexual Conflict or Mutualistic Sexual Selection?[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/17, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Andrew Hamilton University Colorado	Inside Black Holes[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5/24, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Adrian Parsegian NIH & KITP	Van der Waals Forces for Geeks, Geckos, and Grad Students[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
10/26, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. James Bjorken Stanford	From Dark Energy to the Multiverse[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11/09, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Alexei Kitaev KITP & Microsoft	Anyons in an Exactly Solved Model and Beyond[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
1/19, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Albert Libchaber Rockefeller	Some Physical Aspects of the Origin of Life and of Artificial Cells[Slides][Aud][Cam]
1/26, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Ned Wright UCLA	Fact and Fiction in the Cosmological Literature[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
4/20, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Gary Horowitz UCSB	Spacetime in String Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam]
6/01, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Petr Hořava Berkeley	Universality in Fermi Liquids, D-Branes and K-Theory[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
10/20, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. W. Patrick McCray UCSB	Planning Astronomy's Next Big Machines: Reflections on Some Recent History[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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[Slides][Aud][Cam]
1/28, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Nate Lewis Caltech	The Future of Power and Energy in the World[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/18, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Arkady Vainshtein University of Minnesota	Can the Graviton Have Mass?[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/25, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Jeffrey Goldstone MIT/Caltech	Quantum Algorithms[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/03, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Zvi Bern KITP & UCLA	Magic Tricks for Scattering Amplitudes[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/10, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Raphael Bousso Berkeley	Space, Time and Information[Aud][Cam]
3/10, 4:00 p.m.	Dr. David Pine UCSB	Colloidal Molecules and Finite Sphere Packings[Aud][Cam]
4/07, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Duncan Haldane KITP & Princeton	Exotic Photonics[Slides][Aud][Cam]
4/14, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Brad Marston Brown University	The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
4/28, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Jason Ho KITP & Ohio State University	The Exploding Field of Quantum Gases[Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
6/02, 0:00	Dr. Victor Yakovenko University of Maryland	Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, and Wealth[Slides][Aud][Cam]
July - December, 2003
7/30, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan KITP & University of Missouri	A Model for Perceptual Space[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
10/01, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Tom Banks UC Santa Cruz and Rutgers University	Quantum Theories of Gravity and the Cosmological Constant[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10/15, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Albert Wheelon	Corona: The First Reconnaissance Satellites[Aud][Cam]
10/29, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Leda Cosmides, UCSB Dr. John Tooby, UCSB	Coalitional Psychology and Social Categorization[Aud][Cam]
11/12, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Pierre Coullet KITP & University of Nice	Hooke and Newton[Aud][Cam]
11/19, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Leonard Sander University of Michigan	Epidemics, Disorder, and Percolation[Slides][Vid][Aud][Cam]
12/03, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Tamás Vicsek Eötvös University, Hungary	Networks in Life: From Cellular Metabolism to Co-Authorship[Slides][Aud][Cam]
January - June, 2003
1/16, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. David Baltimore Caltech	Controlling Gene Expression in Immune Cells and Neurons[Aud][Cam]
1/22, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Lewis Wolpert University College London	Evolutionary Psychology of Depression[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/05, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Lewis Wolpert UCL	Triumph of the Embryo[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/19, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Hong Liu Rutgers	The Challenging Cosmological Singularity[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/12, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Ilya Nemenman KITP	A New Kind of Science?[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/19, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Pierre-Gilles De Gennes Paris Collège de France & Institute Curie	The Dynamics of Cellular Adhesion[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3/26, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Murray Gell-Mann Santa Fe Institute	Distant Relationships Among Human Languages[Aud][Cam]
4/16, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Marc Mézard CNRS - Université Paris Sud	Glass Phases in Optimization Problems[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5/07, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Michael Brenner Harvard	The Ongoing Saga Surrounding the Velocity Fluctuations in Sedimentation[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
9/25, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Jim Peebles Princeton University	Problems with the Standard Cosmological Model[Aud][Cam]
10/02, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Charles Townes Berkeley	Why Didn't We Have Lasers 25 Years Sooner?[Aud][Cam]
10/09, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Christian Jacob University of Calgary	If Darwin Had Been a Programmer -- Evolutionary Design by Computers[Aud][Cam]
10/16, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Steve Hsu Institute of Theoretical Science, University Oregon	Superconductivity in Quark Matter[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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[Aud][Cam]
11/06, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Julie Theriot Stanford	Crawling Cells & Comet Tails[Aud][Cam]
12/04, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Michael Dickinson Caltech	How Flies Fly[Aud][Cam]
January - June, 2002
1/9, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Pierre Ramond Univ of Florida	Neutrinos: Windows Beyond the Standard Model[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
1/31, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Philippe Nozières Institut Laue Langevin	On the Bose Einstein Condensation and Superfluidity[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2/13, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. William Rice UCSB	Evolutionary Conflict Between the Sexes[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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[Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
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[Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
4/17, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Terrence Sejnowski Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Salk Institute	Visual Awareness: Back to the Future[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5/15, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Birgitta Whaley Berkeley	Flying Cryostats: Superfluid Solvation and Molecular Motions in Helium Droplets[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
10/12, 10:30 a.m.	Dr. Ilya Nemenman ITP	Predictability, Complexity and Learning[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10/17, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. Victor Gurarie Oxford	Disorder Symmetry and Universality Classes[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10/19, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. J. E. Mooij ITP & Delft Technical University	Persistent-Current Quantum Bits[Aud][Cam]
10/24, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. S. C. Zhang Stanford University	A Four Dimensional Generalization of the Quantum Hall Effect[Aud][Cam]
11/05, 3:30 p.m.	Dr. Neil Turok Cambridge	A Cyclic Model of the Universe[Aud][Cam]
11/06, 2:30 p.m.	Dr. Kay Wiese ITP	Disordered Systems and the Functional Renormalization Group[Slides][Aud][Cam]
11/14, 2:00 p.m.	Dr. J. E. Mooij ITP & Delft University of Technology	Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Josephson Junction Circuits[Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud][Cam]
10/18, 0:00	Dr. Steven Girvin ITP & Indiana University	Physics of "Which Layer?" Uncertainty[Slides][Aud][Cam]
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][Aud]
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]

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