2012 Series
| April 2012 | Alain Aspect (Paris): From Einstein's questions to quantum bits: a new quantum age? |
| Mar 2012 | Peter G. Wolynes (Rice University): Landscapes of Matter, Energy and Life |
| Feb 2012 | Scott Aaronson (MIT): Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable |
| Feb 2012 | Jann Tallinn (co-creator, 'Skype' and 'Kazaa'; Bluemoon software) : Planetary Optimization and Advanced General Intelligences: the 'intelligence stairway' |
| Jan 2012 | David Albert (Columbia University): The Difference between the Past and the Future |
2011 Series
| Dec 2011 | Gary Hinshaw (UBC): Taking the Measure of the Universe |
| Nov 2011 | Dirk Bouwmeester (UCSB & Leiden): Quantum Entanglement and Macroscopic Quantum Superpositions |
| Apr 2011 | Klaus Schulten (Urbana): Quantum Computing and Animal Navigation |
| Mar 2011 | Geoff Marcy (Berkeley): Other Earths and Other Life in the Universe |
| Feb 2011 | John Norton (Pittsburg): Atoms, Entropy, & Quanta: Einstein's Statistical Physics of 1905 |
| Jan 2011 | Gordon Semenoff (University of British Columbia): Graphene: the Idea, the Material and the Future |
2010 Series
| Dec 2010 | Leo Kadanoff (University of Chicago): Making a Splash — Breaking a Neck: Complexity in Physical Systems |
| Nov 2010 | Robert Wald (University of Chicago): Black Holes |
| Oct 2010 | Harvey B. Richer (UBC): Watcher of the Sky - The Highs and Lows of Being an Observational Astronomer |
| Apr 2010 | John Hopfield (Princeton): What is Thinking? The dynamics of mental exploration |
| Mar 2010 | Jaymie Matthews (UBC): How Science is really done: a story of duels, harems, heroines, and a cold case of murder |
| Feb 2010 | Reviel Netz (Stanford): The Archimedes Palimpsest: Infinite Possibilities |
| Jan 2010 | Brett Finlay (UBC): Battling the Bugs: Confronting the Microbial Menace |
2009 Series
| Dec 2009 | Gabe Aeppli (London): Fighting hospital superbugs with physics |
| Nov 2009 | David Sherrington (Oxford): Physics and Complexity |
| Apr 2009 | Anton Zeilinger: Einstein's Spook put to Work |
| Apr 2009 | Albert Libchaber: The Origin of Life, from geophysics to biology |
| Mar 2009 | Michael Fisher: Pictures, Models, Approximations and Reality: Phase transitions and our understanding of the physical world |
| Feb 2009 | Erich Vogt: The Evolution of Stars and the Creation of the Elements |
2008 Series
| Dec 2008 | Virginia Trimble: The Quest for Other Worlds |
| Nov 2008 | Carl Wieman: Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the tools of science to teach science |
| Oct 2008 | Art McDonald: Subterranean answers to some very deep questions |
| Sep 2008 | Don Eigler: The Small Frontier |
| Apr 2008 | Joel L. Lebowitz: Time's Arrow and Boltzmann Entropy |
| Mar 2008 | Jim Langer: The Physics of Window Glass |
| Feb 2008 | Rob Myers: The Superstring Adventure |
| Jan 2008 | Dennis Danielson: The Bones of Copernicus |
2007 Series
| Dec 2007 | Stuart Kauffman: Reinventing the Sacred: Breaking the Galilean Spell |
| Nov 2007 | Lenny Susskind: Not Your Grandfather's Universe |
| Oct 2007 | Lee Smolin: The unfinished revolution: space, time and the quantum |
| Mar 2007 | Gordon Belot: Background Independence in Physics |
| Feb 2007 | George Sawatzky: Quantum Materials |
| Jan 2007 | Michel Janssen: At the End of the Rainbow: Optical Dispersion as the Bridge between the Old Quantum Theory and Matrix Mechanics |
2005-06 Series
| Oct 2005 | Moshe Shapiro: Controlling the future: lessons from Quantum Mechanics |
| Nov 2005 | James Hartle: Einstein's Vision and the Quantum Universe |
| Dec 2005 | Gerard Milburn: Photons as Qubits: Einstein, Bell, and Beyond |
| Feb 2006 | Michel Devoret: Quantum-mechanical electrical circuits |
| Feb 2006 | The Honourable Justice Ian Binnie (Supreme Court of Canada): Why Arent the Courts More Science-Friendly? |
| Mar 2006 | Carl Wieman (Nobel Laureate, 2001): Bose-Einstein condensation: quantum weirdness at the lowest temperature in the universe |
| Oct 2006 | Wayne Myrvold: Everett and Evidence |
| Nov 2006 | Doug Osheroff: How Advances in Science Are Made |
| Dec 2006 | Jed Buchwald: How the Ether Spawned the Microworld |
2004-05 Series
| Oct 2004 | I. Pitowsky: Probability in physics: where does it come from? |
| Nov 2004 | Frank Wilczek: The World's Numerical Recipe |
| Dec 2004 | P. W. Anderson: Is the theory of everything the theory of anything? |
| Jan 2005 | Alan Shapiro: Wave Particle Duality: From Newton to Einstein |
| Feb 2005 | W. G. Unruh: Is Quantum Mechanics Non-Local? |
| Mar 2005 | Charles Bennett: Quantum Communication Theory |
| Apr 2005 | Simon Saunders: Why is the Universe Left-Handed? |
| May 2005 | Gerard 't Hooft: The Universe Inside an Atom |
2003-04 Series
| Oct 2003 | A. Fine: Entanglement Revisited |
| Nov 2003 | G. Semenoff: SUPERSTRINGS: Are they Nature's Ultimate Building Blocks? |
| Dec 2003 | D. Howard: Who invented the Copenhagen Interpretation? A study in Mythology |
| Jan 2004 | M. Freedman: Exotic States of Matter and Quantum computation |
| Feb 2004 | C. Callender: The Hidden Worlds of Quantum Mechanics |
| Mar 2004 | A. J. Leggett: Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics? |
| Oct 2002 | J. Clarke: SQUIDs, Axions, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| Nov 2002 | S. Popescu: What is quantum non-locality? |
| Dec 2002 | J. Earman: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking |
| Jan 2003 | J. Bub: Quantum Foundations in Light of Quantum Information |
| Feb 2003 | H Monoharan: Manipulating Matter at Spatial Limit |
| Mar 2003 | P.C.E Stamp: The Sorceror's Apprentice: A Quantum Parable |
| Mar 2003 | E. Polzik: Entanglement and quantum teleportation of simple macroscopic objects |
