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2010 Series

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 2008Don Eigler: The Small Frontier
Apr 2008Joel L. Lebowitz: Time's Arrow and Boltzmann Entropy
Mar 2008Jim Langer: The Physics of Window Glass
Feb 2008Rob Myers: The Superstring Adventure
Jan 2008Dennis Danielson: The Bones of Copernicus

2007 Series

Dec 2007Stuart Kauffman: Reinventing the Sacred: Breaking the Galilean Spell
Nov 2007Lenny Susskind: Not Your Grandfather's Universe
Oct 2007Lee Smolin: The unfinished revolution: space, time and the quantum
Mar 2007Gordon 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 2005Gerard Milburn: Photons as Qubits: Einstein, Bell, and Beyond
Feb 2006Michel Devoret: Quantum-mechanical electrical circuits
Feb 2006The Honourable Justice Ian Binnie (Supreme Court of Canada): Why Arent the Courts More Science-Friendly?
Mar 2006Carl Wieman (Nobel Laureate, 2001): Bose-Einstein condensation: quantum weirdness at the lowest temperature in the universe
Oct 2006 Wayne Myrvold: Everett and Evidence
Nov 2006Doug Osheroff: How Advances in Science Are Made
Dec 2006Jed 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?

2002-03 Series

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