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| Date | Speaker (Institution) | Title | Abstract & Slides (Size) |
| 2/12/08 | Brian Rebel (Fermilab) |
Neutrino Oscillation Experiments - Past, Present and Future | abstract slides (? MB pdf) |
| 2/04/08 | Christopher Mauger (California Institute of Technology) |
Neutrino flavor-mixing - news from the frontier | abstract slides (??? MB pdf) |
| 1/31/08 | Carlos Villarreal Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
Vacuum fluctuations and Casimir forces | abstract slides (??? MB pdf) |
| 1/30/08 | Rupak Mahapatra University of California, Santa Barbara |
Recoiling against the Dark Universe: CDMS Dark Matter Search | abstract slides (??? MB pdf) |
| 1/28/08 | Andrew Ivanov (University of California, Davis) |
The Truth?.. And Nothing but the Truth?.. The Top Quark as a Gateway to New Physics | abstract slides (??? MB pdf) |
| 1/24/08 | Kaixuan Ni (Yale University) |
Searches for New Physics with Underground Xenon Detectors | abstract slides (14 MB pdf) |
| 1/22/08 | Richard Cavanaugh (University of Florida) |
The LHC and CMS: Probing the Great Questions of Particle Physics and Cosmology | abstract slides (? MB pdf) |
| 1/17/08 | David Sandison Sandia National Laboratory |
Driving Micromachines from Ideas to Impact – a National Security Perspective | abstract slides (? MB pdf) |
| 1/14/08 | Alexander Sergeev (Institute of Applied Physics Russian Academy of Sciences) |
Development of Petawatt laser facilities in Russia and their applications | abstract slides (? MB pdf) |
| 1/04/08 | Chris Beasley (Harvard University) |
Localization for Wilson Loops in Chern-Simons Theory | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 12/13/07 | Louis DiMauro (Ohio State University) |
The Attosecond Era | abstract slides (3.3 MB ppt) |
| 12/06/07 | Shamit Kachru (Stanford University) |
"Naturalness" in field theory, string theory, and Nature | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 11/08/07 | Mette Gaarde (Louisiana State University) |
How to control and optimize the generation of coherent, ultrafast XUV radiation | abstract slides (5.3 MB pdf) |
| 11/05/07 | Kenneth Schafer (Louisiana State University) |
The Attosecond World | abstract slides (5.8 MB pdf) |
| 10/04/07 | Bhaskar Dutta (TAMU) |
23% of the Universe at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) | abstract slides (5.3 MB pdf) |
| 09/27/07 | Wenhao Wu (TAMU) |
Can the Superconductor-Insulator Transition be a Duality Quantum Phase Transition? | abstract slides (3.4 MB pdf) |
| 09/20/07 | Don Carona (TAMU) |
Physics Observatory: Growth in Facilities, Teaching and Research | abstract slides (1.3 MB pdf) |
| 09/13/07 | John Gillaspy (National Institute of Standards and Technology) |
From the Subatomic to the Astronomical: Physics Across 32 Orders of Magnitude with Highly Charged Ions | abstract slides (x.x MB pdf) |
| 05/31/07 | Kim-Vy Tran (University of Zurich) |
Cosmic Collisions: Forming the Most Massive Galaxies in the Universe | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 05/30/07 | Thushara Perera (University of Massachusetts) |
Discovering and Understanding the Earliest Galaxies: New Advances in a Young Field | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 05/25/07 | Darren DePoy (Ohio State University) |
Current and Future Surveys for Type Ia Supernovae | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 05/24/07 | Robert Smith (University of Pennsylvania) |
Probing Dark Energy Through Understanding Large Scale Structure | abstract slides (2.5 MB pdf) |
| 05/22/07 | Lucas Macri (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) |
Constraining the Properties of Dark Energy with an Improved Cepheid Distance Scale | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 05/21/07 | Andreas Becker (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems) |
Ultrafast few-body dynamics in intense laser pulses | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 05/21/07 | Michael Wood-Vasey (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
Supernovae, Large-Scale Surveys, and the Nature of Dark Energy | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 05/14/07 | Carlos Lobo (Università di Trento) |
Normal State of a Polarised Fermi Gas at Unitarity | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 05/10/07 | Yuri V. Rostovtsev (Texas A&M University) |
Nonlinear Optics Controlled via Slow Light | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 04/26/07 | Jaan Laane (Department of Chemistry Texas A&M University) |
Spectroscopic Determination of Molecular Structures and Vibrational Potential Energy Surfaces in Ground and Excited Electronic States | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 04/19/07 | Eva M Silverstein (Stanford University) |
Models of Inflation and Dark Energy in String Theory | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 04/12/07 | Jeffrey Olafsen (Baylor University) |
Tabletop Experiments in Non-equilibrium, Biological, and Chaotic Systems | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 04/05/07 | Heather Ray (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
The Future of Neutrino Physics in a Post-MiniBooNE Era | abstract slides (2.6 MB pdf) |
| 03/29/07 | Mike Kordosky (University College, London) |
Understanding Nature's Shyest Particle | abstract slides (43 MB pdf) |
| 03/27/07 | Patricia Vahle (University College, London) |
Observation of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Neutrino Beam | abstract slides (6.7 MB pdf) |
| 03/22/07 | Mayly Sanchez (Harvard University) |
Measuring the Elusive: Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS and Beyond | abstract slides (37 MB pdf) |
| 03/19/07 | J. A. Clark (Yale University) |
Making mass measurements to model an assortment of astrophysical anomalies | abstract slides (?? MB pdf) |
| 03/12/07 | Hanan Amro (University of Notre Dame) |
(7Be,3He) Reaction: A promising new tool for nuclear spectroscopy | abstract slides (?? MB pdf) |
| 03/08/07 | Jeffrey R. Guest (Argonne National Laboratory) |
Search for time-reversal violation with laser-trapped radium atoms | abstract slides (5.2 MB pdf) |
| 03/06/07 | Dan Melconian (University of Washington) |
Probing fundamental properties of the weak interaction: Some recent experimental progress | abstract slides (?? MB pdf) |
| 03/06/07 | Andre Geim (University of Manchester) |
Probing fundamental properties of the weak interaction: Some recent experimental progress | abstract slides (?? MB pdf) |
| 02/27/07 | Andreas Schiller (Michigan State University) |
On the selective population and neutron decay of excited states in semi-magic 23O | abstract slides (?? pdf) |
| 02/22/07 | Maria Elena Monzani (Columbia University) |
Direct Detection of Dark Matter with the XENON Experiment | abstract slides (7.3 MB pdf) |
| 02/22/07 | Oren Cohen (University of Colorado) |
Attosecond Nonlinear Optics | abstract slides (?? MB pdf) |
| 02/20/07 | Sean Liddick (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) |
Nuclear Structure through Decay Spectroscopy | abstract slides (?? MB pdf) |
| 02/19/07 | Michael Douglas (The State University of New Jersey) |
Are there testable predictions of string theory? | abstract slides (0.6 MB pdf) |
| 02/06/07 | Yong P. Chen (Rice University) |
Quantum Coherence in Insulators | abstract slides (2.6 MB pdf) |
| 02/05/07 | Alexandre Kolomenski (Texas A&M University) |
Coherent oscillations in nanostructures measured with ultrafast photonics | abstract slides (3.9 MB pdf) |
| 02/01/07 | Vladislav Yakovlev
(University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee) |
Imaging, manipulating, simulating and controlling the motion of single molecules with light | abstract slides (1.7 MB pdf) |
| 01/26/07 | Alexander Finkelstein (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
Spintronics without magnets: spin-optics | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 01/25/07 | Alexey Sergeev (Tulane University) |
Perturbation parameters, analytical continuation and singularity structure of the energy function: applications in atomic, molecular and nuclear physics | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 01/25/07 | Paul Corkum (Steacie Institute for Molecular Science National Research Council Ottawa, Ontario) |
Mapping Attosecond Science onto Electron Interferometry | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 01/24/07 | Igor Roshchin (University of California) |
Unusual Magnetic Properties of Nanostructures and Proximity Effect | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 01/22/07 | Dieter Bauer (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics) |
Intense laser-atom interaction: from the single active electron to laser-driven correlated electron dynamics | abstract slides (13 MB pdf) |
| 01/22/07 | Hou-Tong Chen (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
Terahertz for Materials & Metamaterials for Terahertz | abstract slides (4 MB pdf) |
| 01/19/07 | David Ward (Harvard University) |
Adventures in Light Scattering: THz Polaritonics, Negative Refractive Index Materials, and Single Nanoparticle Scattering | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 01/18/07 | Michael Spanner (University of Toronto) |
Entanglement- and timing-based mechanisms in the coherent control of reactive scattering | abstract slides (1.4 MB pdf) |
| 01/16/07 | Daniel Wasserman (Princeton University) |
Novel Sources for Mid-Infrared Emission | abstract slides (12 MB pdf) |
| 01/16/07 | Anatoly Svidzinsky (Texas A&M University) |
Interface between AMO, quantum optics and many body theory: Dimensional scaling analysis of molecules, BEC statistics and correlated spontaneous emission of N atoms | abstract slides (1.5 MB pdf) |
| 01/15/07 | Xuan Gao (Harvard University) |
The Sensitivity Limits of Nanowire Bio-Sensors | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 01/11/07 | Andras Kis (University of California, Berkeley) |
Mechanical Manipulation of Nanotubes | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |
| 01/10/07 | Brian R. D'Urso (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) |
High Aspect Ratio Microstructures and Nanostructures: Fabrication and Novel Properties | abstract slides (x.y MB pdf) |