The Lawrence C. Biedenharn Endowed Chair in Physics
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Previous
Speakers

Biedenharn
Lectures

Previous Biedenharn Lecturers

H. Jeff Kimble (Spring 2004)
Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Cavity QED - From Purcell and Casimir to the Era of Strong Coupling for Single Atoms and Photons

Rocky Kolb (Spring 2003)
Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The University of Chicago
Cosmology and the Origin of Structure

Alexei Smirnov (Spring 2002)
Senior Research Scientist, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
Solar Neutrinos: A Story for All Seasons?

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (Spring 2001)
Professor, College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure
Manipulating Atoms with Light

Nathan Seiberg (Spring 2000)
Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
String Theory: An Update

Leonard Susskind (Spring 1999)
Professor, Stanford University
String Theory, Black Holes and the Holographic Principle

Murray Gell-Mann (Spring 1998)
Professor, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico
Plectics: The Study of Simplicity and Complexity


The Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin