Previous Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureships

The inaugural Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectureship was held at the Dept. of Physics at Case Western Reserve University in April of 1997. This Prize, established by Profs. Lawrence Krauss and Glenn Starkman, is awarded annually to a junior scholar active in any field of physics. Each Fall, nominations are solicited from advisors and mentors at institutions throughout the U.S. Each Spring, a young scholar is chosen by the MPPL Committee based upon merit and recommendation, and is invited to spend one week in residence at CWRU, presenting one Colloquium and three Seminars to the department of Physics. The Prize carries an honorarium of $1000. plus travel and local expenses.

MPPL has clearly become established as one of the premier awards for young Ph.D.s in physics in the country.

Here are the talks from previous MPPL winners.

Date	MPPL Lecturer	Title/Abstract (if available)
Mon May 5 12:30 PM Miller Room	Roberto Trotta Oxford University	Bayes in the sky - Advanced statistical tools for cosmology
Tue May 6 11:30 AM Miller Room	Roberto Trotta Oxford University	Probing dark energy with cosmology
Wed May 8 4:15 PM Rock 301	Roberto Trotta Oxford University	Precision cosmology for the 21st century
Fri May 9 12:30 PM Miller Room	Roberto Trotta Oxford University	Astrophysical probes of dark matter
Mon Apr 30 4:00 PM Miller Room	Adam Bolton Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	The Modern Practice of Optical Astronomy
Wed May 2 4:15 PM Rock 301	Adam Bolton Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	All I Really Need to Know about Elliptical Galaxies
Thu May 3 11:30 AM Miller Room	Adam Bolton Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Theory and Phenomenology of Strong Gravitational Lensing
Fri May 4 11:30 AM Miller Room	Adam Bolton Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	Finding and Using Strong Galaxy-Galaxy Lenses in the SDSS
May 1, 2006 12:30 PM Miller Room	Nicole Bell California Institute of Technology	Astrophysical Neutrinos: Revealing Neutrino Properties at the Highest Energies
May 2, 2006 11:30 AM Miller Room	Nicole Bell California Institute of Technology	Cosmological Neutrinos: Relic Neutrino Abundance and Neutrino Mass Constraints
May 3, 2006 4:15 PM Rock 301	Nicole Bell California Institute of Technology	Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics: What we have learned and what we would like to discover
May 5, 2006 12:30 PM Miller Room	Nicole Bell California Institute of Technology	Neutrino Magnetic Moments/ Galactic Positrons and Annihilating Dark Matter
May 9, 2005 Miller Room, 12:30 PM	Yaroslav Tserkovnyak Harvard University	Spontaneously-Symmetry-Broken Archimedes Screws
May 10, 2005 Miller Room, 11:30 PM	Yaroslav Tserkovnyak Harvard University	Electron Interference and Correlations as Seen by Momentum-Conserving Tunneling in 1D
May 12, 2005 Rock 301, 4:15 PM	Yaroslav Tserkovnyak Harvard University	Collective Spin Dynamics in Magnetic Nanostructures
May 13, 2005 Miller Room, 12:30 PM	Yaroslav Tserkovnyak Harvard University	Luttinger Liquid and Beyond: Crystallization and Free-Spin Regime in 1D
April 26, 2004 Miller Room, 12:30 PM	Karsten Heeger LBNL	Evidence for Neutrino Oscillation and Massive Neutrinos: The Resolution of the Solar Neutrino Problem at SNO and KamLAND
April 28, 2004 Rockefeller 301, 4:15 PM	Karsten Heeger LBNL	Recent Discoveries in Neutrino Physics
April 29, 2004 Miller Room, 12:30 PM	Karsten Heeger LBNL	Measuring ϴ₁₃ and the Search for Leptonic CP Violation
April 30, 2004 Miller Room, 12:30 PM	Karsten Heeger LBNL	Understanding the Particle Nature of Neutrinos
April 28, 2003 Miller Room, 12:30 PM	Brian DeMarco NIST	Quantum Information Processing using Atomic and Optical Systems
April 30, 2003 Miller Room, 12:30 PM	Brian DeMarco NIST	An Atomic Turing Machine: Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions at NIST
May 1, 2003 Rockefeller 301, 4:15 PM	Brian DeMarco NIST	Quantum Behavior of an Atomic Fermi Gas
May 2, 2003 Miller Room, 12:30 PM	Brian DeMarco NIST	Behind the Scenes with Ultracold Atom Gases and BEC
April 2, 2002 Miller Room, 11:30 AM	Re'em Sari Caltech	Phenomenology of Gamma Ray Bursts
April 3, 2002 Miller Room, 12:30PM	Re'em Sari Caltech	Theory and Observations of the Afterglow of Gamma Ray Bursts
April 4, 2002 Rock 301, 4:15 PM	Re'em Sari Caltech	Exciting The Eccentricity of Extrasolar Planets
April 5, 2002 Miller Room, 1:30PM	Re'em Sari Caltech	Beaming and Jets in Gamma Ray Bursts
Apr 2001	Jonathan Feng MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics	About The Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lecturer
Apr 16, 2001 Seminar	Jonathan Feng MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics	Focus Point Supersymmetry
Apr 17, 2001 Seminar	Jonathan Feng MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics	Particle Physics Implications for Dark Matter
Apr 19, 2001 Colloquium	Jonathan Feng MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics	The Search for Supersymmetry
Apr 20, 2001 Seminar	Jonathan Feng MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics	The Cosmological Constant and Brane Nucleation
May 2000	Keith Schwab NSA, University of Maryland	Overview: The 2000 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Lectures
May 8, 2000 Seminar	Keith Schwab NSA, University of Maryland	SQUID's and SET's: Introduction to Quantum Limited Amplifiers and their Application
May 9, 2000 Seminar	Keith Schwab NSA, University of Maryland	The Josephson Effect in Superfluids
May 11, 2000 Colloquium	Keith Schwab NSA, University of Maryland	Measurement of the Universal Quantum of Thermal Conductance
May 12, 2000 Seminar	Keith Schwab NSA, University of Maryland	Nanofabrication for Fundamental Physics
Apr 5, 1999 Seminar	Joe Mohr University of Chicago	Regularity and Complexity: The Dual Nature of Galaxy Clusters
Apr 6, 1999 Seminar	Joe Mohr University of Chicago	Cluster Regularity as a Tool to Study Cosmology
Apr 8, 1999 Colloquim	Joe Mohr University of Chicago	Connections Between Galaxy Clusters and Cosmology
Apr 9, 1999 Seminar	Joe Mohr University of Chicago	Probing the Distant Universe With the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect
Feb 2, 1999 Seminar	Christopher Fuchs Caltech	Optimal Quantum Measurements and the Distinguishability of Quantum States
Feb 4, 1999 Seminar	Christopher Fuchs Caltech	Sending Classical Information on Noisy Quantum Mechanical Channels
Feb 5, 1999 Colloquium	Christopher Fuchs Caltech	What Can You Do with Quantum Entanglement?
Feb 6, 1999 Seminar	Christopher Fuchs Caltech	Quantifying Entanglement
Apr 14, 1998 Seminar	Thomas Walther Texas A & M	UV-IR and IR-UV Double Resonance Experiments for the Study of Molecular Dynamics
Apr 16, 1998 Seminar	Thomas Walther Texas A & M	Remote Velocity and Temperature Profiling in the Ocean
Apr 17, 1998 Colloquium	Thomas Walther Texas A & M	A Novel Approach to Testing Bell Inequalities
Apr 18, 1998 Seminar	Thomas Walther Texas A & M	A Spectroscopic High Energy Particle Detector and a Search for WIMPS

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