MPPL Previous MPPL Winners
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 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.
Coordinator: Harsh Mathur
| Date | MPPL Lecturer | Title/Abstract (if available) |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Oct 15, 2012 4:15 p.m. Rock 309 | Kin Fai Mak Cornell |
Novel two-dimensional systems: graphene and beyond |
| Tue Oct 16, 2012 11:30 a.m. Miller Room | Kin Fai Mak Cornell |
Optics with Dirac electrons |
| Thu Oct 18, 2012 4:15 p.m. Rock 301 | Kin Fai Mak Cornell |
Beyond graphene: band insulators and topological insulators |
| Fri Oct 19, 2012 2:30 p.m. Nord 410 | Kin Fai Mak Cornell |
Manybody interactions in two-dimensional crystals |
| Monday, May 2, 2011 4:15 PM Miller Room | Lindley Winslow MIT |
The Neutrino and Oscillation: A Revolution |
| Tuesday, May 3, 2011 11:30 AM Miller Room | Lindley Winslow MIT |
Three Neutrino Oscillation - The Missing Pieces |
| Wednesday, May 4, 2011 4:15 PM Rock 301 | Lindley Winslow MIT |
Colloquium: It's Chooz Time Folks! |
| Friday, May 6, 2011 12:30 PM Miller Room | Lindley Winslow MIT |
To the GUT Scale - the Majorana Neutrino |
| Monday, May 10, 2010 12:30 p.m. Miller Room | David Hanneke NIST |
Entangled Mechanical Oscillators and a Programmable Quantum Computer: Adventures in Coupling Two-Level Systems to Quantum Harmonic Oscillators |
| Tuesday, May 11, 2010 11:30 a.m. Miller Room | David Hanneke NIST |
Optical Atomic Clocks |
| Thursday, May 13, 2010 4:15 p.m. Rockefeller 301 | David Hanneke NIST |
Cavity Control in a Single-Electron Quantum Cyclotron: An Improved Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment |
| Friday, May 14, 2010 12:30 p.m. Miller Room | David Hanneke NIST |
High-Energy Physics with Low-Energy Symmetry Studies |
| April 13, 2009 4:15 PM Rock 301 | Johan Alwall SLAC Theory Group |
Hunting for New Physics at the LHC |
| April 14, 2009 11:30 AM Miller Room | Johan Alwall SLAC Theory Group |
Fundamentals of the LHC |
| April 15, 2009 12:30 PM Miller Room | Johan Alwall SLAC Theory Group |
New Physics at the LHC |
| April 16, 2009 12:30 PM Miller Room | Johan Alwall SLAC Theory Group |
Simulation, signatures and backgrounds at the LHC |
| Mon May 5, 2008 12:30 PM Miller Room | Roberto Trotta Oxford University |
Bayes in the sky - Advanced statistical tools for cosmology |
| Tue May 6, 2008 11:30 AM Miller Room | Roberto Trotta Oxford University |
Probing dark energy with cosmology |
| Wed May 8, 2008 4:15 PM Rock 301 | Roberto Trotta Oxford University |
Precision cosmology for the 21st century |
| Fri May 9, 2008 12:30 PM Miller Room | Roberto Trotta Oxford University |
Astrophysical probes of dark matter |
| Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:00 PM Miller Room | Adam Bolton Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
The Modern Practice of Optical Astronomy |
| Wed May 2, 2007 4:15 PM Rock 301 | Adam Bolton Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
All I Really Need to Know about Elliptical Galaxies |
| Thu May 3, 2007 11:30 AM Miller Room | Adam Bolton Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics |
Theory and Phenomenology of Strong Gravitational Lensing |
| Fri May 4, 2007 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 |