Nov. 17, 2012
Ronald Dahl
The Mysteries of Sleep: Adolescence, Learning and Brain Development

Dec. 8, 2012
Beate Heinemann and Lawrence Hall
The Higgs Boson: What Is It and Why Is Everyone So Excited About It?

Feb. 2, 2013
Carolyn Bertozzi
Good Sugars: The Language of Cells

Feb. 23, 2013
Ramamoorthy Ramesh
Not Your Father’s Materials: Thermoelectrics, Multiferroics, Magnetoelectrics, Photoelectrics

March 23, 2013
Dacher Keltner
The Compassionate Instinct: A Darwinian Tale of Survival of the Kindest

May 11, 2013
Robert Lustig
Bad Sugars: Addictive and Hazardous to your Health

Nov. 5, 2011
Prof. Bruce Alberts
From Chromosomes to the Capital: How Cells Divide and How Science Impacts Society

Jan. 21, 2012
Prof. Eva Nogales
Your Body's Molecular Machines: A Photo Album and User's Guide

Feb. 11, 2012
Prof. Michelle Chang
Re-engineering Living Organisms to Make the World a Better Place

March 3, 2012
Prof. Geoff Marcy
The Hunt for Intelligent Life in the Universe

March 31, 2012
Prof. Xiang Zhang
Metamaterials:  Superlenses and Invisibility Cloaks

Apr. 28, 2012
Prof. Kristie Boering
Solving Environmental Problems Without Creating New Ones:  
An Atmospheric Chemist's Perspective

October 30, 2010
Alex Filippenko
Professor of Astronomy, U.C. Berkeley
The Birth and Early Evolution of the Universe

December 4, 2010
Jasper Rine
Howard Hughes Professor & Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, U.C. Berkeley
Looking for the Good News in Your Genome: Personalized Medicine—Science and Ethics

January 8, 2011
Rachel Segalman
Assoc. Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
U.C. Berkeley; Faculty Scientist, LBNL
got plastic? What Saran Wrap & Renewable Energy Generation Have in Common

January 29, 2011
Rachel Mackelprang
Postdoctoral Researcher, Joint Genome Institute, LBNL
So, You Think You're Not Part Neanderthal?

February 12, 2011
Nate Lewis
George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Powering the Planet with Fuel from Sunlight

March 19, 2011
Senior Animation Scientist, Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar Animation: Math Behind the Curtains

November 21, 2009
Arthur Reingold, M.D.
Professor and Head of Epidemiology, Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health, U.C. Berkeley
Swine Flu: How Serious Is It, and What Are We Doing about It?

January 9, 2010
Bill Collins
Senior Scientist,
Climate Science Department Head, Earth Sciences Division LBNL
Climate Change: Surf’s Up in the Arctic
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February 20, 2010
Alex Zettl
Professor of Condensed Matter Physics
U.C. Berkeley;
Senior Faculty Scientist, LBNL
The Right and Wrong Way to Build Really Small Things

March 20, 2010
Jeff Bokor,
Professor of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences, U.C. Berkeley; Deputy Director for Science, The Molecular Foundry, LBNL
What’s Nano about My Ipod? The Nano in Today’s (and Future) High-Tech Electronics

April 24, 2010
Ting Xu
Assistant Professor
Departments of Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering, U.C. Berkeley; Faculty Scientist, LBNL
The World of Polymers

NEW DATE! May 22, 2010
Michael Barnett
Senior Physicist & Educator, Physics Division, LBNL
Dark Matter, Black Holes, Higgs Bosons & Extra Dimensions: A Discovery
Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider

November 15, 2008
Paul Alivisatos
The Helios Project: From Photon to Fuel

December 13, 2008
Roger Falcone
X-rays, Lasers, and Molecular Movies

January 10, 2009
Mark Levine
Energy, Climate Change, and China: Is there Hope for Averting Environmental Crises?

February 21, 2009
Carolyn Bertozzi
Nature's Nasty Nanomachines: How Viruses Work, and How We Can Stop Them

March 28, 2009
Mike Crommie
Convenient or Inconvenient? The Truth about Carbon and Nanoscientists

April 25, 2008
Larry Bock
The Art of the Start: Moving Science from the Lab to the Marketplace

October 27, 2007
Brian Wirth
From Atoms to Electricity: An Introduction to Nuclear Power, its Promise and Challenge

November 17, 2007
John Clarke
Superconductivity, Trains and SQUIDs

January 12, 2008
Chris Somerville
Converting Plants to Fuel

February 9, 2008
Judy Campisi
Aging and Cancer: Rival Demons?

March 8, 2008
Rob Ritchie
Why Things Break! A Focus on Disasters

April 12, 2008
Yuri Suzuki
Magnetic Storage: How Many Bits Can We Store on the Head of a Pin?

November 18, 2006
Richard Muller
Astrophysics and the Evolution of Life

December 9, 2006
Brad De Long
No Scientist is an Island: The Impact of Nanoscience on Society

February 3, 2007
R. Ramesh
Making the Impossible Possible with Nanomaterials

March 10, 2007
Miquel Salmeron
Playing with Atoms and Molecules

April 28, 2007
Jay Keasling
Synthetic Biology: From Drugs to Energy

October 29, 2005
Steven Chu
Global Warming, the Energy Crisis, and What We Can Do About It

December 10, 2005
Gabor Somorjai
The Nanoscience Revolution: Catalytic Chemistry for New Sources of Energy and a Clean Environment

January 21, 2006
Tom Kalil
Nanotechnology at the White House

March 4, 2006
Udi Isacoff
Using Light to Watch and Control Biology

March 25, 2006
Uli Dahmen
Electron Microscopy as a Window on the Nanoworld

April 20, 2006
Alessandra Lanzara
Free Electricity! The Promise of Superconductivity

December 4, 2004
Carlos Bustmante
Mechanical Studies of Single Molecules

January 8, 2005
Saul Perlmutter
The Accelerating Universe and the Search for the Dark Side

February 12, 2005
Jean M.J. Fréchet
Polymers, Biopolymers, Tinkertoys and Dendrimers

February 26, 2005
Carolyn Bertozzi
Nanomedicine: Treating Big Diseases with Small Things

April 9, 2005
Arun Majumdar
Artificial Gecko Feet: Carbon Nanotube Dry Adhesives

November 22, 2003
Carolyn Bertozzi
Big Things Come in Small Packages: Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine

December 13, 2003
Eugene Haller
A History of Semiconductors, from Brown's Crystal Rectifier to Nanocrystals

January 10, 2004
A. Paul Alivisatos
Crystal Light: Nanocrystals Branch Out to Create Energy from Sunlight

February 7, 2004
John Clarke
"Super" Conductors, SQUIDs and Your Brain

March 20, 2004
Alex Pines
Looking Beyond the Light: From Molecules to Brains

April 24, 2004
Robert O. Ritchie
Micro Machines

May 8, 2004
Alex Zettl
Building the World's Smallest Electric Motor