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