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The Buhl Professorship and the Buhl Lecture Series

Mr. Buhl

The Buhl Chair in Theoretical Physics was established at Carnegie Mellon by the Buhl Foundation in 1961. The chair was to be filled by an outstanding theoretical scientist who would both impact theoretical research and help establish directions for experimental investigations. Richard Cutkosky was the first Buhl Professor of Theoretical Physics. Professor Cutkosky died in 1993 after a long and illustrious career at CMU. The holder of the Buhl Chair since 1995 is Fred Gilman.

Each year the Buhl Professor invites an internationally recognized scientist to give a public lecture on a topic of current interest in Physics. The lectures are geared towards a broad audience. Some past speakers in the Buhl Lecture Series are listed below.

Prof. Fred Gilman

2013	Norbert Holtkamp Stanford Linear Accelerator Center	Particle Accelerators: Tools for a Better Life, Ships of Discovery, Technologies for the Future
2012	Daniel Eisenstein Harvard University	Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound
2011	Scott Aaronson Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Quantum Computing and the Limits of the Efficiently Computable
2010	William M. Gelbart University of California, Los Angeles	Viruses "From Scratch"
2009	Edward "Rocky" Kolb Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	Mysteries of the Dark Universe
2008	Joel Primack University of California, Santa Cruz	A Brief History of Dark Matter
2007	David Gross University of California, Santa Barbara	The Future of Physics
2006	Keith Hodgson Stanford Linear Accelerator Center	Brighter than a Quadrillion Suns: Photon Science in the 21st century
2005	Hitoshi Muriyama University of California, Berkeley	E=mc²
2004	Michael S. Turner University of Chicago	The Dark Side of the Universe--Beyond stars and the starstuff we are made of
2003	Steven Chu Stanford University	Single Molecule Biology: It's more than just showing off
2002	Saul Perlmutter Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Supernovae, dark energy and the accelerating universe
2001	Jonathan Dorfan Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory	Matter Versus Anti-matter in the Universe and in the Laboratory
2000	Barry Barish California Institute of Technology	Einstein's Unfinished Symphony: "Listening" for gravitational waves
1999	Nathan Seiberg Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton	The Pursuit of Unification: Fulfilling Einstein's dream
1998	T.D. Lee Columbia University	Symmetries and Asymmetries
1997	Edward "Rocky" Kolb Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	From the Primordial Soup to Pittsburgh
1996	John N. Bahcall Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton	Recent Discoveries with the Hubble Space Telescope

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The Buhl Professorship and the Buhl Lecture Series