Lorentz Center - Lorentz Center Highlights Lectures

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12 February Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution:
"Challenges to move forward a predictive ecology"

12 March Anthony Leggett, University of Illinois:
"Glass: the Cinderella problem of low-temperature physics"

Wolfgang Ketterle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
"Superfluid atomic gases - Ultracold, ultra dilute"

16 April André de Roos, University of Amsterdam:
"Small contra large: implications of ontogenetic asymmetry for fisheries management"

14 May Steven Tingay, Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy:
"The Murchison Widefield Array: the hunt for the first luminous objects in the early Universe"

14 February Roeland Merks, CWI:
"Mathematical modelling of cellular self-organization in protein gels: how cells can 'read' and 'write'"

10 April Susan Golden, Institute for Chronobiology University of California-San Diego:
"How bacteria tell time"

8 May Julyan Cartwright and Oliver Steinbock , University of Granada and Georg-August-University Göttingen:
"Chemical Gardens"

27 November Petra Rudolf, University of Groningen:
"See atoms move in real time"

1 February Jane Calvert, INNOGEN, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh:
"Biology as engineering: from Lego to life?"

15 March Isabelle Grenier, Univ. of Paris Denis Diderot/AIM, CEA Saclay:
"New gamma-ray views of a turbulent universe"

26 April Steffen Lauritzen, Oxford University (UK), Dept. of Statistics:
"Graphical models for Forensic DNA"

14 June Ya-Wen Sun, Leiden Institute of Physics:
"Black Hole Answers for Condensed Matter Questions"

22 November Matthias Heinemann, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechn. Inst. - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen:
"With new tools and approaches to novel fascinating insights about microbial metabolism"

19 January Donald E. Ingber, Founding Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, USA:
"Biomimetic microsystems: a human breathing lung on a chip"

23 March Leo Kadanoff, The James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, USA:
"Seeing phase transitions from outside"

10 March Mary Lou Zeeman, Bowdoin College, Mathematics Department, Bruinswick, USA:
"Rhythms in the Pituitary"

31 March Tasios Melis , Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA:
"The road to renewable biofuels: hydrogen, biodiesel, or ethanol"

13 October Jeroen Raes, VIB Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium:
"Untangling microbial ecosystems using metagenomics: from the oceans to human disease"

27 October Frank Bruggeman, VIB Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium:
"Making cell biology predictive with constraint-based modeling"

11 March Giora Hon, University of Haifa, Fellow at NIAS:
"Symmetry - The Power of a Modern Scientific Concept"
22 April Jan Gunneweg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Lorentz Fellow at NIAS:
"Qumran, a scientific jigsaw puzzle. The Dead Sea scrolls and archaeometry"
7 October Tom Millar, University of Manchester:
"Negative Ions in Space"
21 October Roel van Driel, Netherlands Inst. for Systems Biology
"Proteins dancing on our DNA to fix the damage: quick quick slow"

6 February Andre Geim, University of Manchester, UK:
"Graphene: Emerging Matter"
13 March Paul van den Broek, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Minnesota, USA:
"To make sense or not to make sense (of text): that's the question"
20 March Wim van Saarloos, Instituut Lorentz, LION, and Lorentz Center:
"A decade of discoveries"
16 October Ute Ebert , CWI, Amsterdam and Technische Universiteit Eindhoven:
"Streamers, sprites, leaders, lightning: from micro- to macroscales"
4 December Erik Winfree, CalTech:
"Learning how to program chemistry"

7 March Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University, USA:
"Interface surfaces of molecular complexes"
9 May Steve Gross, University of California, Irvine, USA:
"Moving cargos in a cell: how do molecular motors work together?"
30 May Gerard 't Hooft, Spinoza Instituut, Utrecht:
"Determinism in quantum mechanics"
13 June Manjul Bhargava, Princeton University, USA:
“Sums of squares and the 290-Theorem”
12 September Jan Hogendijk, Leiden and Utrecht Universities:
"Geometric Patterns in Islamic Art"
10 Oktober George Miley, Leiden Observatory:
"Universe Awareness"
24 October Ben Oppenheimer, American Museum of Natural History:
"The Scientific Search for Life Outside the Solar System"
28 November David Healy, Cardiff University, UK:
"Does anything in Psychiatry work? The implications for Neuroscience if the answer is no"
12 December Jacob Israelachvili, University of California Santa Barbara, USA:
"Adhesion and friction forces in the life of a gecko"