Starting March 17 the Miller Institute will conduct all Miller Lunch Presentations via Zoom.
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August 25, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Institute Executive Committee Member Prof. Stephen Leone
Topic: X Ray eyes

August 18, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Senior Fellow Michael Jordan
Topic: Bandit Algorithms: A Tutorial Introduction to a Core Machine-Learning Problem

August 11, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Executive Committee member Yun Song
Topic: A mathematical lens on the design principles of the cell

July 28, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Professor Sunčica (Sunny) Čanić
Topic: An abstract mathematical framework to study fluid-structure interaction in real-world applications

July 21, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Fellow Yu He
Topic: Fantastic high-temperature superconductors and where to find them

July 14, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Executive Committee member Professor Roland Burgmann
Topic: "AMA" (Ask Me Anything) session about earthquakes

May 26, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Fellow Nikhil Bhatla
Topic: A Framework for Studying the Neural Circuits of Consciousness in Animals

May 19, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Fellow Grant Remmen
Topic: Journey to the Limits of Quantum Field Theory

May 12, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Symposium Chair Michael Manga
Topic: Submarine volcanic eruptions

May 5, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Fellow Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali
Topic: Optics with engineered nanostructures from elements to systems

April 28, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Slava Krushkal
Topic: Quantum topology: knots, graph colorings, and computing

April 21, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Executive Director Marla Feller
Topic: How do you wire up a neural circuit to compute the direction of motion?

April 14, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Senior Fellow Alex Filippenko
Topic: The Accelerating Universe, Dark Energy, and a New Surprise

April 7, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Fellow Cara Brook
Topic: Deciphering mechanisms of viral hosting in bat reservoirs for emerging zoonotic disease

March 31, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Miller Professor Dan Fletcher
Topic: Virus Mechanics

March 24, 2020
No Presentation

March 17, 2020
Zoom Video Presentation

Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Laura Baudis
Topic: Illuminating the dark - searches for dark matter with XENON

March 10, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Professor Rosemary Gillespie
Topic: Species diversity across island gradients of space and time

March 3, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Jochen Roeper
Topic: The Madness of Dopamine

February 25, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Dong Lai
Topic: Extreme Exoplanets

February 18, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Jeremiah Ostriker
Topic: Heart of Darkness

February 11, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Yann Klinger
Topic: Measuring earthquake fault geometry from space to constrain earthquake processes

February 4, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Professor Chung-Pei Ma
Topic: Black Holes: Singlets and Twins

January 28, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Professor Hartmut Haeffner
Topic: Quantum information with trapped ions

January 21, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Fellow Sho Takatori
Topic: Overcoming Physical Barriers in Biology

January 14, 2020
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Fellow Peter Walters
Topic: Simulating energy/electron transfer reactions and the validity of a harmonic environment

December 3, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Fellow Thibault de Poyferré
Topic: Rigidity of Hyperbolic Foliations

November 26, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Professor Alan Hammond
Topic: Random devil's staircases in statistical mechanics

November 19, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Somorjai Visiting Miller Fellow Jennifer Schomaker
Topic: Taming Nitrene Reactivity with Silver Catalysts

November 12, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Fellow Louis Kang
Topic: A mechanism proposed for something called replay

November 5, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Nuh Gedik
Topic: Capturing light induced phase transitions with femtosecond movies

October 29, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Professor Iswar Hariharan
Topic: Genetic regulation of growth and regeneration

October 22, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Fellow Alex Turner
Topic: Atmospheric methane: where did you come from, where did you go?

October 15, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Uri Banin
Topic: Colloidal Quantum Dots; From Artificial Atoms to Artificial Molecules

October 8, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Professor Linda Wilbrecht
Topic: Adolescence and the experience dependent development of circuits that guide learning and decision making

October 1, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Fellow Becky Jensen-Clem
Topic: Exoplanet Imaging with Extremely Large Telescopes: A New Era of Detailed Exoplanet Characterization

September 24, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speaker: Miller Fellow Alejo Rico-Guevara
Topic: Hummingbird Ecophysics

September 17, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speakers: Miller Fellows 
Topic: Miller Fellow Introductions III

September 10, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speakers: Miller Fellows 
Topic: Miller Fellow Introductions II

September 3, 2019
The Faculty Club (Seaborg Room)
Speakers: Miller Fellows 
Topic: Miller Fellow Introductions I

June  - August 2019
The Faculty Club : Outside South Patio, on the ground level

*No lectures during Summer Lunches