Starting June 6th to August 29th, we'll hold outdoor summer lunches every Tuesday from 12-1pm on Heyns patio at the Faculty Club.

The Faculty Club : Outside South Patio, on the ground level/inside the Great Hall of the Faculty Club. *No lectures during outdoor Summer Lunches.


Lunches in the Seaborg room, on the 2nd floor of the Faculty Club, restart on Tuesday, September 6th. 
You should have a calendar invite on your calendar already - if you don't please email Hilary at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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May 16, 2023
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Kerstin Tackmann
Topic: Closing in on the properties of the Higgs boson

May 9, 2023
Speaker: Miller Fellow Grayson Chadwick
Topic: Understanding how methane metabolism moves through the tree of life

May 2, 2023
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Vahid Sandoghdar
Topic: Sensitive detection and imaging of biological nanostructures

April 25, 2023
Speaker: Miller Fellow Alfred Zong
Topic: Pathways toward unconventional light-induced states in quantum materials

April 18, 2023
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Simonetta Gribaldo
Topic: Phylogenomics and the Tree of Life

April 11, 2023
Speaker: Miller Fellow Vayu Maini Rekdal
Topic: Harnessing filamentous fungi for sustainable food production

April 4, 2023
Speaker: Miller Fellow Nayeli Rodriguez Briones
Topic: New frontiers in energy extraction techniques through quantum information processing

March 28, 2023
Speaker: Miller Fellow Antoine Koehl
Topic: What can language models teach us about protein structure, function and evolution?

March 14, 2023
Speaker: Former Miller Fellow, Miller Professor, and Executive Director Michael Manga 
Topic: Submarine Volcanic Eruptions

March 7, 2023
Speaker: Miller Professor Alanna Schepartz
Topic: Polymer Chemistry, Say Hello to the Ribosome

February 21, 2023
Speaker: Miller Fellow Michael Kim
Topic: Foundations of Responsible Machine Learning

February 14, 2023
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Alan Robock
Topic: Global Famine After Nuclear War

February 7, 2023
Speaker: Former Miller Senior Fellow Alex Filippenko
Topic: Hubble Tension in the Accelerating Universe

January 31, 2023
Speaker: Miller Professor Benjamin Recht
Topic: Training on the Test Set and Other Heresies

January 17, 2023
Speaker: Miller Professor Ting Xu
Topic: How to Translate Protein Sequence Information to Synthetic Plastics

December 13, 2022
Speaker: Final lunch of semester, NO speaker

December 6, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Pietro Caputo
Topic: Random Walks and Mixing Times

November 22, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Andrew Marks
Topic: Squaring The Circle

November 15, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Pietro Caputo
Topic: Random Walks and Mixing Times

November 8, 2022
Topic: Nobel Prize discussion with Elena Zavala, Alfred Zong and Carly Schissel

November 1, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Joan Redwing
Topic: Ultra-thin 2D Semiconductors for Next Generation Devices

October 25, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Iwnetim Abate (*Virtual Presentation*)
Topic: Exploiting electrons and spins for energy storage and computing

October 18, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Michael Turner
Topic: Quarks and the cosmos

October 11, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Emily Davis
Topic: Towards spin-squeezing in two-dimensional ensembles of solid-state defects

October 4, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Krishnan Mahadevan (in the Heynes room, 1st floor)
Topic: Role of Constraints in Metabolism: Impact of Membrane Area

September 27, 2022
Miller Members Introductions IV

September 20, 2022
Miller Members Introductions III

September 13, 2022
Topic: Miller Members Introductions II

September 6, 2022
Topic: Miller Members Introductions I