---------------------------- Suvendra N. Dutta -------------------------------- 1. 20/09/91 Friday No guests. 2. 26/09/91 Thursday David N. Spergel. H+C 3. 04/10/91 Friday Gillian Knapp. H 4. 10/10/91 Thursday Kevin Long. H+C 5. Neil D. Tyson. H+C 6. Barbara Williams. No 7. Don Schneider. H+C 8. Ralph Wijers. H+C 9. Satoro Ikeuchi. H+C 10. 07/12/91 Thursday Ruth Durrer. H+C 11. 13/12/91 Friday Hans-Walter Rix H+C 12. 07/02/92 Friday Frank Wilzcek H 2.75 13. 14/02/92 Thursday Peter Stockman H 2.75 14. 21/02/92 Friday David Weinberg H+C 3.35 15. 27/02/92 Thursday Alex Wolszczan No 0.00 16. 05/03/92 Thursday Hans Witt H+C 3.35 17. 12/03/92 Thursday Masayaki Umemura H+C 3.35 18. 12/03/92 Thursday Rika Umemura H 2.75 19. 26/03/92 Thursday Masataka Fukugita H+C 3.35 20. 09/04/92 Thursday James Binney H 2.75 21. 16/04/92 Thursday Frank Verbunt C 0.60 22. 24/04/92 Friday Sterl Phinney H 2.75 23. 01/05/92 Friday James E. Gunn H 2.75 ---------------------------- Armando M. Howard -------------------------------- Sept.25 Friday David Spergel Oct.1 Thursday A. Raboteau Oct.9 Friday O. Gerhardt Oct.15 Thursday Dick Manchester Oct.23 Friday Avi Loeb Oct.29 Thursday Ellen Zweibel Nov.5 Thursday Michael Richmond Nov.13 Friday Ed Jenkins Nov.20 Friday Jaroszynski Dec.3 Thursday Lyman Page Dec.10 Thursday Neta Bahcall Dec.17 Thursday Roman Juszkiewicz Jan.21 Thursday Paul Schechter Jan.28 Thursday Mirt Gramann Feb.11 Thursday Somak Raychaudhury Feb.18 Thursday Emma Bakes Feb.25 Thursday Dave Wilkinson Mar.5 12:30 Friday Martin Schwarzschild Mar.12 12:30 Friday Raja Guhathakurta Mar.18 12:30 Thursday Roger Blandford Mar.25 12:30 Thursday James Binney Apr.8 12:30 Thursday Mamoru Doi Apr.16 12:30 Friday Scott Tremaine Apr.22 12:30 Thursday Joachim Wambsganss May 6 12:30 Thursday Penny Sackett May 14 12:30 Friday Michael Strauss ---------------------------- Philippe P. Brieu -------------------------------- 1993 May 20 12:30 Thursday Douglas O. Richstone Michigan May 27 Maarten Schmidt CalTech ---------------------------- Ue-Li Pen -------------------------------- Sep 3 F W James Binney Oxford Sep 9 T W Ed Bertschinger MIT Sep 16 T graduate students only Peyton Hall Sep 23 T H Jill Knapp Princeton Sep 30 T W John A Wheeler Princeton Oct 7 T W Leo Blitz Maryland Oct 14 T H Arlie Petters Princeton Oct 21 T H Neil Turok Princeton Oct 29 F Martin Kruskal Rutgers Nov 4 T Yasushi Suto Tokyo Nov 11 T Nat Fisch Princeton Nov 18 T Ed Witten IAS --- thanksgiving --- Dec 2 T Vera Rubin EPS 1/2 eggplan Dec 9 T D. Spergel Princeton Dec 16 T Tony Tyson AT&T --- X-mas break --- Jan 20 T Tim de Zeeuw Leiden Jan 27 T Ed Fenimore Los Alamos Feb 3 T Linda Sparke Wisconsin Feb 10 T Jim Peebles Princeton Feb 17 T Joe Taylor 1/2 cheesesteak Feb 24 T Piet Hut IAS Mar 3 T Daniel Kemmen WWS Mar 10 T Ruth Daly PU Physics Mar 17 T James Liebert Arizona Mar 24 T Russel Hulse PPPL Mar 31 T Todd Lauer NOAO Apr 7 T Doug Heggie UK? Apr 14 T Frank Briggs Pittsburg/IAS Apr 21 T Val Fitch Princeton Apr 28 T John Wilson Princeton May 2 M Frank Shu Berkeley May 12 T Marc Davis Berkeley May 19 T Chris Flynn Copenhagen May 26 T Jacqueline van Gorkom Columbia Sep 15 T John Conway Princeton Sep 22 T Sterl Phinney CalTech ---------------------------- James Rhoads -------------------------------- Sep 29 T No guests Oct 6 T Thanu Padmanabhan IUCCA Oct 13 T Dani Maoz Tel Aviv Oct 20 T Peter Goldreich CalTech Oct 27 T George Rybicki Harvard Nov 3 T Ed Jenkins PU Nov 17 T Jim Cronin Chicago Dec 1 David Spergel PU Dec 8 T Michael Strauss PU Dec 15 T Luigi Guzzo Merate (Milan) Dec 22 -- winter break -- Dec 29 -- winter break -- Jan 05 no thunch Jan 12 -- AAS Meeting -- Jan 26 Buell Jannuzi IAS Feb 2 Karl Fisher IAS Feb 9 Hyung Mok Lee Pusan Feb 16 Phil Fischer Bell Labs Feb 23 Pawan Kumar MIT March 2 Masataka Fukugita March 9 Roeland van der Marel IAS March 16 -- spring break -- March 23 no thunch ; peasant unrest. March 30 Hojun Mo Garching April 6 Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Peyton April 13 Laura Landweber PU evol bio April 20 Sam Glucksberg PU psych April 24 (Mon) Scott Tremaine CITA May 4 J.F. Nash Princeton May 11 Paul Steinhardt Penn May 25 Ted Williams 1995-6------------------------ Andrew Ulmer -------------------------------- Sep 7 Dr. Gnedin (Sr.) Pulkovo Obs.(Russia) Sep 14 student only thunch Sep 21 Eli Waxman Institute for Adv. Study Sep 28 Michael Rupen NRAO (VLA?, PUastro '88?) Oct 5 Bill Tang Director of Theory Div (PPPL) Oct 12 Ingrid Daubechies PU Math Oct 19 Edward Groth PU physics Oct 26 Bruce Partridge Haverford College Obs. Nov 2(12) Arthur Kosowsky CFA (postdoc) Nov 9 Vera Rubin Carnagie (DC) Nov 16(12) Steve Orszag Princeton Mae/applied math Nov 22 --------Thanksgiving--------- Nov 30 Ralph AMJ Wijers Cambridge Dec 7 Penny Sackett Carnegie (CA) Dec 14 Freeman Dyson IAS Dec 21 * Dec 28 * break Jan 4 * Jan 11 Jan 18 Jan 25 Feb 1 John Bahcall IAS Feb 8 Tadek Chmaj Copernicus Inst Feb 15 Lyman Page PU phys Feb 22 Dr. Damour --canceled Paris Feb 29 *inter Phil Griffiths IAS Mar 7 John Gaustad Swarthmore Mar 14 Arif Babul CUNY Mar 25(Monday 12:30) Bill Press Harvard Apr 1(Monday 12noon) Peter Meszaros PSU Apr 4 Martin Rees Cambridge Apr 11 Phil Crane ESO (garching) Apr 18 Charles Alcock LLNL Apr 25 Georg Raffelt Max Planck fur Physics; Munich May 2 Alex Lazarian Princeton Astro postdoc May 9 David Helfand Columbia May 16 Ann Saust visitor to PU Astro May 23 Jaime Serra WWS, ex-Finance Sec of Mexico Jun 23 Marc Davis UC Berkeley Jun 25 Michael Turner Univ of Chicago Jun 26 Roger Blandford Caltech 1996-7------------------------ Oleg Gnedin -------------------------------- Sep 12 graduate students only Sep 19 Ramesh Narayan Harvard Sep 26 Tony Tyson AT&T Oct 3 Kathryn Johnston IAS Oct 10 Daniel Eisenstein IAS Oct 17 Suzanne Staggs PU physics Oct 24 Neil Tyson Hayden Planetarium Nov 1 Kip Thorne Caltech Nov 7 Jack Matlock IAS; former ambassador to USSR Nov 14 David Wilkinson PU physics Nov 21 Pawan Kumar IAS Nov 28 --------------Thanksgiving--------- Dec 5 David Merritt Rutgers University Dec 12 Robert Stengel PU engineering Dec 19 HongSheng Zhao Leiden Observatory Dec 26 ---------------Christmas----------- Jan 2 ---------------New Year------------ Jan 9 Jerry Sellwood Rutgers University Jan 16 --------------AAS meeting---------- Jan 23 Zeljko Ivezic PU astro Jan 30 Max Tegmark IAS Feb 6 George Philander PU geosciences Feb 13 Wayne Hu IAS Feb 20 Harold Shapiro PU, President Feb 27 Marc Kamionkowski Columbia University Mar 6 Todd Tripp PU astro Mar 13 John Wilson PU, Dean of Graduate School Mar 20 Jim Applegate Columbia University Mar 27 Douglas Heggie U of Edinburgh Apr 3 Dick Zimmer PU, WWS; Congressman Apr 10 William Happer PU physics Apr 17 Paul Lansky PU music Apr 24 Arnold Levine PU molecular biology May 1 Simon Levin PU economics May 8 John Huchra Harvard May 16 Frank Wilczek IAS May 19 Roger Chevalier University of Virginia May 20 Ellen Zweibel University of Colorado May 21 Chris McKee UC Berkeley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1997-8------------------------ Mike Blanton -------------------------------- Sep 11 graduate students only Sep 18 Neil Turok Cambridge Sep 25 Leon Mestel Oct 2 Scott Tremaine PU astro Oct 9 Greg Bryan PU astro Oct 16 Alexander Regregier PU astro Oct 23 Kai Li PU CS Nov 6 Dick Bond CITA Nov 13 Masa Ono PPPL Nov 20 Ed Witten IAS Nov 27 --------------Thunchgiving--------- Dec 4 Steve Adler IAS Dec 11 David Hogg IAS Dec 18 James Gunn PU astro Dec 26 ---------------Christmas----------- Jan 1 ---------------New Year------------ Jan 8 --------AAS & Jerusalem School----- Jan 15 Mark Wardle Jan 22 Shude Mao Jan 29 Tom Herbig PU physics Feb 9 Bas van Fraassen PU philosophy Feb 19 Richard Ullman WW School Feb 26 John Wheeler PU physics Mar 5 Norton Wise PU history Mar 13 Michael Vogeley PU astro Mar 19 Frank von Hippel WW School Mar 26 Steven Spangler U Iowa Apr 2 John Hopfield PU mol biology Apr 9 David Bernstein PU CEE Apr 30 Barrie Royce PU MAE May 7 Reinhart Genzel May 14 Fred Dryer PU MAE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1998-9----------------- Arielle Phillips -------------------------------- Sep 17 graduate students only Sep 24 David Spergel PU Astrophysics Oct 1 David Schlegel PU Astrophysics Oct 8 Neil Cornish PU Astrophysics Oct 21 Marguerite Pierre Oct 29 Yun Wang PU Astrophysics Nov 12 Romeel Dave PU Astrophysics Nov 19 Rennan Barkana IAS Nov 26 ******* Thanksgiving ****************************** Dec 11 Jonathan Cohen PU Psychology Dec 18 no thunch Dec 25 ******* Christmas ********************************* Jan 1 ******* New Year ********************************** Jan 8 ******* AAS Meeting ******************************* Feb 4 Jill Knapp PU Astrophysics Feb 10 John Gager PU Religion Feb 18 Changbom Park Feb 24 Roman Juszkiewicz IAS Mar 10 Ue-Li Pen CITA Mar 17 ******* Midterm break, but not for me ************* Mar 24 Rob Nelson PU Astrophysics Apr 1 thunch cancelled Apr 8 Masataka Fukugita University of Tokyo Apr 15 Jocelyn Bell Burnell PU physics Apr 22 David Earn PU Evolutionary biology Apr 29 No thunch May 20 Alex Filippenko UC Berkeley Jun 23 Paul Schechter MIT Jun 24 Maarten Schmidt Caltech Jun 25 Sandy Faber UC Santa Cruzii ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1999-2000--------------------- Hiranya Peiris -------------------------------- Sep 16 ******* Cancelled due to inclement weather ********* Sep 23 David Spergel PU Astrophysics Sep 30 Graduate Students-Only Thunch Oct 7 Cancelled (No Show by Lisa Randall!!!!) Oct 14 Brian Kernighan Bell Labs Oct 21 Freeman Dyson IAS Oct 28 Steve Weinstein PU Philosophy Nov 4 ********************* Fall Break ******************* Nov 11 Andrew Ulmer Risk Metrics Nov 18 Andrew Hamilton U Colorado Nov 25 ******* Thanksgiving ******************************* Nov 30 Leon Mestel Sussex Dec 2 Albert Stebbins Fermilab Feb 7 Steve Balbus U Virginia Feb 17 Derek Richardson U Washington Feb 24 James Rhoads STSci ********* For rest of the Spring Semester, Thunch was on *********** ********* hiatus due to impending doom (aka generals!). ************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fall 2000--------------------- Iskra Strateva -------------------------------- Sep 14 Scott Tremaine PU Sep 21 Graduate Students-Only Thunch Sep 28 Leonard Susskind Oct 5 Plamen Krastev University of Wisconsin Oct 16(Munch) Cancelled (No Show by Jim Kroger!!!!) Oct 26 Kevin Lehmann PU Chemistry Nov 2 ********************* Fall Break ******************* Nov 9 Pawan Kumar IAS/MIT Nov 23 ********************* Thanksgiving ***************** Nov 30 Sara Seager IAS Dec 7 Juan Maldacena Harvard University Dec 14 Last day of classes No students -- No guest ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2001-2002--------------------- Joe Hennawi -------------------------------- Feb 1 Neil Tyson Hayden Planetarium Feb 8 Bill Nye Feb 15 Judy Cohen Caltech Feb 22 Paul Steinhardt PU (Physics) Mar 1 John Bahcall IAS Mar 8 Piet Hut IAS Mar 15 John Nash PU (Math) Apr 5 Douglas Heggie University of Edinburgh Apr 12 Jordi Miralda-Escude OSU ?????? Shri Kulkarni Caltech Apr 19 Joe Taylor PU (Physics) Apr 26 Uros Seljak PU (Physics) May 3 Chuck Steidel Caltech May 10 Elliot Quataert Berkeley May 17 Simon White Max Planck ****************************SUMMER*************************** Sep 21 David Spergel PU Sep 28 Scott Tremaine PU Oct 4 Ed Witten IAS Oct 11 Peter Singer PU (Philosophy) Oct 18 Ramesh Narayan Harvard Oct 25 Neil Turok Cambridge Nov 08 David Weinberg OSU Nov 25 Robert Adleberger Caltech ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2002-2003--------------------- Simon Dedeo -------------------------------- Feb 21 Jeremy Kasdin PU (ME) Feb 28 Marc Kamionkowski Caltech Mar 22 Peter Goldreich Caltech Apr 11 Nat Fisch PU (Plasma) Apr 18 Slava Mukhanov Ludwig-Maximilians (Germany) May 2 Gabriela Mallen-Ornelas Pontificia Universidad Catolica May 9 Masataka Fukugita University of Tokyo May 16 Harvey Tananbaum CXC May 30 Laura Landweber PU (Ecology) *************************SUMMER********************************** Sep 19 David Spergel PU Sep 26 Grad Students only Oct 3 Avi Loeb Harvard Oct 10 Joe Patterson Columbia *************************Fall Break****************************** Oct 24 Eric Blackman Rochester Nov 7 Arthur Kosowsky Rutgers Nov 14 Joe Fowler PU (Physics) Nov 21 Michael Mahoney PU (History of Science) Dec 5 Matias Zaldarriaga NYU *************************Christmas Break************************* Jan 14 Jim Stone Cambridge ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2003--------------------- Nicholas Bond -------------------------------- Mar 20 Nathan Seiberg IAS Mar 27 Chris McKee Berkeley Apr 3 Alar Toomre IAS Apr 10 Eli Waxman IAS Apr 17 Cancelled (attendance problem) Apr 23 Andrew Gould OSU Apr 30 Cancelled (attendance problem) *************************SUMMER********************************** Sep 18 David Spergel PU Oct 9 Arlin Crotts Columbia Oct 16 Martin Weinberg UMass Oct 23 Andrew Strominger Harvard (physics) *************************Fall Break****************************** Nov 6 Steve Adler IAS Nov 13 Donald Lynden-Bell IAS (Cambridge, IoA) Nov 20 Daniel Kahneman PU (Psychology) *************************Thanksgiving**************************** Dec 4 Shirley Tilghman PU Prez Dec 5 Fri. Vera Rubin UCLA *************************Christmas Break************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2004--------------------- Dan Fabrycky --------------------------------- Feb 5 Gerta Keller PU Geo Feb 12 Freeman Dyson IAS Feb 19 John Conway PU Math Feb 26 David Hogg Columbia Mar 4 Lyman Page PU physics Mar 11 John Hopfield PU mol bio Apr 1 Krzysztof Stanek Harvard Apr 29 Laurent Eyer Obs. de Geneve May 6 Marcia Rieke Arizona May 27 Andrew Wiles PU Math ***********************************SUMMER********************************* Sep 16 James Stone PU astro (DGS) Sep 23 Shahriar Afshar Rowan Oct 7 Michael Romalis PU phys Oct 14 Shri Kulkarni Caltech Oct 21 Ed Groth PU phys Nov 4 John Darley PU psych Nov 18 Jochen Weller Fermilab Dec 9 Robert Vanderbei PU ORFE 2005--------------------- Shirley Ho --------------------------------- Feb 10 Peter Goldreich IAS Feb 17 Kormos Buchwald Caltech (no show :() Feb 24 Joe Taylor PU Physics Mar 3 John Bahcall IAS ********** spring break ********* Mar 31 Ed Witten IAS Apr 14 Rashid Sunyaev IAS visitor Apr 21 George Efstathiou Cambridge Apr 28 Jim Stone PU Astro 2005---------------------Sudeep Das------------------------------------- Sep 1 Lloyd Knox UC Davis Sep 8 Bruce Patridge Haverford College Sep 22 Piero Madau Lick Observatory Sep 29 Jordi Miralda Escude Ohio State Oct 6 Jim Stone PU Astro Oct 27 Alice Shapley PU Astro Nov 10 John F. Nash Jr PU Math (Nobel) Nov 17 Licia Verde UPenn 2006 ---------------------Yue Shen ------------------------------------ Feb 2 Cancelled (Replaced by Wunch) Feb 16 Chris Chyba PU astro & Woodrow Wilson School Mar 2 Scott Tremaine PU astro Mar 16 Masataka Fukugita U of Tokyo & IAS visitor Mar 30 Peng Oh UCSB Apr 13 Mike Norman UCSD & IAS visitor ***********************************SUMMER********************************* 2006 ---------------------Mario Riquelme-------------------------------- 2007 -------------------- Reina Reyes ---------------------------------- Feb 8 Freeman Dyson IAS Feb 22 Joan Centrella NASA Goddard Mar 1 Michael Oppenheimer Woodrow Wilson Mar 8 Anatoly Spitkovsky PU Astro Mar 15 Mitch Begelman Univ of Colorado/JILA Mar 22 Spring Break Mar 29 Anthony Grafton PU History Apr 5 Robert Socolow Woodrow Wilson Apr 19 Frans Pretorius PU Physics Apr 26 Michael Lemonick Time Magazine ***********************************SUMMER********************************* 2007 -------------------- Reina Reyes/Xin Liu------------------------------ Sep 20 Myeong-Gu Park Kyeungpook National Univ. Sep 28 George Preston Carnegie Observatories Oct 4 Alicia Ostriker Rutgers (English) Oct 18 Jill Knapp PU Astro (DGS) Nov 1 Jordi Miralda-Escuede Institut de Cičncies de l'Espai Nov 8 Philip Anderson PU Physics/Nobel Prize Nov 15 Roman Rafikov PU Astro *************************Thanksgiving************************************ Nov 29 Edmund Bertschinger MIT - Dec 6 Arlie Petters Duke Univ Dec 13 Richard Preston Science Journalist/Author 2008 -------------------- Xuening Bai ------------------------------------ Feb 14 Adam Burrows PU astro Feb 28 Chris Thompson CITA Mar 13 Eli Waxman Weizmann Institute Apr 3 Jill Knapp PU astro (DGS) Apr 17 Frank Shu UCSD May 1 Eric Ford UFL ******************************SUMMER************************************* Sep 18 David Spergel PU astro (chair) Sep 25 Matias Zaldarriaga Harvard physics Oct 9 Shirley Tilghman PU president Oct 16 Alexander Polyakov PU physics Nov 06 Joachim Wambsganss MPA / PU visitor Nov 13 Alicia Soderberg PU astro / cfa ************************Thanksgiving************************************* Dec 11 Ralph Lorenz JHU APL 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 29 Michal Strauss PU astro ****************************THE LOST YEARS******************************* 2011 ---------------------Petchara Pattarakijwanich--------------------- Sep 22 Jeremiah Ostriker PU astro Sep 29 Robert Vanderbei PU ORFE / astro / CS / math / MAE Oct 13 Edward Witten IAS SNS Oct 27 Matthew Botvinick PU neuroscience / psychology Nov 17 Jenny Greene PU astro Dec 8 Chris Impey U of AZ / PU visitor Dec 15 Greg Olsen Astronaut/Entrepreneur 2012 ---------------------Alex Howe/Ai-Lei Sun-------------------------- Feb 9 Naomi Leonard PU MAE Feb 16 Marlan Scully PU MAE Feb 16 Wolfgang Schleich Universitat Ulm / PU Visitor Feb 23 John Conway PU math Mar 1 Alex Howe PU astro (grad student) Mar 8 Neil deGrasse Tyson Hayden Planetarium / Author Mar 15 Neta Bahcall PU astro Mar 29 Christobal Petrovich PU astro (grad student) Mar 29 Jose Garmilla PU astro (grad student) Apr 5 Tony Rothman PU physics / Author Apr 12 Rashid Sunyaev IAS / Russian Academy of Sciences Apr 19 Edwin Turner PU astro Apr 26 Brandon Hensley PU astro (grad student) Apr 26 Chelsea Huang PU astro (grad student) May 3 Robert Socolow PU MAE / Carbon Mitigation Initiative