Buhl Professorship and Buhl Lecture Series
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 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. Recent speakers in the Buhl Lecture
Series have been:
2005: Hitoshi
Muriyama (University of California, Berkeley) E=mc2 (poster)
2004: Michael S. Turner
(University of Chicago) The Dark Side of the Universe--Beyond stars and the
starstuff we are made of (poster)
2003: Steven Chu (Stanford University) Single Molecule Biology: It's more
than just showing off (poster)
2002: Saul Perlmutter (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Supernovae,
dark energy and the accelerating universe (poster)
2001: Jonathan Dorfan (Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory) Matter Versus
Anti-matter in the Universe and in the Laboratory (poster)
2000: Barry Barish (California Institute of Technology) Einstein's Unfinished
Symphony: "Listening" for gravitational waves (poster)
1999: Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) The Pursuit of
Unification: Fulfilling Einstein's dream (poster)
1998: T.D. Lee (Columbia University) Symmetries and Asymmetries (poster)
1997: Edward "Rocky" Kolb (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) From the
Primordial Soup to Pittsburgh (poster)
1996: John N. Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Recent
Discoveries with the Hubble Space Telescope (poster)
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