Lunches in the Seaborg room, on the 2nd floor of the Faculty Club, re-started on Tuesday, February 1. We offer a zoom option for those who do not come in person; you can find the link in the calendar invite. You should have this 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.. Scroll down for talk details.
* Per the City of Berkeley policy, you may be asked to show proof of vaccine status to enter the Faculty Club. PLEASE COME PREPARED TO SHOW PROOF OF VACCINATION STATUS TO STAFF AT THE FACULTY CLUB.
* Wear masks at all times indoors.
June 14, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Qiong Zhang (in the Heynes room, 1st floor)
Topic: TBA
June 7, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Anna Ho
Topic: TBA
May 31, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor David Weinberg
Topic: The Origin of Chemical Elements
May 24, 2022
Speaker: Miller Professor Holger Mueller
Topic: Manipulating matter waves with lasers: from fundamental physics to electron microscopy and back
May 17, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Allie Gaudinier
Topic: Characterizing plant adaptation to challenging serpentine soils
May 10, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Reza Gheissari
Topic: Markov Chains in high-dimensional spaces
May 3, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Tanja Bosak
Topic: Sampling Mars by the Perseverance Rover Mission
April 26, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Naomi Latorraca
Topic: The way proteins work: molecular movies from simulation and experiment
April 19, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor David Wales
Topic: Energy Landscapes
April 12, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Edward Stolper
Topic: Why do the interiors of rocky planets melt to produce magmas?
April 5, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Zeljko Ivezic
Topic: Rubin's Legacy Survey of Space and Time: the greatest movie of all time
March 29, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Ellen Vitercik
Topic: Data-driven auction design
March 22: SPRING BREAK; NO SPEAKER
March 15, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Aavishkar Patel
Topic: Metals with strongly correlated electrons: a tale of interactions and disorder
March 8, 2022
Speaker: Miller Professor Gabriel Orebi Gann
Topic: Let there be light: unlocking the secrets of the universe with neutrinos
March 1, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Yi Cui
Topic: Reinventing Batteries through Nanoscience
February 22, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Danqing Wang
Topic: Emerging Optics from Structured Nanomaterials
February 15, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Astrid Kiendler-Scharr
Topic: Air quality and Climate Change: where we stand and what to expect
February 8, 2022
Speaker: Alex Filippenko (Miller Senior Fellow 2017-2021, Miller Professor 2005, Miller Professor 1996, Miller Fellow 1984-1986)
Topic: Trip to Antarctica in December to see the solar eclipse
February 1, 2022
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Adrian Buganza Tepole
Topic: Skin growth in response to supra-physiological stretches
January 25, 2022
Speaker: Miller Fellow Adair Borges
Topic: Aliens among us: Viruses with alternative genetic codes
January 18, 2022
Speaker: Miller Professor Jeff Long
Topic: Separating Molecules in Metal-Organic Frameworks
December 21, 2021
Speaker: No Speaker
December 14, 2021
Speaker: Miller Professor David Drubin
Topic: How living cells generate and sense nano-scale membrane curvature to regulate biochemical processes
December 7, 2021
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Ivan Corwin
Topic: Extreme Diffusion, or was Einstein wrong about diffusion
Continued After Lunch: Climate Survey results with consultant Dr. Chrissy Stachl (part 2) 1-2 PM
November 30, 2021
Speaker: Miller Fellow Ekta Patel
Topic: Rewinding the Orbital Histories of Satellite Galaxies in the Local Group
November 23, 2021
Speaker: Miller Professor Feng Wang
Topic: Engineering correlated quantum phenomena in atomically thin LEGOs
November 16, 2021
Speaker: Climate Survey results with consultant Dr. Chrissy Stachl
Topic: Climate Survey results with consultant Dr. Chrissy Stachl (part 1)
November 9, 2021
Speaker: Miller Professor Gabriel Orebi Gann
Topic: Let there be light: unlocking the secrets of the universe with neutrinos
November 2, 2021
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor David Fisher
Topic: Arithmetic and geometry: pattern producing numbers
October 26, 2021
Speaker: Yi Zhang, Bill Boos, Naomi Latorraca, Marla Feller and Iwnetim Abate
Topic: Nobel Prize discussion
October 19, 2021
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor John Lis
Topic: Understanding How Genes are Regulated in Flies & Humans
October 12, 2021
Speaker: Visiting Miller Professor Dmitri Talapin
Topic: A Modular Approach to Materials Design
October 5, 2021
Miller Members Introductions III
September 28, 2021
Speaker: Somorjai Visiting Miller Professor Roland Wester
Topic: About the dark parts of the night sky
September 21, 2021
Topic: Miller Members Introductions II
September 14, 2021
Topic: Miller Members Introductions I
Starting on June 22 - September 7, we'll hold optional outdoor summer lunches every Tuesday from 12-1pm 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