Lecture Series

• 2010
  • Applications of Olefin Metathesis Catalysts
  • The How and Why of the World's Lowest Temperatures
• 2009
  • Science, Society and Sustainability
  • Innovation, Luck and the Optical Frequency Comb
  • Stone Cold Science: Bose-Einstein Condensation
  • Light and Matter
  • Passion for Precision
  • How advances in science are made
• 2008
  • How to Find Something New
  • The Science and Policy of Climate Change
  • Quantum Physics: From Basic Concepts to Applications
  • Creativity, Discovery and Risk: Nobel Prizes Past and Future
  • Blind chance or intelligent design?
  • The History and Fate of the Universe
• 2007
  • Blind chance or intelligent design? The need for basic research
  • Road to the Nobel Prize
  • Electricity in Biology
  • Measuring our Future in Science and Technology
  • Micro to Nanoelectronics
  • The Discovery of Alkene and Alkyne Metathesis Reactions
• 2006
  • Small Wonders - The World of Nanoscience
  • The Nobel Prize and the Future of Science

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Laureate Insights

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  Stone Cold Science

  Eric Cornell travels more than 9000 miles to give the students of Thiagarajar College of Engineering a taste of the strange world of science at a billionth of a degree above absolute zero - the world of Bose Einstein Condensates.

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  Best of Madurai

  Thousands of budding scientists and engineers at Thiagarajar College of Engineering turned out to hear from Nobel Physics Laureate Eric Cornell at the two day HNI event.

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  Pioneers, Idols and Teachers

  I.T. student Priya meets Professor Cornell in the courtyard of Honeywell's lab at TCE to discuss everything from Eric's idols to tips on how to inspire kids.

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  Is warm glass stickier than cold glass

  Eric Cornell takes us to the next level with an in-depth exploration of the implications of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

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  Cornell and the Madurai Undergraduates

  On the second day of the event undergraduates at Thiagarajar College of Engineering had the chance to put their questions to Eric Cornell.

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