Past Lecturers

1996/97

Prof. Persi Diaconis
Harvard University
Guest of the Faculty of Mathematics

Prof. W. H. Miller
University of California
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. Martin Perl
Stanford University
Guest of the Faculty of Physics

1997/98

Prof. Carl Steinitz
Harvard Graduate School
Guest of the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning

Prof. (Sir) J. M. Thomas
University of Cambridge
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. H. Ted Davis
University of Minnesota
Guest of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering

1998/99

Prof. J. L. Massey
ETH
Guest of rhe Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Prof. John B. Burland
Imperial College of Science
Guest of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering

Prof. Theodore Yao-tsu Wu
Caltech University
Guest of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

1999/2000

Prof. Dr. Jurgen Troe
Max Plank Institute
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. Sergei Novikov
University of Maryland
Guest of the Faculty of Mathematics

2000/2001

Prof. Simon Ostrach
Director of the National Center for Microgravity Research
Guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Henry F. Schaefer III
University of Georgia
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. Alan Robert Templeton
Washington University
Guest of the Faculty of Medicine

Prof. Charles H. Bennet
IBM Research Center, NY
Guest of the Faculty of Physics

2001/2002

Prof. Peter M. Maitlis
University of Sheffield
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. Stephen D. Senturia
MIT
Guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Michael Rosen
Columbia University
Guest of the Faculty of Medicine

2002/2003

Prof. Charles Weissmann
Imperial College School of Medicine
London
Guest of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineerung

Prof. Jonathan Sessler
University of Texas
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

2003/2004

Prof. David Bellos
Princeton University
Guest of the Department of Humanities & Arts

Prof. Peter Sarnak
Courant Institute, NYU
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Guest of the Faculty of Mathematics

Prof. G. H. Golub
Stanford University
Guest of the Faculty of Computer Science

2004/2005

Prof. M. A. El-Sayed
Georgia Institute of Technology
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. M. Charib
CALTECH
Guest of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

2005/2006

Prof. E. Herbert Huppert
University of Cambridge
Guest of the Faculty of Computer Science

Prof. Anders Lindquist
The Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm
Guest of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering

2006/2007

Prof. M. A. El-Sayed
Georgia Institute of Technology
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. Andrew P. Sage
George Mason University
Guest of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management

Prof. Howard Brenner
MIT
Guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Richard A. Norman
University of Utah
Guest of the Faculty of Medicine

2007/2008

Prof. Robert G. Bergman
University of California
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. Michael Unser
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

2008/2009

Prof. Samuel I. Stupp
Northwestern University
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. Jack Freed
Cornell University
Guest of the Faculty of Chemistry

Prof. Hyman Bass
University of Michigan
Guest of the Departmant in Technology and Science

2009/2010

Dr. Michael Frenkel
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Diane Resek
San Francisco State University
Guest of the Departmant in Technology and Science

Prof. Dieter Bimberg
Insitute of Solid State Physics
Technical University of Berlin
Guest of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering

Prof. Emmanual Candes
CalTech
Guest of the Faculty of Computer Science

2010/2011

Prof. Richard Mushutzky
University of Maryland
Guest of the Faculty of Physics

Prof. Harry L. Tuller
MIT
Guest of the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering

Prof. Eugene Koonin
HIH
Guest of the Faculty of Biology

Prof. James Sethian
UC Berkeley
Guest of the Faculty of Computer Science

Prof. Howard Stone
Princeton
Guest of the Faculty of Computer Science

Prof. Alan Needleman
University of North Texa                                                                                                                              Guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering 

2011/2012

Prof. Kurt Fischer
Harvard University
Guest of the Departmant in Technology and Science

Prof. Emeritus Charles Steele
Stanford University
Guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Richard Murray
California Institute of Technology
Guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Bernard Amadei
Univesity of Colorado
Guest of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering

Prof. Eduard Atzt
Saarland University
Guest of the Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering

2012/2013

Prof. Thomas P. Andriacchi
Stanford University
Guest of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering

Prof. Edward Kaplan
Yale School of Management
Guest of the Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management

Prof. Bernard Chazelle
Princeton University
Guest of the Faculty of Computer Science

2013/2014

Prof. Ross Anderson
Computer Laboratory
Cambridge University
Guest of the Faculty of Computer Science

Prof. Jean Zinn-Justin
Member of the French Academy of Sceinces
Guest of the Faculty of Physics

Prof. Michael Batty
University College London
Guest of the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning

2014/2015

Prof. Martin R. Bridson
University of Oxford
Guest of the Faculty of Mathematics

Prof. Michel Elowitz
Caltech
Guest of the Faculty of Biology and the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute

Prof. Laszlo Keviczky
Budapest University of Technology & Economies (BUTE)
Guest of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering