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