Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture Fund
2025 - Professor Thibault Damour
Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques
Gravitational Waves, Black Holes and Experimental Tests of Gravitational Theory
2024 - Professor Andrew Strominger
Harvard University
Adventures with Black Holes: Past, Present and Future
2023 - Professor Alessandra Buonanno
Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam
Illuminating the Dark Universe with Gravitational Waves
2022 - Professor Robert Wald
University of Chicago
Black Holes, Thermodynamics and Information Loss
2021 - Professor Andrea Ghez
University of California, Los Angeles
From the possibility to the certainty of a supermassive black hole
2020 - Professor Alan Guth
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Infinite Phase Space and the Two-Headed Arrow of Time
2019 - Professor John Ellis
King's College, London
What are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going?
2018 - Professor Gerard 't Hooft
University of Utrecht
Observing Black Holes in Quantum Mechanics
2017 - Professor Kip Thorne
California Institute of Technology
LIGO and Beyond : Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves
2016 - Professor Raymond Laflamme
University of Waterloo
Harnessing the Quantum World
2015 - Professor Frank Wilczek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Beautiful Question
2014 - Professor Michael Green
University of Cambridge
The Pointless Universe
2013 - Professor Frank Close
University of Oxford
The Infinity Puzzle – From the Higgs Boson to the LHC
2012 - Professor Jim Al-Khalili
University of Surrey
On the Shoulders of Eastern Giants: The Forgotten Contribution of Medieval Physicists