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David Bishop is currently the CTO of LGS, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent dedicated to serving the U.S. federal government market with advanced R&D solutions. Most recently he was President of Government Research & Security Solutions for Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. Dr. Bishop is a Bell Labs Fellow and in his previous positions with Lucent he served as Nanotechnology Research VP for Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies; President of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium and the Physical Sciences Research VP. He joined AT&T-Bell Laboratories Bell Labs in 1978 as a postdoctoral member of staff and in 1979 became a Member of the Technical Staff. In 1988 he was made a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and later that same year was promoted to Department Head, Bell Laboratories. Dr. Bishop is also the recipient of the 2009 George E. Pake Prize.

William F. Brinkman was sworn in on June 30, 2009, as the Director of the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy. Brinkman left a position as Senior Research Physicist in the Physics Department at Princeton University where he played an important role in organizing and guiding the physics department's condensed matter group for the past eight years. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1966 and, after a brief sojourn as the Vice President of Research at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories, where he oversaw the expansion of its computer science efforts. Dr. Brinkman returned to Bell Laboratories in 1987 to become the executive director of its physics research division. He advanced to the Vice President of Research in Bell Laboratories in 2000, where he directed research to enable the advancement of the technology underlying Lucent Technologies' products. Brinkman led a research organization that developed many of the components and systems used in communications today, including advanced optical and wireless technologies.

Steven Chu is the United States Secretary of Energy. Chu is known for his research in cooling and trapping of atoms with laser light, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. Early in his career Chu had joined Bell Labs, where he and his several co-workers carried out his Nobel Prize-winning laser cooling work.. He left Bell Labs to become a professor of physics at Stanford University in 1987, serving as the Chair of Physics from 1990 to 1993 and from 1999 to 2001. While at Stanford, Chu helped initiate the Bio-X program, which focuses on interdisciplinary research in biology and medicine. In August 2004, Chu was appointed the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and joined UC Berkeley's Department of Physics and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, and left that post for the Secretary of Energy appointment. Chu is a vocal advocate for more research into alternative energy and nuclear power to combat global warming.

Christian Enss is the Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, and a Professor of Physics at the University of Heidelberg. He was the Managing Director of the Kirchoff Institute for Physics from 2005-2007. His research is on dynamics of complex systems at low temperatures and physics at ultralow temperatures. Enss is the author of several well-known low temperature physics textbooks.

David M. Lee is the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences, Emeritus at Cornell University. He is the 1996 Nobel Prize recipient in Physics (with D.D. Osheroff and R. C. Richardson). Lee joined the Department of Physics at Cornell University as an instructor in 1959 after earning a Ph.D. in physics (1959) at Yale University. Doug Osheroff was a doctoral student at the Cornell lab under Richardson and Lee. The trio discovered that the helium isotope helium-3 can be made a superfluid -- that is, it can flow without resistance -- at about two-thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, which is minus-273.15 degrees Centigrade. In 1976, Lee shared with Richardson and Osheroff their earliest recognition for studies of superfluidity, the Simon Memorial Prize of the British Physical Society. The Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society followed for the trio in 1981. Lee has twice been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1966 and 1974.

Sir Anthony James Leggett, aka Tony Leggett, has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1983. Leggett is widely recognized as a world leader in the field of low temperature physics, and his pioneering work on superfluidity was recognized by the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics (with V. L. Ginzburg and A. A. Abrikosov). He has shaped the theoretical understanding of normal and superfluid helium liquids and strongly coupled superfluids. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004 "for services to physics". He also won the 2002/2003 Wolf Prize for research on condensed forms of matter (with B. I. Halperin).

Afternoon session - Former Students & Post-Docs

Yiping Feng is a physicist with the Linear Coherent Light Source group at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He is developing new and novel experimental techniques and apparatus for measuring various beam properties of the LCL FEL x-rays. Yiping received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1991 working in the Osheroff research group.

Stefan Ludwig has been a Senior Researcher at the Center for NanoScience (CeNS) & Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich since October 2009. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Osheroff group at Stanford from 2001-2003. Stefan’s research interests include semiconductor based nanostructures, quantum information processing and communication, mesoscopic devices out of equilibrium, glasses and disordered systems and solid-state-physics at low temperatures.

Douglas Natelson is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. His research group focuses on the electronic, magnetic and optical properties of nanoscale structures. A graduate student in the Osheroff group, Doug received his Ph.D. in 1998. He was one of Discover magazine’s “Top 20 Scientists under 40” in 2008.

Ben Tigner has been President of Tigner Research (Aviation and Aerospace industry) since 2005. He has made technical contributions to more than a dozen aircraft and ground vehicle development projects. Prior experience includes Chief Engineer at Boeing Advanced Unmanned Systems Irvine (Frontier Systems; Aviation and Aerospace industry) and Vice President of Engineering at Frontier Systems (Defense & Space industry). Ben received his Ph.D. in both Physics and Aeronautics in 1993, and worked in the Osheroff group from 1987-1993.