The Joseph Lannutti Lecture Series
In 1999, the FSU physics department and the Tallahassee Scientific Society initiated a series of distinguished lectures in memory of the impact that Prof. Joseph Lannutti had on the department, university, and community.
| Year | Speaker |
| 2024 November 13-14 |
Prof. Ayana Arce (Duke University) "Artificial Intelligence and the fate of the universe" (public presentation) "The ABCDs of anomaly detection at the LHC" (physics colloquium) |
| 2019 April 18 |
Dr. Mark Phillips (Carnegie Institution for Science) "Supernoves and the Expansion of the Universe" (public presentation) |
| 2017 November 30 |
Prof. Gabriela González (Louisiana State University) "Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and Black Holes" (public presentation) "Gravitational Wave Astronomy" (physics colloquium) |
| 2016 November 3 |
Dr. Robert Williams (Space Telescope Science Institute) "Hubble Space Telescope: Piecing Together the Universe" (public presentation) "The Hubble Deep Field and Its Legacy" (physics colloquium) |
| 2015 November 18-19 |
Dr. Pushpa Bhat (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) "American Science and America's Future" (public presentation) "Future of Particle Physics in the New Age of Global Science" (physics colloquium) |
| 2014 April 2-3 |
Dr. JoAnne Hewett (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) "Higgs: The Theory, The Discovery, and the Fate of the Universe" (public presentation) "The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry" (physics colloquium) |
| 2013 January 23-24 |
Prof. Michael S. Turner (University of Chicago) "Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond Stars and the Star Stuff We Are Made Of" (public presentation) "The Big Mysteries of Cosmology" (physics colloquium) |
| 2012 March 20 |
Dr. Pier Oddone (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) "The mysteries of neutrinos" (physics colloquium) |
| 2011 March 24 |
Dr. Jorge Morfin (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) "Pursuing the Ever-Surprising Neutrino" (physics colloquium) |
| 2010 April 8 |
Prof. Brian Greene (Columbia University) "The Fabric of the Cosmos" (Origins'10 presentation) |
| 2009 March 20 |
Prof. Lisa Randall (Harvard University) "The Origins of the Universe" (Origins'09 presentation) |
| 2008 March 20 |
Dr. Boris Kayser (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) "Neutrinos Get Under Your Skin" (physics colloquium) |
| 2007 April 5 |
Prof. Homer Neal (University of Michigan) "Stresses in U.S. National Science Policy" (physics colloquium) |
| 2006 March 16 |
Nobel Laureate Dr. Leon Lederman (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) "The Perfect Storm in Science Education" (physics colloquium) |
| 2005 March 24 |
Prof. Edward W. “Rocky” Kolb (University of Chicago) "The Quantum and the Cosmos" (physics colloquium) |
| 2004 March 18 |
Nobel Laureate Prof. George Smoot (University of California, Berkeley) "Our Standard Model of Cosmology" (physics colloquium) |
| 2003 |
Dr. Maurice Goldhaber (Brookhaven National Laboratory) |
| 2002 March 21 |
Prof. Gerson Goldhaber (University of California, Berkeley) "Evidence for Dark Energy from a Study of Supernovae" (physics colloquium) |
| 2001 |
Dr. Raymond Bye, Jr. (Florida State University) |
| 2000 |
Dr. C. Paul Robinson (Sandia National Laboratory) |
| 1999 |
Dr. Hans Schneider-Muntau () |
| 1998 |
Dr. Paul Zajicek () |
Created Nov. 30, 2024 - TA, modified Nov. 30, 2024 - TA