Beller Lectureship

The Beller Lectureship was endowed by Esther Hoffman Beller for the purpose of bringing distinguished physicists from abroad as invited speakers at APS meetings.  APS units and committees that organize sessions at the APS March and April Meetings are invited each fall to submit nominations for the Beller Lectureship.

Beller Lectureship Recipients - 2010

APS March Meeting, Portland, Oregon

1. Joseph Klafter
   Affiliation: Tel Aviv University, Israel
   Nominated by the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP)
   
   
2. Nathalie Picqué
   Affiliation: Laboratoire de Photophysique Moléculaire, CNRS, France
   Nominated by the Division of Chemical Physics (DCP)

Beller Lectureship Recipients - 2009

APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1. Michel I. Dyakonov
   Affiliation: Université Montpellier II, France
   Nominated by the Topical Group on Magnetism and its Applications (GMAG)
   
   
2. Samuel A. Safran
   Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 
   Nominated by the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (GSNP)

APS April Meeting, Denver, Colorado

Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith
Affiliation: Oxford University, United Kingdom
Nominated by the Forum on Physics and Society (FPS)

 "Beller, Marshak Lectureships to Enhance March and April Meeting," APS News, March 2009

Beller Lectureship Recipients - 2008

APS March Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

1. Claudia Ambrosch-Draxl (Austria)
   Nominated by the Division of Computational Physics (DCOMP)
   
2. Jay Fineberg (Israel)
   Nominated by the Division of Materials Physics (DMP)

APS April Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri

Daniel de Florian (Argentina)
Nominated by the Division of Nuclear Physics (DNP)

  Complete List of Beller Lectureship Recipients through 2009