2005-2006 Colloquia

*Spring Semester Schedule:*
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
January 24	Masahiro Morii Harvard University Host = Meenakshi Narain	Cracking the Unitarity Triangle: A Quest in B Physics
January 31	Dean Edmonds' Lecture Claude Cohen-Tannoudji , 1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics Collège de France and École Normale Supérieure, Paris France Host = Larry Sulak	Manipulating Atoms with Light
February 7	Laura Baudis University of Florida Host = Meenakshi Narain	Direct and Indirect Dark Matter Searches
February 14	Christopher Stubbs Harvard University Host = Andrew Cohen	Fundamental Physics Through Astrophysics
February 28	Martin Schmaltz Boston University	New Physics at the LHC: Maybe the Little Higgs?
March 21	Sidney Redner Boston University	Statistical Physics of Citations
March 28	Wojciech H. Zurek Los Alamos National Laboratory Host = Raj Mohanty	Cancelled
April 4	Carl Bender Washington University, St. Louis Host = Sid Redner	Ghost busting: Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians
April 18	Seth Putterman UCLA Host = Raj Mohanty	Energy concentrating phenomena: From sonoluminiscence to crystal fusion
April 25	Irv Bigio Boston University Host = Shyam Erramilli	Optical biopsy: noninvasive detection of early cancer with elastic-scattering spectroscopy

*Fall Semester Schedule:*
DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE
September 13	David Weitz Harvard University Host = Sid Redner	Composite Actin Networks: Mechanics of Living Cells
September 20	Patricia Rife University of Maryland Host = Gene Stanley/Meena Narain	Einstein, Ethics and the Atomic Bomb
September 27	Joe Eberly University of Rochester Host = Bennett Goldberg/Teich (ECE)	Migration, Sudden Death, and Other Entanglement Challenges
October 11	Tom Lubensky University of Pennsylvania Host = Shyam Erramilli	Liquid Crystals: What They are and Why You Should Know about Them
October 17 (special date)	Ray Goldstein University of Arizona Host = Shyam Erramilli/BME	The Physics of Multicellularity
October 18	Arun Majumdar UC Berkeley Host= Raj Mohanty/BME	Transport in Nanostructured Materials and Devices
October 25	Ken Wilson, Nobel Laureate The Ohio State University Host= Ken Lane Benson T. Chertok Memorial Colloquium	The Origins of Lattice Gauge Theory
November 8	Faculty Research Symposium Karl Ludwig, speaker Ami Katz, speaker	TBA
November 15	Adi Bulsara US Space and Naval Warefare Systems Center, San Diego, CA Host= Raj Mohanty/BME	Treating Coupled Ferromagnetic Cores as Dynamical Systems for Fun and Profit
November 29	Greg Stewart University of Florida Host=Antonio Castro Neto	Cancelled
December 6	Philip Rosenau Tel-Aviv University Host=Sid Redner	Emergence of Compact Patterns