Physics Department Colloquia

Refreshments will be served at 3:00 in the 1st Floor Lounge. Held in SCI 109.

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Jan22
Eric Mazur
Harvard University
The Scientific Approach to Teaching: Research as a Basis for Course Design (Poster) Host: Bennett Goldberg, David Campbell
Jan29
David Hu
Georgia Tech University
Survival of the Driest: A Visual Adventure Into the Wet-dog Shake and Other Marvels of Nature (Poster) Host: Sidney Redner (Chair)
Feb05
Jacopo Buongiorno
MIT
Future Prospects for Nuclear Power after Fukushima (Poster) Host: Ed Kearns
Feb12
David Weitz
Harvard University
Physics of Cooking (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Feb19
Amir Yacoby
Harvard University
Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids (Poster) Host: Anna Swan
Feb26
Peter Johnson
BNL
Superconductivity: the Gift that Keeps on Giving (Poster) Host: Kevin Smith
Mar05
Bill Bialek
Princeton University
Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality? (Poster) Host: David Bishop
Mar26
Socrates Pantelides
Vanderbilt University
Probing the Nanoscale with a Combination of Theory and Microscopy (Poster) Host: Theodore Moustakas, David Campbell
Mar28
Joe Incandela
UC Santa Barbara, CERN
Benson T. Chertok Lecture; Special day, Thursday
From Discovery to Characterization: New Results for the Higgs-like Boson Discovered at the LHC (Poster) Host: Tulika Bose
Apr02
Andrea Liu
University of Pennsylvania
Jamming (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil, Ophelia Tsui
Apr09
Itai Cohen
Cornell University
Flight of the Fruit Fly (Poster) Host: David Bishop
Apr16
Stan Leibler
The Rockefeller University
Physical Biology: Is There an Elephant in the Room? (Poster) Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli, Pankaj Mehta
Apr23
Fabiola Gianotti
ATLAS LHC Collaboration, CERN
2013 Edmonds Distinquished Lecture; Refreshments served at 2:50 PM; Lecture begins at 3:20 PM
The Higgs Boson and Other Recent Results from ATLAS (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak
Apr30
Mark Newman
University of Michigan
Communities, Hierarchy, and Large-scale Structure in Networks (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Sep10
Nigel Goldenfeld
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
TBA Host: David Campbell