Physics Department Colloquia

Held in SCI 109.

August 1st, 2009 to July 31st, 2010. Previous/next year.
Sep15 Al Nathan
University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign
Physics and Baseball: An Intersection of Passions (Poster) Host: James Miller
Sep22 Chris Quigg
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak
Sep29 Arno Heister
Boston University, CERN
What physics can we expect from the coming year's run of the Large Hadron Collider? (Poster) Host: James Rohlf, Lawrence Sulak
Oct06 Michael El-Batanouny
Boston University
Science, Technology and Diplomacy (Poster) Host: William Klein
Oct20 Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis University
Fluctuations, Response, Entropy and "Temperature" in Granular Packings (Poster) Host: William Klein
Oct27 Sajeev John
University of Toronto
Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals (Poster) Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Nov03 Art Ramirez
University of Santa Cruz
How Organic Semiconductors Work (Poster) Host: Bennett Goldberg
Nov10 Steve Girvin
Yale University
Quantum Signals: Noise and Amplification (Poster) Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov17 Lene Vestergaard-Hau
Harvard University
The Benson T. Chertok Lecture
Wizardry with light: freeze, teleport, and go! (Poster) Host: William Klein
Dec08 Laurent Seuront
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia; South Australian Research and Development Institute, West Beach, Australia
Special Colloquium
When statistical physics meets with evolution: Insights into the complex adaptivity to Creation's main stimuli -- sex and food (Poster) Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Jan19 Rick Averitt
Boston University
Magnetic Metamaterials: New Opportunities in Electromagnetism (Poster) Host: William Klein
Jan26 Monica Olvera de la Cruz
Northwestern University
Ionic Driven Self-Assemblies: Patterns and Symmetries (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Feb02 Greg Eyink
Johns Hopkins University
Spontaneous Stochasticity: "Classical Weirdness" in Turbulent Fluids (Poster) Host: William Klein
Feb09 Lisa Randall
Harvard University
Expectations from the LHC (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Feb23 Roman Jackiw
MIT
Fractional charge: the physics of zero-energy eigenmodes (Poster) Host: William Klein
Mar02 Lee Roberts
Boston University
Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model Through Dipole Interactions (Poster)
Mar23 Greg Huber
University of Connecticut
Modeling the hard geometry of soft membranes: From tethers to the endoplasmic reticulum (Poster) Host: William Klein
Mar30 Ken Kelton
Washington University, St. Louis
Liquid Structure and Phase Transitions (Poster) Host: William Klein
Apr06 Shou Cheng Zhang
Stanford University
Topological insulators and topological superconductors (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Apr13 Dudley Herschbach
Harvard University
The Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Memorial Lecture
Taming Wild Molecules (Poster)