Physics Department Colloquia

Held in SCI 109.

August 1st, 2010 to July 31st, 2011. Previous/next year.
Sep14 Andy Strominger
Harvard University
Black Holes - the Harmonic Oscillators of the 21st Century (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Sep21 Joel Moore
UC Berkeley
The birth of topological insulators (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Oct19 Howard Berg
Harvard University
Marvels of bacterial behavior (Poster) Host: Sidney Redner (Chair)
Oct26 John Savage
Brown University
Cyberspace - Taming the Wild West (Poster) Host: James Stone
Nov02 Seth Fraden
Brandeis University
Active Emulsions (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Nov16 Matthew Strassler
Rutgers University
A Theorist's Perspective on the Large Hadron Collider (Poster) Host: Emanuel Katz
Dec07 Michael Crommie
University of California at Berkeley
The Benson T. Chertok Lecture
The Electrons in Your Pencil: Observations of a Carbon Flatland (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Jan25 Claudio Rebbi
Boston University, Physics Chair
Quantum Chromodynamics on a Space-Time Lattice (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Feb08 Vijay Pande
Stanford University
Joint Physics and Chemistry Colloquium
Some Surprises in the Biophysics of Protein Dynamics (Poster) Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Feb15 Valery Pokrovsky
Texas A & M University and Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics
Interaction induced delocalization in Bose gas (Poster) Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Mar01 Heinrich Jaeger
University of Chicago
CANCELLED: Granular Media Host: Sidney Redner (Chair)
Mar08 Tom Peacock
MIT
Sailing on Diffusion (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Mar22 Diandra Leslie-Pelecky
West Virginia University
Materials at 200 MPH: Making NASCAR Faster and Safer (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Apr05 Martin L. Perl
Stanford University, SLAC
The Dean Edmonds, Sr. Memorial Lecture. Refreshments served at 3:00 PM in 1st floor lounge
Looking for Dark Energy on Earth: A New Experiment Using Atom Interferometry That Galileo Would Understand (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak
Apr12 Srikanth Sastry
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur Campus, Bangalore, India
Boston University Ph. D graduate
Understanding Liquid Silicon (Poster) Host: H. Eugene Stanley
Apr26 David Smith
Duke University
Transforming Light with Metamaterials (Poster) Host: Richard Averitt