Physics Department Colloquia

Held in SCI 109.

August 1st, 2012 to July 31st, 2013. Previous/next year.
Sep11 Tulika Bose & Kevin Black
Boston University, Physics
The Discovery of a New Boson at the LHC (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Sep18 L. Mahadevan
Harvard University
On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Oct02 Holger Hennig
Harvard University
When the Beat Goes Off (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Oct16 Curtis Callan
Princeton University
Theoretical Physics in Cellular Biology: Some Illustrative Case Studies (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Oct23 Nadya Mason
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Using Graphene to Study Superconductivity (New Tricks for an Old Dog) (Poster) Host: Bennett Goldberg
Oct30 Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CANCELLED: TBA (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Nov06 J. Scott Bunch
University of Colorado
Graphene Mechanical Wonders (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Nov13 Stan Leibler
The Rockefeller University
CANCELLED: TBA Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli, Pankaj Mehta
Dec04 Elena Aprile
Columbia University
XENON Detector for Dark Matter (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil, So-Young Pi
Dec11 Karin Dahmen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Unifying Theory for Universal Quake Statistics: from Compressed Nanopillars to Earthquakes (Poster) Host: William Klein, David Campbell
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 Host: Sidney Redner (Chair)
Feb05 Jacopo Buongiorno
MIT
Future Prospects for Nuclear Power after Fukushima Host: Ed Kearns
Feb12 David Weitz
Harvard University
TBA Host: Rama Bansil
Feb19 Amir Yacoby
Harvard University
TBA Host: Anna Swan
Feb26 Peter Johnson
BNL
TBA Host: Kevin Smith
Mar05 Bill Bialek
Princeton University
TBA Host: David Bishop
Mar26 Socrates Pantelides
Vanderbilt University
Probing the nanoscale with a combination of theory and microscopy Host: Theodore Moustakas, David Campbell
Mar28 Joe Incandela
UC Santa Barbara, CERN
Benson T. Chertok Lecture; Special day, Thursday
TBA Host: Tulika Bose
Apr02 Andrea Liu
University of Pennsylvania
Jamming (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil, Ophelia Tsui
Apr09 Itai Cohen
Cornell University
TBA Host: David Bishop
Apr16 Stan Leibler
The Rockefeller University
TBA
Apr23 Fabiola Gianotti
ATLAS LHC Collaboration, CERN
2013 Edmonds Distinquished Lecture
TBA Host: Lawrence Sulak
Apr30 Mark Newman
University of Michigan
TBA