Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2005 to July 31st, 2006. Previous/next year.
Oct11
Tom Lubensky
University of Pennsylvania
 Liquid Crystals: What They are and Why You Should Know about Them Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Nov15
Adi Bulsara
US Space and Naval Warefare Systems Center, San Diego, CA
 Treating Coupled Ferromagnetic Cores as Dynamical Systems for Fun and Profit Host: Raj Mohanty
Dec06
Philip Rosenau
Tel-Aviv University
 Emergence of Compact Patterns Host: Sidney Redner
Jan24
Masahiro Morii
Harvard University
 Cracking the Unitarity Triangle: A Quest in B Physics Host: Meenakshi Narain
Jan31
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics, from the Collège de France and École Normale Supérieure, Paris France
 Manipulating Atoms with Light Host: Lawrence Sulak
Feb07
Laura Baudis
University of Florida
 Direct and Indirect Dark Matter Searches Host: Meenakshi Narain
Feb14
Christopher Stubbs
Harvard University
 Fundamental Physics Through Astrophysics Host: Andrew Cohen
Feb28
New Physics at the LHC: Maybe the Little Higgs? Host: Martin Schmaltz
Mar21
Statistical Physics of Citations Host: Sidney Redner
Apr04
Carl Bender
Washington University, St. Louis
 Ghost busting: Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Host: Sidney Redner
Apr18
Seth Putterman
UCLA
 Energy Concentrating Phenomena: From Sonoluminiscence to Crystal Fusion Host: Raj Mohanty
Apr25
Irv Bigio
Boston University
 Optical biopsy: noninvasive detection of early cancer with elastic-scattering spectroscopy Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli