Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2006 to July 31st, 2007. Previous/next year.
Sep12
J. C. Seamus Davis
Visualizing Complex Electronic Quantum Matter Host: Anders Sandvik
Sep19
Matthew Fisher
KITP, UC Santa Barbara
Quantum Choreography: Exotica Inside Crystals
Sep26
Prof. Ulrich Heintz - High Energy Physics and Prof. Ophelia Tsui - Soft Condensed Matter Physics
Faculty Research Symposium Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Oct03
James W. Rohlf
Physics at the CERN Hadron Collider Host: Anders Sandvik
Oct17
Angela Olinto
University of Chicago
A New Era if UHE Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Astrophyics Host: Andrew Cohen
Oct24
Ray Laflamme
University of Waterloo, Perimeter Institute, Ontario, Canada
Quantum Computing Host: Andrew Cohen
Oct31
Nancy Kopell
Boston University
Multiple Rhythms and Switches in the Nervous System Host: Raj Mohanty
Nov07
Philip Kim
Columbia University
Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon Host: Antonio Castro Neto
Nov14
Lee Smolin
Perimeter Institute, Canada
Quantum Gravity and the Standard Model Host: John Stachel
Dec05
Mike Lubell
American Physical Society
Science on the National Agenda: The Road Back Host: Bennett Goldberg
Jan23
Marcelo Gleiser
Dartmouth College
The Chirality of Life: A Field Theory Approach Host: Antonio Castro Neto
Jan30
Marusa Bradac
KIPAC Institute, Stanford
Shedding Light on Dark Matter: Seeing the Invisible with Gravitational Lensing Host: Emanuel Katz
Feb06
Eugene Demler
Harvard
Strongly correlated quantum systems: from electronic materials to cold atoms Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Feb13
Amit Meller
Boston University
DNA translocation, diffusion and unzipping through a Nanopore: The physics of polymers in a highly confined space Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Feb27
Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University
New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant Host: Lee Roberts
Mar01
Andrei Ruckenstein
Rutgers University
Towards Quantitative Models of Thranscription: Where is the Physics in Biology?
Mar20
Doug Durian
U. Penn
Unified force law for impact cratering in loose granular media Host: Sidney Redner
Apr10
Jim Cronin, Nobel Laureate
Enrico Fermi Institute at the University of Chicago
Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Memorial Lecture
Cosmic Rays: the most energetic particles in the universe Host: Lawrence Sulak
Apr17
John Marko
Department of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University
Micromechanical study of DNA-protein interactions and chromosome structure Host: Rama Bansil
Apr24
David Pines
Physics Dept. UC Davis and UIUC, and MPA Division, Los Alamos
A Tale of Two Fluids: From the Kondo Lattice to Underdoped Cuprates Host: David Campbell
May01
Anna Swan
Boston University
Photo-physics of carbon nanotubes Host: Ophelia Tsui