Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2008 to July 31st, 2009. Previous/next year.
Sep16
Ken Dill
University of California at San Francisco
Small-numbers dynamics in biology and nanotech: the Maximum Caliber approach to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (Poster) Host: William Klein
Sep23
Doyne Farmer
Santa Fe Institute
Are there quantitative mathematical laws underlying financial markets? (Poster) Host: Sidney Redner
Oct07
HE Stanley
Boston University
Liquid Water: New Results in Bulk, Nanoconfined, and Biological Environments (Poster) Host: William Klein
Oct21
Denise Freed
Schlumberger
The Physics of Crude Oils: What downhole nuclear magnetic resonance can tell (Poster) Host: Claudio Chamon
Oct28
Richard Wolfson
Middlebury College
Global Warming: State of the Science (Poster) Host: William Klein
Nov04
David Weiss
Pennsylvania State University
Experiments with gases in 0D, 1D and beyond (Poster) Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Nov18
Erik Katsavounidis
MIT
Searches for gravitational waves with the LIGO interferometers (Poster) Host: Ed Kearns
Dec02
L. Mahadevan
Harvard University
Geometric mechanics: from the atomic to the tectonic (Poster) Host: Sidney Redner
Jan27
Ed Kearns
Boston University
The Neutrino Matrix (Poster) Host: William Klein
Feb03
Lazlo Barabasi
Center for Complex Network Research and Department of Physics at Northeastern University. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
The Physics of Human Mobility and What It Tells Us About Cell Phone Viruses (Poster) Host: William Klein
Feb10
Sarah Eno
University of Maryland
Searching for New Particles at the LHC (Poster) Host: Tulika Bose
Feb24
Alan Litke
UC Santa Cruz
What Does the Eye Tell the Brain?: A Journey from High Energy Physics to Neural Systems (Poster) Host: William Klein
Mar03
Sajeev John
University of Toronto
event has been cancelled due to transportation issues from recent snow storm
CANCELLED: CANCELLED: Photonic Band Gap Materials: Light Trapping Crystals (Poster) Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Mar24
Bulbul Chakraborty
Brandeis University
Fluctuations, Response, Entropy and "Temperature" in Granular Packings (Poster) Host: William Klein
Mar24
Dr. Michael Salamon
NASA Headquarters
Physics of the Cosmos: NASA's program to understand the Universe's origin and fate (Poster) Host: Steve Ahlen
Mar31
Gabriel Kotliar
Rutgers University
Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: a Dynamical Mean Field Theory Perspective (Poster) Host: Antonio Castro Neto
Apr02
Yuhai Tu
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
From molecules to behavior: E. coli's memory, computation and motility (Poster) Host: Claudio Rebbi
Apr07
Margret Geller
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University
Newton Meets Einstein: A Test of Weak Lensing (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Apr14
Arthur Eisenkraft
UMASS Boston
Cancelled - Colloquium/Arthur Eisenkraft Host: Bennett Goldberg
Apr21
Geoffrey West
Santa Fe Institute
Dean S. Edmonds, Sr. Lecture
The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities: A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Organization (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak