Physics Department Colloquia

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
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
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