Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2011 to July 31st, 2012. Previous/next year.
Sep20
David Bishop
Boston University
Silicon Micromachines for Science and Technology (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Oct04
Dr. Charles D. Ferguson
Federation of American Scientists, President
The Ethical Responsibility of Scientists (Poster) Host: Sidney Redner
Oct11
Ole Peters
Imperial College
Non-ergodicity in Economics (Poster) Host: William Klein
Oct25
Bala Sundaram
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Structural and Dynamical Aspects of Networks (Poster) Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli
Nov01
Laura Greene
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Joint Colloquium with Materials Science Engineering
High-Temperature Superconductivity: Taming Serendipity (Poster) Host: David Bishop
Nov15
David Bowman
California State University, Fullerton
Joint Colloquium with Earth Sciences
Accelerating Moment Release Before Large Earthquakes: Life and Death (and Rebirth?) of an Earthquake Prediction Scheme. (Poster) Host: William Klein
Jan24
Robert Carey
Boston University
Final Results from MuLan: A High Energy Experiment with Low Energy Muons (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Feb07
Arun Bansil
Northeastern University
Quantum Matter: Topological Insulators, Superconductors and Nano-dots (Poster) Host: Michael El-Batanouny
Feb14
David Nelson
Harvard University
Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Mar06
Subir Sachdev
Harvard University
Quantum entanglement and the phases of matter (Poster) Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Mar20
Markus Greiner
Harvard University
Synthetic Quantum Matter under the Microscope (Poster) Host: Anatoli Polkovnikov
Mar30
Douglass Osheroff, Nobel Laureate
Stanford University
The Benson T. Chertok Lecture; Joint Colloquia with MSE
Understanding the Columbia Shuttle Accident (Poster) Host: David Bishop
Apr10
Gordon Semenoff
University of British Columbia, Canada
What a Particle Physicist Can Learn from Graphene (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Apr24
Eric Cornell, Nobel Laureate
University of Colorado and JILA, Boulder
32nd Edmonds Distinguished Lecture
Searching for Exotic Physics in a Pin-Head Sized Storage Ring (Poster) Host: Lee Roberts, Lawrence Sulak