Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2012 to July 31st, 2013. Previous/next year.
Sep11
Tulika Bose & Kevin Black
Boston University, Physics
The Discovery of a New Boson at the LHC (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Sep18
L. Mahadevan
Harvard University
On Growth and Form: Geometry, Physics and Biology (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Oct02
Holger Hennig
Harvard University
When the Beat Goes Off (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Oct16
Curtis Callan
Princeton University
Theoretical Physics in Cellular Biology: Some Illustrative Case Studies (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Oct23
Nadya Mason
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Using Graphene to Study Superconductivity (New Tricks for an Old Dog) (Poster) Host: Bennett Goldberg
Oct30
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
CANCELLED: TBA (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Nov06
J. Scott Bunch
University of Colorado
Graphene Mechanical Wonders (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Nov13
Stan Leibler
The Rockefeller University
CANCELLED: TBA Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli, Pankaj Mehta
Dec04
Elena Aprile
Columbia University
XENON Detector for Dark Matter (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil, So-Young Pi
Dec11
Karin Dahmen
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Unifying Theory for Universal Quake Statistics: from Compressed Nanopillars to Earthquakes (Poster) Host: David Campbell, William Klein
Jan22
Eric Mazur
Harvard University
The Scientific Approach to Teaching: Research as a Basis for Course Design (Poster) Host: David Campbell, Bennett Goldberg
Jan29
David Hu
Georgia Tech University
Survival of the Driest: A Visual Adventure Into the Wet-dog Shake and Other Marvels of Nature (Poster) Host: Sidney Redner
Feb05
Jacopo Buongiorno
MIT
Future Prospects for Nuclear Power after Fukushima (Poster) Host: Ed Kearns
Feb12
David Weitz
Harvard University
Physics of Cooking (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Feb19
Amir Yacoby
Harvard University
Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids (Poster) Host: Anna Swan
Feb26
Peter Johnson
BNL
Superconductivity: the Gift that Keeps on Giving (Poster) Host: Kevin Smith
Mar05
Bill Bialek
Princeton University
Are Biological Systems Poised at Criticality? (Poster) Host: David Bishop
Mar26
Socrates Pantelides
Vanderbilt University
Probing the Nanoscale with a Combination of Theory and Microscopy (Poster) Host: David Campbell, Theodore Moustakas
Mar28
Joe Incandela
UC Santa Barbara, CERN
Benson T. Chertok Lecture; Special day, Thursday
From Discovery to Characterization: New Results for the Higgs-like Boson Discovered at the LHC (Poster) Host: Tulika Bose
Apr02
Andrea Liu
University of Pennsylvania
Jamming (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil, Ophelia Tsui
Apr09
Itai Cohen
Cornell University
Flight of the Fruit Fly (Poster) Host: David Bishop
Apr16
Stan Leibler
The Rockefeller University
Physical Biology: Is There an Elephant in the Room? (Poster) Host: Shyamsunder Erramilli, Pankaj Mehta
Apr23
Fabiola Gianotti
ATLAS LHC Collaboration, CERN
2013 Edmonds Distinquished Lecture; Refreshments served at 2:50 PM; Lecture begins at 3:20 PM
The Higgs Boson and Other Recent Results from ATLAS (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak
Apr30
Mark Newman
University of Michigan
Communities, Hierarchy, and Large-scale Structure in Networks (Poster) Host: David Campbell