Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2013 to July 31st, 2014. Previous/next year.
Sep17
Sara Seager
MIT
 Mapping the Nearest Stars for Exotic Habitable Worlds (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Oct01
Gordon Baym
University of Illinois - Urbana Champagne
 Two-Slit Diffraction with Highly Charged Particles (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Oct22
Julien Lesgourgues
CERN, Geneva, and EPFL, Lausanne
 The Planck Satellite Results: a Universe So Big, but So Simple? (Poster) Host: Martin Schmaltz
Oct29
Edward Farhi
MIT
 Physics-Based Approaches to Quantum Computing (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Nov05
Meigan Aronson
BNL
 Quantum Criticality and the Phase Diagrams of Strongly Correlated Electron Matter (Poster) Host: David Bishop, David Campbell
Nov12
George Gollin
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 A Physicist Runs for Congress (Poster) Host: David Campbell, Lawrence Sulak
Dec10
Thomas Peacock
MIT
 Uncovering the Hidden Skeleton of Flow Transport (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Jan28
Philip Nelson
University of Pennsylvania
 Inference in Biological Physics (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Feb04
Helen Quinn
SLAC, Stanford University
 Issues in Science Education (Poster) Host: Tulika Bose
Feb11
Nigel Goldenfeld
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 Statistical Mechanics of the Genetic Code: A Glimpse of Early Life? (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Mar18
Jennifer Chayes
Microsoft Research New England
 The Age of Networks (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Mar25
Maria Spiropulu
California Institute of Technology
 So Simple & Unnatural: Implications of this 125 GeV Higgs on the Physics of the Universe (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak
Apr01
Vidya Madhavan
Boston College
 Massless and Massive Electrons: Relativistic Physics in Condensed Matter Systems (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Apr08
Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University
The Benson T. Chertok Lecture
 The Amazing Electron and Its Moments: Most Stringent Tests of the Standard Model and Proposed Extensions (Poster) Host: Lee Roberts
Apr22
Eva Andrei
Rutgers University
 Graphene and the Magic of Physics in Two Dimensions (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Apr29
Michel Spiro
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) France
2014 Edmonds Distinquished Lecture
 The Lord of the Rings and Mr. Higgs' Boson: What Next? (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak