Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2014 to July 31st, 2015. Previous/next year.
Sep16
Flavio Fenton
Georgia Tech
From Chaos to Cures; controlling the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of cardiac arrhythmias using a theoretical, numerical and experimental integrative approach. (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Sep23
Henry Fu
University of Nevada, Reno
Microscale propulsion in biological and engineered systems (Poster) Host: Rama Bansil
Oct21
Bruce Boghosian
Tufts University
Boltzmann and Fokker-Planck Equations for Economic Modeling (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Oct28
Nandini Trivedi
Ohio State
Bose-Hubbard Models with Synthetic Spin-Orbit Coupling: Mott Insulators, Spin Textures, and Superfluidity (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Nov04
Alain Karma
Northeastern University
Unlocking mysteries of crack propagation: hidden paths and instabilities (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Nov11
Helmut G. Katzgraber
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Texas A&M University
Seeking Quantum Speedup Through Spin Glasses: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Dec09
Pankaj Mehta
Boston University
Information, Computation, and Thermodynamics in Cells (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Jan20
Alain Blondel
DPNC, University of Geneva, Switzerland
CERN: the next 60 years and 100 kilometers (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak
Jan27
Greg Boebinger
Director, National High Magnetic Field Lab, Florida State University
The Aesthetics of Constructing and Deconstructing Materials and Magnets (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Feb11
Steven White
University of California, Irvine
Using entanglement to solve quantum many particle systems (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Feb24
Mark Robbins
Johns Hopkins University
A Rough View of Friction and Adhesion (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Apr14
Ian Shipsey
University of Oxford
The Benson T. Chertok Lecture
Bionic Hearing: the Science and the Experience (Poster) Host: Lee Roberts
Apr28
Leonard Susskind
Stanford University
Edmonds Distinquished Lecture; Refreshments at 2:50 PM, Lecture at 3:20 PM
Entanglement: The Hooks that Hold Space Together (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak