Physics Department Colloquia

August 1st, 2017 to July 31st, 2018. Previous/next year.
Sep19
Maria (Masha) Kamenetska
Departments of Chemistry & Physics, Boston University
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "Probing Structure-Function Relationships with Single Molecule Methods" (Poster) Host: Kirill Korolev
Oct03
Natalia Toro
Stanford University, Perimeter Institute
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "Dark matter hiding under our noses — and accelerator experiments to sniff it out" (Poster)
Oct17
Louis Pecora
United States Naval Research Laboratory
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "How to Synchronize Chaotic Systems" (Poster) Host: Plamen Ivanov
Oct24
None
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 NO COLLOQUIUM
Oct31
NO COLLOQUIUM
Nov14
Allyson Sgro
Boston University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "From Molecules to Fruiting Bodies: Bridging Scales in Biological Collective Behavior" Host: Andrei Ruckenstein
Nov28
Jörn Dunkel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "Symmetry breaking and mode selection in soft and active matter systems" (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Dec05
Sid Redner
Santa Fe Institute
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "Is Basketball Scoring Just a Random Walk?" (Poster)
Dec12
Andrea Cavalleri
University of Hamburg, University of Oxford
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "Nonlinear phononics: Coherent control of functional solids" Host: Wanzheng Hu
Feb06
David Kaiser
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 “Testing Bell’s Inequality with Astrophysical Observations” (Poster) Host: So-Young Pi
Feb27
Tiziano Camporesi 
CMS-CERN Team Leader, and Resident Director, BU/CMS Internship Program
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "True measurements…false discoveries" (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak
Mar20
Christopher Grant
Boston University
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 Neutrinos for the Masses (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Mar27
Mark Srednicki
University of California, Santa Barbara
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "Quantum Chaos and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics" (Poster) Host: David Campbell
Apr10
Dave Hertzog
Chertok Lecture
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 Next-Generation Muon g-2: An indirect, but highly sensitive search for New Physics (Poster) Host: Lee Roberts
Apr17
Abigail Vieregg
University of Chicago
*Coffee will be served at 3pm; Talk begins at 3:30pm
 "Discovering the Highest Energy Neutrinos Using a Radio Phased Array" (Poster) Host: Kevin Black
Apr24
Barry Barish
Nobel Laureate 2017 & Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Physics, Emeritus California Institute of Technology
*Refreshments will be served at 3:00PM; 38th Annual Dean S. Edmonds Sr. Banquet
 "Gravitational Waves: From Einstein to a New Science" (Poster) Host: Lawrence Sulak
May01
Sergej Flach
Director, Center for the Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems
*Refreshments will be served at 3:00PM in 1st Floor Lounge.
 “The Legacy of Discrete Breathers” (Poster)