Fall 2008

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FALL 2008 Schedule

Sept. 1 - Labor Day - No Colloquium

Sept. 8
Paul McEuen - Cornell University
Title: Nano Carbon: From String Theory to Atomic Drums
host: S. Teukolsky

Sept. 15
John Clarke - UC at Berkeley
Title: The Ubiquitous SQUID: From Cosmology to Medicine
host: J. Parpia

Sept. 22
Maxim Perelstein - Cornell University
Title: Physics Beyond the Standard Model: Questions for the LHC
host: H. Tye

Sept. 29
Doug Glenzinski - FNAL
Title: Twilight at the Tevatron
host: P. Wittich

Oct. 6
Raman Sundrum - John Hopkins
Title: Extra Dimensions and the LHC
host: C. Csaki

Oct. 13 - Fall Break - No Colloquium

Oct. 20
Bethe Lectures
Robert Kirshner-Harvard University
Title: The Mystery of Dark Energy
host: Ira Wasserman

Public Lecture:
Wednesday, Oct. 22
Title: The Accelerating Universe: Einstein’s Blunder Undone

Physics/Astronomy Lecture
Thursday, Oct. 23
Title: Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology

Oct. 27
Margaret Murnane - JILA & Univ. of Colorado
Title: Harnessing Attosecond Science for Coherent X-Ray Generation and Applications
host: Frank Wise

Nov. 3
Andres Ryd - Cornell University
Title: THE CMS Experiment: Meeting the LHC Challenge
host: J. Alexander

Nov. 10
John Beamish - University of Alberta, Canada
Title: Flow and Elastic Properties of Helium: Is It a “Supersolid”?
host: J. Reppy

Nov. 17
Ron Poling - University of Minnesota
Title: CESR and CLEO: Thirty Years Shaping the Standard Model
host: J. Alexander

Nov. 24
Natalie Mahowald - Cornell University
Title: Desert Dust, Climate and Biogeochemistry
Host: G. Hoffstaetter

Dec. 1
Nergis Mavalvala - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Quantum Mechanics on Giant Scales
host: K. Schwab