Spring 07

PHYSICS AND RELATED FIELDS
Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
Schwartz Auditorium - Rockefeller Hall
Refreshments 3:30 - 3:50 p.m.

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Spring 2007 Schedule

Jan 22 - Special Physics Colloquium
Daniel Freedman - Cornell University
Title: Empirical Insights from a Physicist’s Year as a Grunt in Iraq

Jan 29
Lisa Randall - Harvard University
Kieval Lecture
Title: Searching for Warped Geometry at the LHC

Feb 5
Saul Teukolsky - Cornell University
Title: Black Holes and Gravitational Waves

Feb 12
Steve Peggs - Brookhaven National Lab.
Title: Accelerator Science at the LHC Frontier

Feb 19
Angela Olinto - University of Chicago
Title: New Era in UHE AstroParticle Physics
 
Feb 26
Carl Bender - Washington University - St. Louis
Title: Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians

Mar 5
Lars Bildsten - UC at Santa Barbara
Title: Explosions in Accreting White Dwarfs: From Classical Novae to Supernovae

Mar 12
Joe Polchinski - Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics - UC at Santa Barbara
BETHE LECTURE
Title:  Gauge/Gravity Duality:  From Black Holes to the Bethe AnsatzMar 19 - Spring Break

Mar 26
Richard Packard - UC Berkeley
Title: Superfluid Weak Links: Physics and Applications

Apr 2
Jonathan Lunine - University of Arizona
SALPETER LECTURE SERIES
Title: The Past, Present and Future of Methane of Titan

Apr 9
Matthew Pritchard - Cornell University
Title: Imaging SubCentimeter Ground Deformation from Space

Apr 16
Richard L. Garwin - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Title: A Major Expansion of Nuclear Power to Gight Global Warming? Problems and Prospects.”