Spring 2006

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 2006 Schedule

Jan 23 
Sarah Eno - University of Maryland
Title:  The LHC Adventure

Jan 30
Amir Yacoby - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rohovot, Israel
Title:  Coherent Control and Manipulation of Two-Electron Spin States

Feb 6
David Weitz - Harvard University
Title:  Dripping, Jetting, Drops, and Wetting: The Magic of Microfluidics

Feb 13
No Seminar Today

Feb 20
Philip Kim - Columbia University
Title:  Quantum Electrodynamics at your Pencil Tips:  Dirac Fermion in Graphite

Feb 27
A. Douglas Stone - Yale University
Title:  Einstein’s Unknown Insight and the Problem of Quantizing Chaotic Motion

Mar 6
Amber Miller - Columbia University
Title:  Peeking in Ancient Holes and Seeking the Holy Grail

Mar 13
Maxim Perelstein - Cornell University
Title:  Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Mar 20 - SPRING BREAK

Mar 27
Gary Horowitz - University of California at Santa Barbara
Title:  Spacetime in String Theory

April 3
Barry C. Barish - California Institute of Technology
Title:  Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves

Apr 10
Lene Hau - Harvard University
Title: Frozen Light

Apr 17
Avi Loeb - Harvard University
Salpeter Lecture Series
Title: The Frontier of 21cm Cosmology:  Probing Reionization As Well As The Inflationary Initial Conditions

Apr 24
Eberhard Bodenschatz - Cornell University
Title: The Cornell Experiments on Fluid Turburence

May 1
Sunil Golwala - California Institute of Technology
Title: The Search for WIMP Dark Matte

May 8
Harold Shapiro - Princeton University
Title:  Particle Physics at the Crossroads:  Charting the Course for Elementary Particle Physics in the 21st Century