Spring 2008
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Spring 2008 Schedule
January 21
Steven M. Girvin - Yale University
Title: Circuit QED: What is the Electric Field of a Single Photon?
Host: K. Schwab
January 28
Seamus Davis - Cornell University
Title: Quasiparticle Extinction Due to Mottness - the Achilles’ Heel of High-Tc Superconductivity
Host: S. Teukolsky
February 4
Andrew Cohen - Boston University
Title: Electroweak Superconductivity
Host: Y. Grossman
February 11
Suzanne Staggs - Princeton University
Subject: Wringing Yet More Reality from the Cosmic Microwave Background: New Data from the CAPMAP Polarization Experiment and More
Host: I. Wasserman
February 18
Denise Freed - Schlumberger-Doll Research
Title: The Physics of Crude Oils: What Downhole Nuclear Magnetic Resonance can tell us about Crude Oil
Host: J. Parpia
February 25
Erich Mueller - Cornell University
Title: Ultracold Fermions
Host: D. Ralph
March 3 - Special Colloquium
Mildred Dresselhaus - President APS
Title: Remarkable Nanostructured Forms of Carbon
Directly After the Colloquium: The unveiling of a plaque designating Cornell as an Historic Site of the APS - for being the birthplace of the Journal of Physical Review
Host: J. Parpia
March 10
Eric G. Adelberger - University of Washington
Title: Recent Gravitational Experiments and their Implications for Particle Physics
Host: D. Cassel
March 17 - SPRING BREAK
March 24
David Nelson - Harvard University
Title: Gene Surfing in Microorganisms
host: Watt Webb
March 31
Judy Franz - American Physics Society
Title: An Adventure in Physics outside the Laboratory
host: D. Holcomb
April 7
Markus Greiner - Stanford University
Title: Quantum Simulations with Ultracold Atoms
host: Erich Mueller
April 14
BETHE LECTURE
Steve Chu - Stanford University
Title: What We Can Learn from Single Molecule Experiments of Biological Systems
host: E. Mueller
April 21
SALPETER LECTURE SERIES
Alexei Filippenko - UC at Berkeley
Title: Evidence from Type la Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy
host: D. Lai
April 28
Elena Aprile - Columbia University
Subject: The Search for Dark Matter with the XENON Equipment
host: I. Wasserman