Spring 2009
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Spring 2009 Schedule
January 19
Piet Brouwer - Cornell University
Title: Quantum Transport without Planck’s Constant
Host: C. Henley/V. Ambegaokar
January 26
Andrea Liu - University of Pennsylvania
Subject: The Physics of Cell Crawling
Host: J. Sethna
February 2
KIEVAL LECTURE
Paul Doherty - Exploratorium
Subject: Physics at a Science Museum
Host: I. Cohen
February 9
Eva Silverstein - Stanford University
Subject: Inflation, String Theory, and Signatures in the CMB
Host: Liam McAllister
February 16
Andy Ruina - Cornell University
Subject: Rotation with Zero Angular Momentum: Demonstrations of the Falling Cat Phenomenon Go Sour
Host: P. Krasicky
February 23
Young-Kee Kim - Fermilab
Subject: E = mc^2: High Energy and Intensity Opens Windows on the World
Host: P. Wittich
March 2
Kurt Gottfried - Cornell University
Subject: Nuclear Terrorism
Host: H. Tye
March 9
Jan Zaanen - Univ Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject: Planckian Dissipation
Host: Eun-Ah Kim
March 16 - SPRING BREAK
March 23
THE BETHE LECTURES
Paul Chu - Houston/HKUST
Subject: From BCS through HTS to RTS?
host: S. Davis
March 30
Andrzej Buras - Technical University in Munich
Subject: An Excursion into the Attouniverse: Probing New Physics at Very Short Distance Scales Through Rare Processes
host: Y. Grossman
April 6
Alex Gaeta - Cornell University
Subject: Interactions of Light with Atoms and Molecules in Photonic Crystal Fibers
host: D. Ralph
April 13
John Learned - University of Hawaii
Subject: The Age of Neutrino Physics: A Rapid Overview and Description of a New 10 Kiloton Instrument Called Hanohano
host: Y. Grossman
April 20
Arjun Yodh - Univ of Pennsylvania
Subject: Melting, Frustration and Aging in Temperature-Sensitive Colloids
host: I. Cohen
April 27
Salpeter Lecture Series
Giles Chabrier - Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Subject: Recent Results in Exoplanet Formation, Structure and Evolution
host: Dong Lai