Physics Colloquia by Semester

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 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

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FALL 2009 Schedule

Aug. 31 Dan Ralph - Cornell University
Title:
host:

Sept. 7 - Labor Day - No Colloquium

Sept. 14 Subir Sachdev - Harvard University
Title:
host: Eun-Ah Kim

Sept. 21 Peter Fisher - MIT
Title:
host: Ritchie Patterson

Sept. 28
Title:
host:

Oct. 5 Neil Turok - Perimeter Institute
Title:
host: Henry Tye

Oct. 12  -  Fall Break - No Colloquium

Oct. 19 Edward Farhi - MIT
Title:
host: Paul Ginsparg

Oct. 26 Wolfgang Bauer - Michigan State University
Title:
host: Ritchie Patterson

Nov. 2 Zvi Bern - UCLA
Title:
Host: Maxim Perelstein

Nov. 9 Steve Ritz - NASA
Title:
host: Jim Alexander

Nov. 16
Title:
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Nov. 23
Title:
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Nov. 30
Title:
Host: