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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FALL 2009 Schedule

Aug. 31: Dan Ralph - Cornell University
Title: Putting the Electron’s Spin to Work

Sept. 7: - Labor Day - No Colloquium

Sept. 14: Subir Sachdev - Harvard University
Title: Quantum Criticality: from Antiferromagnets to the Cuprate Superconductors
Host: Eun-Ah Kim

Sept. 21: Peter Fisher - MIT
Title: WiTricity: An Odd Adventure into the Real World
Host: Ritchie Patterson

Sept. 28:  Itai Cohen - Cornell University
Title: Flight of the Fruit Fly

Oct. 5: Paul Ginsparg – Cornell
Title: Open Access: From Myth to Paradox
Host: Henry Tye

Oct. 12:  - Fall Break - No Colloquium

Oct. 19: Edward Farhi - MIT
Title: A Quantum Computer Can Determine Who Wins a Game Faster Than a Classical Computer
Host: Paul Ginsparg

Oct. 26: Wolfgang Bauer - Michigan State University
Title: Increasing the Number of Physics Majors - How Do We Do It?
Host: Ritchie Patterson

Nov. 2: Zvi Bern - UCLA
Title: Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Gravity
Host: Maxim Perelstein

Nov. 9: Steve Ritz - NASA
Title: “Fermi at 17 Months”
Host: Jim Alexander

Nov. 16: Humphrey Maris - Brown University
Title: “Experiments with Single Electrons in Liquid Helium”
Host: Robert Richardson

Nov. 23:  Jennifer Mass - Winterthur Museum
Title: Art Meets Science: Discovering Hidden Images and Vanishing Masterpieces in Paintings
Host: Sol Gruner

Nov. 30: Bart Selman - Cornell University
Title:
Host: Paul Ginsparg

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SPRING 2010 Schedule

Jan. 25: Vinay Ambegaokar - Cornell University
Title:
Host: Eun-Ah Kim

Feb. 1: Matthew Fisher - CalTech
Title:
Host: Eun-Ah Kim

Feb. 8: Eugene Demler
Title:
Host: Erich Mueller

Feb. 15: Andrew Mackenzie - University of St. Andrews
Title:
Host: J.C. Davis

Feb. 22: Stan Leibler-
Title:
Host: Itai Cohen

March 1: David DiVincenzo - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Title:
Host: Jim Sethna

March 8: Nathan Seiberg
Title:
Host: Csaba Csaki

March 15:
Title:
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March 22: - Spring Break - No Colloquium

March 29: Yuval Grossman - Cornell University
Title:
Host:

April 5:
Title:
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April 12: Jiwoong Park
Title:
Host: Paul McEuen

April 19: Chris Myers -Cornell University
Title:
Host: Jim  Sethna

April 26: Persis Drell
Title:
Host: Ritchie Patterson

May 3: David Spergel – Princeton  (Salpeter Lecturer)
Title:
Host: Ira Wasserman