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Events During the 2011 Spring Semester

January 2011

   Friday, January 21st
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
The role of quantum coherence in photosynthetic energy transfer, Alán Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University
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February 2011

   Friday, February 4th
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Multiferroic Vortices and Graph Theory, Sang-Wook Cheong, Rutgers Center for Emergent Materials
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   Friday, February 11th
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Strings and the Real World, Gordy Kane, University of Michigan
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   Friday, February 18th
 Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Regular and Irregular Polyhedra in Multi-Component Crystalline Shells, Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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   Friday, February 25th
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Led by the Nodes: Forging an Understanding of Fe-Based Superconductors, Peter Hirschfeld, University of Florida
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March 2011

   Friday, March 4th
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
The Fermilab Holometer: an Experimental Probe of Planck Scale Physics, Craig Hogan, Fermilab and University of Chicago
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   Friday, March 11th
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Using Spin-Stable Neutron Stars to Detect Nano-Hertz Gravitational Waves from Cosmological Sources, Jim Cordes, Cornell University
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   Monday, March 14th
Spring Break
   Tuesday, March 15th
Spring Break
   Wednesday, March 16th
Spring Break
   Thursday, March 17th
Spring Break
   Friday, March 18th
Spring Break
Furlough Day
   Friday, March 25th
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Cosmology without Cosmic Variance, Gary Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
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April 2011

   Friday, April 1st
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
How the Hippies Saved Physics, David Kaiser, MIT
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   Friday, April 8th
 Physics Department Colloquium, Ingersoll Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Beauty in Complexity: Low Friction and Adsorption Properties of Quasicrystal Surfaces, Pat Thiel, Iowa State University
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   Friday, April 15th
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Searching for Inflation from the South Pole with CMB Polarimetry, John Kovac, Harvard University
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   Friday, April 22nd
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Next Steps in Nuclear Weapons Control, Jay Davis, The Hertz Foundation
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   Friday, April 29th
 Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
Atomic Clocks: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, Thomas R. O'Brian, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA
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May 2011

   Friday, May 6th
Last Day of Class
Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
First Results from the T2K Neutrino Oscillation Experiment, Scott Oser, University of British Columbia
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   Monday, May 16th
Furlough Day