Physics Department Colloquia |
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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
- Monday, May 16th
- Furlough Day