Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2016 Spring Semester
January 2016
- Friday, January 29th
- Klaus Molmer, Aarhus University
- Quantum trajectories and the quantum state of the past
- 3:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Mark Saffman
February 2016
- Friday, February 12th
- Marek Kowalski, Humboldt University Berlin & DESY Zeuthen
- Deciphering IceCube’s High-Energy Neutrinos
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Albrecht Karle
- Friday, February 19th
- Kent Irwin, Stanford/SLAC
- Searching for Dark Matter with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Kam Arnold
- Friday, February 26th
- Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech
- Gamma-Ray Observations of Pulsars with Cherenkov Telescopes
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Stefan Westerhoff
March 2016
- Friday, March 4th
- Chris E. Forest, Penn State
- Understanding when we can trust climate models: Characterizing uncertainty in climate change from global to regional scales
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Susan Nossal
- Friday, March 11th
- Isobel Ojalvo, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Status and Future of Tau physics at the LHC
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Lisa Everett
- Thursday, March 17th
- Alain Aspect, CNRS, Institut d’Optique
- From Bell's inequalities to quantum information: a new quantum revolution
- 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:45 pm), hosted by Thad Walker
- Friday, March 18th
- David Nelson, Harvard University
- Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:15 pm), hosted by Pupa Gilbert
April 2016
- Friday, April 1st
- Keith Bechtol, UW - Madison, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
- New Satellite Galaxies of Our Milky Way
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Jim Lawler
- Friday, April 8th
- Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall, hosted by Dan Chung
- Friday, April 15th
- Josh Frieman, Fermilab and the University of Chicago
- Probing the Accelerating Universe with the Dark Energy Survey
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Kam Arnold
- Friday, April 22nd
- Richard Mushotzky, University of Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center
- First Results from Hitomi
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by Dan McCammon
- Friday, April 29th
- Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
- When Magnetic Field Lines Break
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm), hosted by Jan Egedal
May 2016
- Friday, May 6th
- Steve Meyer, The University of Chicago
- A Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer
- 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm), hosted by Peter Timbie