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Events During the 2014 Fall Semester
August 2014
September 2014
- Friday, September 5th
- Chris Oates, NIST-Boulder
- Optical Atomic Clocks: A New Era of Precision Timekeeping
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Walker
- Friday, September 19th
- Britt Lundgren, UW Astronomy
- Shedding Light on Distant Galaxies with 200,000 Quasars
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Lawler
- Friday, September 26th
- Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada, Reno
- Hunting for topological dark matter with atomic clocks
- 3:30 pm; Chamberin , hosted by Saffman
October 2014
- Friday, October 3rd
- Samir Mathur, The Ohio State University
- The Black Hole Information Paradox, and its resolution in string theory
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Hashimoto
- Friday, October 10th
- Jenny Thomas, University College London
- Neutrino Oscillations at Work
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Karle
- Friday, October 17th
- David Huse, Princeton University
- Quantum thermalization, many-body Anderson localization, and the entanglement frontier
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Vavilov
- Friday, October 24th
- Serguei Komissarov , Leeds University
- Physics of the Crab Nebula
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Boldyrev
- Friday, October 31st
- Lev Ioffe, Rutgers University
- The challenge of fault tolerant quantum computation
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by McDermott
November 2014
- Friday, November 7th
- M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
- Title to be announced
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Himpsel
- Friday, November 14th
- Dr. Nigel Lockyer, Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Neutrinos... Going International: Towards a New Understanding of the Quantum Universe
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Francis Halzen
- Friday, November 21st
- Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Quantum Entanglement for Fun and Profit: 101 Uses for Schroedinger's Cat
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Walker
- Friday, November 28th
- No Event: Thanksgiving Break
December 2014
- Friday, December 5th
- Art McDonald, SNOLAB
- Deep, Dark Detection: the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment
- 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm), hosted by Francis Halzen
- Friday, December 12th
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Holiday Colloquium -- A Treatise on the Probabalistic Projectile PizZA Problem
- 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall, hosted by 3rd Year Graduate Students