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Spring 2007 Colloquia
(Reception at 3:30 pm in SC6333)
| Thursday, January 11 - Joint Colloquium with ACCRE and Dept of EECS |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Jan Pedersen, Yahoo! Chief Scientist, Search
Web Search: How does it Work?
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Hosted by Scherrer
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| Thursday, January 18 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Alexander Korotkov, University of California - Riverside
Continuous Quantum Measurement of Solid-state Qubits
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Hosted by Velkovska
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| Thursday, January 25 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Penn State University
Bringing Black Holes Together: An N-body Mechanic's Collision Report
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Hosted by Weintraub
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| Tuesday, January 30 - Please note the special day/time |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Natalia Ivanova, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Neutron Stars in Globular Clusters
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Hosted by Weintraub
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| Thursday, February 1 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Dragan Huterer, University of Chicago
Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy
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Hosted by Weintraub
Abstract |
| Tuesday, February 6 - Please note the special day/time |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Andreas Berlind, New York University
From Galaxy Clustering Measurements to Cosmology and Galaxy Formation Physics
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Hosted by Weintraub
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| Thursday, February 8 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Dmitry Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Lab
Chiral Condensate, Parity Violation and Extra Dimensions at Femto- and Nano-Scales
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Hosted by Velkovska
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| Tuesday, February 13 - Please note the special day/time |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Jeffrey Newman, University of California, Berkeley
DEEP2 and Beyond: Studying the Universe with Surveys
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Hosted by Weintraub
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| Thursday, February 15 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Evan Scannapieco, University of California, Santa Barbara
Quasar Feedback in Structure Formation
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Hosted by Weintraub
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| Thursday, February 22 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Ralf Averbeck, Stony Brook University
The Charm and Beauty of RHIC
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Hosted by Velkovska
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| Wednesday, March 14 - Carl K. Seyfert Lecture in Astronomy - Please note the special day/time |
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Caty Pilachowski, Indiana University
Giant Telescopes, Ancient Skies: New Views of the Universe
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Hosted by Stassun
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| Thursday, March 15 - Francis G. Slack Lecture |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Jerome Friedman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
New Horizons in Particle Physics
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Hosted by Weiler
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| Thursday, March 22 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation
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Hosted by Haglund
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| Thursday, March 29 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Lukas Novotny, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
Nanoscale Spectroscopy with Optical Antennas
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Hosted by Hertel
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| Friday, April 6 - Guy & Rebecca Forman Lecture - Please note the special day/time |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Ruth Chabay, North Carolina State University
Contemporary Introductory Physics
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Hosted by Hutson
Abstract |
| Tuesday, April 10 - Please note the special day/time |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Albina Borisevich, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Aberration Corrected STEM - an Atomic Scale Window to the World of Catalysis and Beyond
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Hosted by Pantelides
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| Thursday, April 12 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Glenn Starkman, Case Western Reserve University
Is the Universe Out of Tune?
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Hosted by Scherrer
Abstract |
| Tuesday, April 17 - Please note the special day/time |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Sergei Kalinin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The Hunt for the Snark: From Physics of Information Technology to Molecular Electromechanical Machines
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Hosted by Pantelides
Abstract |
| Thursday, April 19 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Suzanne Hawley, University of Washington
Cool Stars and Magnetic Activity in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Hosted by Stassun
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Fall 2006 Colloquia
(Reception at 3:30 pm in SC6333)
| Thursday, August 24 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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No Colloquium - Faculty Assembly
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| Thursday, August 31 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University Much Ado About Nothing
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Hosted by Scherrer Abstract |
| Thursday, September 7 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Sid Nagel, University of Chicago Breaking Away, Selective Withdrawal and Islets in the Stream: The Role of Singularities in Fluid Flow
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Hosted by Scherrer Abstract |
| Thursday, September 14 |
2 pm - 5 pm (208 Light Hall) |
The Max Delbrück Vanderbilt Centenary Celebration Max Delbrück and the Next 100 Years of Biology Talks by John Wikswo, Vanderbilt; Bonnie Bassler, Princeton; Arnold Levine, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton; and Sydney Brenner, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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| Thursday, September 21 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Sean Matt, University of Virginia Stellar Winds and the Angular Momentum Problem
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Hosted by Stassun Abstract |
| Thursday, September 28 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Amy Barger, University of Wisconsin The Midlife Crisis of the Cosmos
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Hosted by Weiler Abstract |
| Thursday, October 5 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Larry Gladney, University of Pennsylvania Seeing Dark Energy with SNAP
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Hosted by Sheldon Abstract |
| Thursday, October 12 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Peter Jung, Ohio University The role of ion channel clustering for calcium signaling
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Hosted by Hutson Abstract |
| Thursday, October 19 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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M. Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University Hydrodynamics and soft physics: from complex fluids to living cells
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Hosted by Pantelides Abstract |
| Thursday, October 26 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology Dark Energy, Or Worse?
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Hosted by Scherrer Abstract |
| Thursday, November 2 - Joint Colloquium with the Math Department |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Ali Chamseddine, American University of Beirut Hidden Noncommutative Geometric Structure of Space-Time
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Hosted by Scherrer and Bisch Abstract |
| Thursday, November 9 - Wendell G. Holladay Lecture |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Robert Grober, Yale University When Obsessions Collide: Golf and Physics
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Hosted by Hutson Abstract |
| Thursday, November 16 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Ed Saff and Doug Hardin, Vanderbilt University Minimal Energy Problems and Best-Packing
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Hosted by Scherrer Abstract |
| Thursday, November 23 |
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THANKSGIVING
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Thursday, November 30
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Robert Scherrer, Vanderbilt University Science and Science Fiction
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Hosted by Hutson Abstract |
Thursday, December 7 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Meg Urry, Yale University Women in Science: Why so Few?
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Hosted by Stassun Abstract |
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