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Spring 2009 Colloquia
(Reception at 3:30 pm in SC6333)
Thursday, January 8
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Sergei Urazhdin, Department of Physics, West Virginia University
Current-induced excitations in magnetic bilayers: why does the polarizer behave differently from the free layer?
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Hosted by R. Haglund
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Thursday, January 29
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Kirill Bolotin, Department of Physics, Columbia University
Electrical transport and mechanical resonances in suspended graphene
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Hosted by R. Haglund
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Thursday, March 12--Slack Lecture
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Wolfgang Ketterle, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Superfluidity in a gas of strongly interacting fermions
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Hosted by R. Scherrer
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| Thursday, March 26 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Steve Hsu, Department of Physics, University of Oregon
Black Holes, Entropy and Information
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Hosted by T. Kephart
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Thursday, April 2
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Rob Knop, Linden Lab
Science Education and Research in the Metaverse
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Hosted by R. Scherrer
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| Thursday, April 16--Guy & Rebecca Forman Lecture |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
David J. Griffiths, Reed College
Lying about Physics
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Hosted by K. Schriver
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Friday, April 24--Seyfert Lecture [note non-standard day and room]
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4309) |
Jill Tartar, SETI Institute
Are We Alone? |
Hosted by R. Chappell
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Fall 2008 Colloquia
(Reception at 3:30 pm in SC6333)
| Thursday, August 28 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Berndt Mueller, Department of Physics, Duke University
What Does a Quark-Gluon Plasma Sound Like?
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Hosted by J. Velkovska
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Thursday, September 4--Vanderbilt Nobel Memorial Lecture
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5 pm - 6 pm (Ingram Hall) |
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Richard Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
GLOBAL WARMING: What Do We Know And What Should We Do?
Note Special Time and Location
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Hosted by R. Chappell
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Thursday, September 11
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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James Glazier, Biocomplexity Institute and Department of Physics, Indiana University
Multi-Cell Modeling of Biological Development using the GGH Model and CompuCell3D
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Hosted by S. Hutson
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Thursday, September 18
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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David Salisbury, Associate Director, Science and Research Communication, Vanderbilt University
EXPLORING MEDIA SPACE
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Hosted by R. Scherrer
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| Thursday, September 25 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Gunter Luepke, Department of Applied Science, College of William & Mary
PROTON TUNNELING: A NEW LOOK AT HYDROGEN IN SOLIDS
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Hosted by N. Tolk
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Thursday, October 2
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Salvatore Torquato, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University
Disordered Classical Ground States
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Hosted by S. Hutson
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| Thursday, October 9 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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John Beacom, Ohio State University
New Vistas in Astronomy Above 1 TeV (1.6 erg) per Particle
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Hosted by R. Scherrer
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| Thursday, October 16 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Howard Berg, Rowland Institute at Harvard
See E. Coli Run
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Hosted by S. Hutson
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| Thursday, October 23 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Chris Hill, Head of the Theoretical Physics Department, Fermilab
Symmetry and the Origin of Mass
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Hosted by T. Weiler
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| Thursday, October 30 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Andrew West, Radio Astronomy Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Big Science from Little Stars: Tracing the Kinematics, Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way with M Dwarfs
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Hosted by K. Holley-Bockelmann
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Thursday, November 6
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Karoly Nemeth, Accelerator Systems Division, Advanced Photon Source, ANL
Principles and Recent Advances of Laser-Plasma Accelerators
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Hosted by S. Csorna
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Thursday, November 13--Wendell Holladay Lecture
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Pace VanDevender, Emeritus Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sandia National Laboratories
“Electrons are pink”-- W.G. Holladay (1967), Pulsed Power Fusion, Ball Lightning, and Mini Black Holes
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Hosted by Joe Hamilton
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| Thursday, November 20 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Harold Kim, Depts. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard Univ.
How the Packaging of DNA Influences Gene Expression
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Hosted by D. Piston
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| Thursday, November 27 |
4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS
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Thursday, December 4
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Nadya Mason, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nanotubes and the Electronics of Small-Scale Structures
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Hosted by J. Dickerson
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Thursday, December 11
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4 pm - 5 pm (SC 4327) |
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Szabolcs Marka, Columbia University Astrophysics Laboratory
Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics
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Hosted by S. Csorna
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