Spring 2005 Physics Colloquium Schedule
PAS 220, 3pm
(Unless otherwise noted)
Tea and cookies following the talk
| Date | Room | Speaker | Topic |
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Friday |
3 pm |
Sidney Redner CNLS, LANL and Boston University |
Statistical Physics of Popularity-Driven Networks |
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Tuesday |
2 pm |
Michael Guy Poirier
Northwestern University |
Chromosome Architecture, Mechanics and Function |
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Friday |
3 pm |
Raju Venugopalan Brookhaven National Laboratory |
The Color Glass Condensate: A classical stochastic theory of high energy QCD |
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Tuesday |
2 pm |
Achim Schwenk
Indiana University |
From nuclear forces to neutron stars |
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Wednesday |
3 pm |
Arpita Upadhyaya
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Actin pushy and pulling springs: Two forms of biological motion |
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Friday |
3 pm |
Carl Weiman University of Colorado |
Using the tools of physics to teach physics |
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Monday |
3 pm |
Dolores Bozovic
The Rockefeller University |
Mechano-electrical transduction and amplification by inner ear hair cells |
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Thursday |
2 pm |
Sean Fleming
University of California, San Diego |
Effective Field Theories of the Strong Interactions |
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Friday |
3 pm |
Jennifer Ogilvie
Ecole Polytechnique |
Watching Proteins in Action: A Laser Spectroscopist's View of Protein Function |
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Monday |
3 pm |
Tobias Baumgart
Cornell University |
Of polka dots and dumbbells: phase behavior and bending of biomembranes |
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Wednesday |
3 pm |
Omar Saleh
Ecole Normale Superieure |
Single-molecule measurements of the motor protein FtsK |
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Friday |
3 pm |
Gautam Rupak
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
The Path to Nuclear Theory from QCD |
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Tuesday |
2 pm |
Hans Hammer
Institute for Nuclear Theory |
Limit Cycles in Quantum Systems: from Cold Atoms to Nuclei |
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Thursday |
2 pm |
Andreas Nogga
Forschungszentrum Jülich |
Nuclear physics from effective field theory |
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3 pm |
Marc Kastner MIT |
The Kondo Effect in Single-Electron Transistors and Other Nanostructures |
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3 pm |
cancelled |
cancelled |
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3 pm |
Moses Chan Penn State University |
Can a Solid be Superfluid? |
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3 pm |
Larry Curtis University of Toledo |
Probability Densities and Newton's Laws
subtitle: Why didn't Newton think about the probability of getting hit on the head when he sat under the apple tree? |
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Spring Break |
No Colloquium |
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3 pm |
Shanhui Fan Stanford University |
Resonances in photonic crystals and nanophotonics |
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3 pm |
Ronald Walsworth Harvard University |
Multidisciplinary applications of state-selected atoms |
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3 pm |
TBD |
TBD |
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3 pm |
Blayne Heckel University of Washington |
Were Newton and Einstein Right? Laboratory Tests of Newtonian Gravity |
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3 pm |
Sheldon Stone Syracuse |
New Adventures at Charm Threshold: Physics From CLEO-c |
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3 pm |
James Kakalios University of Minnesota |
Conductance Fluctuations: From Amorphous Silicon to the Cerebral Cortex |