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Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium Schedule

Tuesdays at 4:15pm,
in theWilliam R. Hewlett Teaching Center, room 201 (see map).

Refreshments in the lobby of Varian Physics at 4:00pm.


Winter Quarter 2011/12  Committee:  Tom Abel (Chr.), Savas Dimopoulos, Daniel Fisher
1/10/2012
 Stanley Wojcicki
 Stanford University               
Host:  Savas Dimopoulos   
Measuring Neutrino Velocity: Current Status and Future Prospects  
1/17/2012
 Seth Shostak
 SETI Institute
 Student Host:  Nicole Ackerman

New Approaches in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
1/24/2012
 Erez Lieberman-Aiden 
 Havard Society of Fellows, Visiting Faculty at Google
 Host:  David Goldhaber-Gordon
Zooming out: Global structure in the Historical Record and the Human Genome
1/31/2012
 Bruce Macintosh Lawrence Livermore National Labs
 Host:  Tom Abel
 Imaging Extrasolar Planets
2/07/2012
 Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
 Host:  Savas Dimopoulos
 Dissipation:  A New Tool in Quantum Information Science
2/14/2012
 Markus Greiner
 Harvard University
 Host:  Mark Kasevich
Synthetic Quantum Matter under the Microscope
2/21/2012
 Wojciech Zurek LANL
 Host:  Savas Dimopoulos

Quantum Theory of the Classical
2/28/2012
 Scott Ransom Natl. Radio Astronomy Observatory
 Host:  Tom Abel
 TBD
3/06/2012
 OPEN

Host: 
TBD
3/13/2012
 FINALS WEEK - No Colloq. Scheduled



Spring Quarter 2011/12  Committee:  Peter Michelson (Chr.), David Goldhaber-Gordon, Steve Block
4/3/2012
 Jungsang Kim                 Duke University                            Host:    Benjamin Lev
 Modular Universal Scalable Ion-trap Quantum Computer (MUSICQC): 
Engineering a Practical Quantum Computer
 
4/10/2012
 Shanti Deemyad
 Univ. of Utah, College of Science
 Host:  Shibing Wang
 TBD
4/17/2012
 Geoffrey West - 2012 Robert Hofstadter Memorial Lecturer
 Santa Fe Institute
 Host:  Leonard Susskind
 Universal Scaling Laws from Cells to Cities; A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Dynamics
4/24/2012
 Lorraine Sadler
 Sandia Labs
 Host:  Erzsi Szilagyi
 TBD
5/01/2012



5/08/2012



5/15/2012
 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero  MIT
 Host:  David Goldhaber-Gordon
 TBD
5/22/2012



5/29/2012
 Walter Gekelman - HOLD
 UCLA
 Host:  Tom Abel
 TBD
6/05/2012
 FINALS WEEK
 No Colloq. Scheduled




All colloquia are Tuesdays at 4:15pm, in theWilliam R. Hewlett Teaching Center, room 201 (see map).

Refreshments in the lobby of Varian Physics at 4:00pm.

For more information, please call: 650-723-4347, 650-725-1418, or 650-723-4027.

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