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Previous Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium Schedules

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

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

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Spring 2008

4/1/2008	Yi Cui	Stanford University	host: P. Michelson	Nanowire Materials for Energy and Nanoelectronics
4/8/2008	Larry Abbott	Columbia University	host: L. Susskind	Hofstadter Lecture: "Who's Afraid of Chaotic Networks? Models of Sensory and Motor Processing in the Face of Spontaneous Neuronal Activity"
4/15/2008	Alan Watson	Univ. of Leeds, U.K.	host: P. Michelson	Is the Search for the Origin of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Over?
4/22/2008	Gary Sanders and Brent Ellerbroek	Caltech	host: R. Byer	"The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Telescopes" by Gary Sanders (30 mins.) and "Adaptive Optics for the Thirty Meter Telescope" by Brent Ellerbroek (30 mins.)
4/29/2008	Lenny Susskind	Stanford University	host: Eva Silverstein	Negative Curvature
5/6/2008	Anthony Mezzacappa	Oak Ridge Natl. Lab	host: G. Gratta	Ascertaining the Core Collapse Supernova Explosion Mechanism through High-Performance Computing
5/13/2008	Rick Gaitskell	Brown University	host: B. Cabrera	A Noble Endeavor - Looking for Dark Matter
5/20/2008	CANCELLED			CANCELLED
5/27/2008	Matias Zaldarriaga	Harvard University	host: E. Silverstein	Cosmology: Present Status and Future Prospects
6/3/2008	Scott Hubbard	Stanford University	host: P. Michelson	Examining the Vision for Space Exploration: Workshop Findings

Winter 2008

1/15/2008	Steve Allen	Stanford Univ. & SLAC	host: E. Silverstein	New Cosmological Constraints from X-ray Studies of Galaxy Clusters
1/22/2008	CANCELLED
1/29/2008	Ned Wingreen	Princeton Univ.	host: R. Laughlin	Modeling the Chemosensing System of E. coli
2/5/2008	Lars Bildsten	UCSB	host: R. Blandford	Explosions in Accreting White Dwarfs: From Novae to Supernovae
2/12/2008	Juan Collar	Univ. of Chicago	host: G. Gratta	Something Old, Something New
2/19/2008	Mike Deweese	Univ. of CA at Berkeley	host: E. Silverstein	One Physicist's View of the Cortex
2/26/2008	Arthur Bienenstock	Stanford Univ.	host: P. Burchat	Other Faces of the American Physical Society
3/4/2008	Sam Waldman	Caltech	host: G. Gratta	Looking Towards Gravitational Wave Astronomy
3/11/2008	Scott Tremaine	Institute for Adv. Study	host: R. Blandford	The Long-Term Evolution of Planetary Orbits

Fall 2007

9/25/2007	Wendy Freedman	Carnegie Observatories	host: R. Blandford	Measuring Cosmological Parameters
10/2/2007	Misha Lukin	Harvard	host: M. Kasevich	Controlling Single Nuclei and Lighting Nanowires: New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science
10/9/2007	Shoucheng Zhang	Stanford Univ.	host: Seb Doniach	Quantum Spin Hall Effect
10/16/2007	Chuck Steidel	Caltech	host: R. Blandford	Understanding Galaxy Formation: What are we Missing?
10/23/2007	Immanuel Bloch	J. Gutenberg-Universitat	host: M. Kasevich	Exploring Quantum Matter with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
10/30/2007	Neal Weiner	New York University	host: S. Dimopoulos	Illuminating Dark Matter
11/6/2007	David Goldhaber-Gordon	Stanford	host: S. Kachru	Designer Hamiltonians in the Laboratory: Observation of Many Body Physics in a Semiconductor Nanostructure
11/13/2007	Dam Thanh Son	Univ. of Washington	host: S. Kachru	Viscosity, Black Holes and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
11/20/2007	NO COLLOQUIUM -	THANKSGIVING	RECESS
11/27/2007	Peter Zoller	Univ. of Innsbrook	host: M. Kasevich	Quantum Information anf Condensed Matter Physics with Quantum Optical Systems
12/4/2007	Nigel Goldenfeld	Univ. of Illinois	host: S. Doniach	Biocomplexity in Action: Pattern Formation and Microbial Ecology at Yellowstone's Hot Springs
12/11/2007	Yuk Yung	Caltech	host: R. Blandford	Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres

Spring 2007

4/3/2007	L. Mahadevan	Harvard Univ.	host: students	Geometric Mechanics: From the Atomic to the Tectonic
4/10/2007	Frans Pretorius	Princeton Univ.	host: E. Silverstein	Simulations of Black Hole Collisions
4/17/2007	Peter Gorham	Univ. of Hawaii	host: G. Gratta	Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Neutrinos
4/24/2007	Rob Phillips	Caltech	host: S. Doniach	The Physics of How Viruses Make New Viruses
5/1/2007	John W. Harris	Yale Univ.	host: L. Susskind	Evidence for a Quark-Gluon Plasma in the Laboratory
5/8/2007	John Mather	NASA	host: R. Blandford	From the Big Bang to the Nobel Prize and Beyond
5/15/2007	Nathan Seiberg	Inst. for Advanced Study	host: E. Silverstein	Supersymmetry and its Breaking
5/22/2007	Eliot Quataert	UC Berkeley	host: E. Silverstein	The Rise and Fall of Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
5/29/2007	Amnon Aharony	Ben Gurion University, Israel	host: A. Kapitulnik	Mesoscopic Physics, Quantum Dots and the Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer
6/5/2007	Bonnie Fleming	Yale University	host: G. Gratta	MiniBooNE Oscillation Results

Winter 2007

1/16/2007	Guy Deutcher	Tel Aviv University	host: A. Kapitulnik	"What are the High Tc Cuprates Good for?
1/23/2007	John Clarke	UC Berkeley	host: S. Kivelson	"Coupled Flux Qubits with Controllable Interaction"
1/30/2007	Alan Title	Lockheed Martin	hosts: P. Burchat & P. Scherrer	"Following the Trail of the Magnetic Field from the Solar Interior through the Heliosphere"
2/6/2007	Andy MacKenzie	St. Andrews	host: S. Kivelson	"Quantum Criticality as a Driver for Discovery"
2/13/2007	Ian Fisher	Stanford	host: Z.-X. Shen	"Spin-dimer Compounds - Magnon BEC and the role of Crystal Structure"
2/20/2007	Jonathan Arons	UC Berkeley	host: R. Blandford	"Cosmic Pevatrons: The Excitation of Pulsar Wind Nebulae"
2/27/2007	Greg Boebinger	Natl. High Magnetic Field Lab.	host: S. Kivelson	"Is a Quantum Phase Transition Underlying High-Temperature Superconductivity?"
3/6/2007	none

Autumn 2006

10/3/2006	Azadeh Tabazadeh	Stanford	host: V. Petrosian	Greenhouse Gas Versus Aerosol Forcing of Climate Change
10/10/2006	Mark Schnitzer	Stanford	host: A. Kapitulnik	Biophysical approaches to the study of mammilian brain circuits
10/17/2006	Uwe Bergmann	SLAC	host: A. Kapitulnik	Secrets in the Ancient Goatskin: Archimedes' Writings under X-Ray Vision
10/24/2006	Aharon Kapitulnik	Stanford		Broken Time Reversal Symmetry States in Novel Superconductors
10/25/2006	Michael Brown	Caltech	host: V. Petrosian	Bunyan Lecture: Pluto, Eris, and the Dwarf Planets of the Solar System
10/31/2006	Michael Crommie	Berkeley	host: S. Kivelson	Exploring and Manipulating Fullerenes at the Single Molecule Level
11/7/2006	Calvin Quate	Stanford	host: R. Byer	Another Era in Imaging -Scanning Probes
11/14/2006	Prof. Tony Tyson	UC Davis	host: Peter Michelson	The New Digital Sky: Probes of Dark Matter and Dark Energy
11/21/2006	None			Thanksgiving Recess
11/28/2006	Dr. Taekjip Ha	Univ. of Illinois	host: S. Doniach	Single Molecule Views of Nature's Nano-Machines
12/5/2006	Dr. Eugene Demler	Harvard Univ.	host: S. Kivelson	Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems: From Electronic Materials to Cold Atoms

Spring 2006:

4/3/2006	Jim Cronin	Univ. of Chicago	host: Fetter	Hofstadter public lecture, Monday: "Cosmic Rays: A Fascinating Scientific History"
4/4/2006	Jim Cronin	Univ. of Chicago	host: Fetter	Hofstadter colloquium: "The Pierre Auger Observatory for Highest Energy Cosmic Rays"
4/10/2006	Joel R. Primack; Nancy Ellen Abrams	UC Santa Cruz; Attorney/Writer	KIPAC & Physics	Special colloquium, Monday, 7:30pm, Hewlett room 200, "The View from the Center of the Universe"
4/11/2006	Krishna Rajagopal	MIT	host: Silverstein	"The Condensed Matter Astrophysics of QCD"
4/18/2006	Hideo Mabuchi	Caltech	host: Yamamoto	"Measurement, Control and Quantum Information"
4/25/2006	Shri Kulkarni	Caltech	host: Silverstein	"Cosmic Explosions: Known and Knowable"
5/02/2006	Lance Dixon	SLAC	host: Silverstein	"Twistor Spinoffs for Collider Physics"
5/09/2006	Boris Altshuler	Columbia	host: Kapitulnik	"Many-Body Localization"
5/16/2006	Raphael Bousso	UC Berkeley	host: Silverstein	"The Cosmological Constant Problem and the Landscape of String Theory"
5/23/2006	Daniel Gottesman	Perimeter Institute	host: Silverstein	"Private Key and Public Key Quantum Cryptography"
5/30/2006	Christopher Monroe	Univ. of Michigan	host: Yamamoto	"Quantum Networks and Ion Trap Quantum Computers"
6/6/2006	Subir Sachdev	Harvard Univ.	host: Silverstein	"Detecting Quantum Duality in the Cuprate Superconductors"

Winter 2006:

1/10/2006	Daniel Fisher	Harvard Univ	host: Kivelson	"Is evolution understood? Quantitative questions from a statistical mechanic"
1/17/2006	Edward Baltz	KIPAC/SLAC	host: Kahn	"Solving the Dark Matter Problem"
1/24/2006	Rob Goldston	Princeton Plasma Physics Lab	host: Gratta	"Advances in Magnetic Fusion Science and the ITER Project"
1/31/2006	John Tranquada	Brookhaven	host: Kivelson	"Seeing Stripes in High Temperature Superconductors"
2/07/2006	Tor Raubenheimer	SLAC	host: Kahn	"The International Linear Collider: Accelerator Physics and Design Challenges"
2/14/2006	Jeff Kimble	CalTech	host: Hui Deng	"Quantum Optics with Single Atoms and Photons"
2/21/2006	Carol Christian	Space Telescope Science Inst.	host: Kahn	"Science, Satellites, and Foreign policy"
2/28/2006	Richard Packard	UC Berkeley	host: Kivelson	"Superfluid weak links: physics and applications"
3/7/2006	Ady Stern	Weismann Institute	host: Goldhaber-Gordon	'Quantum Twists and Slits: Unconventional "anyonic" statistics on the way from Theory-land to Experimental Demonstrations'
3/14/06	Miklos Gyulassy	Columbia Univ.	host: Kahn	" The Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC/BNL"

Autumn 2005:

10/4/2005	Jun Ye	JILA	host: Kasevich	"Precision measurement meets ultrafast science"
10/11/2005	Joachim Stöhr	SSRL/SLAC	host: Doniach	"Magnetism and X-Rays: Past, Present and a Vision of the Future"
10/18/2005	Leslie Berlin	-	host: Kasevich	"The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley"
10/25/2005	Robert Kirshner	Harvard	host: Blandford	"A Blunder Undone: Supernova Cosmology and the Accelerating Universe"
11/1/2005	Phuan Ong	Princeton	host: Kivelson	"Vortices and the loss of phase coherence in the high-temperature superconductors"
11/8/2005	Seth Putterman	UCLA	host: Adam Cohen	"Energy Concentrating Phenomena: From Sonoluminescence To Crystal Fusion"
11/14/2005	David Spergel	Princeton	host: Petrosian	Bunyan Lecture (Monday) "Taking the Baby Picture of the Universe"
11/15/2005	David Spergel	Princeton	host: Petrosian	Colloquium (Tuesday) "Cosmology from WMAP and Beyond"
11/22/2005	None	--	--	Thanksgiving Recess
11/29/2005	Robert Birgenau	UC Berkeley	host: Greven	"High Temperature Superconductivity and Magnetism: Friends or Foes?"
12/6/2005	--	--	--	End Quarter Period

Spring 2005:

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Topic	Notes
3/29/2005	Scott Thomas	Stanford	Lenny Susskind	The Meaning of Naturalness
4/05/2005	Z.X. Shen	Stanford	David Goldhaber-Gordon	The Photoelectric Effect Since Einstein
4/12/2005	Steve Quake	Stanford		Imaging Information in DNA
4/19/2005	C.W. Francis Everitt	Stanford	Blas Cabrera	The Gravity Probe B Flight Mission:A Stanford Physics-Engineering Partnership
4/26/2005	Nima Arkani-Hamed	Harvard	Savas Dimopoulos	Naturalness versus the Landscape, or, Why does the Universe Appear Finely Tuned?
5/03/2005	Sarah Church	Stanford	Pat Burchat	The QUaD CMB Polarization Experiment
5/10/2005	Gerald Gabrielse	Harvard	Giorgio Gratta	One-Electron Quantum Cyclotron: First Fully-Quantum Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment, and a Greatly Improved Value for the Fine Structure Constant
5/17/2005	Jim Eisenstein	Caltech	David Goldhaber-Gordon	Exciton Condensation and the Quantum Hall Effect
5/24/2005	Peter Galison	Harvard	Sandy Fetter	The Assassin of Relativity	Hofstadter Lecture

Winter 2005

Date	Name	Institution	Host	Title
1/4/2005	Markus Greiner	JILA Boulder	Mark Kasevich	Fermion Condensates
1/11/2005	David Awschalom	UCSB	David Goldhaber-Gordon	Spintronics: Semiconductors, Molecules and Quantum Information Processing
1/18/2005	Tom Abel	Stanford University & Kavli Institute	David Goldhaber-Gordon	The First Stars
1/25/2005	Dan Rugar	IBM Almaden Research Center	David Goldhaber-Gordon	Single Spin Detection by Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy
2/1/2005	Jacob Bekenstein	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Bob Wagoner	Gravitation and the bounds on information
2/8/2005	Moses Chan	Penn State University	Doug Osheroff	Can a Solid be a Superfluid?
2/15/2005	Glenn Starkman	Case Western Reserve University	Savas Dimopoulos	Is the low-l Microwave Background Cosmic?
2/22/2005	Maria Spiropulu	CERN	Savas Dimopoulos	Cancelled (was: 14 TeV Physics)
3/1/2005	Andreas Wallraff	Yale University	David Goldhaber-Gordon	Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Processing with Superconducting Circuits

Autumn 2004

Date	Name	Institution	Host	Title
9/28/2004	Boris Kayser	Fermilab	S. Wojcicki	The Neutrino World: Present and Future
10/5/2004	Burt Richter	SLAC	Peter Michelson	Gambling with the Future: Energy, Environment & Economics in the 21st Century
10/12/2004	Jason Ho	OSU	Shoucheng Zhang	The Exploding Field of Quantum Gases
10/19/2004	Wolfgang Ketterle	MIT	Mark Kasevich	Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms, Molecules and Fermion Pairs
10/26/2004	Bill Atwood	UC Santa Cruz	Peter Michelson	Physics of Violins
11/2/2004	Charlie Marcus	Harvard	DGG and Kam Moler	Quantum Circuits
11/9/2004	Joe Polchinski	UC Santa Barbara	David Goldhaber-Gordon	Cosmic Superstrings
11/16/2004	Jim Eisenstein	Caltech	David Goldhaber-Gordon	Cancelled -- Exciton Condensation and the Quantum Hall Effect
11/16/2004	Anatoly Spitkovsky	KIPAC, Stanford University		"The Incredible Double Pulsar -- A Laboratory for General Relativity, Nuclear Physics and Relativistic Plasma Physics"
11/23/2004	Marlan Scully	Texas A&M & Princeton	Steve Harris	Coherent Control: From QED to DNA
11/30/2004	Ed Lu	NASA	Vahe' Petrosian	Moving, Manipulating and Mining Astroids

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All colloquia are Tuesdays in the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center (formerly TCSeq) Room 201 at 4:15pm, unless otherwise indicated.

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