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Historical Listing,
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.

Back to Current Schedule

Spring 2008/2009
4/7/2009 Alex Vilenkin Tufts University Host: Lenny Susskind Measures of the Multiverse
4/14/2009 Moti Segev Technion, Israel Host: Steve Harris Anderson Localization of Light
4/21/2009 Ron Ruth SLAC Host: Pat Burchat A Miniature Synchrotron using Inverse Compton Scattering: Basic Principles and Initial Experiments
4/28/2009 Julie Theriot Stanford - Biochem. Dept. Host: Daniel Fisher Mechanics and Dynamics of Cell Movement
5/5/2009 Adam Burrows Princeton University Host: Tom Abel How do Stars Explode? Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernovae
5/12/2009 Hari Manoharan Stanford University Host: Pat Burchat Peeking at the Berry Phase in Dirac Materials
5/19/2009 Leonardo Senatore Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton 		Joint Colloquium
SLAC/Stanford 		Non-Gaussianities: Probing High Energy Physics with Cosmological Observations
Time: 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.  (Refreshments: 4:00pm)
Location: Panofsky Auditorium, SLAC
5/26/2009 Sidney Nagel
 Univ. of Chicago
 Host: Daniel Fisher
 The Life and Death of a Drop:  Topological Transitions and Singularities in Fluids
6/02/2009
 Arthur Ramirez
 Univ. of CA, Santa Cruz
 Host:  Doug Osheroff
 How Do Organic Semiconductors Work?

Winter 2008/2009
1/6/2009 NO COLLOQUIUM


1/13/2009 Janet Conrad MIT Host: Nicole Ackerman Nu Directions in the Search for New Physics
1/20/2009 Rashid Sunyaev Max Planck Institute, Germany Host: Tom Abel The Physics of Cosmological Recombination
1/27/2009 Peter Graham Stanford University Host: Savas Dimopoulos Astrophysical Probes of Unification
2/3/2009 Nader Engheta Penn. State Host: Jon Schuller Circuits with Light at the Nanoscale
2/10/2009 Laura Greene Univ. of Illinois Host: Julie Bert Andreev Reflection in Heavy Fermion Superconductors: Focus on CeCoIn5
2/17/2009 Seth Putterman UCLA Host: Giorgio Gratta Towards XRay and Fusion Mems
2/24/2009 Mark Kasevich Stanford University Host: Eva Silverstein Atom Interferometry
3/3/2009 Stuart Raby Ohio State Host: Savas Dimopoulos The Puzzle of Charge and Mass
3/10/2009 Sandra Faber UCSC host: Tom Abel Galaxy Evolution Over the Last Two-Thirds of Cosmic Time
3/17/2009 Paul Kushner Univ. of Toronto host: Eva Silverstein Climate Sensitivity and Climate Models

Fall 2008
9/23/2008 Alexei Kitaev Caltech host: Shoucheng Zhang Topological Quantum Computation
9/30/2008 Jun Ye JILA, NIST, Univ. of Colorado host: Bob Byer Precision Quantum Metrology
10/7/2008 David Goldhaber-Gordon Stanford University host: Shoucheng Zhang Transport in Graphene: Analogies between Relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Electrons in a Single Layer of Carbon Atoms?
10/14/2008 Chetan Nayak UCSB host: Eva Silverstein Topological Quantum Computation
10/21/2008 Bill Halperin Northwestern University host: Aharon Kapitulnik

Unconventional Pairing and Impurities in Superfluid 3He
10/28/2008 Peter Michelson Stanford University host: Chao-Lin Kuo Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope: First Light
11/04/2008 Uros Seljak UC Berkeley host: Eva Silverstein Probing Fundamental Physics with Cosmological Observations
11/11/2008 Ronald Walsworth Harvard University host: Michael Minar From Astrophysics to Bioimaging: New Applications of Physics Tools
11/18/2008 Nergis Mavalvala MIT host: Giorgio Gratta Quantum Mechanics on Giant Scales
11/25/2008 NO COLLOQUIUM-Thanksgiving Recess


12/02/2008 Wayne Hu Univ. of Chicago host: Chao-Lin Kuo
12/09/2008 No colloq.



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 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 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
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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