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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
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Winter Quarter 2011/12 Committee: Tom Abel (Chr.), Savas
Dimopoulos, Daniel Fisher
1/10/2012
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Stanley Wojcicki
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Stanford University
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Host: Savas Dimopoulos
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Measuring Neutrino Velocity: Current Status
and Future Prospects |
1/17/2012
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Seth Shostak
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SETI Institute
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Student Host: Nicole Ackerman
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New Approaches in the Search for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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1/24/2012
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Erez Lieberman-Aiden
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Havard Society of Fellows, Visiting Faculty
at Google
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Host: David Goldhaber-Gordon
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Zooming out: Global structure in the Historical Record
and the Human Genome
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1/31/2012
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Bruce Macintosh |
Lawrence Livermore National Labs
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Host: Tom Abel
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Imaging Extrasolar Planets |
2/07/2012
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Ignacio Cirac |
Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany
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Host: Savas Dimopoulos
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Dissipation: A New Tool in Quantum
Information Science
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2/14/2012
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Markus Greiner
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Harvard University
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Host: Mark Kasevich
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Synthetic Quantum Matter under the Microscope
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2/21/2012
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Wojciech Zurek |
LANL
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Host: Savas Dimopoulos
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Quantum Theory of the Classical
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2/28/2012
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Scott Ransom |
Natl. Radio Astronomy Observatory
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Host: Tom Abel
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Basic (but cool!) Physics with Millisecond
Pulsars |
3/06/2012
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NO COLLOQ. (cancelled)
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3/13/2012
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FINALS WEEK - No Colloq. Scheduled
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Fall Quarter 2011/12 Committee: Phil Bucksbaum (Chr.),
Steve Shenker & Bob Byer
9/27/2011
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Steve Kahn, SU Physics Chair and Hideo
Mabuchi,
AP Chair
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Stanford University
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Host: Phil Bucksbaum
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"State of the Departments - Physics &
Applied
Physics" |
10/04/2011
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Giorgio Gratta
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Stanford University
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Host: Stephen Shenker
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"Majorana Fermions and Neutrino Masses"
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10/11/2011
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Siegfried Glenzer
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Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab
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Host: Phil Bucksbaum
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"Mega-joule Experiments on the National
Ignition
Facility - On the road to produce a microscopic star in the
Laboratory"
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10/18/2011
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Mark Schnitzer
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Stanford University
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Host: Stephen Shenker
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"Of Mice, Men and Microscopes: Watching
Brain Dynamics at the Cellular Scale in Behaving Subjects"
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10/25/2011
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Andrea Cavalleri |
CFEL, Hamburg, Germany |
Host: Phil Bucksbaum
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"Controlling Quantum Condensed Matter with
Light"
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11/01/2011
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Hidenori Takagi
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Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
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Host: Harold Hwang
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"Emergent Phases of Correlated Electrons in
Transition Metal Oxides"
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11/08/2011
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Margaret Murnane
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Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
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Host: Phil Bucksbaum
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"Science on the Timescale of the
Electron:
Coherent keV X-rays from Tabletop Lasers
and Applications in Nanoscience"
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11/15/2011
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Yong-Baek Kim |
University of Toronto |
Host: Steve Shenker
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"Topological Phases in Correlated Materials"
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11/22/2011
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THANKSGIVING RECESS- No Colloquium Scheduled
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11/29/2011
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Mara Prentiss |
Harvard University
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Student Host: Limor Spector
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New Insights into Homology Recognition and
Strand Exchange with Implications for Artificial
Self-Assembly and
Protein Folding
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12/06/2011
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FINALS WEEK - No colloquium!
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Spring 2010/2011 -- Committee: Yoshi Yamamoto (Chair.; AP),
Doug
Osheroff, Roger Blandford
03/29/2011
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Yosi Avron
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Technion, Israel
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Host: Shoucheng Zhang
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Baron von Munchhausen and the Cat
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04/05/2011
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Hofstadter lecture by David Mermin
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Cornell Univ.
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Host: Lenny Susskind
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What has Quantum Mechanics to do with
Factoring?
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04/12/2011
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Joel Fajans
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UC Berkeley
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Host: Doug Osheroff
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How to Create and Trap Anti-Hydrogen |
04/19/2011
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Ned Wright
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UCLA
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Host: Roger Blandford
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Exploring the Universe with WISE
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04/26/2011
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Bob Schoenlein |
LBL
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Host: Student host Erzsi Szilagyi |
Ultrafast Science and the Next Generation
X-Ray
Laser Array at the Berkeley Lab
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05/03/2011
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David Wineland
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NIST
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Host: Yoshi Yamamoto
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Trapped-ion Quantum Information Experiments
at
NIST
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05/10/2011
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Philip W. Phillips
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Univ.of Illinois
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Student Host: Aaron Streets
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Mottness and Holography: Strange Metal from
UV-IR Mixing
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05/17/2011
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Rob Schoelkopf - CANCELLED
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Yale
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Host: Yoshi Yamamoto
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Entanglement and Quantum Algorithms with
Superconducting Circuits - CANCELLED
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05/24/2011
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Alex Szalay |
Johns Hopkins University
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Host: Roger Blandford
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Extreme Data Intensive Computing in Astrophysics
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05/31/2011
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Wilson Ho
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UC Irvine
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Host: Doug Osheroff
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Visualization of Quantum
Mechanics
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Winter 2010/2011 -- Committee: Seb Doniach (Chair), Leonardo
Senatore, Harold Hwang (AP)
01/04/2011
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Andrew MacKenzie
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Univ. of St. Andrews
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Host: Harold Hwang
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Complex Oxides: A New Playground for
Physics and Technology
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01/11/2011
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Eric Adelberger
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Univ. of Washington
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Host: Mark Kasevich
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A Low-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics
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01/18/2011
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Assa Auerbach
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Technion, Israel
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Host: Seb Doniach
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Elementary Particles of Superconductivity
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01/25/2011
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Anthony Leonardo
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Janelia Farm Research Campus
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Host: Hideo Mabuchi
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Guidance Laws Underlying Prey Capture in the Salamander
and
Dragonfly
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02/01/2011
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Nima Arkani-Hamed
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Institute for Advanced Study
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Host: Leonardo Senatore
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Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering
Amplitudes
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02/08/2011
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Gerard Wong
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UCLA
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Host: Seb Doniach
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Condensed Matter Physics and Bacteria
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02/15/2011
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Jelena Vuckovic
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Stanford University
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Host: Ian Fisher?
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Quantum Dots in Optical Nanocavities:
From
Cavity QED to Device Applications
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02/22/2011
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Chao-Lin Kuo
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Stanford University
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Host: Steve Kahn
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Science with Cosmic Microwave Background
Polarization
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03/01/2011
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James Rosenzweig
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UCLA
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Student Host: Limor Spector
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Plasma Acceleration: High Energy
Physics
Meets High Energy Density Physics
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03/08/2011
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Louis Taillefer |
Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research |
Host: Harold Hwang
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The Two Mysteries of Superconductivity
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03/15/2011
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FINALS WEEK
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NO COLLOQ.!!!
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Fall 2010/2011-- Committee: Eva Silverstein (Chair), Z.X. Shen
and Mark Schnitzer (AP)
9/28/2010
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Tony Tyson
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UC Davis
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Host: Nicholas Breznay
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Mining the Sky for Dark Energy
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10/05/2010
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Kerry Vahala
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Caltech
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Host: Mark Schnitzer
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Cavity Optomechanics
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10/12/2010
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Kent Irwin
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NIST
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Host: Kam Moler
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The Physics of Superconducting
Calorimeters: Applications in Nuclear Security
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10/19/2010
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Bert Halperin
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Harvard University
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Host: S. Zhang
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Interferometery in a Quantized Hall State
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10/26/2010
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Phil Bucksbaum
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Stanford & SLAC
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Host: Z-X Shen
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AMO Physics with Ultrafast Short Wavelength
Coherent Radiation
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11/02/2010
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Sung-Sik Lee
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McMaster University
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Host: Eva Silverstein
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Emergent Supersymmetry and String in
Condensed
Matter Systems
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11/09/2010
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Boris Shraiman
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KITP/UCSB
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Host: Eva Silverstein
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Unexpected Physics in Biology
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11/16/2010
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Jeffrey Richman
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UCSB
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Host: Eva Silverstein
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Exploring the TeV Energy Scale at the Large Hadron
Collider
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11/23/2010
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THANKSGIVING RECESS
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11/30/2010
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Stefan Funk
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Stanford University
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Host: Steve Kahn
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The Extreme Universe Observed in Gamma-rays
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12/07/2010
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FINALS WEEK
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NO COLLOQ.!!
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Spring 2009/1010
03/30/2010
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Dan Green
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Fermilab
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Host: Stan Wojcicki
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The Status of the CERN Large Hadron Collider
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04/06/2010
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K. C. Cole
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USC, School of Journalism
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Host: Stan Wojcicki
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The Uncle of the Atom Bomb: Frank
Oppenheimer and the World He Made Up
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04/13/2010
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Hofstadter Colloq. - Joachim Stohr
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Director Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC
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Host: Doug Osheroff
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Birth of the X-Ray Laser: Movies of the
Dynamic Worlds of Atoms and Electrons
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04/20/2010
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Marin Soljacic
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MIT
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Student Host: Nicole Ackerman
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WiTricity -- Non-Radiative Wireless
Power
Transfer |
04/27/2010
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William Borucki
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NASA
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Host: Tom Abel
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Status of the Kepler Mission and Early
Discoveries |
05/04/2010
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David J. Pine
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New York University
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Host: Daniel Fisher
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Colloidal Self-Assembly and Replication
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05/11/2010
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JB Straubel
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CTO, Tesla Motors
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Host: Patricia Burchat
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Energy Storage for Electric Vehicles
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05/18/2010
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Michael Turner
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Univ. Chicago |
Host: Roger Blandford
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Inflation: Time for a Change?
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05/25/2010
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Claire Gmachl
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Princeton University
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Student Host: Nicholas Breznay
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Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers
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06/01/2010
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Mark Bowick
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Syracuse University
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Host: A. Kapitulnik
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Two-Dimensional Matter: Order,
Curvature
and Defects
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Winter 2009/2010
01/05/2010
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Bob Laughlin
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Stanford Univ.
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HOST: Shoucheng Zhang
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Here Comes the Sun
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01/12/2010
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John March-Russell
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Oxford Univ.
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HOST: Savas Dimopoulos
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Exploring String Axions and Photini with
Astrophysics, Cosmology, and the LHC
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01/19/2010
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Victor Yakovenko
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Univ. of Maryland
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HOST: Shoucheng Zhang
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Statistical
Mechanics of Money, Income, and
Wealth |
01/26/2010
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Nemanja Kaloper
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UC Davis
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HOST: Savas Dimopoulos
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Out of Darkness: The Quest for Lambda
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02/02/2010
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Eliot Quataert
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Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
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HOST: Tom Abel
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The Transient Revolution in Astrophysics
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02/09/2010
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Philippe Bouyer
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Polytechnique in France
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HOST: Geert Vrijsen (Student Host)
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Simulating Quantum Transport in Atoms and
Light
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02/16/2010
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Jan Liphardt
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UC Berkeley
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HOST: Steve Quake
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The Evolving Intersection of Physics and
Biology |
02/23/2010
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Thomas Gregor |
Princeton Univ.
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HOST: Mike Minar
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The Onset of Collective Behavior in Cell
Populations of the Social Amoebae
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03/02/2010
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Patrick Lee |
MIT |
HOST: Shoucheng Zhang |
An End to the Drought of Quantum Spin Liquid
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03/09/2010
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Albert Fert
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Orsay
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HOST: Shoucheng Zhang
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Spintronics: Recent Developments and
Perspective
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03/16/2010
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FINALS WEEK
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NO COLLOQ.!!!
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Fall 2009/2010
9/29/2009
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Tom Abel
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Stanford Univ.
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Host: Seb Doniach
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Star Formations Then and Now
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10/06/2009
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Hideo Mabuchi |
Stanford Univ.
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Host: Seb Doniach
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From Jaynes-Cummings to Rouse-Zimm:
Interdisciplinary Quantum Optics
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10/13/2009
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Irfan Siddiqi
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UC Berkeley
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Host: Julie Bert (student host)
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Quantum Noise in Josephson's "Frictionless"
Pendulum
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10/20/2009
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Harold Hwang
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Univ. of Tokyo
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Host: Z.-X. Shen
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Atomic Engineering Oxide Heterointerfaces
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10/27/2009
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Taekjip Ha
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Univ of Illinois
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Host: Steve Block
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Revisiting the Double Helix
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11/03/2009
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Joseph Formaggio
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MIT
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Host: Giorgio Gratta
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Weighing Neutrinos
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11/10/2009
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Eric J. Heller
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Harvard Univ.
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Host: Hari Manoharan
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Stalking the Two-Dimensional Electron
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11/17/2009
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David Awschalom
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UCSB
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Host: Shoucheng Zhang
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Engineering Semiconductors and Engaging
Diamonds
for Spintronics
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11/24/2009
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THANKSGIVING RECESS
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12/01/2009
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Risa Wechsler
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Stanford Univ.
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Host: Pat Burchat
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Galaxy Formation Insights from the Evolution
of
Structure |
12/08/2009
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Siegfried S Hecker |
Stanford Univ.
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Host: Seb Doniach
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Plutonium Metallurgy: From 5f Electrons
to
Bombs
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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
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| 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
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| 5/26/2009 |
Sidney Nagel
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Univ. of Chicago
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Host: Daniel Fisher
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The Life and Death of a Drop:
Topological
Transitions and Singularities in Fluids
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6/02/2009
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Arthur Ramirez
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Univ. of CA, Santa Cruz
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Host: Doug Osheroff
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How Do Organic Semiconductors Work?
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Winter 2008/2009
| 1/6/2009 |
NO COLLOQUIUM |
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 12/02/2008 |
Wayne Hu |
Univ. of Chicago |
host: Chao-Lin Kuo |
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| 12/09/2008 |
No colloq. |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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
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| 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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