PHY 289

Physics at the Cutting Edge

Class Schedule

January 10	Organizational Meeting	Causes of Color scientificamerican1080-124	Sajeev John
January 17	Topological Metals	The quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators Topological semimetals	Jian-Hua Jiang Anton Burkov
January 24	Evolutionary "Design" of Proteins	The spatial architecture of protein function and adaptation Electric-field-stimulated protein mechanics	Sid Goyal Rama Ranganathan
January 31	Self-driven phase transitions in living matter	Self-driven phase transitions in populations of Myxococcus xanthus Motile Behavior of Bacteria Physics Today 53, 1, 24 (2000).	Will Ryu Joshua Shaevitz
February 7	The Causes of Atlantic Climate Variability	The Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation without a role for ocean circulation Radiative Forcing of Climate Change Solar Variability and Climate	Paul Kushner Amy Clement
February 14	How the brain computes: A physicist's perspective	How Neuroscience enables better Artificial Intelligence The search for biologically plausible neural computation: A similarity-based approach	Dmitri Chklovskii
February 28	Quantum Computing and Quantum Information for Nuclear Physics Grand Challenge Problems	Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Colour QCD 1, QCD 2, Quark-Gluon Plasma	Michael Luke Martin Savage
March 7	Layering instabilities in fluid dynamics	Double-Diffusive Convection at Low Prandtl Number	Nicolas Grisouard Pascale Garaud
March 14	One x-ray source to rule them all	The Ultimate X-Ray Machine Linac Coherent Light Source	Robin Marjoribanks Sam Vinko
March 21	Preparation for Student Presentations	NO CLASS MEETING THIS WEEK
March 28	Student Presentations
April 4	Student Presentations