Physics Colloquium Past Events 2011 /
01
Dec
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Dam Thanh Son
Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theory
28
Nov
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics, MP 103
Frank Close
The Infinity Puzzle: How the Hunt to Understand the Universe Led to Extraordinary Science, High Politics, and the Large Hadron Collider
24
Nov
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ido Golding
A Quantitative Look at Gene Regulation
17
Nov
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Hari Manoharan
Molecular Graphene
10
Nov
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Eric Braaten
Effective Field Theory and Ultracold Atoms
03
Nov
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Joanna Haigh
Solar Variability and Climate
27
Oct
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Yves Couder
Wave-particle duality at the macroscopic scale
20
Oct
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Scott Oser
Long Baseline Neutrinos: As Far from a Tabletop Experiment as You Can Get
13
Oct
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Tapio Schneider
Dynamics of Giant Planet Atmospheres
06
Oct
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennna Physics (MP) 102
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Space-Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering Amplitudes
29
Sep
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Alexandre Blais
Quantum Optics and quantum information processing with superconducting circuits
22
Sep
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Roya Zandi
Physics of virus assembly
15
Sep
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Kenneth Burch
Optics and Scotch Tape: New Discoveries Beyond Carbon
14
Apr
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Deborah Jin
Ultracold Polar Molecules
07
Apr
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Tom LeCompte
The LHC's First Year: New Results from the ATLAS Experiment -or- Life at the Zeptoscale
31
Mar
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ned Wingreen
Why are chemotaxis receptors clustered but other receptors aren't?
24
Mar
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Barth Netterfield
Astrophysics from the Stratosphere
17
Mar
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Adam Showman
Weather on Remote Worlds: The Atmospheric Circulation of the Hot Jupiters
10
Mar
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Andy Ruina
Rotation with zero angular momentum: Demonstrations of the falling cat phenomenon go sour
03
Mar
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Gabriel Kotliar
Strongly Correlated Electron Materials: Concepts and Applications
17
Feb
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Konrad Lehnert
Can acoustics be quantum?
10
Feb
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Paul Tackley
Modelling the interior dynamics and evolution of Earth, Venus, Mars and super-Earths
03
Feb
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Wesley Wong
New approaches in force spectroscopy: from enzyme kinetics to single-molecule centrifugation
27
Jan
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Siegfried Glenzer
Mega-joule experiments on the National Ignition Facility - on the road to produce a microscopic star in the laboratory*
20
Jan
2011
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Robert Cava
Stoichiometry, Structure, Bonding, and the Electronic Properties of Fe and Co Pnictides