Physics Colloquium Past Events 2014 /
04
Dec
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
JoAnne Hewett
CANCELLED: The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry
27
Nov
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Geoffrey Hinton
Deep Learning
13
Nov
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Alan Nathan
Physics and Baseball: An Intersection of Passions
06
Nov
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Steven Kivelson
CANCELLED: Quenched disorder and vestigial nematicity in correlated electronic systems
30
Oct
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Luca Capriotti
Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation (AAD): Hedging financial risks and cracking the puzzles of condensed matter physics
23
Oct
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Matthias Troyer
Quantum Annealing
16
Oct
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Sharad Ramanathan
Attempts at disentangling biological circuits by controlling them
09
Oct
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Ian Eisenman
Changes in the sea ice cover in both polar regions: observations, simulations, and theories
02
Oct
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Qimiao Si
Quantum Criticality – How It Works, and How It Elucidates Electronic Matter
25
Sep
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Christian Haas
Arctic Sea Ice – where are we headed?
18
Sep
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
Bahen Centre (BA) 1190
Noah Finkelstein
Educational Transformation at a Critical Time: why us and why now -- the promises of disciplinary engagement
11
Sep
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Benjamin Lev
The SQCRAMscope
03
Apr
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Dan Falk
The Science of Shakespeare
27
Mar
2014
4 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Scott Franklin
Tangled Granular Matter
06
Mar
2014
4 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Giorgio Gratta
Neutrinos from Hell: the Dawn of Neutrino Geophysics
27
Feb
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Norbert F. Scherer
Insights into stochastic growth and division of single bacterial cells, or A Bug's Life
13
Feb
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Stefan Myrskog
Concentrating the Sun: Concentrated Photovoltaics and design challenges at 1000 Suns
06
Feb
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Stephen Morris
Consider the Icicle
30
Jan
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Jan Kycia
Studying Monopoles in Spin Ice at Ultra Low Temperatures
23
Jan
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Peter Olson
The Geodynamo from a Whole-Earth perspective
16
Jan
2014
4:10 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
McLennan Physics (MP) 102
Jason Petta
Spooky Action at a Distance: Generating Entanglement in Quantum Dot Circuits