semester, 2008
Wednesday, January 23rd 2008
Wednesday, January 30th 2008
Speaker: Seth Shostak, SETI Institute
Subject: When Will We Discover the Extraterrestrials?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 31st 2008
Speaker: Seth Shostak, SETI Institute
Subject: The Search for Intelligent Life in the Cosmos
This lecture is free and open to the general public. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Wednesday, February 6th 2008
Speaker: Cary Forest, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Subject: Turbulent Liquid Metal Dynamo Experiments
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 13th 2008
Speaker: Michael Marder, University of Texas, Austin
Subject: Rising above the gathering storm with U Teach
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 20th 2008
Speaker: Richard Ellis, Cal Tech
Subject: The Case for a Significant Population of Sub-Luminous Star Forming Galaxies at Redshift 10
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 27th 2008
Speaker: Ray Bishop, University of Manchester
Subject: Confronting The Quantum Many-Body Problem: An Overview Of The Coupled Cluster Method And Its Applications In Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 5th 2008
Speaker: David Gross, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB
Subject: The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 6th 2008
Speaker: David Gross, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB
Subject: The Future of Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 12th 2008
Speaker: David Charbonneau (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Subject: The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 19th 2008
No Colloquium - Spring Break
Wednesday, March 26th 2008
Speaker: J.V. Porto, NIST
Subject: Controlled exchange interactions in a double-well optical lattice
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 2nd 2008
Speaker: Saskia Fischer, University of Bochum
Subject: Coupling of quantum conductors
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 9th 2008
Speaker: Martin White , UC Berkeley
Subject: The echo of Einstein's greatest blunder
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 16th 2008
Speaker: John Martinis, UCSB
Subject: Entanglement of Josephson-Junction Quantum Bits
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 23rd 2008
Speaker: Ramon Lopez, University of Texas, Arlington
Subject: Space Weather
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 30th 2008
Speaker: Kam-Biu Luk, University of California, Berkeley
Subject: Reactor Experiments for Neutrino Oscillations
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 7th 2008
Speaker: G. J. Wasserburg, Cal Tech
Subject: Imagination, pulp fiction, science & exploration
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 14th 2008
No Colloquium - Finals Week
Wednesday, May 21st 2008
The colloquium has ended for the semester. It will return in September 2008
Wednesday, September 3rd 2008
There will be no colloquium this week. Please note the permanent change in the colloquium time.
Wednesday, September 10th 2008
Speaker: Vuk Mandic, UMN
Subject: LIGO: Status and Recent Results
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, September 17th 2008
Speaker: James Kakalios, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Materials Science of Superheroes (All New! All Different!)
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, September 24th 2008
Speaker: P. James E. Peebles, Princeton University
Subject: The Cosmological Tests
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 1st 2008
Speaker: Mikhail Katsnelson, Radboud University Nijmegen
Subject: New bridge between condensed matter physics and quantum electrodynamics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 8th 2008
Speaker: Marvin Marshak, UMN
Subject: Exploring the Neutrino Frontier
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 15th 2008
Speaker: Joerg Schmalian, Ames Laboratory
Subject: Emergent symmetries and dimensionality reduction at quantum critical points
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 22nd 2008
Speaker: George Fuller, UCSD
Subject: Neutrinos: Stealthy Agents of Destruction and Creation in the Cosmos
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 29th 2008
Speaker: Salman Habib, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Subject: The Dark Universe Challenge
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 5th 2008
There will be no colloquium this week. There will be no refreshments.
Wednesday, November 12th 2008
Speaker: Charles Dermer, US Naval Research Laboratory
Subject: Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Origin in Light of First Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 19th 2008
Speaker: Konstantin Matveev, Argonne National Laboratory
Subject: Charge and spin propagation through quantum wires
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 26th 2008
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 3rd 2008
Speaker: Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana University
Subject: Physics and Quantum Computation
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, December 10th 2008
Speaker: Anna Hayes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Subject: Application of Nuclear Physics to Energy and National Security
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, December 17th 2008
There will be no colloquium this week.