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Wednesday, January 18th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Tom Jones, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Violence in Cosmic Structure Formation
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 25th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Bruce Hammer, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota
Subject: Biological Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 1st 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: David Goodstein, California Institute of Technology
Subject: Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 8th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Renata Wentzcovitch, Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of Minnesota
Subject: Theory of Materials at High Pressures and Temperatures
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 15th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Hitoshi Murayama, UC Berkeley
Subject: The Next Twenty Years in Particle Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 22nd 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Rob Schoelkopf, Yale
Subject: Circuit quantum electrodynamics: doing quantum optics with superconductors
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 1st 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Marty Hoffert, Prof. Emeritus of Physics, NYU
Subject: An Energy Revolution for the 21st Century
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 8th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Al Kogut, NASA
Subject: Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 15th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium. Spring break.
Wednesday, March 22nd 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Michael E. Peskin, Theory Group, MS 81, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Subject: The International Linear Collider: The Next Step in High-Energy Electron-Positron Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 29th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Bob Lin, Physics Dept. & Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ. of California, Berkeley,
Subject: Particle Acceleration by the Sun
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 5th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
Subject: Visualizing Correlated Electronic States in High Temperature Copper-Oxide Superconductors
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 12th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Mehran Kardar, MIT
Subject: The Shape Dependence of Fluctuation-Induced Forces
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 19th 2006
4:00 pm:
Van Vleck Public Lecture
in 150 Physics
Speaker: Sir Anthony J. Leggett
Subject: Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics?
Reception following lecture in 216 Physics
Thursday, April 20th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 150 Physics
Speaker: Sir Anthony J. Leggett
Subject: Cuprate Superconductivity Without a ‘Model'
Refreshments served in room 216 at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 26th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Professor Chris Tully, Princeton University
Subject: The Next Energy Frontier
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 3rd 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Thierry Giamarchi, NCCR, Switzerland
Subject: Disordered Elastic Systems: From high temperature superconductors to ferroelectrics. Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Speaker to follow Student Award Presentations at 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, September 6th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
This event will start September 13, 2006
Wednesday, September 13th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Michel Janssen
Subject: John Van Vleck and the Dawn of Quantum Mechanics in Minnesota
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 20th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Terence Hwa
Subject: Statistical Physics of Gene Regulation
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 27th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Peter Lax - Courant Institute, New York University
Subject: Mathematics and Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 4th 2006
4:00 pm:
Edythe and Irving Misel Family Lecture
in 150 Physics
Speaker: Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 2004 Nobel Laureate
Subject: The Origin of Mass and Feebleness of Gravity
Refreshments to follow in the Atrium.
Wednesday, October 11th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins University
Subject: Connecting Atomic-Scale Dynamics to Macroscopic Friction Laws
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 18th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Terry Jones, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Physics of Comet Dust
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 25th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Tony Tyson, University of California Davis
Subject: The New Digital Sky: Solar System to Dark Energy
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 1st 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Misha Stephanov - University of Illinois at Chicago
Subject: The Phase Diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 8th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: David Weiss
Subject: Experiments with one-dimensional gases
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 15th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Cyrus Hirjibehedin
Subject: Building a magnet one atom at a time: STM studies of magnetism at the atomic scale
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 22nd 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium this week.
Wednesday, November 29th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Subject: Are spin fluctuations a glue to the pairing in the high-temperature superconductors?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 6th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Edward Redish
Subject: Problem Solving and the Use of Math in Physics Courses
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 13th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Ian Fisk
Subject: Physics, Analysis, and Computing Challenges of the LHC
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 20th 2006
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Colloquium is done for this semester.
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