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Wednesday, January 23rd 2008
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium this week.
Wednesday, January 30th 2008
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
7:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Public Lecture
in 150 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Van Vleck Public Lecture
in 150 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium - Spring Break
Wednesday, March 26th 2008
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium - Finals Week
Wednesday, May 21st 2008
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The colloquium has ended for the semester. It will return in September 2008
Wednesday, September 3rd 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week. Please note the permanent change in the colloquium time.
Wednesday, September 10th 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Vuk Mandic, UMN
Subject: LIGO: Status and Recent Results
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, September 17th 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: P. James E. Peebles, Princeton University
Subject: The Cosmological Tests
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 1st 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Marvin Marshak, UMN
Subject: Exploring the Neutrino Frontier
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 15th 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Salman Habib, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Subject: The Dark Universe Challenge
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 5th 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week. There will be no refreshments.
Wednesday, November 12th 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 3rd 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana University
Subject: Physics and Quantum Computation
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, December 10th 2008
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
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