Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Fall Semester
Wednesday, September 8th 2010
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, September 15th 2010
Speaker: Julio Navarro, University of Victoria
Subject: Dark Matter under a Numerical Microscope
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Wednesday, September 22nd 2010
Speaker: N. David Mermin, Cornell University
Subject: What has quantum mechanics to do with factoring?
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Wednesday, September 29th 2010
Speaker: Jenny Hoffman, Harvard University
Subject: Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Vortex Imaging in the Iron-Pnictide High-Tc Superconductors
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Wednesday, October 6th 2010
Speaker: Professor Joel Moore, UC Berkeley
Subject: The Birth of Topological Insulators
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Wednesday, October 13th 2010
Speaker: Guido Mueller, University of Florida
Subject: The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)
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Wednesday, October 20th 2010
Speaker: Professor Vincent Noireaux, University of Minnesota
Subject: Development of an artificial cell to study some information and self-organization processes.
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Wednesday, October 27th 2010
Speaker: Jeremiah Mans , University of Minnesota
Subject: First Physics Results from the LHC
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Wednesday, November 3rd 2010
Speaker: Martin Greven
Subject: Unconventional magnetism in the copper-oxide high-temperature superconductors
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Wednesday, November 10th 2010
Speaker: William Hendee Medical College of Wisconsin;
Subject: Medical Physics: The Past and the Present
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Wednesday, November 17th 2010
Speaker: Eric Hudson, MIT
Subject: Stability in a Turbulent (Fermi) Sea: The Ever More Remarkable High Temperature Superconductors
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Wednesday, November 24th 2010
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 1st 2010
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 8th 2010
Speaker: Prof. Csaba Csaki, Cornell University
Subject: Searching for the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking
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Wednesday, December 15th 2010
Speaker: Uwe-Jens Wiese, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Bern University, Switzerland
Subject: Discrete Quantum Systems and Emergent Field Theories: From Graphene to Antiferromagnets and QCD
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Wednesday, December 22nd 2010
There will be no colloquium this week. Finals week.
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