Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Fall Semester |
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| Wed., September 16, 2009 |
Speaker: Marcelo Gleiser Affiliation: Dartmouth college Title: The Chirality of Life: From Phase Transitions to Astrobiology
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| Wed., September 30, 2009 |
Speaker: Dezhe Z. Jin Affiliation: Penn State Title: The Neural Dynamics of Song Syntax in Songbirds
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Wed., October 7, 2009 |
Speaker: Philippe Jacquod Affiliation: University of Arizona Title: Mesoscopic physics in presence of superconductivity: What are the new rules of the game?
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| Wed., October 21, 2009 |
Speaker: Peter Milonni Affiliation; Los Alamos National Laboratory and U. of Rochester Title: Electromagnetic Momenta and Forces in Dispersive Dielectric Media
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| Wed., November 4, 2009 |
11/4 Speaker: Joe Polchinski Affiliation: UCSB Title: Gauge/Gravity Duality
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| Thursday, November 12, 2009 |
Speaker: Markus Buttiker Affiliation: Univ. Geneva Title: Quantum optics with electrons
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Wed., November 18, 2009
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Speaker: Emil Wolf Affiliation: Univ. of Rochester Title: TBA
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| Wed., December 2, 2009 |
Speaker: Karyn LeHur Affiliation: Yale University Title: Spin in the Quantum Many-Body World: Decoherence, Quantum Entropy, Strange Oscillations, and the Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana riddle
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Spring semester |
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| Wed., February 3, 2010 |
02/03/10 Speaker: Amitava Bhattacharjee Affiliation: Univ. New Hamphshire Title: TBA (Plasma)
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| Wed., February 17, 2010 |
speaker: Sid Nagle Affiliation: U. Chicago Title: TBA
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Wed., March 03, 2010
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Dexter Lecture speaker: Capasso title: TBA |
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Wed., March 31, 2010
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speaker: Bill McDonough (Univ. of Maryland) Title: Geoneutrino/Antineutrino detection: an interdisciplinary experiment at the boundaries of physics, astrophysics, geology and national security
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| Wed., March 24, 2010 |
02/03/10 Speaker: Rob Spekkens Affiliation: Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Title: TBA (quantum information) |
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Wed., April 7, 2010
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speaker: Rajan Gupta (LANL) Understanding Global Energy Systems
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Wed., April 14, 2010
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speaker: Eric Blackman (U of R) Helmet Protection against Traumatic Brain Injury: A Physics Perspective |
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| Wed., April 28, 2010 |
speaker: Chris Jarzynski Title: TBA |