Colloquium Schedule 2004-2005

Regular colloquia at 3.30 p.m., Robert Smith Seminar Room,
1080 Physics Research Building
Reception at 3:00 p.m., Atrium, Physics Research Building

Colloquium Committee Members

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Autumn Quarter 2004

Tuesday 28 September 2004

Size Matters: Spacetime Geometry in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Michael Lisa, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Evan Sugarbaker

Tuesday 5 October 2004

Arithmetic, Population and Energy-Sustainability 101
Albert A. Bartlett, University of Colorado
Faculty host: Leonard Jossem

Tuesday 12 October 2004

Flapping, flying and drifting --- free boundaries in moving fluids
Jun Zhang, Department of Physics and Courant Institute, New York University
Faculty host: Fernand Hayot

Tuesday 19 October 2004

Colloquium Cancelled Due To Illness

Tuesday 26 October 2004

An Overview of Plasma – Materials Interactions in Magnetic Fusion and Thin Film Processing for Microelectronics and Display Applications
Robert T. McGrath, OSU, Senior Vice President for Research
Faculty host: Will Saam

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday 2 November 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

High energy density physics with terawatt and petawatt class lasers
Todd Ditmire, University of Texas at Austin

Tuesday 2 November 2004

What is inside a black hole?
Samir Mathur, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Arkady Tseytlin

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 8 November 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

QCD amplitudes and string theory
Anastasia Volovich, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Tuesday 9 November 2004

Putting the Mechanics back into Quantum Mechanics
Keith Schwab, University of Maryland
Faculty host: P. Chris Hammel

Femtosecond Electron Diffraction: Atomic Level Movies
Dwayne Miller,University of Toronto
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

Tuesday 30 November 2004

The Molecular Dynamics of Life: Probing with Non-linear Photonics
Watt Webb, Cornell University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 2 December 2004
1:30 p.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Mesoscopic Phenomena in Biology: From Chromosomes to Bacteria Populations
Michael Guy Poirier, Northwestern University

Tuesday 7 December 2004
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

Seeing Dark Energy
Larry Gladney, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty host: Richard E. Hughes

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday 11 January 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

From the Fast Lane to Rush Hour: Examining the Forces that Power Cell Motility and Rearrangements
Arpita Upadhyaya, MIT

Tuesday 11 January 2005

Detection of Miniature Black Holes Produced in Collisions at the Future Large Hadron Collider
Thomas Humanic, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 13 January 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Freezing and Melting in Granular Materials
Karen E. Daniels, Duke University

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday 18 January 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Physical Forces in Biological Membranes
Horia I. Petrache, NICHD

Tuesday 18 January 2005

Exploring the Atomic-scale Electronic Structure of High-Tc Superconductivity using Wavefunction Imaging STM
J. C. Seamus Davis, Cornell University
Faculty host: Mohit Randeria

Tuesday 25 January 2005

Connecting Laboratory Experiments with Astrophysical Phenomena
R. Paul Drake, University of Michigan
Faculty host: Linn Van Woerkom

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 31 January 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Long-range Cooperativity in Yeast Mating Polarization
Chinlin Guo, Harvard University

Tuesday 1 February 2005

"Asymptotic Freedom" and Factorization in Strongly-Interacting Atoms
Eric Braaten, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 8 February 2005

Conditional Dynamics and quantum feedback; an experiment in cavity QED.
Luis Orozco, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 10 February 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Experiments with Nanoelectromechanics at the Quantum Limit
Keith Schwab, University of Maryland

Tuesday 15 February 2005

The International Linear Collider, The Physics and The Technology
Nigel Lockyer, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty host: Richard E. Hughes

Tuesday 22 February 2005

30 years of hot quark soup: What have we learned about high temperature QCD?
Larry Yaffe, University of Washington
Faculty host: Yuri Kovchegov

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 24 February 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

The 2D metallic state and metal-insulator transition: two decades of controversy
Xuan Gao, Los Alamos National Laboratory

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday 1 March 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

A microscopic view of single-electron charging in carbon nanotubes with non-contact AFM
Jun Zhu, Cornell University

Tuesday 1 March 2005

What'sQGP? Evidence for a new form quark and gluon matter
Miklos Gyulassy, Columbia University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Wednesday 2 March 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Attosecond light pulses from high harmonics
Pierre Agostini, CEA Saclay

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 3 March 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Precision Electroweak Physics
Sarah Eno, University of Maryland

Tuesday 8 March 2005

Can a solid be superfluid?
Moses H. W. Chan, Penn State University
Faculty host: Will Saam

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 10 March 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 4138 PRB

Structural Investigations of Amyloid Fibrils by Solid State NMR
Aneta T. Petkova, National Institutes of Health

Tuesday 15 March 2005
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

Spring Quarter 2005

Tuesday 29 March 2005

String Theory and Cosmology
Finn Larsen, University of Michigan
Faculty host: Arkady Tseytlin

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 4 April 2005
2:30 p.m. in Room 4138 PRB

Quark Gluon Plasma Search -Recent Results from STAR
Olga Barannikova, Purdue University

Tuesday 5 April 2005

The Asymmetry Between Matter and Anti Matter - or - How to Know if it is Safe to Shake an Alien's Hand?
Klaus Honscheid, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Brian Winer

Tuesday 12 April 2005

Convection in a supercritical fluid
Horst Meyer, Duke University
Faculty host: Eric Herbst

Tuesday 19 April 2005

The Origins of Lattice Gauge Theory
Kenneth G. Wilson, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Eric Braaten

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Friday 22 April 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 4138 PRB

Computational Nanotechnology of Carbon Nanotubes: Multiscale Modeling and Simulations in Nanomaterials and Electronics
Deepak Srivastava, NASA Ames Center for Nanotechnology

Monday 25 April 2005

ANNUAL SMITH LECTURE
m = E/c²: The origin of mass
Frank Wilczek, 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics
131 Hitchcock Hall Auditorium, 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday 26 April 2005

COLLOQUIUM CANCELED
Frances A. Houle, IBM Almaden Research Center
Faculty host: Bunny C. Clark

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 2 May 2005
10:30 a.m. in Room 4138 PRB

Low-dimensional Materials for Energy Conversion
Joseph P. Heremans, Delphi Research Labs

Tuesday 3 May 2005

Translocation and Unzipping Kinetics of DNA Molecules using a Nanopore
Amit Meller, Rowland Institute, Harvard University
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 9 May 2005
1:30 p.m. in Room 4138 PRB

Cognition and the Learning of Physics
Andrew Heckler, Assistant Dean, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, OSU

Tuesday 10 May 2005

Recurrent themes from quantum dots to quarks
James Vary, Iowa State University
Faculty host: Robert Perry

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Friday 13 May 2005
1:30 p.m. in Room 1080 PRB

Improving Student Understanding of Physics Through Research
Chandralekha Singh, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesday 17 May 2005

Thermoacoustic Energy Conversion
Greg Swift, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Faculty host: P. Chris Hammel

Tuesday 24 May 2005

Frontiers in Low-temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Andreas Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
Faculty host: Jay Gupta

Tuesday 31 May 2005

Interstellar Dust: From Microwaves to X-rays
Bruce T. Draine, Princeton University
Faculty host: Eric Herbst

Tuesday 7 June 2005
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

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2004-2005 Colloquium Committee

Heinz, Chair
DiMauro
Hayot
Kovchegov
Randeria
Tseytlin
Zhong
Yang

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