Colloquium Schedule 2005-2006

Regular colloquia at 4:00 p.m., Robert Smith Seminar Room,
1080 Physics Research Building
Reception at 3:45 p.m., Atrium, Physics Research Building

Colloquium Committee Members

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Autumn Quarter 2005

Dynamics in magnetic micro- and nanostructures
Burkard Hillebrands, Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern
Faculty host: P. Chris Hammel

Tuesday 4 October 2005

Homeless Mesons
Stephen L. Olsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Faculty host: Eric Braaten

Tuesday 11 October 2005

New frontiers of QCD at RHIC
Dmitri Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Faculty host: Yuri Kovchegov

Tuesday 18 October 2005

CP Violation and the Neutral K System in the Grand Scheme of Things
Brad Cox, University of Virginia
Faculty host: Klaus Honscheid

Tuesday 25 October 2005

The Drama of Neutrino Masses, Unification and Our Origin
Jogesh Pati, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 1 November 2005

High-Tc superconductivity: summing up
D.N. Basov, University of California, San Diego
Faculty host: P. Chris Hammel

Tuesday 8 November 2005

Unification of fundamental interactions
Hans-Peter Nilles, University of Bonn
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Will be held in 4138 PRB

Tuesday 15 November 2005

The Multiscale Challenge for Biomolecular Systems
Gregory A. Voth, University of Utah
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 22 November 2005

The energy landscape for protein folding and function
Jose' N. Onuchic, University of California at San Diego
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 29 November 2005

Single atom/molecule manipulation with STM
Saw-Wai Hla, Ohio University
Faculty host: Jay Gupta

Tuesday 6 December 2005
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

Winter Quarter 2006

Fact and Fiction in Cosmology
Edward L. (Ned) Wright, University of California, Los Angeles
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

PHYSICS SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 5 January 2006
11:30 a.m. in Room 4138 PRB

The development of a 160 kBit molecular memory of 10¹¹ Bits/cm² as a catalyst for interdisciplinary research
Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, California Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Jon Pelz

Tuesday 10 January 2006

The Two Hydrogen Economies
George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Faculty host: John Wilkins

Tuesday 17 January 2006

The strange properties of the pseudogap in the high temperature superconductors: A photoemission view
J.C. Campuzano, University of Illinois at Chicago
Faculty host: Mohit Randeria

Tuesday 24 January 2006

Does hbar matter in biology?
Robert H. Austin, Princeton University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 31 January 2006

Energy Security in the 21st century: The need for bold and novel thinking
Rajan Gupta, T-8, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 7 February 2006

Puzzle of Charge and Mass
Stuart Raby, The Ohio State University

Tuesday 14 February 2006

Duality Symmetry: The Case of the Theory That Worked Too Well
Dan Shahar, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 21 February 2006

Glaciological Evidence of Abrupt Tropical Climate Change: Past, Present and Future
Lonnie G. Thompson, Department of Geological Sciences, OSU
Faculty host: David Stroud

Tuesday 28 February 2006

When Stars Attack! Live Radioactivities as Signatures of Nearby Supernovae
Brian D. Fields, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty host: John Beacom

Tuesday 7 March 2006

Hotter, Denser, Faster, Smaller...and Nearly-Perfect: What's the Matter at RHIC?
Peter Steinberg, Brookhaven National Lab
Faculty host: Mike Lisa

Tuesday 14 March 2006
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

Detecting boson-vortex duality in experiments: how superfluids become solids in two dimensions
Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Faculty host: Mohit Randeria

Tuesday 4 April 2006

Primal Scream -- Sounds from the Infant Universe.
D.Mark Whittle, University of Virginia
Faculty host: Gary Steigman

Tuesday 11 April 2006

Bringing Hearing to the Deaf
Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account
Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 18 April 2006

Is Particle Physics ready for the LHC?
Joseph D. Lykken, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Dept. of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 25 April 2006

A least dissipation principle for single molecule mechanics
R. Dean Astumian, The University of Maine
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh

Thursday 4 May 2006

ANNUAL SMITH LECTURE
When freezing cold is not cold enough --- new forms of matter close to absolute zero temperature
Wolfgang Ketterle, 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Tuesday 9 May 2006

Cracking the Unitarity Triangle: A Quest in B Physics
Masahiro Morii, Harvard
Faculty host: Richard Kass

Tuesday 16 May 2006

CANCELLED
R. Brian Dyer, Los Alamos National Lab
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 23 May 2006

Grand Challenges in Nanomagnetism
Sam Bader, Argonne National Labs
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 30 May 2006

Ultrafast Quantum Control
Philip H. Bucksbaum, Stanford University
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro

Tuesday 6 June 2006
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

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2005-2006 Colloquium Committee

Trivedi, Chair
Heckler
Kagan
Lafyatis
Raby
Stroud
Wilkins
Zhong

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