Colloquium Schedule 2006-2007

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 2006

Molecular Nanomagnets
Myriam P. Sarachik, City College of CUNY
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 3 October 2006

Something old, something new: Resurrecting Detector Technologies in Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics
Juan Collar, The University of Chicago
Faculty host: Jim Beatty

Tuesday 10 October 2006

Precision Mass Measurement: ω_cyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc²?
David E. Pritchard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Lei Bao

Tuesday 17 October 2006

Cell Biology in Many Tesla
James Valles, Brown University
Faculty host: Tom Lemberger

Tuesday 24 October 2006

Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon
Philip Kim, Columbia University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 31 October 2006

The Fundamental Processes of Protein Folding
R. Brian Dyer, Los Alamos National Lab
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 7 November 2006

Glue, Horns and Steel: Neutrino Oscillation Experiments Today and Beyond
Jon Urheim, Indiana University
Faculty host: Klaus Honscheid

Tuesday 14 November 2006

Nonlinear ultrasonic imaging: a tool for probing the beating heart
James G. Miller, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 21 November 2006

Probing The Universe At 20 Minutes and 400 Thousand Years
Gary Steigman, Departments of Physics and Astronomy, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: David Stroud

Tuesday 28 November 2006

The Physics of Space Security
David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 5 December 2006
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 11 December 2006
1:30 p.m. in Room 1080 Physics Research Building

How Advances in Science are Made
Douglas D. Osheroff, Stanford University

Ultrafast Biological Dynamics at Atomic Scale
Dongping Zhong, The Ohio State University, Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry
Faculty host: Tom Lemberger

Tuesday 16 January 2007

Discrete Scale Invariance In Ultracold Atoms
Eric Braaten, The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
Faculty host: Harris Kagan

Tuesday 23 January 2007

New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment and the Fine Structure Constant
Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard University
Faculty host: Greg Lafyatis

Tuesday 30 January 2007

Problem Solving and the Use of Math in Physics Courses
Edward F. (Joe) Redish , University of Maryland, College Park
Faculty host: Lei Bao
Sponsored by INQUERI

Tuesday 6 February 2007

Using Optical Metrology to Reconstruct Sound Recordings
Vitaliy Fadeyev, UC Santa Cruz
Faculty host: Harris Kagan

Tuesday 13 February 2007

Inelastic Electron Scattering Off Magnetic Impurities
Leonid Glazman, University of Minnesota
Faculty host: Julia Meyer

Tuesday 20 February 2007

Searching for the Progenitor of Mass
Stan Durkin, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Harris Kagan

Tuesday 27 February 2007

Implementing Quantum Computing
David P. DiVincenzo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 6 March 2007
Note - APS Meeting - No Colloquium

Tuesday 13 March 2007
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

Understanding Flight: Newton Reigns in Aerodynamics!
Scott Eberhardt, Boeing Co
Faculty host: Harris Kagan

Tuesday 3 April 2007

Visualization of Quantum Phenomena
Wilson Ho, University of California, Irvine
Faculty host: Chris Hammel and Jay Gupta

Tuesday 10 April 2007

CANCELLED
Spin Excitation Spectroscopy with the STM
Don Eigler, IBM, Almaden Research Center
Faculty host: Jay Gupta

Thursday 12 April 2007

ANNUAL SMITH LECTURE
Traces of Creation: The Big Bang, COBE, and the Relic Radiation
George F. Smoot, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics

Tuesday 17 April 2007

From Einstein intuitions to quantum bits: a new quantum age?
Alain Aspect , Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Campus Polytechnique, Palaiseau
Faculty host: Pierre Agostini

Tuesday 24 April 2007

Single Molecule studies of DNA/protein interactions
David Bensimon, École Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire de Physique Statistique
Faculty host: Michael Poirier

Tuesday 1 May 2007

Secrets in the Ancient Goatskin:
Archimedes Manuscript under X-ray Vision
Uwe Bergmann, Stanford University
Faculty host: Harris Kagan

Tuesday 8 May 2007

Micromechanical study of DNA-protein interactions and chromosome structure
John F. Marko, Northwestern University
Faculty host: Michael Poirier

Tuesday 15 May 2007

Light Cone 2007
Host: OCTS

Tuesday 22 May 2007

A Genomic Code for Nucleosome Positioning
Jonathan Widom, Northwestern University
Faculty host: Michael Poirier

Tuesday 29 May 2007

Muybrige's galloping horse
Pierre Agostini, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Greg Lafyatis

Tuesday 5 June 2007
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

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2006-2007 Colloquium Committee

Kagan, Chair
Heinz
Lafyatis
Lemberger
Meyer
Poirier
Raby
Steigman

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