Colloquium Schedule 2007-2008

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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Better living through biosensors
Kevin W. Plaxco, University of California, Santa Barbara
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 2 October 2007

GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
Steven Ritz, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Faculty host: Richard Hughes

Tuesday 9 October 2007

Mysteries of Quantum Entanglement: why cos² α ≥ cos α for all values of α.
Joseph H. Eberly, University of Rochester
Faculty host: Greg Lafyatis

Tuesday 16 October 2007

Coupling of ribosome and tRNA dynamics during translation elongation
Ruben L. Gonzalez, Columbia University
Faculty host: Michael Poirier

Tuesday 23 October 2007

Can the Collagenase Brownian Ratchet Exert a Significant Force on a Cell?
Elliot L. Elson, Washington University School of Medicine
Faculty host: Michael Poirier

Tuesday 30 October 2007

Illuminating the Mechanistic Roles of Enzyme Conformational Dynamics and New Directions in Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
Haw Yang, Dept. of Chemistry, UC, Berkeley, and Physical Biosciences Div., LBNL, Berkeley, CA
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 6 November 2007

MRI Contrast for Watching the Brain in Action
Alan Koretsky, National Institutes of Health, Director IR NINDS
Faculty host: Harris Kagan

Tuesday 13 November 2007

The Space Elevator from Science Fiction to Engineering
Larry Bartoszek, Bartoszek Engineering Company
Faculty host: Harris Kagan

Tuesday 20 November 2007

Graphite, Graphene and Relativistic Electrons
Eva Y. Andrei, Rutgers University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 27 November 2007

Optics of Electric Flows in Graphene
Boris Altshuler, Columbia University
Faculty host: Julia Meyer

Tuesday 4 December 2007

Some new polarized variant of the Casimir effect
Shmuel Nussinov, Tel Aviv University
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Quantum Transport and the Roles of Nanostructures in Electronic Polymers
Arthur J. Epstein, The Ohio State University, Departments of Physics & Chemistry
Faculty host: Harris Kagan

Tuesday 15 January 2008

Crystallography in Five Dimensions: Capturing the Act of Atoms on Nanointerfaces
Chong-Yu Ruan, Michigan State University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 22 January 2008

Out of Gas: The end of the age of oil
David L. Goodstein, California Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Will Saam

Tuesday 29 January 2008

The Fast Development of Science and Education in China
------An Example of Peking University
Qihuang Gong, Peking University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 5 February 2008

CANCELLED
Torsten Fiebig, Dept. of Chemistry, Boston College
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 12 February 2008

High Density QCD
Alfred Mueller, Columbia University
Faculty host: Yuri Kovchegov

Tuesday 19 February 2008

CANCELLED
Martin Schmaltz, Boston University
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Thursday 28 February 2008

A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice: cold atomic gases as solid state systems
William D. Phillips, NIST
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro

Tuesday 4 March 2008

CANCELLED
Vladimir M. Shalaev, Purdue University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center
Faculty host: Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin

Tuesday 11 March 2008
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

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Spring Quarter 2008

Tuesday 25 March 2008

Dark Matter in the Cosmos and in the Laboratory
Michael E. Peskin, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 1 April 2008

A Physicist on Mars
Geoffrey A. Landis NASA John Glenn Research Center
Faculty host: Gordon Aubrecht

Tuesday 8 April 2008

New Physics at the LHC, why and what?
Martin Schmaltz, Boston University
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 15 April 2008

String Theory and Particle Physics
Herman Verlinde , Princeton University
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 22 April 2008

ANNUAL SMITH LECTURE
Mysteries of Time
Ahmed H. Zewail, 1999 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

Tuesday 29 April 2008

Ruling Proteins with Protons
Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 6 May 2008

Genomic Phase Transitions
Anirvan Sengupta, Rutgers University
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh

Tuesday 13 May 2008

Controlling ultrashort laser pluses for biomedical, industrial and analytical applications
Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 20 May 2008

The Quantum Information Revolution: 101 Uses for Schroedinger's Cat
Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty host: John Wilkins

Tuesday 27 May 2008

Dissecting the Viral Life Cycle One Molecule at a Time
Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh

Tuesday 3 June 2008

Probing the Quantum Limits of Mechanical Structures
Keith Schwab, Cornell University
Faculty host: Jay Gupta

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2007-2008 Colloquium Committee

Zhong, Chair
Bundschuh
Ho
Johnston-Halperin
Kagan
Kilcup
Kovchegov
Mulligan
Raby
Biswas

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