Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the Week of December 6th through December 13th, 2009
Monday, December 7th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Thursday, December 10th, 2009
- No events scheduled
Friday, December 11th, 2009
- Holliday Colloquium--Evidence for Colloquium Posters Having Nothing to do with Colloquium
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Holliday Colloquium
- Abstract: The colloquium poster (P^c) has been found in deep inelastic scattering experiments to consist of a title, an abstract, and a figure which either attempts humor or appears to contain all knowledge. We present evidence that the poster is a kind of trap, in which the interesting-sounding poster describing applications to all of physics instead yields to a monotone delivery of a highly technical talk on computation of 3rd-order Albatross diagrams. This has clear implications for condensed matter and atomic physics, the origin of ultra high-energy cosmic rays, electroweak symmetry breaking, and plasma containment (see figure).
- Host: Grad Students