Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2014 Fall Semester
August 2014
September 2014
- Friday, September 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Optical Atomic Clocks: A New Era of Precision Timekeeping, Chris Oates, NIST-Boulder
- Friday, September 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Shedding Light on Distant Galaxies with 200,000 Quasars, Britt Lundgren, UW Astronomy
- Friday, September 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; Chamberin
- Hunting for topological dark matter with atomic clocks, Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada, Reno
October 2014
- Friday, October 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Black Hole Information Paradox, and its resolution in string theory, Samir Mathur, The Ohio State University
- Friday, October 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Neutrino Oscillations at Work, Jenny Thomas, University College London
- Friday, October 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum thermalization, many-body Anderson localization, and the entanglement frontier, David Huse, Princeton University
- Friday, October 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Physics of the Crab Nebula, Serguei Komissarov , Leeds University
- Friday, October 31st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The challenge of fault tolerant quantum computation, Lev Ioffe, Rutgers University
November 2014
- Friday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium, CANCELLED - To be rescheduled Spring 2015;
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Title to be announced, M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University
- Friday, November 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 am; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Neutrinos... Going International: Towards a New Understanding of the Quantum Universe, Dr. Nigel Lockyer, Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
- Friday, November 21st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum Entanglement for Fun and Profit: 101 Uses for Schroedinger's Cat, Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Friday, November 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm
- No Event: Thanksgiving Break
December 2014
- Friday, December 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Deep, Dark Detection: the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Experiment, Art McDonald, SNOLAB
- Friday, December 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 12:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium -- A Treatise on the Probabalistic Projectile PizZA Problem, University of Wisconsin, Madison