Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2009 Spring Semester
January 2009
- Friday, January 30th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Long range interactions between Rydberg atoms, Saffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 2009
- Friday, February 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Ingersoll Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm) - Exploiting protein-crystal interactions to build switches, throttles and brakes: what shells, bones and kidney stones can teach us about managing CO2, James J. De Yoreo, Molecular Foundry, LBNL
- Friday, February 13th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Gravity on the Test Bench: Torsion Balance Renaissance, Jens Gundlach, University of Washington
- Friday, February 20th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Experiments on Dirty Bosons, Brian DeMarco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Friday, February 27th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Diatomic Molecules as Quantum Tools, David DeMille, Yale University
March 2009
- Friday, March 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Distinguished Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm) - Harnessing Attosecond Science in the Quest for Coherent X-Rays, Margaret Murnane, JILA/UC-Boulder
- Friday, March 20th
- Spring Break
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; --
- No Colloquium--Spring Break, --
April 2009
- Friday, April 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Neutrinos, and the Dark Side of the Light Fermions, Alex Kusenko, UCLA
- Friday, April 10th
- Good Friday
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- What's so Cool about Ultra-Cold Neutrons, Brad Filippone, Caltech
- Friday, April 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Neutrino Physics Beyond SNO, Mark Chen, Queen's University
- Friday, April 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Let's go Skating... and do some Physics on the Ice, Charlotte Elster, Ohio University
May 2009
- Friday, May 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Physics in the Kitchen, Andrei Varlamov, INFM & CNR, Italy, Moscow Technological University, Russia
- Friday, May 8th
- Last Day of Class
- Physics Department Colloquium, Physics Department Awards Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - What life is like for a physicist in Congress, Bill Foster, U.S. Congressman Representing the 14th District of Illinois