Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2013 Spring Semester
January 2013
- Friday, January 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Quantum Coherence in Biology, K. Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
February 2013
- Friday, February 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Femtosecond hard X-ray lasers for atomic structure and biodynamics, John Spence, Arizona State University
- Friday, February 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Superconducting Quantum Computing , John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Friday, February 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- The Brave Nu World, André de Gouvêa, Northwestern University
March 2013
- Friday, March 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Life after Lorentz: Quantum Mechanics, Gravity, and the Crisis of Falsifiability, Niayesh Afshordi, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics & the University of Waterloo
- Friday, March 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Meeting the Energy needs of a Growing Population, Timothy Donohue, UW-Madison Dept. of Bacteriology & Director, Great Lakes Bioenergy
- Friday, March 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- New perspectives on quark confinement, Philip Argyres, University of Cincinnati
- Friday, March 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions: The Theoretical Challenge, Adam Burrows, Princeton University
April 2013
- Friday, April 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Nonlinear Quantum Liquids in One Dimension, Leonid Glazman, Yale University
- Friday, April 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Superconductivity and the Pseudogap in theory and in copper-oxide based superconductors, Andrew Millis, Columbia University
- Friday, April 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Breaking Barriers with Maxwell's Demon, Mark Raizen, University of Texas at Austin
- Friday, April 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Physics and Astrophysics from Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray observations, Glennys Farrar, New York University
May 2013
- Friday, May 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium, 2013 Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Pursuing Climate Science: From Small Particles to Large Airplanes, David Fahey, Earth System Research Laboratory, National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
- Friday, May 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm)
- Gas-filled detectors: the Darwinian Champions of Particle Physics , David Nygren, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory