Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2016 Spring Semester
January 2016
- Friday, January 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium, ****NOTE SPECIAL START TIME****;
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall - Quantum trajectories and the quantum state of the past, Klaus Molmer, Aarhus University
February 2016
- Friday, February 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Deciphering IceCube’s High-Energy Neutrinos, Marek Kowalski, Humboldt University Berlin & DESY Zeuthen
- Friday, February 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Searching for Dark Matter with Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices, Kent Irwin, Stanford/SLAC
- Friday, February 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Gamma-Ray Observations of Pulsars with Cherenkov Telescopes, Nepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech
March 2016
- Friday, March 4th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Understanding when we can trust climate models: Characterizing uncertainty in climate change from global to regional scales, Chris E. Forest, Penn State
- Friday, March 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Status and Future of Tau physics at the LHC , Isobel Ojalvo, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Thursday, March 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:45 pm)
- From Bell's inequalities to quantum information: a new quantum revolution, Alain Aspect, CNRS, Institut d’Optique
- Friday, March 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:15 pm)
- Gene Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest, David Nelson, Harvard University
April 2016
- Friday, April 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- New Satellite Galaxies of Our Milky Way, Keith Bechtol, UW - Madison, Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center
- Friday, April 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin hall
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Daniel Holz, University of Chicago
- Friday, April 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Probing the Accelerating Universe with the Dark Energy Survey, Josh Frieman, Fermilab and the University of Chicago
- Friday, April 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- First Results from Hitomi, Richard Mushotzky, University of Maryland/Goddard Space Flight Center
- Friday, April 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee & Cookies at 3:15pm)
- When Magnetic Field Lines Break, Paul Cassak, West Virginia University
May 2016
- Friday, May 6th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Alumni Award Winner;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - A Search for Space-Time Correlations from the Planck Scale with the Fermilab Holometer, Steve Meyer, The University of Chicago