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Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia Are Held In The Physics Lecture Hall
At 4:45 P.M. On Wednesday Afternoons

Tea served 4.30pm-4.45pm  All are welcome.  



Spring 2012 Schedule


Date Speaker Topic Host
18-Jan Adam Riess (Johns Hopkins)
2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
The Allen Robbins Colloquium : Supernovae and the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe Saurabh Jha
25-Jan Jeffrey C. Grossman
(MIT)
New Materials for Solar Capture and Storage Karin Rabe
01-Feb Amit Lath
(Rutgers)
Clearcutting The Energy Frontier Sunil Somalwar
08-Feb John Hopfield
(Princeton)
Animal 'thinking' and the emergent dynamics of large neural networks Alex Morozov
15-Feb Robert Kopp
(Rutgers - EPS)
The Sea Level Response to Climate Change:
What Can the Past Tell Us About the Future?
Eric Gawiser
22-Feb Curt Callan
(Princeton)
Theoretical Physics in Cellular Biology: Some Illustrative Case Studies Alex Morozov
29-Feb No Colloquium
Leap Day
07-Mar No Colloquium
14-Mar No Colloquium Spring Break
21-Mar Charles Kane
(U. Penn)
From Topological Insulators to Majorana Fermions Karin Rabe
28-Mar Undergraduates Senior Honors Thesis Talks Mohan Kalelkar
04-Apr Nadya Mason
(Illinois)
Using Graphene to Study Superconductivity (New Tricks for an Old Dog) Eva Andrei &
Andrew Baker
11-Apr Chris Reynolds
(Maryland)
The Astrophysics of Black Hole Spin Ted Williams
Saturday
14-Apr
Boris Kayser
(Fermilab)
The 2012 Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Lecture in Physics and Astronomy: Antimatter, Matter, and How We Came To Be Yuri Gershstein
18-Apr Robert Wiringa
(Argonne National Lab)
Nuclear Forces and the Destiny of the Universe Larry Zamick
25-Apr Kate Jones
(Tennessee)
Structure, Reactions, Astrophysics - Overlaps in Low-Energy Nuclear Physics Jolie Cizewski


Last updated Dec. 13, 2011