Main Physics Calendar Schedule

Event Title Speaker Date/Time Location
First Day of Instruction, Spring Semester 1/14/2013
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group "Development and Application of Molecular Simulation Methods for Modeling Macromolular Behavior In Vivo" Professor Adrian H. Elcock, Department of Biochemistry, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1/14/2013
3:00 pm		 3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
Astrophysics Colloquium: NO COLLOQUIUM TODAY
Physics Colloquium,"The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities; A Physicist's Search for Unifying Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Dynamics" Distinguished Professor Geoff West, Santa Fe Institute 1/16/2013
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Lab
Condensed Matter Seminar: No Seminar first week of classes.
CPLC Seminar: "Nanofluidics for Single Molecule DNA Analysis and Manipulation" Walter Reisner, Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1/18/2013
2:00 pm		 464 Loomis
M.L.King Holiday 1/21/2013
Astrophysics Colloquium : You-Hua Chu, UIUC: "Extragalactic Supernova Remnants" You-Hua Chu 1/22/2013
4:00 pm		 134 Astronomy
Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Classical solitons and conservation laws" Professor Mike Stone (Dept. of Physics, Illinois) 1/23/2013
10:00 am		 464 Loomis
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Astrophysical applications of relativistic resistive magnetohydrodynamics" Vasileios Paschalidis (University of Illinois) 1/23/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
QI/AMO Seminar: Surprises! and Puzzles? from Probing Neutral Atoms Trapped in Noble Gas Ice Chen-Yu Xu 1/23/2013
1:00 pm		 280 MRL
Physics Colloquium, "Stretchy Electronics That Dissolve in Your Body" Professor John A. Rogers, University of Illinois, Materials Science and Engineering, 1/23/2013
4:00 pm
Final Defense, Precision Measurement of Charged Pion and Kaon Multiplicities in e+e− Annihilation at √s = 10.52 GeV Martin Leitgab 1/25/2013
10:00 am		 322 Loomis Lab
Walk Onto the Wall Street Dr. Zhenyu Wang
RGM Advisors, LLC
Austin, Texas		 1/25/2013
10:00 am		 204 Loomis Laboratory (Interaction Room)
Condensed Matter Seminar: Thermal and Quantum Escape from Metastable States: Kurkijarvi Approach. Prof Alexey Bezryadin -
Dept of Physics - University of Illinois		 1/25/2013
1:00 pm		 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
CPLC Seminar: "Micromechanical studies of protein-DNA interactions and chromosome structure" John Marko, Departments of Molecular Biosciences and Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 1/25/2013
2:00 pm		 464 Loomis
12th Annual Physics Illinois Undergraduate Research Symposium Undergraduate students 1/25/2013
2:00 pm		 141 LLP
Search for neutrinoless double beta decay with the GERDA experiment Michal Tarka 1/28/2013
1:00 pm		 Loomis 464
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Seminar - 'Quasi-Continuum Theory for Fluids under Confinement' Professor Narayan Aluru, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 1/28/2013
3:00 pm		 3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
Astrophysics Colloquium: Ashley Ross, Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation, University of Portsmouth: " Making Robust and Precise Physical Measurements Using Galaxy Surveys" Ashley Ross 1/29/2013
4:00 pm		 134 Astronomy
Mathematics/Physics Seminar "First steps into integrable systems" Professor Rui Fernandes (Dept. of Mathematics, Illinois) 1/30/2013
10:00 am		 464 Loomis
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "A Sinister Universe: Chromo-Natural Inflation and Magnetic Drift" Peter Adshead (University of Chicago, KICP) 1/30/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Physics Colloquium, "III-V Solar Cells: High Efficiency and Cost Effective Photovoltaics?" Jessica Adams, MicroLink Devices 1/30/2013
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis
Secondary Considerations Dr. Jim Carrubba
University Laboratory High School
Urbana, Illinois		 1/31/2013
11:00 am		 204 Loomis Laboratory (Interaction Room)
Astrophysics Colloquium: Kaitlin Kratter, JILA, University of Colorado: "Looking Ahead: Planets and their Binaries" Kaitlin Kratter 1/31/2013
4:00 pm		 134 Astronomy
Condensed Matter Seminar: eXtremes of Heat Conduction in Materials Prof David Cahill -
Head - Dept of Materials Science and Engineering - University of Illinois		 2/1/2013
1:00 pm		 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
NO CPLC SEMINAR - Biophysical Society Annual Meeting 2/1/2013
ICMT Seminar: "Pattern Formation from Competing Interactions: Implications for Soft and Hard Condensed Matter Systems" Charles Reichhardt (Los Alamos) 2/4/2013
12:00 pm		 190 ESB
Special ICMT Seminar: "Superconductivity of doped Weyl semimetals: finite-momentum pairing and an electronic analog of He3-A phase" Gil Young Cho (Berkeley) 2/5/2013
11:00 am		 190 ESB
Astrophysics Colloquium: Brandon Kelly, Dpt. of Physics, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara: "Investigating Astronomical Populations in the Era of Data-Intensive Astronomy" 2/5/2013
4:00 pm
Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Discrete Integrable systems: examples from physics and combinatorics" Philippe Di Francesco 2/6/2013
10:00 am		 464 Loomis
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Pulsar Glitches and Neutron Star Crusts" Roman Gold (University of Illinois) 2/6/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Final Defense: X-ray Scattering Studies of Strongly Correlated Materials: Orbital Ordering in KCuF3 and Stripe-like Domain Structures in BiFeO3 Epitaxial Thin Films James Lee 2/6/2013
1:00 pm		 322 Loomis
Physics Colloquium, "After the Higgs'" Professor Tony Liss, Physics Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2/6/2013
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis
Astrophysics Colloquium: Joaquin Vieira, Dpt. of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology: "The Millimeter Sky" Joaquin Vieira 2/7/2013
4:00 pm		 134 Astronomy
Condensed Matter Seminar: Signatures of Majorana fermions in hybrid superconductor-semiconductor nanowire devices Prof Sergey Frolov -
Dept of Physics and Astronomy - University of Pittsburgh		 2/8/2013
1:00 pm		 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
CPLC Seminar: "Unraveling chromatin structure using single molecule force spectroscopy" John van Noort, Physics of Life Processes, Leiden University, The Netherlands 2/8/2013
2:00 pm		 464 Loomis
ICMT Seminar: "The geometry of the quantum Hall effect" Dam Thanh Son (University of Chicago) 2/11/2013
12:00 pm		 190 ESB
Medium & High Energy Seminar:"New Horizons in Jet Substructure and Boosted Physics @ the LHC" Tuhin Roy, Department of Physics, University of Washington 2/11/2013
1:00 pm
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group 'Computational molecular biophysics for renewable energy, environmental science and drug design' Dr. Jeremy C. Smith, U of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 2/11/2013
3:00 pm		 3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
Special QI/AMO Seminar: Condensed Matter Physics with Ultracold Atoms - from Mott Insulators to Topological Superfluids Waseem Bakr 2/12/2013
10:00 am		 280 MRL
Astrophysics Colloquium: Ryan Foley, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University: "Improving Dark Energy Measurements through a Detailed Understanding of Supernova Physics" Ryan Foley 2/12/2013
4:00 pm		 134 Astronomy
Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Matrix Models and Tau functions" Michael Stone (Illinois, Dept. of Physics) 2/13/2013
10:00 am		 464 Loomis
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Can black hole-neutron star binary mergers produce gamma ray bursts?" Zach Etienne (University of Illinois) 2/13/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Physics Colloquium, "A research-validated approach to transforming upper-division E&M" Professor Steve Pollock, Physics Department, University of Colorado, Boulder 2/13/2013
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis
Astrophysics Colloquium: Matthew Walker, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University: "Galactic Dynamics and the Nature of Dark Matter" Matthew Walker 2/14/2013
4:00 pm		 134 Astronomy
Condensed Matter Seminar: Iron Based Superconductors As Odd Parity Superconductors Prof Jiangping Hu -
Dept of Physics - Purdue		 2/15/2013
1:00 pm		 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
Final Defense, RATE ANALYSIS OF THE THETA-13 NEUTRINO MIXING ANGLE FOR THE DAYA BAY REACTOR NEUTRINO EXPERIMENT Seth R Ely 2/15/2013
2:00 pm		 464 Loomis Lab
ICMT Seminar: Computing electron correlation effects: an auxiliary-field perspective Shiwei Zhang  (William & Mary) 2/18/2013
12:00 pm		 190 ESB
Medium & High Energy Seminar, "New Twists in Top Quark Spin Physics" Brock Tweedie, Physics Department, Boston University 2/18/2013
1:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Special QI/AMO Seminar: New Prospects for Cold Molecular Physics Kang-Kuen Ni 2/18/2013
3:00 pm		 280 MRL
Astrophysics Colloquium: NO COLLOQUIUM
Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Toda Lattice and Q-system Cluster Algebras" Maarten Bergvelt 2/20/2013
10:00 am		 464 Loomis
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Magnetic field reversals in dynamos" Mani Morampudi (University of Illinois) 2/20/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Special QI/AMO Seminar: Quantum Energy Teleportation Professor Masahiro Hotta (Tohuku University) 2/20/2013
1:00 pm		 280 MRL
Physics Colloquium, "Quantum Optomechanics" Markus Aspelmeyer, University of Vienna 2/20/2013
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Lab
Special ICMT Seminar: Topological Phase Transitions Chris Varney (University of Massachusetts) 2/21/2013
11:00 am		 190 ESB
Condensed Matter Seminar: Superconducting gap studies of iron-based superconductors from London penetration depth measurements Prof Ryan T Gordon -
Dept of Physics - Western Illinois University		 2/22/2013
1:00 pm		 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
CPLC Seminar: "Characterizing the diffusional behavior and trafficking pathways of KV2.1 using single particle tracking in live cells" Aubrey Weigel, School of Biomedical Engineering (Krapf Lab), Colorado State University, Fort Collins 2/22/2013
2:00 pm		 464 Loomis
ICMT Seminar: "Chiral Kinetic Theory" Misha Stephanov (Univ. of Illinois, Chicago) 2/25/2013
12:00 pm		 190 ESB
Medium & High Energy Seminar:""R-parity violating Supersymmetry and its LHC signals" Andrey Katz,Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University 2/25/2013
1:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Biophysics Special Seminar,""The diversity and dimensionality of microbial behavior" Seppe Kuehn,Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, The Rockefeller University 2/25/2013
3:00 pm		 280 MRL
Astrophysics Colloquium: Andrew N. Youdin, JILA, University Colorado: "The Origin of Planetesimals" 2/26/2013
4:00 pm		 134 Astronomy
Mathematics/Physics Seminar "Higher pentagram maps, cluster algebras and networks on surfaces" Michael Gekhtman,(Notre-Dame, Dept. of Mathematics) 2/27/2013
10:00 am		 464 Loomis
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Gravitational wave astrophysics with merging compact binaries" Richard O'Shaughnessy (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 2/27/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Physics Colloquium,Simmons Lecture "Shearing Melt Out of the Earth: The Coupling between Rock Deformation and Melt Transport" Professor David Kohlstedt, University of Minnesota 2/27/2013
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis
Special ICMT Seminar: "Frustrated Magnetism in Materials with Kagome Lattices" Dr. Bryan Clark (Station Q) 2/28/2013
11:00 am		 190 ESB
Medium & High Energy Seminar, "Higgs Boson vs. New Physics" Brian Batell, University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute 3/1/2013
11:00 am		 322 Loomis
Condensed Matter Seminar: Time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity in Fe-pnictides with only electron or only hole pockets Prof Andrey Chubukov -
Dept of Physics - University of Wisconsin		 3/1/2013
1:00 pm		 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
CPLC Seminar: "Using DNA sequencing to characterize the biophysics of transcriptional regulation" Justin Kinney, Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY 3/1/2013
2:00 pm		 464 Loomis
ICMT Seminar: "Manifestations of electronic nematic degrees of freedom in the high-temperature iron-based superconductors" Rafael Fernandes (Minnesota) 3/4/2013
12:00 pm		 190 ESB
Medium & High Energy Seminar:"Hunting Asymmetric Stops" Julia (Jessie) Shelton.Deparment of Physics, Harvard University 3/4/2013
1:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Special QI/AMO Seminar: Engineering dispersion relationships for ultracold atoms Lindsay LeBlanc 3/4/2013
4:00 pm		 280 MRL
Astrophysics Colloquium: No Colloquium
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Direct Planetesimal Formation by Gravitational Collapse" Ben Ryan (University of Illinois) 3/6/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Physics Colloquium, "The Physics of Nuclear Disarmament" Dr. Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientist 3/6/2013
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis
Special QI/AMO Seminar: Harnessing additional degrees of freedom and the environment to experimentally enable quantum applications and simulations Dr. Julio Barreiro 3/7/2013
10:00 am		 280 MRL
Special ICMT Seminar: Quantum Criticality in Mott Insulators Ribhu Kaul (University of Kentucky) 3/7/2013
11:00 am		 190 ESB
Medium & High Energy Seminar: "Constructing scattering amplitudes " Ruth Britto, Institut de Physique Theorique, CEA-Saclay 3/7/2013
1:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Physics Prospecitve Grad Student Open House 3/8/2013
8:30 am		 204 Loomis Lab
Condensed Matter Seminar: Screening of charge and structural motifs in oxides Peter B. Littlewood -
Assoc. Director - Physical Sciences and Engineering - Argonne National Laboratory
Prof of Physics - James Franck Institute - University of Chicago		 3/8/2013
1:00 pm		 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
CPLC Seminar: "Molecular Communication Underlying Hormone Secretion" David Piston, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 3/8/2013
2:00 pm		 464 Loomis
"Death from the skies" Phil Plait 3/8/2013
7:00 pm		 Foellinger Auditorium
ICMT Seminar: "Transport signatures of Floquet Majorana fermions in driven topological superconductors" Babak Seradjeh (Indiana University) 3/11/2013
12:00 pm		 190 ESB
Special CPLC Seminar: Controllability and Observability of Complex Biological Systems Yang-Yu Liu Northeastern University http://barabasilab.neu.edu/people/yangliu/Welcome.html 3/11/2013
1:30 pm		 190 ESB
Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group - 'Coarse grained models for protein folding and misfolding in the bacterial chaperonin GroEL' Dr. Robert Best, Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD 3/11/2013
3:00 pm		 3269 Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave
Special ICMT Seminar:"Entanglement Entropy in Holography" Thomas Faulkner, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton New Jersey 3/12/2013
11:00 am		 190 ESB
Astrophysics Colloquium: Shih-Ping Lai, Institute of Astronomy & Dept. of Physics, National Tsing Hua University: "In Quest of the Youngest Protostars" Shih-Ping Lai 3/12/2013
4:00 pm		 134 Astronomy
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar: "Physics-Based Space Weather Modeling" Gabor Toth (University of Michigan) 3/13/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Physics Colloquium: McMillan Award Presentation - "Topological Insulators" Professor David Hsieh, CalTech 3/13/2013
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Lab
A Career in Science Policy: The View From the Trenches Dr. Francis Slakey, American Physical Society, Office of Public Affairs 3/14/2013
11:00 am		 204 Loomis Laboratory (Interaction Room)
Special ICMT Seminar: "Deformation and bipartition of entangled systems with sinusoidal functions" Isao Maruyama (Osaka University) 3/15/2013
10:30 am		 190 ESB
Condensed Matter Seminar: Seeing and controlling the surface states of a topological insulator with ultrafast lasers Prof David Hsieh -
Dept of Physics Mathematics and Astronomy - California Institute of Technology		 3/15/2013
1:00 pm		 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
CANCELLED Gerardo Morfini, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Illinois, Chicago 3/15/2013
Spring Vacation Begins 3/16/2013
1:00 pm
Theoretical Astrophysics and General Relativity Seminar No seminar this week - Spring Break 3/20/2013
12:00 pm		 464 Loomis
Physics Colloquium No Physics Colloquium, Spring Break 3/20/2013
4:00 pm
Condensed Matter Seminar: No Seminar - Spring Break & APS March Meeting
NO CPLC SEMINAR - Spring Break 3/22/2013
Instruction resumes 3/25/2013
7:00 am

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