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Physics Colloquium

Organizer(s) for Fall 2009: Taekjip Ha, Philip Phillips

Date/Time Location Event Title Speaker
8/27/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Experiments with Dirty Bosons Professor Brian DeMarco
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
9/3/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: "The Endless Universe" Professor Paul J. Steinhardt
Director, Center for Theoretical Science
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
9/10/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: "The Life and Death of a Drop: Topological Transitions and Singularities in Fluids" Professor Sidney Nagel
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
9/17/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Gauge/Gravity Duality Professor Joseph G. Polchinski
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)
UCSB
9/24/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Nuclear Fear in the 'Second Nuclear Age' (1987-2007) Professor Spencer R. Weart, Director
Center for History of Physics
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
College Park, MD
10/1/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Topological Insulators: The Observation of Quantum Hall-like Effects Without Magnetic Field Professor M. Zahid Hasan
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
10/8/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Superconductivity at Dawn of the Iron Age Professor Zlatko Tesanovic
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
10/15/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium--New States of Quantum Matter: From Quark-gluon Plasmas to Ultracold Atoms Professor Gordon A. Baym
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10/22/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium--McMillan Award Lecture: Visualizing the Onset of Superconductivity at the Atomic Scale Professor Abhay Pasupathy
Columbia University
New York, New York
10/29/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Physical Approaches to Sequencing DNA Colloquium: Professor Aleksei Aksimentiev
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11/5/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: The Large Hadron Collider: What's it For, and What's at Stake? Professor Matthew Strassler
Rutgers University
Piscataway, NJ
11/12/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Physics Colloquium: Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory Professor Dam Thanh Son
Institute for Nuclear Theory
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
11/19/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Physics Colloquium: Molecular Nanomagnets: Quantum Tunneling, Magnetic Avalanches and Beyond Professor Myriam Sarachik
City College of the City University of New York
New York, NY
11/26/2009
4:00 pm		 NO COLLOQUIUM--Thanksgiving
12/3/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Physics Colloquium: Demystifying the Strange Metal in High-temperature Superconductors: Composite Excitations Professor Philip W. Phillips
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL
12/10/2009
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis NO COLLOQUIUM: Reading Day

Organizer(s) for Spring 2010: Taekjip Ha, Philip Phillips

Date/Time Location Event Title Speaker
1/28/2010
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis CHARLES SLICHTER ANNUAL COLLOQUIUM: Professor Dorothee Kern, HHMI and Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Professor Dorothee Kern
Professor of Biochemistry and HHMI
Brandeis University
Waltham, MA
2/11/2010
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Pushing the Envelope in Biological Imaging Professor Eric  Betzig
Janelia Farm Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ashburn, VA
2/18/2010
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Professor Jun Ye, JILA, University of Colorado Professor Jun Ye
JILA
Boulder, CO
3/4/2010
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Laboratory of Physics COLLOQUIUM--RALPH SIMMONS LECTURE -- Professor Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the Board, DESY, Hamburg, Germany Helmut Dosch
Chairman of the Board of Directors
DESY
Hamburg, Germany 
3/11/2010
4:00 pm		 COLLOQUIUM--David A. Weitz, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA David A. Weitz
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
3/18/2010
4:00 pm		 NO COLLOQUIUM--APS March Meeting (Portland, OR)
3/25/2010
4:00 pm		 NO COLLOQUIUM--Spring Break
4/8/2010
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Professor Robert Austin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Professor Robert Austin
Department of Physics
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
4/15/2010
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: PETER AXEL LECTURE: Professor Michael Ramsey-Musolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Michael Ramsey-Musolf
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
4/22/2010
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: Profefssor Zhi-Xun Shen, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Profefssor Zhi-Xun  Shen
Stanford University
Director, Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials
Director, Stanford Inst. for Materials & Energy Science
Stanford, CA
4/29/2010
4:00 pm		 141 Loomis Colloquium: The Baryonic Mass-to-Light Ratio in Elliptical Galaxies Measured from the Static Gravitational Micro-lensing of Multiply Imaged Quasars Professor Paul Schechter
Astrophysics Division, MIT
Cambridge, MA