| Date |
Speaker |
Topic* |
| September 1 |
Introductory Tea |
NONE |
September 8
Konopinski Lecture Series |
Chris Quigg, Fermilab
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics |
September 15
Konopinski Lecture Series |
Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: W. Mike Snow
|
Entangled Photons for Quantum Information: 101 uses for a Schroedinger cat |
| September 22 |
Herbert A. Fertig, Indiana University |
Soft Condensed Matter in a Semiconductor: The Case for the Quantum Hall Smectic |
September 29
Konopinski Lecture Series |
Lee Samuel Finn (Pennsylvania State University)
Host: Charles Horowitz
|
Gravitational Wave Observations of Inspiraling Neutron Star and
Black Hole Binary Systems in the Local Universe |
| October 6 |
Michael Brenner, Harvard University
Host: Sima Setayeshgar |
Drying Mediated Self assembly |
October 13
joint with Astronomy
Konopinski Lecture Series |
Geoff Marcy, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Catherine A. Pilachowski |
The Properties of Planetary Systems |
| October 20 |
|
On the appearance of negative refraction |
October 27
Konopinski Lecture Series |
Leon Lederman, Fermilab
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
Progress and the lack thereof in the reform of US science education (Neither
have we found Higgs nor the Theory of Everything!) |
November 3
Konopinski Lecture Series |
Carlo Montemagno (UCLA)
Host: James A. Glazier
|
Integrative Technology: a New Approach for the Engineering of Emergent “Intelligent” Systems and Materials |
| November 10 |
Moses H.W. Chan, Pennsylvania State University
Host: W. Mike Snow
|
Observation of a supersolid helium phase |
| November 17 |
John Beggs, Indiana University |
Condensed grey matter: Emergent properties in networks of cortical neurons |
| November 24 |
THANKSGIVING
BREAK |
| December 1 |
Larry Thibos, Indiana University, School of Optometry
Host: Robert R. de Ruyter |
SuperVision - the quest for optical perfection in the human eye |
December 8
Konopinski Lecture Series |
J. Murray Gibson, Argonne National Laboratory
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
Physics of the Blues: Music, Fourier and Wave-Particle Duality |
