|
Date |
Speaker |
Topic* |
August 30
|
Introductory Tea |
September 6
|
Prof. David M. Ceperley
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Gerardo Ortiz
|
Is helium a supersolid?
|
| September 13 |
Prof. Mark Messier
Indiana University |
The neutrino program at Fermilab |
| September 20 |
Prof. Elizabeth Simmons
Michigan State University
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
How to popularize physics |
| September 27 |
Krishna Rajagopal
MIT
Host: Charles Horowitz
|
The condensed matter astrophysics of QCD |
| October 4 |
Sally Dawson
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
Physics at the Terascale |
| October 11 |
Hans-Otto Meyer, Indiana University
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
Optical phenomena in the sky |
| October 18 |
Henry Abarbanel
Department of Physics and Marine Physical Laboratory
(Scripps Institution of Oceanography
)
University of California at San Diego
Host: Robert de Ruyter |
Electronic and biological neurons |
October 27
Friday
12 pm
Georgian Room IMU
|
Carl Wieman, Nobel Laureate will give a SOTL lecture on Friday at noon.
His talk replaces the colloquium this week. See the abstract for instructions on how to sign up for the SOTL lecture, which includes lunch. |
A scientific approach to science education |
| November 1 |
Angela Olinto, University of Chicago,
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Host: Mike Snow
|
A new era in UHE AstroParticle Physics |
| November 8 |
William J. Marciano
Brookhaven National Lab
Host: Steven Gottlieb |
Precision measurements and new physics |
| November 15 |
Andrzej Zieminski, Indiana University |
Selected results from Fermilab's Tevatron Collider |
| November 22 |
Thanksgiving Break |
| November 29 |
A. Zee, UC Santa Barbara / Harvard
Host: Chen-Yu Liu |
Neutrino mixing |
December 6
(last colloquium of semester)
|
Prof. David E. Moncton, MIT
Host: David Baxter |
High-brilliance compact x-ray sources: A small revolution in x-ray sources and applications |
