|
Date |
Speaker |
Topic* |
January 11
|
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January 17
(co-hosted by Astronomy and Physics - Memorial Lecture)
|
Dr. Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshback
Professor Physics, MIT |
The universe is a strange place |
January 18
(Konopinski Memorial
Lecture) |
Dr. Frank
Wilczek,
Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics,
MIT
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
The origin of
mass and the feebleness of gravity |
|
January 25 |
Alex Punnoose,
University of Wisconsin
Host: Herbert Fertig |
Metal-insulator
transition in disordered two-dimensional electron systems
|
February 1 |
Charles Horowitz, Indiana University |
Neutron rich matter in heaven and earth |
|
February 8 |
George Gollin, University of Illinois
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
Hijacking Liberia and other acts of piracy: Diploma mills in the networked world |
|
February 15 |
Steven Gottlieb, Indiana University, Bloomington |
Lattice QCD comes of age |
February 22
|
Dr. Richard Kouzes,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
Detection of
nuclear threats at borders |
|
March 1 |
Roger H. Stuewer,
University of Minnesota
Host: A. Zieminski |
Nuclear disintegration and the Cambridge-Vienna controversy |
|
March 8 |
Gerald Mahan,
Penn State University
Host: Herbert Fertig |
Thermal conduction in nanowires |
|
March 15 |
Spring Break |
|
March 22 |
Alan Litke, University of California, Santa Cruz and CERN
Host: John Beggs
|
What does the eye tell the brain?: A journey from high energy physics to neural systems
|
March 29
(Joint colloquium with Astronomy.) |
Mark Bautz, MIT
Host: Steven Gottlieb
|
X-ray
observations of high-redshift galaxy cluster |
|
April 5 |
Martin Cooper ,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hostess: Chen-Yu Liu |
It's only a matter of time (reversal): A new search for the electric dipole moment of the neutron |
|
April 12 |
Krishna Kumar, University of Massachusetts
Host: Charles Horowitz
|
Electrons and mirror symmetry |
April
19 |
Antonio Castro-Neto,
Boston University
Host: Herbert Fertig |
The amazing properties of two dimensional carbon |
April 26
(Last colloquium of the
semester)
Awards Colloquium
|
Christopher T. Hill
Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics, Fermilab
Host: Andrzej Zieminski
|
Symmetry and the origin of mass |
