Physics Colloquium
Co-chairs: George Gollin and
Alexey Bezryadin
To schedule an appointment time with a speaker, contact Martha Alwes: malwes@uiuc.edu, 5-5312
Join us for coffee and conversation in the Loomis West Foyer 30 minutes before the Colloquium, courtesy of the Physics Alumni Association
2006 – 2007 Schedule: Thursdays, 4pm,
141 Loomis
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August 31, 2006
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Professor Steve Granick Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, and Chemistry Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL |
Physics on the Edge—Interfaces of Complex Fluids
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September 7, 2006
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Dr. Andreas Berger Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose CA |
Nanotechnology on a 100 Dollar Budget
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September 14, 2006
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Dr. Joseph D. Lykken Theoretical Physics Department, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL |
Is Particle Physics Ready for the LHC?
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September 21, 2006
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Dr. Yayu Wang 2006 McMillan Award Winner Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA |
Vortices and Strong Phase Fluctuations in High Temperature Superconductors
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September 29, 2006
Friday |
Professor Ben Roy Mottelson 1975 Nobel Laureate in Physics Subatomic Physics, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics in Copenhagen, København Ø DENMARK |
Celebrating Vijay Symposium, Opening Colloquium:
Do We Really Understand the Nuclear Shell Model?
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October 5, 2006
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Dr. Torrence V. Johnson Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA |
Strange Worlds Around Saturn: From Low Temperature Organic Chemistry on Titan to “Cold Faithful” on Tiny Enceladus
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October 12, 2006
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Professor Ron Walsworth Senior Lecturer Department of Physics and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Harvard University, Cambridge MA |
Multidisciplinary Applications of State-Selected Atoms
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October 19, 2006
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Professor William G. Unruh Professor Theoretical Physics Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC CANADA |
Deaf and Dumb Holes as Analogs for White and Black Holes
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October 26, 2006
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Dr. Basil Tripsas Center for Naval Analyses, Alexandria VA |
Operational Assessments of Navy Science & Technology: or “Sharks with Lasers, Ill-Tempered Sea Bass, and other Bright Ideas”
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November 2, 2006
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Professor Klaus Schulten Swanlund Chair, Professor of Physics & Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL |
From the Atom to the Cell -—The Multi-scale Nature of Living Systems
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November 9, 2006
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Professor Tony Liss Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL |
Known Knowns & Known Unknowns; 20 years of Tevatron Collider Physics
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November 16, 2006
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Professor David Ceperley Professor of Physics and NCSA Staff Scientist Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL |
Is Helium a "Supersolid"?
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November 23, 2006
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THANKSGIVING |
NO COLLOQUIUM |
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November 30, 2006
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Professor Susan Kieffer Department of Geology & Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL |
Mega-disasters: Natural and Stealth
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December 7, 2006
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Professor Tony Leggett 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL |
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Its Successes, Its Limitations, and Its Pitfalls
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January 18, 2007
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Professor Ian Shipsey Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette IN |
Bringing Hearing to the Deaf
Cochlear Implants: A Technical and Personal Account
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January 25, 2007
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Professor Robert Westervelt Mallinckrodt Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge MA |
Imaging Electrons in Nanoscale Devices*
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February 1, 2007
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Dr. Rodney Greene Model Validation Group, Citicorp, New York City, New York NY |
From Fermilab to Wall Street
(click here for pdf presentation)
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February 8, 2007
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Professor Michael Deem John W. Cox Professor in Biochemical & Genetic Engineering Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University, Houston TX |
Antigenic Distance, Glassy Dynamics, and Localization in the Immune System
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February 15, 2007
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Professor John Clarke Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley; , Berkeley CA |
The Ubiquitous SQUID: From Axions to Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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February 22, 2007
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Professor Daniel S. Akerib Professor of Physics Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH |
Looking for WIMPs in the Galactic Halo: The Search for Dark Matter Using Ultra-Cold Particle Detectors
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March 1, 2007
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Professor Nigel Goldenfeld Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, |
Statistical Mechanics of the Genetic Code: A Glimpse of the Emergence of Life
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March 8, 2007
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APS MARCH MEETING APS Meeting |
NO COLLOQUIUM |
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March 15, 2007
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Professor James Kakalios School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN |
The Uncanny Physics of Superhero Comic Books
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