Department Colloquia

Thursdays, 4:15 p.m., KPTC 106, 5720 South Ellis Avenue

2011-2012 Colloquium Chairman:

Carlos Wagner, cwagner@hep.anl.gov, Acc 205, 773-702-0767
Paolo Privitera, priviter@kicp.uchicago.edu, LASR 201, 773-702-2983
Wendy Zhang, wzhang@uchicago.edu, GCIS E209, 773-702-0609

Videos of the colloquia can be found at http://kersten.uchicago.edu/event_video/colloquia/colloquia.html

Winter 2012 Colloquia

DateSpeaker/HostTitle/Institution
Jan. 12 Todd Ditmire/Carlos Wagner

Petawatt to Exawatt Lasers: The Science and Technology of the Highest Power Lasers Ever Built
University of Texas

Jan. 19 Matthew Tirrell/Wendy Zhang

Multivalent Ionic Interactions in Multicomponent Polyelectrolyte Mixtures:From New Physics to New Materials
University of Chicago

Jan. 26
Young-Kee Kim/Paolo Privitera

The Intensity Frontier on the Great Plains: Fermilab's current programs and future with Project X
University of Chicago, Fermilab

Feb.  2 Jasper Kirkby/Paolo Privitera

Cosmic Rays, Climate and the CERN CLOUD Experiment
CERN

Feb.  9

Franz Proebst/Paolo Privitera

Results from the latest run of the CRESST-II Dark Matter Search
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik

Feb. 16 Hubert Saleur/Ilya Gruzberg
Charge transmutation in the fractional quantum Hall effect
Saclay

Feb. 23

Shivaji Sondhi/Paul Wiegmann

Spin Ice, Monopoles, Fractionalization and Topological Order
Princeton University

Mar.  1
TBD

 

 

 


   

 

     
   


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