Department Colloquia

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

2012-2013 Colloquium Chairs:

Juan Collar, collar@uchicago.edu, 773-702-4253
Scott Wakely, wakely@ulysses.uchicago.edu, 773-834-3249

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

SPRING 2013 Colloquia
DateSpeaker/HostTitle/Institution
April 4 Margaret Gardel/Scott Wakely

 Living Matter: Elucidating mechanisms of the protein-based materials underlying cellular movement
University of Chicago
April 11 Bill Phillips / Cheng Chin

Atomtronic circuitry: A Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring
Nat'l Institute of Standards and Technology
April 18 Stefan Kuhr / Jon Simon

Probing strongly correlated quantum systems with single-atom resolution
University of Strathclyde

April 25

 Scott Ransom / Scott Wakely

 Basic(but cool!) Physics with Millisecond Pulsars
University of Virginia

May 2

 Samuel Ting/ Juan Collar

First Result from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station

Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT)

May 9

 Joel Moore/ Jon Simon

Topological insulators and their implications for electronic order
University of California/Berkeley
May 16
 Rick Gaitskell / Juan Collar

LUX AND LZ(LUX-ZEPLIN): NOBLE TRAVAILS

Large Liquid Xe Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Brown University
May 23 Lauren Hsu/Juan Collar

The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search with Silicon Detectors

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

May 30

 Cliff Cheung/ Jon Simon  TBA

California Institute of Technology
  June 6  Morgan Waskco/Scott Wakely

 Using neutrino oscillation to study the matter/antimatter asymmetry of the universe

Imperial College, London
   

 

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