Department Colloquia

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

2009-2010 Colloquium Chairman:

Jon Rosner, rosner@hep.uchicago.edu, RI 468, 773-702-7694
Tom Witten, t-witten@uchicago.edu, GCIS E227, 773-702-0947
Frank Merritt, merritt@hep.uchicago.edu, HEP 313, 773-702-7101
Paul Wiegmann, wiegmann@uchicago.edu, RI 223, 773-702-4208

Autumn 2009 Colloquia

Date Speaker/HostTitle/Institution
Oct. 1
 Stuart Freedman/J. Rosner

 

The Decade of the Neutrino

Univ. of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Oct. 8
 Cheng Chin

 

Having your cake and seeing it too - Exploring quantum criticality and critical dynamics in ultracold atomic gases

University of Chicago
Oct. 15
 Ali Yazdani/K. Levin

Visualizing Pair Formation on the Nanometer Scale and the Riddle of High-Temperature Superconductivity

Princeton University
Oct. 21 Kip Thorne

Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe
Caltech
Oct. 22
 Yves Couder/P. Wiegmann

Droplets walking on a liquid interface;a macroscopic type of wave-particle duality

Université Paris Diderot

Oct. 29

 John Grunsfeld/R. Wald

On the fly: A Hubble Story

NASA/Johnson Space Center

Zachariasen Lecture

Nov. 5

 Craig Hogan

Holographic Noise in Michelson Interferometers: a Direct Experimental Probe of Unification at the Planck Scale

University of Chicago
Nov. 12
 Carlos Bustamante/R. Wald

Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Single molecule studies of a viral DNA packaging motor

University of California, Berkeley
Nov. 19
 Bill Atwood/F. Merritt

Fermi-LAT: The First Year
UCSC
Nov. 26

Thanksgiving - No colloquium
Dec. 3
 Anthony Leggett/K. Levin

Bell's theorem, entanglement, quantum teleportation and all that

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
     


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