Department Colloquia

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

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

Winter 2014 Colloquia
DateSpeaker/HostTitle/Institution
January 9

Kurt Hinterbichler

Massive gravitons, the cosmological constant and new directions in gravity 
Perimeter Institute
January 16 David Awschalom

Beyond electronics:abandoning perfection for quantum technologies  University of Chicago
January 23 Vyacheslava G. Turyshev

Testing Fundamental Gravitation in Space: Recent Progress and Possible Future Directions
California Institute of Technology

January 30

  

No Colloquium

February 6

 Abigail Vieregg

Particles Astrophysics at the Highest Energies with Greenland Neutrino Observatory(GNO)
University of Chicago

February 13

 Steven Chu Our Climate and Energy Challenges:Dr. Chu goes to Washington          Former US Energy Secretary
February 20  

No Colloquium

February 27

 Deborah Jin

Ultracold Polar Molecules
University of Colorado
 March 6  Juan Collar

Present status of direct searches for dark matter
University of Chicago
 March 13 Eugene Demler

Studying many-body states with quantum noise
Harvard University
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Tiffany Kurns tkurns@uchicago.edu 773-702-7019.