Friday Lectures

The Department of Physics invites University of Chicago physics graduate students and undergraduate physics majors to informal discussions in which faculty will tell you why they are excited about their current research.

Fridays, 4:00 p.m., KPTC 206, 5720 South Ellis Avenue

2009-2010 Friday Lecture Chairmen:

Jeff Harvey, j-harvey@uchicago.edu
Woowon Kang, w-kang@uchicago.edu

Autumn 2009 Friday Lectures

Date Speaker Title
Oct. 2
 Wendy Zhang
 Memory-encoding vibrations in a disconnecting air bubble
Oct. 9
 Juan Collar
 Low-background detectors in astroparticle and neutrino physics
Oct. 16
 Margaret Gardel
 Soft Matter of Biological Cells
Oct. 23
 Zheng-Tian Lu
 Testing Time-Reversal Symmetry with Cold Atoms
Oct. 30
 Mel Shochet
 Searching for new physical phenomena at the CERN LHC
Nov 6
 Bruce Winstein
 Particle Physics and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Nov 13
 Kathy Levin
 What can we learn from the ultracold Fermi gases about high Tc
 superconductors and vice versa?
Nov 20
 David Biron
 "So, do worms sleep?" and other questions that may have never crossed your mind.
Nov 27

No Lecture - Thanksgiving holiday


 

Persons with disabilities may request assistance in advance from Mrs. Plitt at p-plitt@uchicago.edu or 773-702-7006.