Department Colloquia Spring 2007

Chem-Phys 155
Fridays 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Refreshments are served in Chem-Phys 155 at 3:15 PM

Colloquia distinguished by a shift in time or place are indicated by an *. Please see the accompanying links for details.

Some links may not be active until the week of the talk.

January 15*
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

January 19
Dr. Moshe Elitzur
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kentucky, Lexington
Extraterrestrial life --- what does it take?
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

January 25* • Public Lecture
Dr. Hitoshi Murayama
Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
E=mc²
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

January 26
Dr. Hitoshi Murayama
Department of Physics
University of California, Berkeley
Quantum Universe
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

February 2
No Colloquium

February 5*
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

February 8*
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

February 16
Dr. Karyn Le Hur
Department of Physics
Yale University
Quantum entropy between a spin and its environment
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Ganpathy Murthy

February 19*
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

February 22*
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

February 26*
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

February 28*
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

March 2
Dr. Tom Weiler
Department of Physics
Vanderbilt University
Role of Neutrino Flavors in Astrophysics
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Al Shapere

March 9
Dr. Bing-An Li
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kentucky
Is Higgs another story of Ether? (From Weinberg to Weinberg)
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

March 16
Academic Recess -- Spring Break
No Colloquium

March 20*
Van Winter Lecture
Dr. Barry Simon
Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy
Caltech
The Lost Proof of Loewner's Theorem
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

March 23
Dr. Edward Gerjuoy
Department of Physics
University of Pittsburgh
An Introduction to Quantum Computing
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Keith MacAdam

March 30
Dr. Ricardo Decca
Department of Physics
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Newton, Casimir, and hypothetical forces
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Ganpathy Murthy

April 6
TBA
TBA

April 13
Dr. Robert Thorne
Department of Physics
Cornell University
and Mitegen, LLC, Ithaca, NY
Physics Problems in Structural Genomics
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Joe Brill

April 19*
Keh-Fei Liu 60^th Birthday Celebration
Center for Computational Sciences Colloquium
Dr. Norman Christ
Physics Department
Columbia University
Solving Low Energy QCD with Chiral Symmetry and Petaflops
Abstract…

April 19*
Keh-Fei Liu 60^th Birthday Celebration
Dr. Stan Brodsky
Theory Group
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Novel Effects in QCD
Abstract…

April 20*
Keh-Fei Liu 60^th Birthday Celebration
Dr. Robert McKeown
Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy
Caltech
Neutrino Masses and Oscillations: Triumphs and Challenges
Abstract…

April 27
Dr. Larry Yaffe
Department of Physics
University of Washington, Seattle
Strongly-Coupled Plasmas and Gauge/String Duality
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Al Shapere