Colloquia Fall 2010, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University

Colloquia Fall 2010

Colloquia are held at 4:00 PM in L211 of the Technological Institute. Colloquia are free and open to students, faculty, staff and the public. Click on a speakers name for more details about the speaker, and on the title for an abstract and the speaker's schedule.

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Date	Title	Speaker(s)	Host
Sept 24th	Modeling the Functional Network of the Primate Cortex	Zoltan Toroczkai University of Notre Dame	Adilson Motter
Oct 1st	Fundamental Physics @ Low Energy	Joerg Jaeckel Durham University	Michael Schmitt
Oct 8th	Entropy And Time	Vinay Ambeagokar Cornell University	Anupam Garg
Oct 15th	Results from Early Large Hadron Collider Data: From Dark Mark Matter to Quark-Gluon Plasma and much more...	Mayda Velasco Northwestern University	Mayda Velasco
Oct 22nd	Observational and Theoretical Studies of the Intergalactic Medium	J Michael Shull University of Colorado at Boulder	Mel Ulmer
Oct 29th	The Elusive Wimp: The Trials and Tribulations of Direct Detection of Dark Matter	Priscilla Cushman University of Minnesota	Mayda Velasco
Nov 5th	Charting the Dynamic Universe: The Palomar Transient Factory	Shri Kulkarni Caltech	Fred Rasio
Nov 12th	*Co-Sponsored by IGERT* Quantum Degenerate Gases of Atomic Strontium	Thomas C. Killian Rice University	Brian Odom
Nov 19th	Condensed Matter without Matter: Simulating Condensed Matter Systems with Interacting Photons	Andrew Houck Princeton University	Jens Koch
Nov 26th	Thanksgiving Weekend
Dec 3rd	Strings, Droplets and Tubes: How Does Phase Separation Take Place in a Gel?	Yitzhak Rabin Bar-Ilan University Israel	John Marko
Dec 24th	Holiday Weekend
Dec 31st	New Years Eve

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