Colloquia Spring 2009

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.

Any questions or concerns about the colloquium page please email Grant Darktower.

Date	Title	Speaker(s)	Host
Friday, April 03, 2009	DNA Topology	De Witt Sumners Florida State University	John Marko
Friday, April 10, 2009	MECHANISMS OF CHAOS	Leonid Bunimovich Georgia Tech	Adilson Motter
Friday, April 17, 2009	Heilborn Lecture Series	Leon Lederman	Kamal Seth
Friday, April 24, 2009	Cooling and Amplifying Mico-Mechanical Motion with Light	Kerry Vahala Caltech	Prem Kumar
Friday, May 01, 2009	Turbulent Liquid Metal Dynamo Experiments	Cary Forest	Anupam Garg
Friday, May 08, 2009	On the Genesis of Nuclei and Phase Separation on an Atomic Scale	David Seidman Northwestern University	Anupam Garg
Friday, May 15, 2009	The Bayesian Fly: Inference Based On Natural Sensory Signals	Robert de Ruyter van Steveninck Indiana University	Sara Solla
Friday, May 22, 2009	Mechanisms of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions	Adam Burrows Princeton University	Vicky Kalogera
Friday, May 29, 2009	Exoplanet Climate: Climatology Where No Climatologist Has Gone Before	Raymond Pierrehumbert University of Chicago	Adilson Motter Fred Rasio
Friday, June 05, 2009	Strands of Superconductivity at the Nanoscale	Paul Goldbart University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign	Anupam Garg
Friday, June 12, 2009	Finals Week

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