Colloquia Spring 2010, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University

Colloquia Spring 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
April 2nd	T Hard-To-Borrow Stocks. Why Restrictions on Shorting Lead to Higher Prices, Higher Volatilities, Crashes and Bubbles!	Mike Lipkin Columbia University/ Katama Trading LLC	John Marko
April 9th	A Reversible Model of Channel Growth	Daniel Abrams Northwestern University	Adilson Motter
April 16th	Mysteries of the Tev Scale	Bogdan Dobrescu Fermilab	Andre de Gouvea
April 23rd	Co Sponsored by CIERRA LIGO - Searching for Colliding Black Holes with Attometer Sensitivity	David Reitze University of Florida	Vicky Kalogera
April 30th	How Insects Fly and Turn	Jane Wang Cornell University	Sara Solla
May 7th	TBA
May 14th	Hard X-Ray Free Electron Lasers Really Work	Jerry Hastings SLAC	Mike Bedzyk
May 21st	WMAP and The Standard Model of Cosmology	Chuck Bennett Johns Hopkins University / WMAP Principal Investigator	Giles Novak
May 28th	TBA
June 4th	Electronic Structure of a Sharp Quantum Hall Edge	Matthew Grayson Northwestern University	Andre de Gouvea

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