Colloquia Winter 2010, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University

Colloquia Winter 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
January 8th	Heilborn Symposium	Dr. Murray Gell-Mann, Dr. Jacques Laskar & Dr. James Yorke	Heilborn Committee
Monday January 11th 4:30 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by High Energy Physics) The Lepton Sector of a Fourth Generation	Gustavo Burdman University of Sao Paulo	Mayda Velasco
Thursday January 14th 4 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by IGERT & Condensed Matter Physics) Opening the Quantum Tool Box: From Artificial Atoms to Photonic Quantum Phase Transitions	Jens Koch Yale University	Jim Sauls
January 15th	Viscosity, Quark Gluon Plasma, and String Theory	Dam Thanh Son University of Washington	Ian Low
Monday January 18th 4:30 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by High Energy Physics) The Hunt for Biggs Boson	Frank Petriello University of Wisconsin-Madison	Mayda Velasco
Tuesday January 19th 4 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by CIERA) Triggering Gamma-Ray Bursts	Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz University California at Santa Cruz	Vicky Kalogera
Thursday January 21st 4 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by IGERT & Condensed Matter Physics) Quantum Opto-Mechanics using an Optically Levitated Nanosphere	Darrick Chang Caltech	Anupam Garg
Friday January 22nd 2:30 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by High Energy Physics) Precise Predictions for Terascale Physics	Carola Berger MIT	Mayda Velasco
January 22nd	Nu Frontiers in Particle Physics	Bonnie Fleming Yale University	Heidi Schellman
Thursday January 28th 4:00 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by IGERT & Condensed Matter Physics) Quantum entanglement: Manipulating it with few particles and measuring it with many	Tzu-Chieh Wei Uiversity of British Columbia	Anupam Garg
January 29th	Precision Muon Physics: Capturing a Moment in a Lifetime	David Hertzog UIUC	Kamal Seth
Monday February 1st 4:00 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by High Energy Physics) Displaced Dark Matter at the LHC	Spencer Chang UC Davis	Mayda Velasco
Wednesday February 3rd Noon Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by IGERT) Novel Many-Body Phenomena in Ultracold Dipolar Gases	Shai Ronen Univeristy of Innsbruck	Anupam Garg
February 5th	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by CIERA) CIERA Inaugural Keynote Lecture The Race for Habitable Worlds and Life in the Universe Note: Special Location TECH Ryan Auditorium	Geoff Marcy UC Berkeley	Fred Rasio
Monday February 8th 4:30 pm Tech F235	Special Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium (Co Sponsored by High Energy Physics) Pushing Back Against QCD: Modern Jet Tools for Discovering New Physics at the LHC	Lian-Tao Wang Princeton University	Mayda Velasco
February 12th	Fermi and the Origin of Cosmic Rays	Jonathan Ormes University of Denver	Mel Ulmer
February 19th	The Large Hadron Collider is Back in Operation	Thibaut Lefevre CERN	Mayda Velasco
February 26th	Is the Universe (Statistically) Isotropic?	Marc Kamionkowski Caltech	André de Gouvêa
March 12th (READING WEEK)	(Co Sponsored with IGERT) Half-matter, Half-light Laser Diodes: Quantum Simulation and Computation Based on Bosonic Stimulated Cooling	Yoshihisa Yamamoto Stanford University	John Ketterson

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