Colloquia Winter 2011, Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University

Colloquia Winter 2012

Colloquia are held at 4:00 PM in L211 of the Technological Institute, unless otherwise indicated. 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 6th	Superconductivity as an Electricity Carrier	George Crabtree Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Chicago	John Ketterson
January 13th	From Newton's Cradle to Nonlinear Materials	Chiara Daraio Caltech	Adilson Motter
January 20th	The Hottest, and Most Liquid, Liquid in the Universe	Krishna Rajagopal Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Michael Schmitt
January 27th	Subwavelength Position Sensing using Chaos	Daniel Gauthier Duke University	Adilson Motter
February 3rd	Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Collisionless Shocks	Anatoly Spitkovsky Princeton University	Yoram Lithwick
February 10th	Squeezed Atomic Clock below the Standard Quantum Limit	Vladan Vuletic MIT	Brian Odom
February 17th	Fukushima: the event and implications	Michael Golay MIT	Michael Schmitt
February 24th	What Stars are Useful For - A Particle Physicist's Point of View	Alex Friedland Los Alamos National Laboratory	Andre de Gouvea
March 9th	Watt Balances versus the Kilogram: One Planck Constant to Rule Them All	Richard Steiner NIST	Michael Schmitt

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