Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Current

Physics Colloquium Series, Fall 2008 and beyond

Usual Time and Place » Thursday: 4:15 p.m. / Rockefeller 301

Unusual times or locations are noted in red.

Coordinator: Philip Taylor, Department of Physics
Date Speaker Title Host
Aug 26 Tuesday Kimberly Wiefling
Wiefling Consulting
[Entrepreneuship colloquium] The Possibilities Toolbox: Surprising Revelations Ed Caner
Aug 28 Severance Hall: 4:30 p.m. David Quammen
Convocation
Sept 4 David Koltick
Purdue University
The Search for Special Nuclear Material Using Particle Physics Techniques Alex Bolozdynya
Sept 11 David Griffiths
Reed College
Critical Dipoles and Singular Potentials Yvette Cendes
Sept 18 Robert W. Brown
Case Physics
CWRU Theory Passes Fermilab Test 30 Years Later
Sept 25 5:00 PM Strosacker Auditorium Judge John E. Jones III
Darwin Celebration Lecture
Oct 2 Sambandamurthy Ganapathy
SUNY Buffalo
Survival of Cooper pairs in the insulating phase: "super-insulators" Brian Kubera
Oct 9 Anna Balazs
University of Pittsburgh
Designing Self-Propelled Polymeric Capsules and Gels Brian Kubera
Oct 13 Monday
DeGrace Hall 312
Evalyn Gates
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Univ. of Chicago
Human Detectors: A Scientific Approach to Increasing the Number of Women in Science D. Akerib
Oct 16 Eric Herbst
OSU
Complex Interstellar Molecules [joint colloquium with Astronomy]
Oct 23
Oct 30 Alan M. Nathan
UIUC
Physics and Baseball: An Intersection of Passions Bob Brown
Nov 6 De Grace Hall 312: 4:30 p.m. Robert Hazen
Carnegie Institution and George Mason University
Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins
Nov 13 Alexei Sokolov
Univ. of Akron
The Glass Transition and its Relevance for Biological Systems Philip Taylor
Nov 14 Friday: 4:30 p.m. Special event (not a colloquium)
Remembering Stefan Machlup
Nov 20 4:30 PM, Clapp 108 Gerbrand Ceder
First Principles Methods for the Design of Materials [joint with Chemistry]
Dec 4 Daniel Boyanovsky
University of Pittsburgh
Shining (some) light on dark matter Brian Kubera
Dec 8 Monday Igor Sokolov
Clarkson University
Physics of Self-Assembly of Nanoporous Particles: What Defines Their Shape Gary Chottiner
Dec 18 D. Lederman
WVU
Magnetism in Reduced Dimensions: Exchange Bias (2D) and Myoglobin-based Single-Electron Transistors (0D) Rolfe Petschek