Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Current

Physics Colloquium Series, Spring 2008

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
Jan 17	Walter Lambrecht Case Physics	Magnetic exchange interactions
Jan 24	Benjamin Schumacher Kenyon College	Information Engines and the Second Law	Jon Leong
Jan 31	Rolfe Petschek Case Physics	Generalized Nematics: Hints for the GUTS / Electroweak Transition?
Feb 7	Xuan Gao Case Physics	Metallic Behavior and the Metal-Insulator Transition in Strongly Correlated 2D Holes
Feb 14	C. Contaldi Imperial College	Beyond Concordance Cosmology
Feb 21	Robert Grober Yale	When Obsessions Collide: Golf and Physics	Lawrence Krauss
Feb 28	Peter J. Lu Harvard	Quasicrystals in Medieval Islamic Architecture	Jonathan Leong
Friday Feb 29 12:30 PM	Nemanja Kaloper UC Davis	Out of Darkness: The Quest for Lambda	Glen Starkman
Mar 6	A. G. Petukhov South Dakota School of Mines and Technology	Thermodynamics of carrier-mediated magnetism in semiconductors	Walter Lambrecht
Mar 13		No colloquium -- spring break
Mar 20	Brad Marston Brown University	The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming	Jonathan Leong
Mar 27		No colloquium this week
Apr 3	Carlos Stroud University of Rochester	Rydberg Electron Wave Packets: Observing and Manipulating Electrons within an Atom	Jonathan Leong
Apr 10	Narayanan Menon University of Masschusetts Amherst	Wrinkling, Folding and Crumpling of Thin Sheets	Philip Taylor
Apr 17	Brad Filippone Caltech	A Neutron Electric Dipole Moment?	Arnie Dahm
Apr 24	Dieter Hartmann Clemson	Astronomy with Radioactivities [joint colloquium with Astronomy]	Earle Luck
May 7 Wednesday	Roberto Trotta Univ. of Oxford	Precision cosmology for the 21st century