Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Current

Physics Colloquium Series, Spring 2009 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
Jan 6, 2009 3:30 PM Tuesday Sara Majetich
Carnegie Mellon University
Seeing and Moving Magnetic Nanoparticles Kathy Kash
Jan 8 Art Ramirez
LGS
Electronics Based on Crystalline Organic Semiconductors Ken Singer
Jan 13 Tuesday Zhifeng Ren
Boston College
How Do Physics and Nanotechnology Advance the Research on Renewable Energy? Philip Taylor
Jan 22
No colloquium this week
Jan 29 Tanmay Vachaspati, Jonathan Karn, Piet de Boer
CWRU
The 2008 Science Nobel Prizes - what were they given for? P. Taylor
Feb 2 4:15 Monday Pengpeng Zhang
Penn State
Surfaces and Interfaces in Nanoscale Electronic Materials: from Understanding to Engineering K. Kash
Feb 9 4:15 Monday Jacinta Conrad
UIUC
Structure and dynamics of non-equilibrium colloidal suspensions C. Rosenblatt
Feb 12 Georgy Nazin
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Atomic-Scale Spectroscopy of Single-Molecule Junctions X. Gao
Feb 19 John Cleese (on a movie)
The Power of the Sun - directed by Walter Kohn [not a colloquium]
Feb 26 Jim Gleeson
Kent State University
Bent-core nematic liquid crystals: Opportunities and mysteries C. Rosenblatt
Mar 5 Andrew Tolley
Perimeter Institute
Dynamics in the Dark Tanmay Vachaspati
March 12 Carlos Frenk
Durham University
Cosmology on small scales: the structure of (mostly) dark matter halos [joint colloquium with Astronomy]
Mar 19
No colloquium (March APS Meeting in Pittsburgh)
Mar 26 Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State Univ
Our Miserable Future?: From Inflation to Eternity Phil Taylor
Apr 2 C. Rosenblatt
Case Physics
Optical Nanotomography of Anisotropic Fluids
Apr 9 Malcolm Beasley
Stanford
Higher Temperature Superconductors -- Why, Where and How? Arnold Dahm
Apr 13 4:15 Monday Johan Alwall
SLAC
Hunting for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Michelson Postdoctoral Prize Committee
Apr 23 Carl Bender
Washington University, St. Louis
Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Glenn Starkman
Sept 17 Donald J. Siegel
Ford Motor Co.
Hydrogen storage P. Taylor
Oct 29 Hari Manoharan
Stanford
Xuan Gao