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Physics Colloquium Series, Spring 2012 and beyond

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

Unusual times or locations are noted in red.

Coordinator: P. Taylor, Department of Physics
Date Speaker Title Host
Jan 19, 2012 Dragan Huterer
Universtiy of Michigan
Fundamental Physics from Large-Scale Structure Glenn Starkman
Jan 26 Sergo Jindariani
FNAL
Higgs Boson - on the road to discovery Mike Martens
Feb 2 Kate Stebe
University of Pennsylvania
Oriented assembly of microparticles by capillarity Chuck Rosenblatt
Feb 9 Glenn Starkman, Arthur Heuer, and Mansun Sy
CWRU
The 2011 Science Nobel Prizes - What were they given for? Phil Taylor
Feb 16 Mohit Randeria
Ohio State University
Viscosity of Strongly Interacting Fermions Harsh Mathur
Feb 23 Andrzej Herczyński
Boston College
Pollockian Mechanics: Painting with Viscous Jets Harsh Mathur
March 1 No talk - APS March Meeting
March 8 Marc Pinsonneault
Ohio State University
The Red Revolution: How Seismology of Red Giants is Transforming Stellar Physics and Stellar Population Studies [joint with Astronomy]
March 15 Spring break
March 22 Ken Singer
CWRU Physics
Multilayer Polymer Photonics: From "Origami" Lasers to Optical Data Storage to Cavity Polaritons
March 29 Sidney Nagel
University of Chicago
The Life and Death of a Drop: Topological Transitions and Singularities Phil Taylor
April 5 A. Douglas Stone
Yale University
Lasers and Anti-lasers Harsh Mathur
April 12 Alan McConnachie
NRC Canada
Stars, galaxies and cosmology in the nearby Universe [joint with Astronomy]
April 19 Norman Birge
Michigan State University
Combining superconductors and ferromagnets: a new type of symmetry? Phil Taylor
April 26 Randall Kamien
University of Pennsylvania
Smectics! Phil Taylor
August 30 Kathy Kash
CWRU Physics
TBA
September 6 Chris Martin
Oberlin College
The Intersection between Science and Politics: How Science is Used and Abused in Congress Phil Taylor
September 27 James Breckinridge
California Institute of Technology
"How we fixed the Hubble Space Telescope"