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Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Fall 2007

Colloquia are held at 4:00 PM in L211, of the Technological Institute. 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	Speaker	Host	Title
Friday, Sept. 21	Harald Giessen University of Stuttgart, Germany	Hui Cao	Metallic Metamaterials and Nanoantennas
Friday, Sept. 28	Margaret Gardel Institute of Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago	John Marko	Actin Dynamics Regulate a Biophysical Maturation Switch in Focal Adhesions
Friday, Oct. 5	Elena Aprile Columbia University	Mayda Velasco	The XENON Dark Matter Search
Friday, Oct. 12	Marlan Scully Texas A & M University	Prem Kumar	Quantum Erasure and the Foundations and Applications of Quantum Mechanics
Friday, Oct. 19	Ian Low Northwestern University	Mayda Velasco	Large Hadron Collider: the Hype, the Reality, and the Promise
Friday, Oct. 26	Andy Harris University of Maryland	Giles Novak	Into the High-Redshift Molecular Universe
Friday, Nov. 2	Simon Mochrie Yale University	Mike Bedzyk	An X-ray Speckle Observation of How a Liquid Becomes a Glass Both on Cooling AND on Heating
Friday, Nov. 9	Dimitar Sasselov Harvard University	Fred Rasio	The Path to Discovering and Understanding Extrasolar Earths
Friday, Nov. 16	David Vanderbilt Rutgers University	Anupam Garg	Theory of Electric Polarization and Orbital Magnetization
Friday, Nov. 30	Niki Saoulidou FNAL	Andre de Gouvea	MINOS Results from the first two years of running & Future Neutrino Oscillation Experiments
Friday, Dec. 7	Makato Tsubota Osaka City University	Bill Halperin	Quantum Turbulence -Another da Vinci Code-

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