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Physics and Astronomy Colloquia

Spring 2008

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.

Any questions or concerns about the colloquium page please email Grant Darktower .
Date Speaker Host Title
Friday, Apr. 4
Sebastien Balibar
Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Bill Halperin
 Supersolidity and Disorder
Friday, Apr. 11
Andrew Kent
New York University
Anupam Garg
Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in
Single Molecule Magnets
Friday, Apr. 18
Dan Ralph
Cornell University
Adilson Motter
Quantum States in Metal Nanoparticles and Single Molecules
Friday, Apr. 25
M. Olvera de la Cruz
Department of Materials Science
Northwestern University
Anupam Garg
Broken Symmetries in Ionic Nano-Patterns: from Fibers to Gels
Wednesday,
April 30th
Thursday,
May 1st
Friday,
May 2nd
Kamal Seth
 The World's Energy Problem and
What We Can Do About It
Friday, May 9
Kimberly Gray
Northwestern University
Adilson Motter
TBA
Friday, May 16

Michael Werner
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology

Giles Novak
 The Spitzer Space Telescope: Exploring
the Infrared Universe
Friday, May 23
Ned Wingreen
Princeton University
John Marko
E. coli's division decision: modeling Min-protein oscillations
Friday, May 30
Marcela Carena
Fermilab
Michael Schmitt
Three Mysteries of Matter
Friday, June 6
 
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