Physics Colloquia Archive 2005-2006

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September 27, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Refreshments @ 3:30 in Broida 1640
  Finally Some Real Progress on Short Hard Bursts
  Shri Kulkarni
  Caltech
  (Abstract available on web page)

October 4, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The Unexpected Physics of Modern Wireless Communication: Replicas, Diffusons, and Supersymmetry for Fun and Profit
  Dr. Steven H. Simon
  Lucent Technologies / Bell Labs
  (Abstract available on web page)

October 11, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 11, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
  Guenter Ahlers
  Department of Physics and iQCD, UCSB
  (Abstract available on web page)

October 18, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 18, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Topological Quantum Computation
  Professor Chetan Nayak
  Department of Physics and Astronomy / UCLA
  (Abstract available on web page)

October 25, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Einstein and the Quest for a Unified Theory
  Professor David Gross
  Frederick W. Gluck Professor of Physics; Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics / UCSB
  (Abstract available on web page)

November 1, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 1, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Molecular Mechanics of Bone Fracture
  Professor Paul Hansma
  Department of Physics / UCSB
  (Abstract available on web pag

November 8, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 8, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Strong gravitational lensing and cosmology
  Professor Tommaso Treu
  Department of Physics, UCSB
  (Abstract available on web page)

November 15, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 15, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The Ubiquitous SQUID: From Axions to Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  Professor John Clarke
  Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  (Abstract available on web page)

November 29, 2005

• Physics Colloquium - Special Event
  Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:00 pm - Campbell Hall
  Film Documentary: "The Power of the Sun"
  Professor Walter Kohn
  Department of Physics / UCSB
  (Abstract available on web page)

January 10, 2006

• Physics Colloquium - No Colloquium this week
  Tuesday, January 10, 2006 4:00 pm

January 17, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 17, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Extreme Nonlinear Optics for Coherent X-Ray Generation
  Margaret Murnane
  Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder
  (Abstract available on web page)

January 24, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Energy Concentrating Phenomena: From Sonoluminescence to Crystal Fusion
  Professor Seth Putterman
  Physics Dept., UCLA
  (Abstract available on web page)

January 31, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 31, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Einstein in Mordor: Black Rings in Higher-Dimensional Gravity
  Roberto Emparan
  ICREA, Spain
  (Abstract available on web page)

February 7, 2006

• Physics Colloquium - CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
  Tuesday, February 7, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Unveiling a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy
  Andrea Ghez
  UCLA
  (Abstract available on web page)

February 16, 2006

• Physics Colloquium - Note: Colloquium is on THURSDAY this week
  Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Advances in single-molecule spectroscopy and biological applications
  Sungchul Hohng
  Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  (Abstract available on web page)

February 28, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics
  Professor Chris Quigg
  Fermilab
  (Abstract available on web page)

March 7, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, March 7, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Pattern Formation by Biological and Biomimetic Systems
  Dr. Vernita Gordon
  University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  (Abstract available on web page)

March 14, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, March 14, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Spacetime Singularities and String Condensates
  Eva Silverstein
  Stanford
  (Abstract available on web page)

March 23, 2006

• Special Seminar - Special Department Colloquium
  Thursday, March 23, 2006 12:15 pm - KITP Auditorium
  Spins under strain
  Simon Kos
  Cambridge University UK
  (Abstract available on web page)

• Physics Colloquium
  Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Enzymatic symmetry breaking: How does Topoisomerase IV distinguish left from right?
  Keir Neuman
  Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
  (Abstract available on web page)

March 27, 2006

• Special Seminar - Special Department Colloquium
  Monday, March 27, 2006 2:00 pm - Broida 3302
  Shear banding in solids and complex fluids: Hints from colloidal crystals
  Benny Davidovitch
  Harvard University
  (Abstract available on web page)

April 4, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 4, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Spin qubits in quantum dots: Review and Outlook
  Daniel Loss
  University of Basel, Switzerland
  (Abstract available on web page)

April 11, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  High-Fidelity Gates using Josephson Phase Qubits
  John Martinis
  Dept. of Physics, UCSB
  (Abstract available on web page)

April 18, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 18, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Atomic scale analysis of intermixing, segregation and decomposition during self-assembly of nanostructures
  Paul Koenraad
  COBRA, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  (Abstract available on web page)

April 25, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The "Hot" Landslide: A Study of an Unusual Thermal Anomaly
  James Boles
  University of California, Santa Barbara, Earth Sciences
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 1, 2006

• Physics Colloquium - Special Department Colloquium
  Monday, May 1, 2006 3:30 pm - Broida 3302
  Theory of the helical spin crystal. A candidate for the partially ordered state of MnSi
  Ashvin Vishwanath
  UC Berkeley
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 2, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 2, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Uncovering the Secret Lives of Black Holes
  Fiona Harrison
  Caltech
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 9, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 9, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  All About Neutrinos: Newly Recognized Importance in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  John Learned
  Univ. of Hawaii
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 16, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 16, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  DNA in a tight squeeze
  Rob Phillips
  Caltech
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 23, 2006

• Physics Colloquium - No Colloquium This Week
  Tuesday, May 23, 2006

May 30, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Clockwise rotation of huge crustal blocks of southern California: Paleomagnetic evidence
  Prof. Bruce Luyendyk
  UCSB Geology

June 6, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, June 6, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Galaxy Formation as a Probe of Fundamental Physics
  Julianne Dalcanton
  University of Washington
  (Abstract available on web page)