Physics Colloquia Archive 2006-2007

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August 20, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Sunday, August 20, 2006 12:00 pm - Saturday, August 26, 2006 12:00 pm - Multi-cultural Center (MCC) Theater
  ICMR Symposium on Materials Issues in Hydrogen Production and Storage
  (Abstract available on web page)

October 3, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 3, 2006 4:00 pm
  Cosmology and String Theory
  Shamit Kachru
  Stanford University
  Please note location: Broida 1610
  Refreshments will be provided
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  October 10, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 10, 2006 4:00 pm
  The Role of Experiment in Our Understanding of Critical Phenomena
  Guenter Ahlers
  UC Santa Barbara
  Location: Please note! Broida 1640
  Refreshments will be provided.
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  October 17, 2006

• Physics Colloquium - Refreshments will be provided
  Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Recent Developments in Cosmological Dark Matter Research
  Chung-Pei Ma
  UC Berkeley
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  October 24, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 24, 2006 4:00 pm
  Writing Physics
  David Griffiths
  Reed College
  Note: Refreshments will be provided
  Location: Broida 1640
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  October 31, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 31, 2006 4:00 pm
  Quantum communication, computation and simulation based on semiconductor cavity QED qubits
  Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto
  Stanford University
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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 November 7, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 7, 2006 - 4:00 pm
  The Central Dark Mass at the Center of Our Galaxy
  Andrea Ghez
  UCLA
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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  November 14, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:00 pm
  Is Particle Physics ready for the LHC?
  Joseph Lykken
  Fermilab
  Location: Broida 1640
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  November 21, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:00 pm
  Random shapes and random maps: fractals and multifractals in statistical mechanics and stochastic growth
  Ilya Guzberg
  University of Chicago / KITP
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be provided
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  November 28, 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 28, 2006 4:00 pm
  Making Predictions in a Multiverse
  Anthony Aguirre
  UC Santa Cruz
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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 December 5 , 2006

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, December 5, 2006 4:00 pm
  Shedding Light on Dark Matter: Seeing the Invisible with Gravitational Lensing
  Marusa Bradac
  KIPAC - Stanford University
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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January 9, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 9, 2007 4:00 pm
  Grabbing, Walking, and Sliding: How Eg5 motor proteins help cells divide
  Dr. Megan T. Valentine
  Stanford University
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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  January 16, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 16, 2007 4:00 pm
  Trapping and manipulating single molecules in solution
  Dr. Adam Ezra Cohen
  Stanford University
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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January 19, 2007

• Physics Colloquium - Materials/MRL Joint Colloquium
  Friday, January 19, 2007 4:00 pm
  The Surface Dynamics of the Early Stages of Oxidation of Cu and Cu-Au Thin Films
  Professor Judith C. Yang
  University of Pittsburgh
  Location: ESB 1001
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January 23, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 23, 2007 4:00 pm
  Single Molecule Dynamics in Cell Division
  Dr. Daniel Needleman
  Harvard University
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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January 30, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:00 pm
  Matter-Antimatter Transformations at 3 Trillion Hertz
  Dr. Joseph Kroll
  University of Pennsylvania
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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February 6, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 6, 2007 - 4:00 pm
  Fluidic Miniaturization – Significance, Techniques, Devices, and Applications
  Dr. Emil Kartalov
  USC
  Note: Refreshments will be served
  Location: Broida 1640
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February 13, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 13, 2007 4:00 pm
  Dynamics and Resilience of Cortical Blood Flow
  Dr. David Kleinfeld
  UC San Diego
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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February 20, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:00 pm
  New Physics at the TeV scale: Opportunities and challenges at the Large Hadron Collider
  Dr. Lian-Tao Wang
  Princeton University
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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February 27, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 27, 2007 4:00 pm
  New Physics in the LHC Era
  Dr. David Rainwater
  University of Rochester
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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March 1, 2007

• SPECIAL THURSDAY COLLOQUIUM
  Physics Colloquium
  Thursday, March 1, 2007 4:00 pm
  Symmetry as a Guide to New Physics at the Weak Scale
  Dr. Zackaria Chacko
  University of Arizona
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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March 6, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, March 6, 2007 4:00 pm
  Large Hadron Collider: the Hype, the Reality, and the Promise
  Dr. Ian Low
  UC Irvine
  Note: Refreshments will be served
  Location: Broida 1640
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April 3, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 3, 2007 4:00 pm
  Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology
  Robert Kirschner
  Harvard/KITP
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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April 10, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:00 pm
  Characterizing the Sources Responsible for Cosmic Reionization
  Dr. Richard Ellis
  Caltech
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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April 17, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 17, 2007 4:00 pm
  The 50th Anniversary of the BCS Theory
  Douglas Scalapino
  UCSB Physics
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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April 24, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 24, 2007 4:00 pm
  TBA
  Tony Tyson
  UC Davis
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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May 1, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 1, 2007 4:00 pm
  Exploring Quantum Matter in Artificial Crystals of Light
  Immanuel Bloch
  University of Mainz/Germany
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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May 8, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 8, 2007 4:00 pm
  Testing Einstein in Space: Gravity Probe B & STEP
  Francis Everitt
  Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University
  Location: Broida 1640
  Note: Refreshments will be served
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May 22, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:00 pm
  The Black Hole Singularity in a Quark Gluon Plasma
  Professor Stephen Shenker
  Stanford University
  Location: Broida 1640
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May 29, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:00 pm
  Designer Hamiltonians in the Laboratory: Observation of Many Body Physics in a Semiconductor Nanostructure
  Dr. David Goldhaber-Gordon
  Stanford University
  Location: Broida 1640
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June 5, 2007

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, June 5, 2007 4:00 pm
  Condensed matter physics with cold atomic gases
  Professor Leo Radzihovsky
  University of Colorado, Boulder
  Location: Broida 1640
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