2009 - 2010 Colloquia:

Fall Quarter

Oct. 1    Stuart Freedman
The Decade of the Neutrino

Oct. 8    Cheng Chin
Having your cake and seeing it too - Exploring quantum criticality and critical dynamics in ultracold atomic gases

Oct. 15    Ali Yazdani   
Visualizing Pair Formation on the Nanometer Scale and the Riddle of High-Temperature Superconductivity

Oct. 21    Kip Thorne   
Gravitational Waves: A New Window onto the Universe

Oct. 22    Yves Couder
Droplets walking on a liquid interface;a macroscopic type of wave-particle duality

Oct. 29    John Grunsfeld
On the fly: A Hubble Story

Nov. 5    Craig Hogan   
Holographic Noise in Michelson Interferometers: a Direct Experimental Probe of Unification at the Planck Scale

Nov. 12    Carlos Bustamante
Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Single molecule studies of a viral DNA packaging motor

Nov. 19    Bill Atwood
Fermi-LAT: The First Year
 
Dec. 3    Anthony Leggett
(Not available)

Winter Quarter

Jan. 7    Fred MacKintosh
Non-equilibrium aspects of the cytoplasm: the cell as an active state of soft matter

Jan. 14    Robert Wald
Self-Force on a Classical Point Charge

Jan. 21    Woowon Kang
Topological quantum computing

Jan. 28    James Evans
The Google Effect on Science and Scholarship: By broadening individual reach, the Internet narrows global understanding

Feb. 4    John Galayda
Report of Early Experience with the Linac Coherent Light Source as a User Facility