Kersten Physics Teaching Center
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2013 - 2014 Colloquia:
Spring Quarter
Apr. 3 Chang Kee Jung
Observation of Electron Neutrino Appearance from a Muon Neutrino Beam
Apr. 10 William Irvine
Unraveling knotted fields
Apr. 17 David Weitz
Dripping, jetting, drops and wetting: the magic of microfluids
Apr. 24 Adam Riess
The Hubble Constant and Dark Energy from Supernovae, Cepheids and Parallax
May 8 Yannis Semertzidis
Towards a final push in axion dark matter search in the 1-100 micro-eV mass range
May 15 Aephraim Steinberg
Experimental measurement tradeoffs, from Heisenberg to Aharonov to quantum data compression
May 29 Serge Haroche
Controlling photons in a box and raising Schrödinger cats of light: when thought experiments become real
June 5 Krishna Rajagopal
The Hottest, and Most Liquid, Liquid in the Universe
Winter Quarter
Jan. 9 Kurt Hinterbichler
Massive gravitons, the cosmological constant and new directions in gravity
Jan. 16 David Awschalom
Beyond electronics: abandoning perfection for quantum technologies
Jan. 23 Vyacheslav Turyshev
Testing Fundamental Gravitation in Space: Recent Progress and Possible Future Directions
Feb. 6 Abigail Vieregg
Particle Astrophysics at the Highest Energies with the Greenland Neutrino Observatory (GNO)
Feb. 13 Steven Chu
From biology, biomedicine to the Energy and Climate Challenge
Feb. 27 Deborah Jin
Ultracold Polar Molecules
*The William H. Zachariasen Lecture
Mar. 6 Juan Collar
Present status of direct searches for dark matter
Mar. 13 Eugene Demler
Studying many-body states with quantum noise
Fall Quarter
Oct. 3 Savdeep Sethi
Acceleration in String Theory: Some thoughts about how to define quantum gravity in an accelerating universe.
Oct. 10 Daniel Holz
Listening to the Universe with gravitational wave astrophysics
Oct. 17 JC Séamus Davis
Gesalt of Strongly Correlated Superconductivity
Oct. 24 Daniel Hooper
Dark Matter Annihilation in the Gamma-Ray Sky
Oct. 31 Boris Kayser
Are We Descended from Heavy Neutrinos?
Nov. 7 Jason Alicea
Majorana Materialize
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Nov. 14 Steven M. Girvin
Taming the World’s Largest Schrödinger Cat
Nov. 21 Craig Hogan
Macroscopic Quantum Geometry: Testing the Fidelity of Space-time with Interferometry"
Dec. 5 Michael Crowe
A History of Vector Analysis
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