2011 - 2012 Colloquia:
Fall Quarter
Sept. 29 Andre de Gouvea
The Brave nu WorldOct. 6 Richard Hill
Effective Field Theory and the 2011 Standard ModelOct. 13 Christophe Salomon
The Measurement of Time in the 21st CenturyOct. 20 Karin Dahmen*
Deformation of crystals, granular materials, and earthquakes:
Using simple models to understand slip avalanches, crackling noise, and universal noise statistics Oct. 27 Ned Kahn
Granular LandscapesNov. 3 Mark Kastner
The Kondo Effect in a Single Electron Transistor: Learning New Physics using Nano-TechnologyWilliam H. Zachariasen LectureNov. 10 Meredith Nettles
Geophysical Constraints on Glacial Earthquakes and Glacier Dynamics in GreenlandNov. 17 D. T. Son
Viscosity, quark gluon plasma, and string theoryWinter Quarter
Jan. 12 Todd Ditmire
Petawatt to Exawatt Lasers: The Science and Technology of the Highest Power Lasers Ever Built
Jan. 19 Matthew Tirrell
Multivalent Ionic Interactions in Multicomponent Polyelectrolyte Mixtures: From New Physics to New MaterialsJan. 26 Young-Kee Kim
The Intensity Frontier on the Great Plains: Fermilab's current programs and future with Project XFeb. 2 Jasper Kirkby
Cosmic Rays, Climate and the CERN CLOUD Experiment
Feb. 9 Franz Pröbst
Results from the latest run of the CRESST-II Dark Matter SearchFeb. 16 Hubert Saleur
Charge transmutation in the fractional quantum Hall effectFeb. 23 Shivaji Sondhi
Spin Ice, Monopoles, Fractionalization and Topological Order
Mar. 1 Ian Low
The Higgs IdentitySpring Quarter
Apr. 5 David Biron
Do Worms Sleep?Apr. 12 Gerald Gabrielse
Probing the Structure of the Electron
Apr. 19 Martin van Hecke
Extreme Physics of Marginal Matter
Apr. 26 Peter Zoller
Open System Quantum Simulation with Atoms, Molecules and IonsUgo Fano Lecture
May 3 Ann Nelson
Portals for New Physics at the Intensity Frontier
May 10 Graham R Flemming
The Biophysics of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting and its Regulation
2010 - 2011 Colloquia:
Fall Quarter
Sept. 30 Scott Wakely
Eyes on the TeV Sky: Astrophysics with VERITAS
Oct. 7 Margaret Gardel
Cellular Mechanics
Oct. 14 Sir Roger Penrose
Conformic Cyclic Cosmology: latest results
Oct. 21 Anthony Tyson
LSST and the physics of the dark universe
Oct. 28 *George E. Smith
The Invention and Early History of the CCD *William H. Zachariasen Lecture*
Nov. 4 Laura Greene
High-Temperature Superconductivity: Emergent Phases, Broken Symmetries, and the Power GridNov. 11 Nima Arkani-Hamed
Space Time, Quantum Mechanics and Scattering AmplitudesNov. 18 Greg Tarle
Cosmic Antimatter
Dec. 2 Sacha Kopp
Quantum Mechanics With Neutrinos
Winter Quarter
Jan. 6 Walter Lawrence
Quantum Information and Paradoxes of Physics
Jan. 13 Paolo Privitera
Tuning the Radio to Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Jan. 20 David Schuster
Cavity QED with Electrons on Helium
Jan. 27 Charles Kane
Topological Insulators and Topological Band Theory
Feb. 10 William Irvine
Curved crystals and knotted fields
Feb. 17 Brian de Marco
Experiments with Dirty Bosons
Feb. 24 Dirk Bouwmeester
Towards quantum superposition of a mirror
Mar. 3 Xiao Gang Wen
From highly entangled quantum matter to a unification of light and electrons
Mar. 10 Ben Newling
The Sound of Science
Spring Quarter
Mar. 31 Jon Rosner
Unfinished Business in Particle PhysicsApr. 7 Carlos Wagner
High Energy Physics at the beginning of the LHC EraApr. 14 Florencia Canelli
Recent Results from Collider ExperimentsApr. 21 Rob Phillips
How Viruses Make New Viruses: A Single Molecule ViewApr. 28 Mark Saffman
Strongly interacting Rydberg atoms: from quantum gates to matter wave solitonsMay 5 Frans Pretorius
Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental PhysicsMay 12 Aldo Antognini
The proton radius puzzleMay 26 Stuart Henderson
Accelerators Across Physics and Society
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
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
Feb. 25 Christopher Stubbs
Confronting the Dark Energy Crisis in Fundamental Physics
Mar. 4 Kameshwar Wali
Cremona Violins - A Physicist's Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari
Mar. 11 Dan Hooper
The Hunt For Dark Matter Continues
Spring Quarter
Apr. 1 S. C. Zhang
Topological insulators and topological superconductors
Apr. 8 Lian-Tao Wang
Using LHC Data to Explore New Physics at the Terascale
Apr. 29 Gennady Stupakov
Using echo effect in accelerators: how to measure diffusion and multiply harmonics
May 6 Philip Kim
Graphitic Carbon Nanostructures: From Analogy of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics to Carbon Based Electronics
May 13 Neil Turok
Was the Big Bang the Beginning?
May 20 Evan Finch
Recent results from STAR at RHIC
June 3 Guy Savard
The CARIBU facility: making r-process nuclei available in the laboratory
June 10 Robert Kirshner
The Past, Present, and Future of Supernova Cosmology* - no audio
