Colloquium Schedule 2010-2011

Colloquia at 4:00 p.m.,Robert Smith Seminar Room,
1080 Physics Research Building
Reception at 3:45 p.m., Atrium, Physics Research Building

Colloquium Committee Members

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Bell's theorem, entanglement, quantum teleportation and all that
A. J. Leggett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty host: Mohit Randeria

Tuesday 5 October 2010

Physics in Medicine
Cynthia Keppel, Hampton University & Jefferson Lab
Faculty host: Sabine Jeschonnek

Tuesday 12 October 2010

Physics with the Highest Energy Proton Smasher
K.K. Gan, Department of Physics, OSU
Faculty host: Richard Kass

Tuesday 19 October 2010

Physics and Baseball: Where Albert Pujols meets Albert Einstein
Alan M. Nathan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Faculty host: Mike Lisa

Tuesday 26 October 2010

Accelerating Universes and the Emerging Landscape in String Theory
Sandip Trivedi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Faculty host: Samir Mathur

Tuesday 2 November 2010

Exploring the Universe with Gamma-Rays
Brian L. Winer, Department of Physics & Director - Honors Collegium, OSU
Faculty host: Eric Braaten

Tuesday 9 November 2010

PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF VIRAL INFECTIVITY
William M. Gelbart, UCLA
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh

Tuesday 16 November 2010

Building Nucleons and Nuclei from Quarks and Glue: Nuclear Physics Research at Jefferson Lab, Now and in the 12 GeV Era
Lawrence S. Cardman, Jefferson Lab and University of Virginia
Faculty host: Sabine Jeschonnek

Tuesday 23 November 2010

The Origin of Mass at the Large Hadron Collider
Tony Gherghetta, The University of Melbourne
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 30 November 2010

Soothing the burn: Repairing sun-damaged DNA with enzymes
Dongping Zhong, Departments of Physics, Chemistry, and Biochemistry, OSU
Faculty host: John Wilkins

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Winter Quarter 2011

Tuesday 11 January 2011

Quantum networks with atoms, phonons, and photons
Christopher Monroe, Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland
Faculty host: Eric Herbst

Tuesday 18 January 2011

The Mystery Of Cosmic Acceleration
David Weinberg, Department of Astronomy, OSU
Faculty host: Christopher Hill

Tuesday 25 January 2011

CANCELLED

Tuesday 1 February 2011

Atomic Nuclei at Low Resolution
Dick Furnstahl, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Robert Perry

Tuesday 8 February 2011

Making the Molecules of the Cosmos in the Lab, one Atom at the Time
Gianfranco Vidali, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Faculty host: Eric Herbst

Tuesday 15 February 2011

Tuesday 22 February 2011

Physics of Massive Neutrinos
Danny Marfatia, University of Kansas
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 1 March 2011

“Patenting Nature: How the United States Reversed Course on the Patenting of Human Genes.”
Mark R. Freeman, U.S. Department of Justice
Faculty host: Richard Freeman

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Spring Quarter 2011

Tuesday 29 March 2011

Pairing in Unusual Places - Stretching the Realm of Superconductivity
Randall G. Hulet, Rice University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 5 April 2011

The Glue That Binds Us All
Probing gluonic matter with the world's first electron-ion collider
Thomas Ullrich, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Faculty host: Yuri Kovchegov

Tuesday 12 April 2011

Generation, control, and application of coherent, ultrafast XUV radiation
Mette Gaarde, Louisiana State University
Faculty host: Lou DiMauro

Tuesday 19 April 2011

PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE:
4:00 p.m., Scott Laboratory (SO), Room 0001, Reception at 3:45 p.m., outside Room 0001, Scott Laboratory

The Fukushima Accident and Implications Regarding the Future Expansion of Nuclear Power in the U.S.
Richard Denning, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Mike Lisa

Tuesday 26 April 2011

CANCELLED

Tuesday 3 May 2011

CMB Frontiers: Ground Based Measurements in the Planck era.
Lyman Page, Princeton University
Faculty host: Gary Steigman

Tuesday 17 May 2011

CANCELLED

Tuesday 24 May 2011

CANCELLED

Tuesday 31 May 2011

Beyond Landau: Deconfinement and Topology in Quantum Solids
Ashvin Vishwanath University of California, Berkeley
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

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Autumn Quarter 2011

Tuesday 27 September 2011

TBA
Gunther Roland, MIT
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 4 October 2011

TBA
Sumit Das, University of Kentucky
Faculty host: Samir Mathur

Tuesday 11 October 2011

Tuesday 18 October 2011

TBA
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Lab
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 25 October 2011

TBA
Lisbeth Gronlund, Union of Concerned Scientists
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 1 November 2011

Tuesday 8 November 2011

TBA
Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty host: Samir Mathur

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Ion traps for quantum simulation of condensed matter systems
Dick Slusher, Georgia Tech Quantum Institute
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro

Tuesday 22 November 2011

TBA
Tom Shutt, Case-Western Reserve University
Faculty host: Gary Steigman

Tuesday 29 November 2011

TBA
Chris Hill, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Samir Mathur

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2010 Colloquium Committee

Lisa, Chair
Gupta
Honscheid
Kagan
Kovchegov
Mathur
Mulligan
Randeria
Steigman
Hauser

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2011 Colloquium Committee

Mathur, Chair
Fishel
Heckler
Herbst
Hill
Johnston-Halperin
Kovchegov
Steigman
Palatchi

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