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Colloquium Schedule 2011-2012

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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Autumn Quarter 2011

Tuesday 27 September 2011

Trillion Degree Matter
Gunther Roland, MIT
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 4 October 2011

Holograms, Cosmologies, and Critical Phenomena
Sumit Das, University of Kentucky
Faculty host: Samir Mathur

Tuesday 11 October 2011

Tuesday 18 October 2011

Concepts of Protein Dynamics
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos National Lab
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 25 October 2011

The Reliability, Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Weapons
Lisbeth Gronlund, Union of Concerned Scientists
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 1 November 2011

The Mechanics of the Human Genome
Michael Poirier, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 8 November 2011

How smart can you get?: Computational efficiency in neural circuits
Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Faculty host: Samir Mathur

Tuesday 15 November 2011

Quantum simulation using trapped ion arrays
Dick Slusher, Georgia Tech Quantum Institute
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro

Tuesday 22 November 2011

The hunt for dark matter, and the LUX experiment
Tom Shutt, Case-Western Reserve University
Faculty host: Gary Steigman

Tuesday 29 November 2011

Measuring physics understanding on time scales from milliseconds to months
Andrew Heckler, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Lei Bao

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Winter 2012

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Complex Networks, the Hidden Structures
Yong-Yeol Ahn, Indiana University
Faculty host: David Gohlke (PGSC)

Tuesday 10 January 2012

Tuesday 17 January 2012

From the Top Quark to the Higgs Boson, A Quest for Discovery at the Tevatron
Rob Roser, Fermilab
Faculty host: Chris Hill

Tuesday 24 January 2012

The Status of String Theory
Finn Larsen, University of Michigan
Faculty host: Samir Mathur

Tuesday 31 January 2012

The Physics of Football
Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska
Faculty host: Mike Lisa

Tuesday 7 February 2012

Science: The Public, Congress and You
Michael Lubell, City College of the City University of New York
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro

Tuesday 14 February 2012
PLEASE NOTE LOCATION CHANGE:
4:00 p.m., 209 W. 18th Avenue (EA), Room 0160, Reception at 3:45 p.m., outside Room 0160

Thoughts On Quantum Gravity
Edward Witten, Institute for Advanced Sciene at Princeton
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Multifunctional Electronics: Probing the fundamental coupling between charge, structure, spin and optical degrees of freedom in electronic materials
Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin , The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 28 February 2012

Computing in Science Education; a new way to teach Science?
Morten Hjorth-Jensen, University of Oslo
Faculty host: Dick Furnstahl

Tuesday 6 March 2012

The road towards antiferromagnetic semiconductors
Xavi Marti, Charles University
Faculty host: Jon Pelz

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Spring 2012

Tuesday 27 March 2012

Global Warming: The basis in physics
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, University of Chicago
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 3 April 2012

Dealing with "controversial" scientific issues
Gordon Aubrecht, The Ohio State University, Marion
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 10 April 2012

How the CMB Challenges Standard Cosmology
Glenn Starkman, Case Western Reserve University
Faculty host: Chris Hill

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Microfluidics, X-rays and RNA folding: new tools, new insights
Lois Pollack, Cornell University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 24 April 2012

Physics and the Search for Hydrocarbons
Brian Clark, Schlumberger
Faculty host: Louis DiMauro

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars
Scott Ransom, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 8 May 2012

The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming
Brad Marston, Brown University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 15 May 2012

Systems biology of a simple organism: On E. coli's memory, computation, and energy cost
Yuhai Tu, IBM
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday 22 May 2012

Are Heavy Ion Collisions Strongly or Weakly Coupled?
Yuri Kovchegov, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 29 May 2012

Graphene - from Simplicity to Complexity
Ganapathy Baskaran Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (Canada) and The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (India)
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

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Autumn 2012

Tuesday 28 August 2012

The Discovery of the Higgs Boson
Chris Hill, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Ulrich Heinz

Tuesday 4 September 2012

Computing with quantum knots: Majorana modes, non-Abelian anyons, and topological quantum computation
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Mohit Randeria

Tuesday 11 September 2012

Tuesday 18 September 2012

TBA
Piers Coleman, Rutgers University
Faculty host: Nandini Trivedi

Tuesday 25 September 2012

Tuesday 2 October 2012

TBA
Zhen Yan, SUNY Buffalo
Faculty host: Lei Bao

Tuesday 9 October 2012

TBA
Jason Hogan, Stanford University
Faculty host: Chris Hill

Tuesday 16 October 2012

TBA
Lisa Kaufman, Indiana Univeristy
Faculty host: John Beacom

Tuesday 23 October 2012

Tuesday 30 October 2012

Tuesday 6 November 2012

Tuesday 13 November 2012

Tuesday 20 November 2012

TBA
Karsten Heeger, University of Wisconsin
Faculty host: John Beacom

Tuesday 27 November 2012

Tuesday 4 December 2012

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2012 Colloquium Committee

Heinz, Chair
Bao
Hill
Johnston-Halperin
Trivedi
Vieira
Walker

2011 Colloquium Committee

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

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Your comments and suggestions are appreciated.

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