Applied Physics/Physics Colloquium Schedule
Held Tuesdays at 4:30 pm (Note new time for AY 2015/16), in the William R. Hewlett Teaching Center, room 201 (see map). Refreshments in the lobby of Varian Physics at 4:15 pm.
Winter 2015/2016, Committee: R. Blandford (Chair), T. Heinz, L. Hollberg, K. Irwin
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/12/16 | Ralf Wessel | Washington University | Student host: Nora Brackbill | "Cortical Vision from Emergent Global Dynamics" |
| 01/19/16 | Leonardo Senatore | Stanford University | Roger Blandford | "Effective Field Theory in Cosmology" |
| 01/26/16 | Tyce DeYoung | Michigan State Univ. | Roger Blandford | "Observations of Cosmic Neutrinos with IceCube" |
| 02/02/16 | Yi Cui | Stanford University | Roger Blandford | "Batteries: Now and Future" |
| 02/09/16 | Eric Cornell | Univ. of Colorado | Leo Hollberg | "Can We Find 10 TeV Particles Using Sub Millihertz Spectroscopy? Looking for the Electron's Electric Dipole Moment in Trapped Molecular Ions" |
| 02/16/16 | Rana Adhikari (intro by Kip Thorne) | Caltech | Roger Blandford | "On the Measurement of Gravitational Waves from the Merger of two Black Holes" |
| 02/23/16 | Hanoch Gutfreund | Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem | William Little | “The Genesis of General Relativity and its Formative Years” |
| 03/01/16 | Konrad Lehnert | Univ. of Colorado | Kent Irwin | "Electromechanics: A New Quantum Technology" |
| 03/08/16 | Alex Vilenkin | Tufts University | Vahe Petrosian | "Black Holes from Cosmic Inflation" |
Spring 2015/2016, Committee: M. Schleier-Smith (Chair), G. Gratta, B. Lev, S. Zhang
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/29/16 | Fiona Harrison | Caltech | Roger Blandford | TBD |
| 04/05/16 | Benjamin Lev | Stanford University | Roger Blandford | "A Quantum Optical Spin Glass: Toward Neuromorphic Photonic Computing" |
| 04/12/16 | James Kakalios | Univ. of Minnesota | Steve Kivelson | "The Physics of Superheroes" |
| 04/19/16 | Hakeem Oluseyi | Florida Institute of Technology | Student host: Ruby Lai | TBD |
| 04/26/16 | Theodor Hänsch/Hofstadter Lecturer | Univ. of Munich | Steve Chu | "Frontiers in Laser Spectroscopy" |
| 05/03/16 | Jun Ye | Univ. of Colorado/NIST | Benjamin Lev | "Optical Atomic Clock and Many-body Quantum Physics" |
| 05/10/16 | Dam Thanh Son | Univ. of Chicago | Shoucheng Zhang | TBD |
| 05/17/16 | Mikhail Lukin | Harvard University | Benjamin Lev | TBD |
| 05/24/16 | ||||
| 05/31/16 | Amir Yacoby | Harvard University | Kam Moler | TBD |
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