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Date	Abstract Title	Name	Affiliation
2011

12/02/2011	Identifying and Characterizing Dark Matter on Earth and in the Heavens.	Devin Walker	Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
11/18/2011	Tuning superconductivity and magnetism by structure manipulation in intermetallic iron-pnictides	Johnpierre Paglione	University of Maryland
11/11/2011	Quantum information technology and man-made macroscopic quantum systems in silicon	Charles Tahan	College Park, Maryland
11/04/2011	Experimental Changes in Particle Transport from Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs) in DIII-D*	Saskia Mordijck	William & Mary Computer Science
10/21/2011	In the Lair of the Lost Force	Naomi Makins	University of Illinois
10/14/2011	The Human Exploration of Mars: Why Humans? Why Mars?	Joel Levine	WM Applied Science
09/30/2011	The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming	Brad Marston	Brown University
09/23/2011	Quantum Technology: The Second Quantum Revolution	Jon Dowling	University of Louisiana
09/16/2011	Everything Nano	Dirk Morr	University of Illinois
09/02/2011	The search for Majorana Fermions in solid-state systems.	Dr. Roman Lutchyn	University of California, Santa Barbara
04/29/2011	Twenty-first Century Lattice Gauge Theory: Consequences of the QCD Lagrangian	Andreas Kronfeld	Fermilab
04/22/2011	Shedding Light on Dark Energy: The Dark Energy Survey.	Wolfgang Lorenzon	University of Michigan
04/15/2011	Graphene: Scratching the Surface	Michael S. Fuhrer	University of Maryland at College Park
04/08/2011	The Physics of Neutrino Telescopes and IceCube: Recent Results	Teresa Monteruli	University of Wisconsin - Madison
04/01/2011	Quasi-separatrix layers and reconnection diagnostics for line-tied tearing modes.	Steve Richardson	Los Alamos
03/18/2011	Optical properties of correlated materials: the charge dynamics of iron-pnictide superconductors	Leonardo DeGiorgi	Eth, Zurich, Switzerland
02/25/2011	The study of hadron structure using single pion electroproduction off the proton in CLAS	Kijun Park	Jefferson Lab
02/18/2011	Mapping at the Extremes: Magellan Revisited	Roy Clarke	University of Michigan
02/11/2011	Swimming with Quarks	Mike Pennington	Jefferson Lab & W&M
1/28/2011	Coherent excitation using finite trains of ultrashort pulses	Paul DePaola	Kansas State University
1/21/2011	arXiv Activity, Analysis and Avatars	Paul Ginsparg	Cornell University
2010
12/3/2010	Three Surprises in Graphene	Allan MacDonald	University of Texas at Austin
11/19/2010	Fundamental symmetry tests with cooled atoms: From Lorentz invariance to parity	Gerald Gwinner	University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
11/12/2010	Computing with Quantum Knots: Majorana Fermions, Non-Abelian Anyons, and Topological Quantum Computation	Sankar Das Sarma	University of Maryland
11/5/2010	Axions, the Anthropic Prinicple, and the Tilted Universe	David Kaplan	University of Washington
10/29/2010	The Butterfly Garden	Erich Mueller	Cornell Unive
10/22/2010	The many-body dynamics of wee gluons and their big role in producing the hottest matter on earth	Raju Venugopalan	Brookhaven National Lab
10/1/2010	Coherent generation of X-ray and g-ray radiation by optical ultra-short pulses	Yuri V. Rostovtsev	University of North Texas
9/10/2010	The Cosmic History of Supermassive Black Holes	Amy Barger	University of Wisconsin
4/30/2010	The Discovery of the Quark	Mac mestayer	Jefferson Lab
4/23/2010	The Evolutinary of Nuclear Reactors: Current, new and Advanced Reactors	Truong Vo	Dominon Power
4/16/2010	Ultra-Sensitive atomic magnetometry and NMR echo trains	Karen Sauer	George Mason University
4/12/2010	Mott transition in VO2 observed by infrared spectroscopy and nano-imaging	Mumtaz Qazilbash	Los Alamos National Laboratory
4/09/2010	Challenges of spintronics	Tim Mewes	University of Alabama
4/06/2010	The Q-weak Experiment: A search for New Physics in the Weak Charge of the Proton	Wouter Deconinck	MIT
4/05/2010	Novel Materials--at the nanoscale, in femtoseconds	Keshav Dani	Los Alamos National Lab
4/02/2010	Functional complex oxide thin films	Jiwei Lu	UVA
4/01/2010	The Up and Down Flavor Content of the Proton	Lingyan Zhu	Hampton University
3/29/2010	Coherent and optimal control of nuclear spins for future devices and medical imaging	Jae-Seung Lee	New York University
3/26/2010	What is Space?	Frank Wilczek	MIT, Nobel Prize in Physics (2004)
3/23/2010	Spectroscopy of light baryons: from N to Cascades*	Aleksandr Starostin	UCLA
3/22/2010	Site-Specific Structural Characterization of Protein Folding by Solid State NMR	Kan-Nian Hu	NIH, Laboratory of Chemical Physics
3/19/2010	Electrostatic TGraps as a High Precision Measurement Tool	Guy Ron	Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
3/15/2010	Strong and elecroweak interaction study using electron scattering at Jefferson Lab	Xiaocheng Zheng	University of Virginia
3/5/2010	Glimpsing one of Nature's Secrets: The pi⁰Lifetime	Dustin McNulty	University of Massachussetts
3/4/2010	Exact relations for a strongly correlated Fermi gas	Shina Tan	Yale University
2/26/2010	The supersolid phase of Helium-4: to flow or not to flow	Lode Pollet	Harvard University
2/19/2010	Tailoring the thinnest cloth: formation and control of magnetism in graphene	Bruno Uchoa	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2/15/2010	Quantum transport in graphene: finding the missing "pi"	Enrico Rossi	University of Maryland, College Park
2/9/2010	Characterizing physical properties of nanomaterials: Insights from first-principles theories	Deyu Lu	University of California Davis
1/29/2010	Disorder as a window to the (Fermi) sea	Tamar Pereg-Barnea	California Institute of Technology
01/22/2010	250 years of physics at William & Mary 1760-2010	Hans von Baeyer	W&M, Emeritus
2009
12/11/2009	Atomic-physics tests of fundamental symmetries at Berkeley	Dmitry Budker	Berkeley
12/4/2009	Guesstimation: solving the world's problems on the back of a cocktail napkin	Larry Weinstein	Old Dominion University
11/20/2009	Surface guided growth in the synthesis of nanostructures	Petra Reinke	University of Virginia
11/13/2009	Neutrinos have mass, so now what? The next steps in experimental neutrino physics	Jenny Thomas	University College London
11/6/2009	Probing the internal structure of the proton and neutron at Jefferson Lab using electrons and pions	Peter Bosted	JLab
10/30/2009	Exploring the Spectrum of QCD: Uncovering the Binding of Quarks and Gluons	David Richards	JLab
10/23/2009	Robust control of individual nuclear spins in diamond	Lily Childress	Bates College
10/16/2009	The Tevatron's search for a Standard Model Higgs boson	Wade Fisher	Michigan University
10/2/2009	Engineering the Collective Behavior of Complex Rhythmic Chemical and Biological Systems	Craig Rusin	University of Virginia
9/25/2009	Exploration and development of new materials for spintronics	Stuart Wolf	University of Virginia
9/18/2009	Theory beyond the Standard Model in the LHC Era	Ann Nelson	University of Washington
4/24/2009	Novel Materials for Radiation Detection - New Crystalline Scintillators, Transparent Ceramics, and Glass Scintillators	Lynn Boatner	Oak Ridge National Lab
4/17/2009	From the Tevatron to the Terascale	Robert Hirosky	University of Virginia
4/03/2009	Ultrafast Control of Raman Transitions Using Chirped Pulse Trains for Enhanced Imaging	Svetlana Malinovskaya	Stevens Institute of Technology
3/20/2009	Unraveling the Mysteries of the Nucleon using Polarized Nuclear Targets at Jefferson Lab	Todd Averett	W&M
2/20/2009	Dark Matter and Dark Energy -An update on the Cosmic Census	Evalyn Gates	University of Chicago
2/13/2009	Transporting Electrons and Atoms with a Quantum Pump	Kunal Das	Fordham U & Kutztown U of PA.
2/6/2009	Recent Progress in Understanding Hadron Structure	Anthony Thomas	JLab
1/30/2009	Heart Rate Monitoring for Detection of Infectious Diseases in Premature Infants	John Delos	W&M
1/23/2009	Challenges and Opportunities in Thin-Film Photovoltaics	Alvin Compaan	Wright Ctr for PV Innov & Commerc.
2008
11/21/2008	The Structure of Matter: Nuclear Physics at Jefferson Lab	Hugh Montgomery	JLab
11/14/2008	Measuring Neutrino Oscillations with MINOS	Jeff Nelson	W&M
11/7/2008	Conquering Loss and Stimulated Emission in Nanoplasmonic Materials	Michail Noginov	CMR, Norfolk State
10/31/2008	From Slow Light to FAST-CARS	George Welch	Texas, A&M University
10/24/2008	Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies	Tesla Jeltema	UC Santa Cruz
10/17/2008	Ghostbusting: Reviving quantum theories that were thought to be dead	Carl Bender	Washington University in St. Louis
10/4/2008	Black Holes, Extra Dimensions, and the Strong Interactions	Josh Erlich	W&M
9/26/2008	ANITA: Hunting for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos in Anarctica	Ryan Nichol	University College, London
9/12/2008	Precision Interferometry with a Bose-Einstein Condensate	Cass Sackett	University of Virginia
4/25/2008	The Liquid Universe-How RHIC data illuminate the creation of matter	Rene Bellwied	Wayne State University
4/11/2008	Imaging Magnetic Surfaces with Atomic Resolution	Matthias Bode	ARgonne National Laboratory, IL
4/4/2008	Symplectic Maps, Lie Algebras, Light Optics, and Particle Accelerators	Alex Dragt	University of Maryland
3/21/2008	Superfluidity and BEC-BCS Crossover in an Ultracold Gas of Fermionic Atom	Wolfgang Ketterle	MIT
3/14/2008	Neutrino Physics at the Spallation Neutron Source	Kate Scholberg	Duke University
2/29/2008	What do jet engines and the power grid have in common	Erik Svedberg	DVTI
2/26/2008	Precision test of the weak nuclear force	Ross Young	Argonne
2/22/2008	New Phases at RHIC: what's the "s" in th esQCP?	Rob Pisarski	Brookhaven
2/19/2010	Tailoring the thinnest cloth: formation and control of magnetism in graphene	Bruno Uchoa	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2/14/2008	Studying QCD matter in the laboratory: from atomic nuclei to Quark Gluon Plasma	Abhijit Majumder	Duke University
2/12/2008	Hadron structure and interactions from Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics	William Detmold	U of Washington
2/8/2008	Searching for New Physics using "Old Physics" with Lattice QCD	Christopher Aubin	College of William and Mary
2/5/2008	Quarks, Gluons, and Chiral Dynamics	Brian Tiburzi	U of Maryland
2/1/2008	Viscosity in particle and nuclear physics	Harvey Meyer	MIT
2007
12/7/2007	Turning Photons into Polarized Nuclei	Thad Walker	University of Wisconsin-Madison
11/16/2007	Epidemic dynamics: Modeling multiple competing disease strains and adaptive social interactions	Leah Shaw	College of William and Mary
11/9/2007	Life at the Interface	Ronald Walsworth	Harvard-Smithsonian Center
11/2/2007	The Light Sterile Netrino: Mythical Creature or Physical Recluse?	Jonathan Link	Virginia Tech
10/26/2007	New Physics at the LHC?	Martin Schmaltz	Boston University
10/19/2007	Insight into the black box of Physical Review/Physical Review Letters	Frank A. Narducci	Associate Editor, Physical Review A
10/5/2007	The Evolution from BCS to Bose-Einstein Condensation: Superfluidity in Metals, Neutrons Stars, Nuclei, and Ultra-Cold Atoms"	Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo	Georgia Institute of Technology and Joint Quantum Institute University of Maryland/NIST
9/25/2007	Of Gods, Dice, and Spooky Actions At a Distance: Introduction to Bell's Inequality	David Branning	Trinity College
9/21/2007	Nuclear Physics with lattice QCD	Martin Savage	University of Washington, Seattle
9/14/2007	Welsh's Enigma: How Alan Turing, with the help of three brilliant Polish mathematicians (and one German spy) broke the complex Enigma machine cipher in WWII	Robert Welsh	College of William and Mary
4/27/2007	The Attosecond Era	Lou Dimauro	Ohio State
4/20/2007	Early History of Jefferson Laboratory	Franz Gross	JLab/W&M, Emeritus
4/13/2007	Critical Dipoles and Singular Potentials	David Griffiths	Reed College
4/6/2007	Bringing the Excitement of Physics, or Fighting the War on Error	Jessica Clark	APS
3/30/2007	Quantum Information: a 21st century revolution in science and technology	Bill Phillips	NIST
3/23/2007	Secure Quantum Communication	Alexey Trifonov	MagiQ
3/2/2007	An Ultrafast Quantum Camera- Observing and Controlling Atomic and Molecular Dynamics in Real Time	Thomas Weinacht	SUNY Stony Brook
2/26/2007	Closing in on Ultra-High Energy Cosmogenic Neutrionos with the Radio Detection Technique	Amy Connolly	University of California, LA
2/22/2007	Measuring the Elusive: Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS and Beyond	Mayly Sanchez	Harvard University
2/19/2007	High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics: IceCube	Ignacio Taboada	University of California, Berkeley
2/16/2007	Understanding Nature's Shyest Particle	Mike Kordosky	University College London
2/13/2007	Observation of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with the MINOS Detectors in the NuMI Neutrino Beam	Patricia Vahle	University College London
2/9/2007	Enhanced Magnetic Probes for the Spintronic Materials of Tomorrow	Gary Mankey	The University of Alabama
2/2/2007	Issues oin nano-magnetism	Rosa Alejandra Lukaszew	The University of Toledo
2006
12/8/2006	Searching for the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking	Csaba Csaki	Cornell University
12/1/2006	Principles, Practice and Solid State Applications of Multiple Quantum NMR	Robert Vold	College of William and Mary
11/3/2006	Feedback Control in Quantum Systems	Kurt Jacobs	U. Mass, Boston
10/27/2006	Physics in Search of Oil and Gas	Martin L Luling	Schlumberger
10/13/2006	Laboratory searches for a possible time variation of fundamental constants	Savely Karshenboim	Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Munich Germany
9/29/2006	Universal behavior in fluctuation induced ventricular fibrillation	Harold Hastings	Hofstra University
9/22/2006	Optically-trapped, strongly interacting Fermi gases	John E. Thomas	Duke University
9/15/2006	The Growth of Galaxies By Merging	David Hogg	NYU
4/28/2006	Changing Patterns: Synchronization and Communication with Dynamical Systems	Rajarshi Roy	University of Maryland, College Park
4/21/2006	Optical Hyperspace: Negative Refractive Index and Subwavelength Imaging in Strong Anisotropic Media	Evgenii Narimanov	Princeton University
4/14/2006	On neutrino masses, oscillations and volcanos	Giorgio Gratta	Stanford University
3/31/2006	QCD, strings and black holes: The large N limit of field theories and gravity	Juan Maldacena	Institute of Advanced Study
3/24/2006	The Muon: A Laboratory for Particle Physics	Lee Roberts	Boston University
3/17/2006	FootBall Physics	Tim Gay	University of Nebraska
2/27/2006	Manipulation of light with atomic ensembles (and vice versa)	Irina Novikova	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
2/24/2006	Efficient Coupling of Atoms and Light	James Thompson	MIT
2/20/2006	Ultracold Atoms and Bose-Einstein Condensates in Storage Rings and Optical Cavities	Subhadeep Gupta	University of California, Berkeley
2/17/2006	Fundamental physics with ultra-cold matter	Seth Aubin	University of Toronto
2/13/2006	Neutron Scattering Studies of a Multiferroic:Spin Waves and Magnetic	Owen Vajk	NIST
2/3/2006	Two-dimensional spectroscopy:Deciphering complex structural dynamics	Matthew DeCamp	MIT
1/30/2006	Ultrafast meets Ultrasmall: Optically Driven Quantum Gates based on Single Quantum Dots	Elaine Li	JILA, University of Colorado
2005
12/2/2005	Renormalisation Group Approaches to Electronic Strucure Theory	Garnet Chan	Cornell University
11/18/2005	From harmonic oscillator to the emergence of large scale magnetic fields in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas	Xianzhu Tang	Los Alamos National Laboratory
11/11/2005	Epidemics, Erdos numbers, and the Internet: The Structure and function of networks	Mark Newman	University of Michigan
11/4/2005	Better Lighting Through Chemistry	Laurie McNeil	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
10/28/2005	Drawing Quantum Mechanics on a Probability Simplex	Christopher Fuchs	Bell Laboratories
10/21/2005	Studying Galaxy Evolution with the Spitzer Space Telescope	Casey Papovich	Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
10/13/2005	The Way we Trust Now: The Authority of Sciene and the Character of the Scientist	Steven Shapin	Harvard University --- Biology/Physics Joint Colloquium
9/30/2005	Black Holes and Holography	Josh Erlich	College of William and Mary
9/9/2005	The Orbit Method in Representation Theory in Lie Groups	Alexander Kirillov	University of Pennsylvania
9/2/2005	Intregrating Science and Art from his book "Math and the Mona Lisa"	Bulent Atalay	University of Mary Washington & University of Maryland
4/15/2005	High-Pressure Science & Disordered Networks "Computatioinal Studies of Phase Digrams and Materials Properties	Peter Kroll	RWTH Aachen, Dept of Chemistry, Germany
4/11/2005	From Quantum Entanglement to Classical Ignorance	Wojciech H. Zurek	Los Alamos National Laboratory
4/7/2005	Designing and understanding nanowonders from first-principles	Laurent Bellaiche	University of Arkansas
4/1/2005	Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology	John Tyson	Virginia Poloytechnical Institute & State University, Blacksburg
3/25/2005	The New Mars	Dr. Joel S. Levine	NASA Langley Research Center
3/18/2005	Subcellular Effects of Nanosecond Electrical Pulses	Karl Schoenbach	Old Dominion University, Norfolk
2/25/2005	Effective Field Theories of the Strong Interactions	Sean Fleming	University of California, San Diego
2/23/2005	Hadronic phyiscs from Lattice QCD	Kostas Orginos	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/18/2005	Quarks, Neutrons, and Cold Atoms: A Lattice Window into Strongly Coupled Systems	Matt Wingate	University of Washington, Seattle
2/15/2005	CP-violation and lattice QCD	Christopher Dawson	BNL
2/07/2005	The Hunt for New Physics with B Decays	Dan Pirjol	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1/21/2005	The Man Who Hated Loose Ends: Einstein's Legacy	Hans von Baeyer	College of William and Mary
2004
12/03/2004	Recent Insights into Hadron Structure and Tests of Physics Beyond the Standard Model	Anthony Thomas	Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
11/19/2004	Optical Tweezers and Cell Biophysics	John Yukich	Davidson College
11/05/2004	How Quarks Travel Across the Atlantic Ocean	Paul Gueye	Hampton University
10/15/2004	Tribology of Polymeric Nanocomposites	W.G. Sawyer	University of Florida
10/01/2004	Biotechnology and bioinformatics: non-trivial even for physicists!	Maciek Sasinowski	INCOGEN, Inc.
9/24/2004	Ultrafast Laser Probes of Magnetization Dynamics	Anne Reilly	College of William and Mary
9/17/2004	Atoms in half-cycle pulses: a laboratory for wavefunction tailoring, coherent control and quantum chaos	J. Burgdoerfer	Institute for Tehoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology

Physics

Colloquia Archive

Date

Abstract Title

Name

Affiliation

2011

12/02/2011

Identifying and Characterizing Dark Matter on Earth and in the Heavens.

Devin Walker

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center

11/18/2011

Tuning superconductivity and magnetism by structure manipulation in intermetallic iron-pnictides

Johnpierre Paglione

University of Maryland

11/11/2011

Quantum information technology and man-made macroscopic quantum systems in silicon

Charles Tahan

College Park, Maryland

11/04/2011

Experimental Changes in Particle Transport from Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs) in DIII-D*

Saskia Mordijck

William & Mary Computer Science

10/21/2011

In the Lair of the Lost Force

Naomi Makins

University of Illinois

10/14/2011

The Human Exploration of Mars: Why Humans? Why Mars?

Joel Levine

WM Applied Science

09/30/2011

The Quantum and Fluid Mechanics of Global Warming

Brad Marston

Brown University

09/23/2011

Quantum Technology: The Second Quantum Revolution

Jon Dowling

University of Louisiana

09/16/2011

Everything Nano

Dirk Morr

University of Illinois

09/02/2011

The search for Majorana Fermions in solid-state systems.

Dr. Roman Lutchyn

University of California, Santa Barbara

04/29/2011

Twenty-first Century Lattice Gauge Theory: Consequences of the QCD Lagrangian

Andreas Kronfeld

Fermilab

04/22/2011

Shedding Light on Dark Energy: The Dark Energy Survey.

Wolfgang Lorenzon

University of Michigan

04/15/2011

Graphene: Scratching the Surface

Michael S. Fuhrer

University of Maryland at College Park

04/08/2011

The Physics of Neutrino Telescopes and IceCube: Recent Results

Teresa Monteruli

University of Wisconsin - Madison

04/01/2011

Quasi-separatrix layers and reconnection diagnostics for line-tied tearing modes.

Steve Richardson

Los Alamos

03/18/2011

Optical properties of correlated materials: the charge dynamics of iron-pnictide superconductors

Leonardo DeGiorgi

Eth, Zurich, Switzerland

02/25/2011

The study of hadron structure using single pion electroproduction off the proton in CLAS

Kijun Park

Jefferson Lab

02/18/2011

Mapping at the Extremes: Magellan Revisited

Roy Clarke

University of Michigan

02/11/2011