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Previous Colloquium Titles

Date
Abstract Title

Name
Affiliation
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
2/14/2008 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
       
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
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
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
9/2/05 Intregrating Science and Art from his book "Math and the Mona Lisa" Bulent Atalay University of Mary Washington & University of Maryland
4/15/05 High-Pressure Science & Disordered Networks "Computatioinal Studies of Phase Digrams and Materials Properties Peter Kroll RWTH Aachen, Dept of Chemistry, Germany
4/11/05 From Quantum Entanglement to Classical Ignorance Wojciech H. Zurek Los Alamos National Laboratory
4/7/05 Designing and understanding nanowonders from first-principles Laurent Bellaiche University of Arkansas
4/1/05 Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology John Tyson Virginia Poloytechnical Institute & State University, Blacksburg
3/25/05 The New Mars Dr. Joel S. Levine NASA Langley Research Center
3/18/05 Subcellular Effects of Nanosecond Electrical Pulses Karl Schoenbach Old Dominion University, Norfolk
2/25/05 Effective Field Theories of the Strong Interactions Sean Fleming University of California, San Diego
2/23/05 Hadronic phyiscs from Lattice QCD Kostas Orginos

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2/18/05 Quarks, Neutrons, and Cold Atoms: A Lattice Window into Strongly Coupled Systems Matt Wingate University of Washington, Seattle

2/15/05

CP-violation and lattice QCD Christopher Dawson BNL
2/07/05 The Hunt for New Physics with B Decays Dan Pirjol Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1/21/05 The Man Who Hated Loose Ends: Einstein's Legacy Hans von Baeyer College of William and Mary
12/03/04 Recent Insights into Hadron Structure and Tests of Physics Beyond the Standard Model Anthony Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
11/19/04 Optical Tweezers and Cell Biophysics John Yukich Davidson College
11/05/04 How Quarks Travel Across the Atlantic Ocean Paul Gueye Hampton University
10/15/04 Tribology of Polymeric Nanocomposites W.G. Sawyer University of Florida
10/01/04 Biotechnology and bioinformatics: non-trivial even for physicists! Maciek Sasinowski INCOGEN, Inc.
9/24/04 Ultrafast Laser Probes of Magnetization Dynamics Anne Reilly College of William and Mary
9/17/04 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


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