Colloquium Schedule, Spring '10
All talks will be held on Thursday, except where noted, at 4:30 P.M. in Room 58 Exley Science Center with refreshments at 4:10 P.M., Room 58 (Foyer) Exley Science Center.
Note: During the two weeks of January 25 - 29 and February 1 - 5 there will be FOUR special colloquia given by candidates for the currently open position in experimental condensed matter physics. All of these talks will be in Exley 58 and follow the usual colloquium practice of snacks at 4:15 and talk at 4:30.
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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January |
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| January 21, 2010
January 25, 2010 January 28, 2010 |
Jack Harris, Yale University Candidate Colloquium Candidate Colloquium |
Collective motion and density fluctuations in bacterial colonies Ultrafast Solvation: Investigating Molecular Forces in Protein Folding |
| February | ||
| February 1, 2010
February 4, 2010 |
Candidate Colloquium
Candidate Colloquium |
Interfacial Microrheology of lipid & protein films at an air-water interface Probing complexity in proteins at the single molecule level |
| February 11, 2010
February 18, 2010 February 25, 2010 |
Professor Luca Dal Negro, Boston University |
Engineering Aperiodic Order for Optical Devices with Photonic-Plasmonic Nanostructures |
| March | ||
| March 4, 2010 | Dr. Fleischmann, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen/Germany |
Branched flows and random caustics |
| March 25, 2010 |
Brian Northup, Assistant Professor Chemistry Dept. Wesleyan |
Dynamic Self-Assembly as a Route to New Organic Materials |
| April | ||
| April 1, 2010 |
Timothy Hall, Senior Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute - Space Studies |
Hurricanes Risk and Climate |
| April 8, 2010
April 15, 2010 April 22, 2010 April 29, 2010 |
Tobias Golling, Assistant Professor, Yale University
Brian Stewart, Associate Professor, Wesleyan University Vacek Miglus, Department of Physics, Wesleyan |
Exploring the Energy Frontier at the LHC
Third Annual Earth Week Rant "Curator's Favorite Demos" |
| May | ||
| May 6, 2010 |
Bertman Lecture |
Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks |
Please E-mail Erinn Savage with additions, updates or questions