CMU/Pitt physics colloquium schedule

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2008/2009

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 7500 Wean Hall at CMU or at 104 Thaw Hall at Pitt. Refreshments are available at 4:15 pm.

Dates For Fall 2008

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Aug. 25

Sep. 1 No Colloquium - Labor Day Holiday

Sep. 8 CMU Eric Braaten, Ohio State University, "Discrete Scale Invariance in Ultracold Atoms"

Sep. 15 PITT J. D. Crawford Memorial Lecture, William Bialek, Princeton University, "More Than We Imagined: A Physicist’s View of Life"

Sep. 22 PITT Tina Kahniashvili, Kansas State University, "Gravitational Waves Astronomy as a Probe of the Early Universe"

Sep. 29 PITT Dr. Vincent Liu, Univ. Pittsburgh, "Condensed Matter Physics of Cold Atoms"

Oct. 6 CMU Francis Halzen, Univ. of Wisconsin, "High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory"

Oct. 13 PITT Andrei Frolov, Simon Frazer University, "Simulating the Big Bang"

Oct. 20 PITT Dr. Cosmas Zachos, Argonne National Laboratory, "Deformation Quantization: Quantum Mechanics Lives & Works in Phase-Space"

Oct. 27

Nov. 3 PITT James Glazier, Professor & Director of Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University, "Biocomplexity and the Computational Modeling of Biological Development"

Nov. 10 PITT Prof. Rabindra Mohapatra, University of Maryland, "Do Neutrons Oscillate?"

Nov. 17 CMU Eva Andrei, Rutgers University, "Graphene, A Flatland of Ultra-Relativistic Particles"

Nov. 24 PITT Andre de Gouvea, Northwestern University, "The Brave Nu World"

Dec. 1 PITT Vitaliy Fadeyev, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, "Imaging the Voices of the Past: Using Optical Metrology to Restore Early Recorded Sounds"

Dec. 8 PITT David Charbonneau, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "Detecting Habitable Exoplanets: The Small Star Opportunity"

Dec. 15

Dates For Spring 2009

Date Place

Jan. 12

Jan. 15 PITT Michael E. Flatté, Optical Science and Technology Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, "Semiconductor Spintronics and Single-Spin Control" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall (Note: Special date, time and location)

Jan. 19

Jan. 26 PITT Andrzej Czarnecki, University of Alberta, "Polyelectrons and Exotic Atoms"

Feb. 2 PITT Gus Evrard, University of Michigan, "Computing the Universe: A Status Report"

Feb. 9 CMU Tom Irving, Depts. of Physics and Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology, "Biologically Inspired Research at the APS BioCAT Synchrotron Beamline"

Feb. 16 PITT Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh, "Oxide Nanoelectronics On Demand"

Feb. 23 CMU Piero Madau, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, "The Via Lactea Project: A Glimpse into the Invisible World of Dark Matter"

Mar. 2

Mar. 9

Mar. 16 CMU Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute, "Extra Dimensions, Dark Energy and the Cosmological Constant Problem"

Mar. 23

Mar. 30

Apr. 6 PITT Carl M. Bender, Dept. of Physics, Washington University, "Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians", 102 Thaw Hall

Apr. 13 PITT Beth Willman, Haverford College, "The (Nearly) Invisible Galaxies", 102 Thaw Hall

Apr. 20 CMU Michael Peskin, SLAC, Stanford University, "The Next Spectroscopy: New Elementary Particles at the Large Hadron Collider"

Apr. 27 PITT Jane Charlton, Penn State University, "Seeing the Universe Through Shadows", 102 Thaw Hall

May 4

May 11

Dates For Summer 2009

May 18 PITT Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington, "Reaching for the Sky with SDSS and LSST", 102 Thaw Hall

May 25 No Colloquium - Memorial Day Holiday

June 12 PITT Special Colloquium: Roger Penrose, Oxford University, Mathematics Institute, "Eons Before the Big Bang?", 2:00PM, 102 Thaw Hall (Please Note special day and time)

June 15 PITT Special Colloquium: Alexander Dolgov, University of Ferrara, INFN (Italy) and ITEP (Russia), "Cosmic Antimatter", 102 Allen Hall

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Dates For Fall 2008
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Aug. 25
Sep. 1		No Colloquium - Labor Day Holiday
Sep. 8	CMU	Eric Braaten, Ohio State University, "Discrete Scale Invariance in Ultracold Atoms"
Sep. 15	PITT	J. D. Crawford Memorial Lecture, William Bialek, Princeton University, "More Than We Imagined: A Physicist’s View of Life"
Sep. 22	PITT	Tina Kahniashvili, Kansas State University, "Gravitational Waves Astronomy as a Probe of the Early Universe"
Sep. 29	PITT	Dr. Vincent Liu, Univ. Pittsburgh, "Condensed Matter Physics of Cold Atoms"
Oct. 6	CMU	Francis Halzen, Univ. of Wisconsin, "High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory"
Oct. 13	PITT	Andrei Frolov, Simon Frazer University, "Simulating the Big Bang"
Oct. 20	PITT	Dr. Cosmas Zachos, Argonne National Laboratory, "Deformation Quantization: Quantum Mechanics Lives & Works in Phase-Space"
Oct. 27
Nov. 3	PITT	James Glazier, Professor & Director of Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University, "Biocomplexity and the Computational Modeling of Biological Development"
Nov. 10	PITT	Prof. Rabindra Mohapatra, University of Maryland, "Do Neutrons Oscillate?"
Nov. 17	CMU	Eva Andrei, Rutgers University, "Graphene, A Flatland of Ultra-Relativistic Particles"
Nov. 24	PITT	Andre de Gouvea, Northwestern University, "The Brave Nu World"
Dec. 1	PITT	Vitaliy Fadeyev, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, "Imaging the Voices of the Past: Using Optical Metrology to Restore Early Recorded Sounds"
Dec. 8	PITT	David Charbonneau, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "Detecting Habitable Exoplanets: The Small Star Opportunity"
Dec. 15
Dates For Spring 2009
Date	Place
Jan. 12
Jan. 15	PITT	Michael E. Flatté, Optical Science and Technology Center and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, "Semiconductor Spintronics and Single-Spin Control" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall (Note: Special date, time and location)
Jan. 19
Jan. 26	PITT	Andrzej Czarnecki, University of Alberta, "Polyelectrons and Exotic Atoms"
Feb. 2	PITT	Gus Evrard, University of Michigan, "Computing the Universe: A Status Report"
Feb. 9	CMU	Tom Irving, Depts. of Physics and Biology, Illinois Institute of Technology, "Biologically Inspired Research at the APS BioCAT Synchrotron Beamline"
Feb. 16	PITT	Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh, "Oxide Nanoelectronics On Demand"
Feb. 23	CMU	Piero Madau, Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, "The Via Lactea Project: A Glimpse into the Invisible World of Dark Matter"
Mar. 2
Mar. 9
Mar. 16	CMU	Cliff Burgess, Perimeter Institute, "Extra Dimensions, Dark Energy and the Cosmological Constant Problem"
Mar. 23
Mar. 30
Apr. 6	PITT	Carl M. Bender, Dept. of Physics, Washington University, "Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians", 102 Thaw Hall
Apr. 13	PITT	Beth Willman, Haverford College, "The (Nearly) Invisible Galaxies", 102 Thaw Hall
Apr. 20	CMU	Michael Peskin, SLAC, Stanford University, "The Next Spectroscopy: New Elementary Particles at the Large Hadron Collider"
Apr. 27	PITT	Jane Charlton, Penn State University, "Seeing the Universe Through Shadows", 102 Thaw Hall
May 4
May 11
Dates For Summer 2009
May 18	PITT	Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington, "Reaching for the Sky with SDSS and LSST", 102 Thaw Hall
May 25		No Colloquium - Memorial Day Holiday
June 12	PITT	Special Colloquium: Roger Penrose, Oxford University, Mathematics Institute, "Eons Before the Big Bang?", 2:00PM, 102 Thaw Hall (Please Note special day and time)
June 15	PITT	Special Colloquium: Alexander Dolgov, University of Ferrara, INFN (Italy) and ITEP (Russia), "Cosmic Antimatter", 102 Allen Hall