CMU/Pitt physics colloquium schedule

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2007/2008

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 7500 Wean Hall at CMU or at 102 Thaw Hall at Pitt. Refreshments are available at 4:15 pm.

Dates For Fall 2007

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Sep. 10 CMU Chris Hammel, Ohio State University, "Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy"

Sep. 17 CMU Ira Rothstein, CMU, "The Problem of Motion: It's Not Just Academic, it's Astronomy"

Sep. 24 PITT Joe Redish, Univ. of Maryland, "Problem Solving and the Use of Math in Physics Courses"

Oct. 1 CMU Washington Taylor, MIT, "Can string theory make quantitative predictions for particle physics?"

Oct. 2 CMU Special Colloquium: Physics Department, Prof. Alex Evilevitch, Lund Univ., Sweden, "Biophysics of viral infectivity: Matching genome length and virus size"

Oct. 8 PITT Prof. Louis Lyons, Oxford University, "Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology"

Oct. 9 CMU Special Colloquium, Arun Radhakrishnan, Southwestern Medical Center, "Chemical activity of cholesterol in membranes" Doherty Hall 1212 NOTE SPECIAL ROOM

Oct. 29 CMU Robert Lang, "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami", 4:30 PM, McConomy Auditorium, CMU (NOTE SPECIAL PLACE)

Oct. 30 CMU Special Colloquium, Suliana Manley, NIH, 4:30 PM, NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY, "Exploring protein organization and dynamics in model membranes and cells"

Nov. 5 CMU Steven Louie, Berkeley, "Physics at the Nanoscale: Tubes, Wires, Ribbons, and Junctions"

Nov. 12 PITT Joseph Boudreau, Pitt, "New results from CDF"

Nov. 13 CMU Special Colloquium, Andrea Armani, Cal Tech, "Optical Microcavities in Biosensing" NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY

Nov. 19 CMU Benjamin Smith, McGill University, "Dynamic Strength of Lipid Membranes Exposed to Antimicrobial Peptides"

Nov. 26 CMU Sara Majetich, CMU, "Magnetic Nanoparticles: Nanoscale Imaging and Design of Particles for Biomedicine and Data Storage Media"

Dec. 3 PITT Gregory Gabadadze, NYU, "Cosmological Constant Problem"

Dec. 10 PITT Dr. Tom Murphy, Univ. of California at San Diego, "Project APOLLO: Precise tests of general relativity"

Dates For Spring 2008

Date Place

Jan. 7 PITT Ian Appelbaum, University of Delaware, "Silicon Spintronics"

Jan. 10 CMU Special Colloquium (Cosmology), Dr. Walter Goldberger,Yale University, "Seeing the Dark Universe at the LHC" PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Jan. 10 PITT Colloquium, Grant Wilson, University of Massachusetts, "Studying Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters at Millimeter Wavelengths - from Environment to Astrophysics," PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Jan. 10 PITT Colloquium, John Chiaverini, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Quantum simulations of condensed-matter systems using trapped ions" 2:30 PM. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Jan. 17 PITT Colloquium, Erin Sheldon, NYU, "Dark and Luminous Matter in the Universe" 4:30 PM, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Jan. 17 PITT Colloquium, Maitri Warusawithana, Penn State University, "New Electronic Functionality and Quantum Devices through Nanostructured Interfaces," 2:30 PM, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSAY

Jan. 22 CMU Special Biophysics Colloquium, Dr. Sarah Veatch, Cornell University, "Critical Fluctuations in Plasma Membrane Vesicles" 4:30 PM, 7500 Wean Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY

Jan. 24 PITT Cosmology Colloquium, Michael Wood-Vasey, Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics, "Determining the Nature of Dark Energy: The Latest Results from ESSENCE and the Future of Observational Cosmology" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Jan. 28 CMU Special Cosmology Colloquium, Dr. Daisuke Naigai, Caltech, "Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes"

Jan. 28 PITT Cosmology Colloquium, Amalia Hicks, Univ. of Virginia, "Missing Baryons: Recent Results from X-ray Observations of Distant Galaxy Clusters"

Jan. 28 PITT Special Colloquium, Eli Rothenberg, "Exploring the mechanisms of replication and repair proteins through single-molecule analysis" 2:30 PM, 319 Allen Hall

Jan. 31 PITT Cosmology Colloquium, Daisuke Nagai, Caltech, "Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Jan. 31 PITT Colloquium, Jigang Wang, Materials Sciences Div. E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Spin Manipulation in (III, Mn) V Semiconductors: Ultrafast, Non-Thermal and Cooperative Phenomena," 2:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Feb. 1 CMU Upperclass Colloquium, Manfred Paulini and Markus Deserno, CMU, Panel discussion on "Physics in Germany," moderated by Robert Griffiths, 11:30 AM, 2315 Doherty Hall

Feb. 4 PITT Dr. Jiang

Feb. 6 CMU Special Cosmology Colloquium, Dr. Rachel Mandelbaum, Institute for Advances Study, "Weak gravitational lensing as a cosmological probe", 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall 2302 PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A WEDNESDAY

Feb. 11

Feb. 12 CMU Cosmology Colloquium, Adam Lidz, Harvard, Title TBA, 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall 1212, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY

Feb. 14 PITT Colloquium, Mandelbaum, 4:30 PM, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Feb. 18 PITT Xi Xiaoing, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Inst., Pennsylvania State University, "Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale"

Feb. 19 CMU Cosmology Colloquium, Francesco Miniati, ETH, Zurich, "Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological Probes and Astrophysics Labs" , 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall 1212, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY

Feb. 21 PITT Cosmology Colloquium, Savvas Koushiappas, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Identifying the dark matter" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Feb. 21 PITT Physics Colloquium, Thorsten Hesjedal, Univ. of Waterloo, 2:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Feb. 21 CMU Cosmology Colloquium, Dr. Sergei Dubovsky, Harvard, "The Accelerating Universe: Landscape or Modified Gravity?" 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall 1212, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Feb. 25

Feb. 28 PITT Colloquium, Zheng, 4:30 PM, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY

Mar. 3

Mar. 10

Mar. 24 PITT David Cinabro, Wayne State University, "Cosmology by a Particle Physicist"

Mar. 31

Apr. 7

Apr. 14

Apr. 21 PITT Dr. Carla Froehlich, Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago, "Heavy Element Production in Supernova Explosions"

Apr. 28

May 5

May 12

May 19

May 26

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Dates For Fall 2007
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Sep. 10	CMU	Chris Hammel, Ohio State University, "Magnetic Resonance Force Microscopy"
Sep. 17	CMU	Ira Rothstein, CMU, "The Problem of Motion: It's Not Just Academic, it's Astronomy"
Sep. 24	PITT	Joe Redish, Univ. of Maryland, "Problem Solving and the Use of Math in Physics Courses"
Oct. 1	CMU	Washington Taylor, MIT, "Can string theory make quantitative predictions for particle physics?"
Oct. 2	CMU	Special Colloquium: Physics Department, Prof. Alex Evilevitch, Lund Univ., Sweden, "Biophysics of viral infectivity: Matching genome length and virus size"
Oct. 8	PITT	Prof. Louis Lyons, Oxford University, "Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology"
Oct. 9	CMU	Special Colloquium, Arun Radhakrishnan, Southwestern Medical Center, "Chemical activity of cholesterol in membranes" Doherty Hall 1212 NOTE SPECIAL ROOM
Oct. 29	CMU	Robert Lang, "From Flapping Birds to Space Telescopes: The Modern Science of Origami", 4:30 PM, McConomy Auditorium, CMU (NOTE SPECIAL PLACE)
Oct. 30	CMU	Special Colloquium, Suliana Manley, NIH, 4:30 PM, NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY, "Exploring protein organization and dynamics in model membranes and cells"
Nov. 5	CMU	Steven Louie, Berkeley, "Physics at the Nanoscale: Tubes, Wires, Ribbons, and Junctions"
Nov. 12	PITT	Joseph Boudreau, Pitt, "New results from CDF"
Nov. 13	CMU	Special Colloquium, Andrea Armani, Cal Tech, "Optical Microcavities in Biosensing" NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY
Nov. 19	CMU	Benjamin Smith, McGill University, "Dynamic Strength of Lipid Membranes Exposed to Antimicrobial Peptides"
Nov. 26	CMU	Sara Majetich, CMU, "Magnetic Nanoparticles: Nanoscale Imaging and Design of Particles for Biomedicine and Data Storage Media"
Dec. 3	PITT	Gregory Gabadadze, NYU, "Cosmological Constant Problem"
Dec. 10	PITT	Dr. Tom Murphy, Univ. of California at San Diego, "Project APOLLO: Precise tests of general relativity"
Dates For Spring 2008
Date	Place
Jan. 7	PITT	Ian Appelbaum, University of Delaware, "Silicon Spintronics"
Jan. 10	CMU	Special Colloquium (Cosmology), Dr. Walter Goldberger,Yale University, "Seeing the Dark Universe at the LHC" PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Jan. 10	PITT	Colloquium, Grant Wilson, University of Massachusetts, "Studying Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters at Millimeter Wavelengths - from Environment to Astrophysics," PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Jan. 10	PITT	Colloquium, John Chiaverini, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Quantum simulations of condensed-matter systems using trapped ions" 2:30 PM. PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Jan. 17	PITT	Colloquium, Erin Sheldon, NYU, "Dark and Luminous Matter in the Universe" 4:30 PM, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Jan. 17	PITT	Colloquium, Maitri Warusawithana, Penn State University, "New Electronic Functionality and Quantum Devices through Nanostructured Interfaces," 2:30 PM, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSAY
Jan. 22	CMU	Special Biophysics Colloquium, Dr. Sarah Veatch, Cornell University, "Critical Fluctuations in Plasma Membrane Vesicles" 4:30 PM, 7500 Wean Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY
Jan. 24	PITT	Cosmology Colloquium, Michael Wood-Vasey, Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics, "Determining the Nature of Dark Energy: The Latest Results from ESSENCE and the Future of Observational Cosmology" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Jan. 28	CMU	Special Cosmology Colloquium, Dr. Daisuke Naigai, Caltech, "Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes"
Jan. 28	PITT	Cosmology Colloquium, Amalia Hicks, Univ. of Virginia, "Missing Baryons: Recent Results from X-ray Observations of Distant Galaxy Clusters"
Jan. 28	PITT	Special Colloquium, Eli Rothenberg, "Exploring the mechanisms of replication and repair proteins through single-molecule analysis" 2:30 PM, 319 Allen Hall
Jan. 31	PITT	Cosmology Colloquium, Daisuke Nagai, Caltech, "Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Jan. 31	PITT	Colloquium, Jigang Wang, Materials Sciences Div. E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Spin Manipulation in (III, Mn) V Semiconductors: Ultrafast, Non-Thermal and Cooperative Phenomena," 2:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Feb. 1	CMU	Upperclass Colloquium, Manfred Paulini and Markus Deserno, CMU, Panel discussion on "Physics in Germany," moderated by Robert Griffiths, 11:30 AM, 2315 Doherty Hall
Feb. 4	PITT	Dr. Jiang
Feb. 6	CMU	Special Cosmology Colloquium, Dr. Rachel Mandelbaum, Institute for Advances Study, "Weak gravitational lensing as a cosmological probe", 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall 2302 PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A WEDNESDAY
Feb. 11
Feb. 12	CMU	Cosmology Colloquium, Adam Lidz, Harvard, Title TBA, 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall 1212, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY
Feb. 14	PITT	Colloquium, Mandelbaum, 4:30 PM, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Feb. 18	PITT	Xi Xiaoing, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Inst., Pennsylvania State University, "Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale"
Feb. 19	CMU	Cosmology Colloquium, Francesco Miniati, ETH, Zurich, "Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological Probes and Astrophysics Labs" , 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall 1212, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A TUESDAY
Feb. 21	PITT	Cosmology Colloquium, Savvas Koushiappas, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Identifying the dark matter" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Feb. 21	PITT	Physics Colloquium, Thorsten Hesjedal, Univ. of Waterloo, 2:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Feb. 21	CMU	Cosmology Colloquium, Dr. Sergei Dubovsky, Harvard, "The Accelerating Universe: Landscape or Modified Gravity?" 4:30 PM, Doherty Hall 1212, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Feb. 25
Feb. 28	PITT	Colloquium, Zheng, 4:30 PM, PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A THURSDAY
Mar. 3
Mar. 10
Mar. 24	PITT	David Cinabro, Wayne State University, "Cosmology by a Particle Physicist"
Mar. 31
Apr. 7
Apr. 14
Apr. 21	PITT	Dr. Carla Froehlich, Enrico Fermi Institute, Univ. of Chicago, "Heavy Element Production in Supernova Explosions"
Apr. 28
May 5
May 12
May 19
May 26