CMU/Pitt physics colloquium schedule

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2009/2010

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 2009

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Aug. 24

Aug. 31 CMU Robert Griffiths, CMU, "What Is Quantum Information?"

Sep. 7 No Colloquium - Labor Day Holiday

Sep. 14 PITT Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska, "Football Physics"

Sep. 21 CMU Ralf Bundschuh, Ohio State, "From the Ising model to Biological Sequence Analysis"

Sep. 28 PITT Andrew Hamilton, University of Colorado, "Black Holes, Schrödinger Cats, and Particle Accelerators"

Oct. 5 CMU John Thomas, Duke University, "Searching for Perfect Fluidity in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas"

Oct. 12 CMU Candace Lynch, USAF, "Orientation-patterned semiconductors for nonlinear optical frequency conversion"

Oct. 19 PITT Hong Guo, McGill University, “Quantitative Analysis of Nanoelectronics: Status and Challenges”

Oct. 26 CMU Mehran Kardar, MIT, "The Shape Dependence of Fluctuation-Induced Forces "

Nov. 2 CMU Sam Bader, Argonne, "Nanomagnetism"

Nov. 9 PITT Dr. Ayusman Sen, Pennsylvania State University, "Chemo and Phototactic Nano/Microbots."

Nov. 16 CMU Robert Suter, CMU, topic TBD

Nov. 23 CMU Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute, "Quark Soup al dente: Applied String Theory"

Nov. 30 CMU Joseph Stroscio, NIST, "Mapping Magnetic Quantization in Real Space in Epitaxial Graphene"

Dec. 7 PITT Michael Elbaum, Weizmann Institute, topic TBD

Dec. 14 PITT Julio Fernandez, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Columbia, Topic TBD

Dates For Spring 2010

Date Place

Jan. 11 PITT Tentative hold

Jan. 18 PITT Gavin Schmidt, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, "What good are climate models?"

Jan. 25 PITT Philip Kim, Columbia, Topic TBD

Feb. 1 PITT Tentative hold

Feb. 8 PITT Tentative hold

Feb. 15

Feb. 22 CMU Subir Sachdev Harvard University, Topic TBD

Mar. 1

Mar. 8 CMU Julia Phillips, "Nanoscience at Sandia National Labs"

Mar. 15 PITT Will Kinney, University of Buffalo, "What created the initial conditions for cosmology?"

Mar. 22

Mar. 29 PITT Ned Wingreen, Princeton, "Intracellular Networks in Bacteria and Other Exciting Stuff"

Apr. 5 PITT Jose Mestre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, topic TBD

Apr. 12 PITT Marla Geha, Yale University, "The Darkest Galaxies"

Apr. 19 PITT Stan Leibler, Rockefeller University, "Some lessons from bacteria"

Apr. 26

May 3

May 10

May 17 PITT James Bullock, University of California at Irvine,"Dark Matter Halos"

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Dates For Fall 2009
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Aug. 24
Aug. 31	CMU	Robert Griffiths, CMU, "What Is Quantum Information?"
Sep. 7		No Colloquium - Labor Day Holiday
Sep. 14	PITT	Timothy Gay, University of Nebraska, "Football Physics"
Sep. 21	CMU	Ralf Bundschuh, Ohio State, "From the Ising model to Biological Sequence Analysis"
Sep. 28	PITT	Andrew Hamilton, University of Colorado, "Black Holes, Schrödinger Cats, and Particle Accelerators"
Oct. 5	CMU	John Thomas, Duke University, "Searching for Perfect Fluidity in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas"
Oct. 12	CMU	Candace Lynch, USAF, "Orientation-patterned semiconductors for nonlinear optical frequency conversion"
Oct. 19	PITT	Hong Guo, McGill University, “Quantitative Analysis of Nanoelectronics: Status and Challenges”
Oct. 26	CMU	Mehran Kardar, MIT, "The Shape Dependence of Fluctuation-Induced Forces "
Nov. 2	CMU	Sam Bader, Argonne, "Nanomagnetism"
Nov. 9	PITT	Dr. Ayusman Sen, Pennsylvania State University, "Chemo and Phototactic Nano/Microbots."
Nov. 16	CMU	Robert Suter, CMU, topic TBD
Nov. 23	CMU	Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute, "Quark Soup al dente: Applied String Theory"
Nov. 30	CMU	Joseph Stroscio, NIST, "Mapping Magnetic Quantization in Real Space in Epitaxial Graphene"
Dec. 7	PITT	Michael Elbaum, Weizmann Institute, topic TBD
Dec. 14	PITT	Julio Fernandez, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Columbia, Topic TBD
Dates For Spring 2010
Date	Place
Jan. 11	PITT	Tentative hold
Jan. 18	PITT	Gavin Schmidt, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, "What good are climate models?"
Jan. 25	PITT	Philip Kim, Columbia, Topic TBD
Feb. 1	PITT	Tentative hold
Feb. 8	PITT	Tentative hold
Feb. 15
Feb. 22	CMU	Subir Sachdev Harvard University, Topic TBD
Mar. 1
Mar. 8	CMU	Julia Phillips, "Nanoscience at Sandia National Labs"
Mar. 15	PITT	Will Kinney, University of Buffalo, "What created the initial conditions for cosmology?"
Mar. 22
Mar. 29	PITT	Ned Wingreen, Princeton, "Intracellular Networks in Bacteria and Other Exciting Stuff"
Apr. 5	PITT	Jose Mestre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, topic TBD
Apr. 12	PITT	Marla Geha, Yale University, "The Darkest Galaxies"
Apr. 19	PITT	Stan Leibler, Rockefeller University, "Some lessons from bacteria"
Apr. 26
May 3
May 10
May 17	PITT	James Bullock, University of California at Irvine,"Dark Matter Halos"