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Physics

 

2009-2010 Physics Seminars

Fall 2009

18 September - Stefanie Brachfeld
Understanding Mars Magnetic Anomalies Using Experimental Petrology and Rock Magnetism

20 November - Luca Turin
Is smell a quantum phenomenon ?

4 December - David DeMille
high precision testing of fundamental physical properties

Spring 2010


Past Physics Seminars

Fall 2008

12 September - Renuka Rajapakse
Light-Matter Interactions and Quantum Computing

17 October - Matthew Bailey
Lightning-Induced Optical Events in the Middle Atmosphere

7 November - Jan Chaloupka
Ultrafast Lasers and Ultra-Intense Fields: Atomic Physics under Extreme Conditions

21 November - Dan Peppe
Identifying the effects of paleoenvironmental change on terrestrial ecosystems: an integrated approach

Spring 2009

February and March
these times are reserved for presentations from candidates for our tenure track position in experimental physics, please check out the lockal flyers announcing these talks

27-March Gary Felder
The Very Early Universe

3 April - Mark Silverman
Is “THE FORCE” with Us?

  

Fall 2007

28 September -  Michael Studinger

Subglacial Lakes in Antarctica: Linking Ice Sheet Dynamics, Tectonics, and Biology with Aerogeophysical Methods


19 October -  Janine Shertzer

Atomic diffraction

Spring 2008

1 February - James McDonald

How does the sun shine ?

 

4 April - Robin Cote

The formation and use of ultra-cold molecules

 

25 April - Abner Shimony

Time dependence of the onset of the Pauli Principle in a fresh ensemble of electrons

Fall 2006


29 September -  David Branning
Of Gods, Dice, and Spooky Actions At a Distance: Introduction to Bell's Inequality

20 October -  John Tarduno
The Beginning and Future of Earth's Magnetic Field

10 November - Leslie Brown
Stalking Celestial Monsters: Monitoring Active Galactic Nuclei and the Black Holes They Contain

8 December -  Jeff Dorale
North American Pleistocene
Extinctions: Lessons from our Living Megafauna
presented in collaboration with the Environmental Sciences Program

Spring 2007


2 February - John Wettlaufer
Phase Transitions, Ocean Freezing and Climate Catastrophes

6 April - Susanne Yelin
Manipulation of matter with coherent light: From molecular quantum computing to negative refraction

20 April - Arshad Kudrolli
Particle Shape and Dynamics of Granular Matter: Swarming to Swirling

 

Fall 2005


9 September - Scott Calvin
How Small is Small

30 September - Christoph Geiss
How to Make Mountains

21 October - David Branning
Caught in the act: can Inhibited Spontaneous Emission be seen?

4 November - Mark Silverman
The Climes, Are They A-Changin'?

18 November - Kyungseon Joo
Do we Know Protons Well ?

 

Spring 2006


3 February -  Larry Gould
Albert Einstein - Myth and Magic
 

17 February - Brad Moser
The Exploding Diatomic Molecule

10 March - Michael Brown
Self-organization in Magnetized Plasmas

7 April - Mark Silverman
Are Crowds Wise?  An Experimental Test

21 April - Alexei Smirnov
The magnetic field of the Early Earth

Fall 2004


17 September - Robert Hilborn
No Noise is Bad Noise

1 October - Michael Brezel
The Phenomenon of NMR and Clinical Uses of MRI


12 November - John Wang
Towards Inflation in String Theory: Extra Dimensions and Spacelike Branes

3 December - Eric Myers
Searching for Ripples in Spacetime

 

Spring 2005


 18 February -
Ravi Sachidanandam
Love at First Sight: Sequence Recognition in Biology

3 March - David Branning
Quantum Thought-Experiments with Light

4 March - Laurie Morgus
Excited Electronic States of NaK

11 March - Windell Oskay
The Mercury-ion Optical Clock

16 March - Bob Weinberger
Photocatalytic Thin Films for the Improvement of Indoor Air Quality

   
 
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