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Past Seminars & Colloquia - Spring 2005

All Seminars take place in Higgins 235 at noted time.
All Colloquia take place in Higgins 310 at 4pm.

Date/ Time	Speaker	Title	Sem./Coll.
1/19 4pm	Christopher Regan UC Berkeley	"Small Machines: Novel Physics in Nanoelectromechanical Systems"	Colloquium
1/26 4pm	Stephen Cronin Harvard University	"Measuring Individual Carbon Nanotubes Using Raman Spectroscopy and Nano-Fabrication Techniques"	Colloquium
2/1 4pm	Irfan Siddiqi Yale University	"Using a Dynamical Bifurcation to Readout a Quantum Bit"	Colloquium
2/2 4pm	H. Eugene Stanley Boston University	"Puzzling Physics of the Complex Fluid, Liquid Water"	Colloquium
2/9 4pm	John Chiaverini NIST, Boulder	"Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions"	Colloquium
2/16 4pm	Robert M. Westervelt Harvard University	"Imaging a Single-Electron Quantum Dot"	Colloquium
2/23 4pm	Andrew Cohen Boston University	"Electroweak Superconductivity"	Colloquium
2/28 2pm	Patrick Lee MIT	"Physics of Strong Electronic Correlation in Sodium Doped Cobaltates: Na_xCoO₂"	Seminar
3/2 4pm	Raman Sundrum The Johns Hopkins University	"The Superworld, the Braneworld, and Our World"	Colloquium
3/30 4pm	Tony Leggett University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	"Superfluidity, Phase Coherence and the New Bose-Condensed Alkali Gases"	Colloquium
4/6 4pm	Herbert Levine UC San Diego	*"Dictyostelium* Aggregation: A Meeting Point of Cell Biology and Nonequilibrium Physics"**	Colloquium
4/13 4pm	Max Tegmark MIT	"From Derision Cosmology to Precision Cosmology"	Colloquium
4/20 4pm	Daniel Cronin-Hennessy University of Minnesota	"A New Frontier of Weak and Strong Interactions"	Colloquium
4/26 1pm	N. P. Ong Princeton University	"What Lies Above: Evidence for a Vortex Liquid State Above Tc in the Cuprates"	Seminar
4/27 4pm	Andrei Ruckenstein Rutgers	*"Transcription Elongation in E-coli:* Biological Control Without Maxwell Demons?"**	Colloquium
5/3 2pm	H. Fertig Indiana University	"Disordered Superfluidity in the Quantum Hall Bilayer"	Seminar
5/6 3pm	Philip Phillips University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	"The Elusive Bose Metal in 2D"	Colloquium
5/11 2pm	David J. Singh Oak Ridge National Laboratory	"Materials on a Knife's-Edge: Na_xCoO₂ and Na_xCoO₂ x yH₂O"	Seminar
5/19 10am	First Year Graduate Students Boston College	Graduate Seminar	Seminar

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