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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: NaxCoO2" 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: NaxCoO2 and NaxCoO2 x yH2O" Seminar

5/19,
10am

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