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Seminars & Colloquia

Seminars & Colloquia - Spring 2010

All seminars take place in Higgins 235 at 2 p.m., all colloquia take place in Higgins 310 at 4 p.m. unless otherwise indicated. Refreshments precede the colloquia in Higgins 230 at 3:30 p.m.

Date/
Time

Speaker
Title
Sem./Coll.
01/19
Dr. Lukasz Fidkowski
Caltech
“Strong Randomness Critical Phases in Non-Abelian Anyonic Chains”
Seminar
Host: Prof. Ran
01/20
Dr. David J. Griffiths
Reed College
"Hidden Momentum, Field Momentum, and Electromagnetic Impulse"

Special Colloquium
Host: T.Kirkpatrick and GSA

01/26

Benjamin Fregoso
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Quantum Liquid Crystal Phases in Ultracold Atomic Systems"

Seminar
Host: Prof. Ran

01/29

Dr. Georges Boulon
Claude Bernard University/Lyon 1, France

"Fifty Years of Solid-State Lasers"

Colloquium
Host: Prof. Di Bartolo

02/03
Dr. John Fourkas
University of Maryland
"Multiphoton Absorption Polymerization: 3D Fabrication from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale" Colloquium
Host: Prof. Padilla
02/09

Jianhui Wang
Indiana University

"Many-Body Problems in Graphene"

Seminar
Host: Prof. Ran
02/10

 

No Colloquium

Colloquium
02/17 Dr. Dunwei Wang
Boston College, Chem. Dept.

Colloquium
Host: Prof. Padilla

02/24 TBD Colloquium
03/03

No Colloquium – Spring Vacation

 

03/10
Dr. Frank Vollmer
Rowland Institute at Harvard

"Localizing Light in Photonic Micro- and Nanostructures: Biosensing and BioInspired Engineering"

Colloquium
Host: Prof. Di Bartolo

03/17

No Colloquium – APS March Meeting

 
03/24

 

TBD

Colloquium
03/31 Dr. Bob Birgeneau
UC Berkeley
"Superconductors: Old and New"

Colloquium
Host: Prof. Wilson

04/07

Dr. Madalina Furis
University of Vermont

TBD Colloquium
Host: Prof. Opeil
04/14

 

TBD

 

04/21

 

TBD

Colloquium

04/28

 

TBD

Colloquium
05/05

 

Magde Colloquium, TBD

Colloquium

 

 



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