Physics Research Conference

Physics Research Conference 2003-04

The Physics Research Conference is held on Thursday at 4:00 P.M. in 201 E. Bridge, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served in 114 E. Bridge at 3:45 P.M. All talks are intended for a broad audience, and everyone is encouraged to attend.

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Date	Speaker*	Title*	Host
October 2	David Saltzberg UCLA	Neutrino Astronomy	Marc Kamionkowski
October 9	Bernie Yurke Lucent	Using DNA to Assemble Nanoscale Structures and Devices	Jim Eisenstein
October 16	Scott Fraser Caltech	Imaging the Development of Biological Form & Function	Jerry Pine
October 23	John Martinis NIST	Coherence in Josephson-Junction Qubits	Jim Eisenstein
October 30	Shoucheng Zhang Stanford	Dissipationless Quantum Spin Current in Semiconductors	Jim Eisenstein
November 6	Hitoshi Murayama U. C. Berkeley	The Next Twenty Years in Particle Physics	Hiroshi Ooguri
November 13	Pat Burchat Stanford	Physics at the B Factories: Progress and Prospects	Barry Barish
November 20	J.C. Séamus Davis Cornell	Ripples on a D-wave Sea: Quasiparticle Wavefunction Imaging in Cuprate Superconductors	Jim Eisenstein
December 4	Jun Ye JILA	Control of Light: (Precision-) Frequency Meets (Ultrafast-) Time	Jeff Kimble
January 8	R. Sunyaev Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow	Turbulence in clusters of galaxies: CMB and X-Ray Line Profiles	Marc Kamionkowski
January 15	Ernst Sichtermann Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Muon g-2	Emlyn Hughes
January 22	Jim Heath Caltech	"Molecular Mechanics and Electronics"	John Preskill
January 29	Youxing Jiang UT Southwestern	Potassium Channel Gating	Jerry Pine
February 5	Chris Tully Princeton	Limits and Outer Limits of the Higgs Boson Searches	Emlyn Hughes
February 12	Sunil Golwala Caltech	Observing the Sunyaev-Zeldovich Sky with Bolocam	Marc Kamionkowski
February 19	Leon Balents UCSB	Novel 'Deconfined' Criticality in Quantum Magnets	John Preskill
February 26	David Goodstein Caltech	Out of Gas: the End of the Age of Oil	Jerry Pine
March 4	Catherine Kallin McMaster	From Superconductors to Quantum Order: A journey through the physics of electrons	Jim Eisenstein
March 11	Michael Douglas Rutgers	Supersymmetric gauge theory: an overview	Hiroshi Ooguri
April 1	Andrea Ghez UCLA	Unveiling a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy	Thomas Soifer
April 8	Robert Jaffe MIT	Exotica	Emlyn Hughes
April 15	Eugene Polzik Niels Bohr Institute	Light - Atoms quantum interface	Jeff Kimble
April 22	Paul Alivisatos UC Berkeley	Nanocrystals as a Class of Macromolecule	Michael Roukes
April 29	Keith Schwab National Security Agency	Experiments in Quantum Electro-Mechanics	Jeff Kimble
May 6	Hamish Robertson University of Washington	A Place in the Sun for the Neutrino	Barry Barish
May 13	Chris Martin Caltech	"The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Results From the First Year."	Marc Kamionkowski
May 20	Steve Girvin Yale	Doing Atomic Physics with Electrical Circuits: Strong Coupling Cavity QED	Jim Eisenstein
May 27	Mark Wise Caltech	Nonperturbative Strong Interaction Effects in High Energy Processes	John Preskill
June 3	Miguel Nicolelis Duke CANCELLED	Computing with Neural Ensembles CANCELLED	Jerry Pine

2002-2003 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

Physics Research Conference 2003-04

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