Physics Research Conference 2004-05

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
September 30	Douglas Osheroff Stanford	Understanding the Columbia Shuttle Accident	Thomas Soifer
October 7	Rob Duncan UNM	Ultra-High-Resolution Studies of (at least one) Non-Equilibrium Quantum Phase Transition	David Goodstein
October 14	Kathryn Moler Stanford	Mesoscopic Magnetic Imaging	Jim Eisenstein
October 21	Joe Polchinski UCSB	Cosmic Superstrings	Hiroshi Ooguri
October 28	Adam Riess STScI	Kinematics and Dark Energy from Supernovae at z>1	Hiroshi Ooguri
November 4	Francis Everitt Stanford	Gravity Probe B: Testing Einstein in Space — A Marriage of Physics and Technology	David Goodstein
November 11	John Doyle Caltech	Complexity	Hideo Mabuchi
November 18	Michael Luke University of Toronto	Disentangling the strong force: QCD, Factorization and the b quark	Mark Wise
December 2	Gerald Gabrielse Harvard	Atoms Made Entirely of Antimatter: Two Methods Produced Slow Antihydrogen	Jeff Kimble
January 6	Sergei Gukov Harvard	The Geography of Extra Dimensions	Hiroshi Ooguri
January 13	Amir Yacoby Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel	Electrons in One dimension-Spin-Charge Separation and Localization	Jim Eisenstein
January 20	Alexei Kitaev Caltech	Quantum Computation and Anyons	Hiroshi Ooguri
January 27	Savas Dimopoulos Stanford	Particle Physics circa 2010	Mark Wise
February 3	Carlton M. Caves UNM	Physical Resources, Entanglement, and the Power of Quantum Computation	Hideo Mabuchi
February 10	Guenter Ahlers UCSB	Fluctuations near bifurcations in non-equilibrium systems	Michael Cross
February 17	Navin Khaneja Harvard	Fundamental limits on control of open quantum systems with applications to biomolecular NMR spectroscopy	Hideo Mabuchi
February 24	Deborah S. Jin JILA	Fermi condensates	Jeff Kimble
March 3	Rob Goldston Princeton	Magnetic Fusion Science and ITER	David Goodstein
March 10	A. Douglas Stone Yale University	Einstein's unknown insight and the problem of quantizing chaotic motion	Michael Cross
March 31	Tom Murphy UCSD	Shooting the Moon: Probing Fundamental Gravity in the Solar System	Thomas Soifer
April 7	Dan Akerib Case Western	Looking for WIMPs in the Galactic Halo: the Search for Dark Matter using Ultra-Cold Particle Detectors and Other Techniques	Jonas Zmuidzinas
April 14	Jim Eisenstein Caltech	Bose Condensation, Superfluidity, and the Quantum Hall Effect	Jerry Pine
April 21	Jonathan Lunine University of Arizona	Titan at H+3 months	Thomas Soifer
April 28	Moses Chan Penn State	Can a solid be superfluid?	Jim Eisenstein
May 5	Neil Gehrels Goddard Space Flight Center	Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries by the Swift Mission	Jonas Zmuidzinas
May 12	Leroy Hood Institute for Systems Biology	Systems Biology: Deciphering the Networks of Life	Jerry Pine
May 19	Ian Shipsey Purdue	Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account	David Hitlin
May 26	David Goldhaber-Gordon Stanford	Engineering Hamiltonians in the Laboratory: Many-body Physics in Semiconductor Nanostructures	Jim Eisenstein
June 2	Shivaji Sondhi Princeton	Topological Phases of Condensed Matter	Jim Eisenstein

2003-2004 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2004-05

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