Physics Research Conference 2005-06

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 29	Robert P. Lin UC Berkeley	RHESSI Gamma-ray/Hard X-ray Imaging Spectroscopy Observations of Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares	Ed Stone
October 6	Shrinivas Kulkarni Caltech	The Mysterious Short Hard Bursts	Tom Soifer
October 13	Randall G. Hulet Rice University	The BEC/BCS Crossover in an Atomic Gas	Jeff Kimble
October 20	Seth J. Putterman UCLA	Energy Concentrating Phenomena: From Sonoluminescence to Crystal Fusion	Michael Roukes
October 27	Barbara Jacak Stony Brook University	The Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC	Robert McKeown
November 3	Sean Carroll University of Chicago	Beyond Dark Energy	Marc Kamionkowski
November 10	Iain Stewart MIT	Understanding the Strong Interactions with Effective Theories	Mark Wise
November 17	Bradley W. Filippone Caltech	What's so Cool about Ultra-Cold Neutrons?	Marc Kamionkowski
December 1	Ed Stone Caltech	Exploring the Final Frontier of the Solar System	Tom Soifer
January 5	Barry Barish LIGO, Caltech	The International Linear Collider	Robert McKeown
January 12	Lance Dixon SLAC	Twistor Spinoffs for Collider Physics	Hirosi Ooguri
January 19	Sidney Drell Stanford	What Are Nuclear Weapons For?	Robert McKeown
January 26	Ashvin Vishwanath UC Berkeley	Emergent Photons and Decaying Electrons: In Search of a New Paradigm for Quantum Materials	Hirosi Ooguri
February 2	Jason Petta Harvard	Quantum Control of Coupled Electron Spins	Michael Roukes
February 9	Valentine Telegdi Visiting Associate, Caltech	Historical fragments collected for you	Jeff Kimble
February 16	Felix Aharonian MPI Heidelberg	Galactic and Extragalactic Sources of TeV Gamma Rays	Robert McKeown
February 23	Stefan Westerhoff Columbia University	The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays	Harvey Newman
March 2	Chris Quigg Fermilab	Novel Hadrons	Harvey Newman
March 9	Eric Mjolsness UC Irvine	Physical methods for modeling biological systems	Jerry Pine
March 30	Joshua R. Klein University of Texas, Austin	Neutrino Physics: Recent Results and Prospects	Harvey Newman
April 6	Dan Rugar IBM Almaden	Single spin detection by magnetic resonance force microscopy	Michael Roukes
April 13	Stan Whitcomb Caltech	So what's going on over at LIGO?	Tom Soifer
April 20	Phaedon Avouris IBM Yorktown	Electronics and Optoelectronics with Single Carbon Nanotubes	Michael Roukes
April 27	Cumrun Vafa Harvard	Quantum Foam and Melting Crystal	Hirosi Ooguri
May 4	Christof Koch Caltech	How to represent movie stars in the human brain	Jerry Pine
May 11	Aashish Clerk McGill University	Quantum Back-action in Mesoscopic Physics: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly	Michael Roukes
May 18	Harvey Newman Caltech	Physics at the LHC: A New Window on the Nature of Matter, Spacetime and the Universe	Tom Soifer
May 25	Rainer Blatt University of Innsbruck	Quantum computers – dream and realization	Jeff Kimble
June 1	Caius Howcroft	Probing the Mysteries of Neutrinos with MINOS and NOvA	Harvey Newman

2004-2005 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2005-06

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