Physics Research Conference 2006-07

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 28	Mark Dykman Michigan State University	Metastable decay via quantum activation	Michael Roukes
October 5	Brad Marston Brown University	The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming	Gil Refael
October 12	Anton Kapustin Caltech	Electric-Magnetic Duality In Gauge Theory: Overview and Recent Developments	John Preskill
October 19	David Baltimore Caltech	Stem Cells, a Primer Note: Since the PMA Fall Gathering is today, there will be no tea and cookies. Enjoy refreshments after the talk.	Jerry Pine
October 26	Lawrence J. Hall UC Berkeley	The Large Hadron Collider: More Symmetries or More Universes?	Mark Wise
November 2	Rob Schoelkopf Yale University	Circuit QED: Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing on a Superconducting Chip	Jeff Kimble
November 9	Aharon Kapitulnik Stanford University	Search for Yukawa-Type Gravity-Like Forces at Sub-mm Distance	Nai-Chang Yeh
November 16	Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf Caltech	Symmetries of the Early Universe and the Origin of Matter	Mark Wise
November 30	Daniel S. Fisher Harvard University	Is evolution understood? Quantitative questions from a statistical mechanic	Gil Refael
January 4	Philip Kim Columbia University	Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon	Michael Roukes
January 11	David Hitlin Caltech	March of the Penguins: The Future of Heavy Flavor Physics	Mark Wise
January 18	Scott Aaronson Waterloo University	Computational Intractability as a Law of Physics	John Preskill
January 25	Juan Collar University of Chicago	Something old, something new: Resurrecting Detector Technologies in Astroparticle and Neutrino Physics	Marc Kamionkowski
February 1	Michael Watkins JPL	Monitoring the Earth's Climate Through Gravity: Latest Results from GRACE	Tom Prince
February 8	Ron Lifshitz Tel Aviv University/Caltech	Quasicrystals - Some of nature's most intriguing forms of matter	Nai-Chang Yeh
February 15	Matthew Fisher University of California, Santa Barbara	Quantum Crystals, Quantum Choreography and Quantum Computing	Nai-Chang Yeh
February 22	Marc Kamionkowski Caltech	Testing the Equivalence Principle for Dark Matter	Tom Soifer
March 1	Diana Kormos-Buchwald Caltech	Researching Einstein: Star-clusters, Eclipses, and Anti-Relativity 1918-1921	Tom Soifer
March 8	Ann Finkbeiner Johns Hopkins University	The Jasons	Tom Soifer
March 29	Andrey Kravtsov University of Chicago	Cosmological simulations of clusters of galaxies: status, problems, challenges	Marc Kamionkowski
April 5	Daniel J. McCleese JPL	Recent News from Mars	Tom Soifer
April 12	Maria Spiropulu CERN	Discovery Physics at the LHC	Harvey Newman
April 19	Joseph Kroll U of Penn	Matter-Antimatter Transformations at 3 Trillion Hertz	David Hitlin
April 26	Morgan Wascko Imperial College London	First Oscillation Results From MiniBooNE	Sunil Golwala
May 3	Lyman Page Princeton University	Recent results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and Future Directions	Marc Kamionkowski
May 10	Julio Fernandez Columbia University	Probing chemical reactions with force, one bond at a time	Michael Roukes
May 17	Wilson Ho UC Irvine	Visualization of Quantum Phenomena	Nai-Chang Yeh
May 24	Lee Lindblom Caltech	Numerical Simulations of Black Hole Spacetimes	Tom Soifer
May 31	Dam Thanh Son University of Washington	Viscosity, black holes, and relativistic heavy ion collisions	Mark Wise

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Physics Research Conference 2006-07

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