Physics Research Conference 2007-08

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. If that room is not available, they are served in 108 E. Bridge. All talks are intended for a broad audience, and everyone is encouraged to attend.

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Date	Speaker*	Title*	Host
October 4	Bill Marciano Brookhaven National Lab	Neutrino CP Violation Deep Underground	Robert McKeown
October 11	Andrea Liu U of Penn	Jamming	Jim Eisenstein
October 18	Alexander Kusenko UCLA	Neutrinos: the dark side of the light fermions	Marc Kamionkowski
October 25	Edward Farhi MIT	A quantum computer can determine who wins a game faster than a classical computer	John Preskill
November 1	Chetan Nayak Station Q, UCSB	The Quantum Hall Effect, Non-Abelian Anyons, and Topological Quantum Computation	Gil Refael
November 8	Rick Gaitskell Brown University	Noble Travails: XENON10, LUX and Other Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter	Robert McKeown
November 15	Leo Radzihovsky University of Colorado, Boulder	Condensed matter physics with cold atomic gases	Gil Refael
November 29	James Hansen Goddard Institute for Space Studies	The Threat to the Planet: Dark and Bright Sides of Global Warming	Diana Kormos-Buchwald
December 6	H. Jeff Kimble Caltech	Scalable Quantum Networks with Atoms and Photons	Marc Kamionkowski
January 10	Gary Sanders Thirty Meter Telescope Project	The Thirty Meter Telescope Project: Opening the Next Generation of Giant Optical/Infrared Telescope	Tom Soifer
January 17	Jun Ye JILA/NIST/U of Colorado	Quantum metrology with precision light and ultracold atoms	Marc Kamionkowski
January 24	Ned S Wingreen Princeton	Modeling the chemosensing system of E. coli	Michael Roukes
January 31	Guifre Vidal University of Queensland	Entanglement Renormalization, Quantum Criticality and Topological Order	John Preskill
February 7	Karsten Heeger University of Wisconsin	Precision Measurements of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters with Reactor Neutrinos	Robert McKeown
February 14	Moty Heiblum Weizmann Institute of Science	Entangled Electrons in the Solid State: Quantum Interference and Dephasing	Jim Eisenstein
February 21	Heinrich Jaeger University of Chicago	Dried to Order: Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Monolayers	Jim Eisenstein
February 28	Michael Elowitz Caltech	The noisy dynamics of choices among possible cellular states	Michael Roukes
March 6	Marc Bockrath Caltech	Carbon Nanoelectronics and Sensors	Nai-Chang Yeh
March 13		Sorry, No PRC Talk Scheduled.
April 3	Rana Adhikari Caltech	How to Catch a Gravitational Wave	Andrew Lange
April 10	Lisa Randall Harvard University	Warped Geometry: Consequences and LHC Signatures	Mark Wise
April 17	Clifford Johnson USC	Cooking with Quarks and Gluons: Recipes from the String Theory Kitchen	Marc Kamionkowski
April 24	Sunil Golwala Caltech	Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Science with Bolocam	Andrew Lange
May 1	Rennan Barkana Tel Aviv University	Cosmology with 21-cm Radio Observations	Marc Kamionkowski
May 8	Giorgio Gratta Stanford	Double-beta decay and the quest for Neutrino Masses	Robert McKeown
May 15	Adam Burrows Princeton University	Theories of the Explosive Death of Massive Stars	Robert McKeown
May 22	Patrick A. Lee MIT	Quantum spin liquid: from drought to deluge	Nai-Chang Yeh
May 29	Jonas Zmuidzinas Caltech	The Technology of Submillimeter Astronomy	Tom Soifer
June 5	Kip S. Thorne Caltech	John Archibald Wheeler: "Just Crazy Enough to be Right"	Marc Kamionkowski

2006-2007 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2007-08

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