Physics Research Conference 2008-09

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 2	Georgi Dvali New York University	Microscopic Gravity	Mark Wise
October 9	Jonathan Feng University of California, Irvine	Dark Matters	Mark Wise
October 16	Michael Roukes Caltech	Nanosystems and Complexity: from "craft" to technology – to new frontiers	Tom Soifer
October 23	Eva Silverstein Stanford University	Inflation, String Theory, and Signatures in the CMB	Marc Kamionkowski
October 30	Peter Michelson Stanford University	The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: First Light	Marc Kamionkowski
November 6	Cristiano Galbiati Princeton University	The Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment	Robert McKeown
November 13	Ido Golding University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)	Information Processing in Living Cells: Beyond First Approximations	Michael Roukes
November 20	Niki Saoulidou Fermilab	Status of prospects of long baseline neutrino oscillation experiments	Robert McKeown
December 4	Steve Kivelson Stanford University	Electronic Liquid Crystals	Gil Refael
January 8	Andrew Sonnenschein Fermilab	Searching for dark matter with bubble chambers	Robert McKeown
January 15	Sandra Troian Caltech	Interface Mediated Transport in Micro/Nanoscale Flows	Gil Refael
January 22	Nikolay Prokofiev UMASS Amherst	What makes He-4 supersolid?	Gil Refael
January 29	Jack Harris Yale University	New measurements of persistent currents in normal metal rings	Jim Eisenstein
February 5	Gordon D. Cates, Jr. University of Virginia	Laser-polarized noble gases: a powerful probe for biology, medicine, and subatomic physics	Robert McKeown
February 12	Ehud Altman Weizmann Institute of Science	Many-body quantum interference: Seeing strongly correlated states of ultracold atoms	Gil Refael
February 19	Keith Schwab Cornell University	Mechanical Structures at Quantum Limits: State of Play and Future Prospects	Jim Eisenstein
February 26	Aneesh Manohar University of California, San Diego	Quantum Field Theory for the LHC	Mark Wise
March 5	Douglas D. Osheroff Stanford University	How advances in science are made	Nai-Chang Yeh
April 2	Wim Leemans LBNL	Laser driven acceleration of electrons: from 0 to 1 GeV in 3 cm and beyond	David Hitlin
April 9	Ray Ashoori MIT	Tunneling Spectroscopy with Extraordinary Energy Resolution: The Discovery of a New Quasiparticle	Nai-Chang Yeh
April 16	Zvi Bern UCLA	Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Quantum Chromodynamics to Gravity	Mark Wise
April 23	Amanda Weinstein UCLA	Exploring the extreme universe: astronomy and particle physics with VHE gamma-rays	Sunil Golwala
April 30	Geoffrey West Santa Fe Institute	The Complexity, Simplicity, and Unity of Living Systems from Cells to Cities: A Physicist's Search for Quantitative, Unified Theories of Biological and Social Structure and Organization	Sean Carroll
May 7	Ben Wandelt University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Seeing the Beginning of the Universe	Marc Kamionkowski
May 14	Yuki Sato University of California, Berkeley	Superfluid ⁴He Matter Wave Interferometers – Physics and Applications	Jim Eisenstein
May 21	Oskar Painter Caltech	Nano-opto-mechanics: utilizing light forces within guided-wave nanostructures	Michael Roukes
May 28	Rob Phillips Caltech	Order of Magnitude Biology	Michael Roukes

2007-2008 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2008-09

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