Physics Research Conference 2009-10

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 1	John Peacock Royal Observatory, Edinburgh	Studying the Dark Universe with Galaxy Clustering	Tom Soifer
October 8	Sean Carroll Caltech	The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time	Marc Kamionkowski
October 15	Roger Romani Stanford University	Fermi LAT Pulsars: The New Gamma-ray View of the Pulsar Machine	Tom Soifer
October 22	Ramamurti Shankar Yale University	Dots for Dummies	Gil Refael
October 29	Thomas Levenson MIT	Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist.....Cop?	Sean Carroll
November 5	Bonnie Bassler Princeton University	Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria	Sean Carroll
November 12	Daniel Holz Los Alamos National Laboratory	Cosmology from standard sirens	Marc Kamionkowski
November 19	M. Zahid Hasan Princeton University	Topological Insulators : the Observation of Quantum Hall-like Effects without Magnetic Field	Gil Refael
December 3	Subir Sachdev Harvard University	Quantum phase transitions: from antiferromagnets and superconductors to black holes	Anton Kapustin
January 7	Rob Phillips Caltech	Order of Magnitude Biology	Michael Roukes
January 14	Paul Sommers Penn State University	The high energy frontier of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory	Marc Kamionkowski
January 21	David Charbonneau Harvard University	Detecting Habitable Exoplanets: The Small Star Opportunity	Tom Prince
January 28	Gary Horowitz UC Santa Barbara	The Remarkable Power of General Relativity	Yanbei Chen
February 4	Sunil Golwala Caltech	The Road to Zeptobarn Dark Matter and Beyond	Marc Kamionkowski
February 11	Sheperd Doeleman Haystack Observatory, MIT	Measuring a Black Hole Event Horizon: Very Long Baseline Interferometry of the Galactic Center	Tom Soifer
February 18	Boris Kayser Fermilab	Are We Descended From Heavy Neutrinos?	Robert McKeown
February 25	Yanbei Chen Caltech	LIGO Mirrors as Quantum Objects	Marc Kamionkowski
March 4	Norval Fortson University of Washington	New limit on the permanent electric dipole moment of the ¹⁹⁹Hg atom	Robert McKeown
April 1	Peter Zoller University of Innsbruck	Quantum Information and Condensed Matter Physics with Quantum Optical Systems	Jeff Kimble
April 8	Saul Teukolsky Cornell University	Simulations of Black Holes and Gravitational Waves	Yanbei Chen
April 15	Eugene Polzik Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University	Quantum information processing and quantum metrology with atomic ensembles	Jeff Kimble
April 22	Shamit Kachru KITP/Stanford	Illuminating strongly coupled field theories with black holes	Anton Kapustin
April 29	David Tirrell Caltech	Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Design, Evolution and Analysis	Nai-Chang Yeh
May 6	Matthew B. Hastings Microsoft Research Station Q, UCSB	Entropy in Quantum Information Theory and Condensed Matter Physics	John Preskill
May 13	Sharad Ramanathan Harvard University	Soft directions in biology: what can we learn about from networks?	Gil Refael
May 20	No scheduled speaker	Please note it is cancelled	No host
May 27	Dolores Bozovic UCLA	Biophysics of hearing: mechanical detection by inner ear hair cells	Sean Carroll

2008-2009 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2009-10

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