Physics Research Conference 2010-11

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
September 30	Douglas Finkbeiner Harvard University	Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles in the inner Galaxy: AGN Activity or Bipolar Galactic Wind?	Sean Carroll
October 7	Zhi-Xun Shen Stanford University	Extraordinary Advances on Photoemission Experiments	Nai-Chang Yeh
October 14	Dale Van Harlingen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne	The Search for Complex Order Parameter Symmetry in Unconventional Superconductors	Gil Refael
October 21	Laura Greene University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne	High-Temperature Superconductivity: Emergent Phases, Broken Symmetries, and the Power Grid	Jim Eisenstein
October 28	Anthony Aguirre UC Santa Cruz	Cosmological Intimations of Infinity	Sean Carroll
November 4	Edward Moses Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	The National Ignition Facility: The Path to Ignition, High Energy Density Science and Inertial Fusion Energy	Tom Tombrello
November 11	Till Rosenband NIST	Al+ optical clocks for fundamental physics, geodesy, and quantum metrology	Jeff Kimble
November 18	Ian Spielman NIST, JQI	Bose-Einstein condensates and synthetic gauge fields	Jim Eisenstein
December 2	David Rutledge Caltech	Hubbert's Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change	Prince/Tombrello
January 6	Neal Weiner New York University	The Force of the Dark Side	Maria Spiropulu
January 13	Philip W. Phillips University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Mottness and Holography: Strange Metal from UV-IR Mixing	Maria Spiropulu
January 20	Nergis Mavalvala MIT	CANCELLED Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines	Chen/Prince
January 27	John Monnier University of Michigan	Imaging the Surfaces of Stars	Sunil Golwala
February 3	John Thomas Duke University	A Tale of Quantum Viscosity in Universal Fermi Gases	Anton Kapustin
February 10	Mikhail Lukin Harvard University	Exploring New Frontiers of Quantum Optical Science	Gil Refael
February 17	Nergis Mavalvala MIT	Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Giant Quantum Machines	Chen/Prince
February 24	John Johnson Caltech	Giant Planets in the Stellar Mass-Metallicity Plane	Tom Prince
March 3	Gil Refael Caltech	Messy magnets and dirty superfluids	Jim Eisenstein
March 31	Donald K. Yeomans Jet Propulsion Laboratory	The Near-Earth Comets and Asteroids	Tom Prince
April 7	David Awschalom UCSB	Engaging spins in semiconductors for quantum information processing	Nai-Chang Yeh
April 14	John O. Dabiri Caltech	A new approach to wind energy	Tom Prince
April 21	Andrew Cleland UC Santa Barbara	Quantum light and sound	Michael Roukes
April 28	Mark Trodden University of Pennsylvania	Pushing Einstein's Boundaries: Gravitational Approaches to the Challenges of Modern Cosmology	Sean Carroll
May 5	Michael M. Watkins Jet Propulsion Laboratory	Gravity Mapping and Climate Monitoring: Past and Future	Sean Carroll
May 12	Victoria Stodden Columbia University	Technology and the Scientific Method: Tools and Policies for Addressing the Credibility Crisis in Computational Science	Maria Spiropulu
May 19	Jocelyn Monroe MIT	Directional Detection: Searching for the Dark Matter Wind	Sunil Golwala
May 26	Talk cancelled

2009-2010 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2010-11

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