Physics Research Conference 2012-13

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	Ian Fisher Stanford	Electronic nematic phases in high temperature superconductors	David Hsieh
October 11	Richard Muller UC Berkeley	A Converted Skeptic: Climate Change and its Human Origins	Tom Tombrello
October 18	Markus Meister Caltech	Neural computations in the retina	Jerry Pine
October 25	Kang L. Wang UCLA	Topological Insulators: Opportunities, Materials and Challenges	Nai-Chang Yeh
November 1	Hugh Hudson University of Glasgow	New Views of the Physics of Solar Flares (and Subcosmic Rays)	Sterl Phinney
November 8	Conny Aerts University of Leuven, Belgium	Probing Stellar Physics through Asteroseismology	Sterl Phinney
November 15	Raman Sundrum University of Maryland	The Quest for Naturalness at the LHC	Hirosi Ooguri
November 29	Yong-Baek Kim University of Toronto	Topological Phases in Correlated Materials	David Hsieh
December 6	Irfan Siddiqi UC Berkeley	Quantum Feedback in a Superconducting Qubit	Michael Cross
January 10	Steven Koonin NYU	The Promise of Urban Science	Tom Prince
January 17	Paul Steinhardt Princeton	Once Upon a Time in Kamchatka: The Extraordinary Search for Natural Quasicrystals	Sean Carroll
January 24	David Bensimon ENS, Paris	Do bacteria play tit-for-tat ? Dynamics of a public good in bacterial micro-colony.	Michael Cross
January 31	Mark Scheel Caltech	Exploring the Collision of two Black Holes	Sterl Phinney
February 7	Judea Pearl UCLA	THE MATHEMATICS OF CAUSE AND EFFECT: Thinking Nature and Talking Counterfactuals	Maria Spiropulu
February 14	Frans Pretorius Princeton	Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics	Hirosi Ooguri
February 21	John Grotzinger Caltech	Curiosity's Mission of Exploration at Gale Crater, Mars	Tom Prince
February 28	Pablo Jarillo-Herrero MIT	The Versatility of Dirac Electrons in Graphene	Gil Refael
March 7	Israel Klich University of Virginia	Quantum fluctuations: From the Casimir Effect to Quantum Entanglement	Gil Refael
April 4	Harvey Newman Caltech	Physics at the Large Hadron Collider: A New Window on Matter, Spacetime and the Universe	Maria Spiropulu
April 11	John Clarke UC Berkeley	The Ubiquitous SQUID: Then and Now	Nai-Chang Yeh
April 18	Zohar Komargodski Institute for Advanced Study	New Observations about Quantum Field Theory	Hirosi Ooguri
April 25	Fiona Harrison Caltech	Unveiling the High Energy X-ray Sky with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array	Tom Prince
May 2	Robert McKeown Jefferson Lab	Neutrinos: Masters of Surprise	Sunil Golwala
May 9	Yanbei Chen Caltech	Macroscopic Quantum Objects
May 16	Jamie Bock Caltech	First Cosmology Results from Planck	Tom Prince
May 23	Steven White UC Irvine	Frustrated Magnets and Quantum Spin Liquids	Jason Alicea
May 30	Joseph Polchinski KITP, UCSB	The Black Hole Information Paradox, Alive and Kicking	Sean Carroll

2011-2012 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2012-13

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