Physics Research Conference 2014-15

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 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	Thomas F. Rosenbaum Caltech	Correlations, Fluctuations, and Disorder at Chromium's Quantum Phase Transition	Hirosi Ooguri
October 9	Christopher Jarzynski U of Maryland	Irreversibility, information and the second law of thermodynamics at the nanoscale	Michael Roukes
October 16	David Stevenson Caltech	Journey to the Center of the Earth	Hirosi Ooguri
October 23	Alex Zettl UC Berkeley	Exploring sp2-bonded materials: From graphene liquid cells to atomic collapse	Nai-Chang Yeh
October 30	Mina Aganagic UC Berkeley	Math, Physics and Duality	Hirosi Ooguri
November 6	Jesse Thaler MIT	The Case for Jet Substructure	Clifford Cheung
November 13	Jason Petta Princeton University	Quantum dot micromaser driven by single electron tunneling	Gil Refael
November 20	Seth Lloyd MIT	Quantum machine learning	Sean Carroll
December 4	Mark Van Raamsdonk University of British Columbia	Gravity and Entanglement	Sean Carroll
December 11	Graham Farmelo Visiting By-Fellow, Churchill College, Adjunct Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, Boston	Paul Dirac - the theorist's theorist	Hirosi Ooguri
January 8	Paul Goldbart Georgia Tech	Seeking simplicity in complexity: A physicist's view of vulcanized media	Gil Refael
January 15	Gavin Crooks UC Berkeley and LBL	Optimal Thermodynamic Control and the Riemannian Geometry of the Ising model	Sean Carroll
January 22	Tim Tait UC Irvine	Searches for Particle Dark Matter	Clifford Cheung
January 29	Heather Knutson Caltech	Atmospheres of Extrasolar Planets in the Super-Earth Era	Hirosi Ooguri
February 5	Kip Thorne Caltech	Interstellar: A Physicist's Adventures in Hollywood	John Preskill
February 12	Immanuel Bloch Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik	Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level	Michael Roukes
February 19	Dave Reitze Caltech	Advanced LIGO: A Prelude to Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy	Rana Adhikari
February 26	Andrea Cavalleri University of Oxford	Optically driven quantum solids: emergence without equilibrium	David Hsieh
March 5	Francis Halzen University of Wisconsin-Madison	IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos	Sunil Golwala
April 2	Lyman Page Princeton University	The CMB and Neutrinos	Chris Martin
April 9	Umesh Vazirani UC Berkeley	Testing Quantum Systems	John Preskill
April 16	Fiona Harrison Caltech	The Environments of Black Holes - New Understandings from NuSTAR	Tom Prince
April 23	Cindy Regal University of Colorado Boulder	Interferometry in a strong light	Rana Adhikari
April 30	Chris Xu Cornell University	In vivo Multiphoton Imaging of Mouse Brain	Michael Roukes
May 7	Amir Yacoby Harvard University	Quantum Information Processing and Metrology Using Few Electron Spins in Solids	Jason Alicea
May 14	Joseph Lykken Fermilab	Neutrinos are Everywhere	Maria Spiropulu
May 21	Werner Hofmann Max-Planck-Gesellschaft	The Galaxy in a new light: Gamma-ray astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes	Chris Martin
May 28	Alan Guth MIT	The Biard Lecture - Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse?	Sean Carroll

2013-2014 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2014-15

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