Physics Research Conference

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Thursday, January 5, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
The Restless Universe (Palomar Transient Factory)
S. R. Kulkarni, Principal Investigator, Palomar Transient Factory, Director, Caltech Optical Observatories, Caltech
Thursday, January 12, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
The Multiverse of String Theory, The Measure Problem, And The Cosmological Constant
Raphael Bousso, Professor, Theoretical Physics, UC Berkeley
Thursday, January 19, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Quantum Networks of Trapped Atomic Ions
Chris Monroe, Bice Zorn Professor of Physics, University of Maryland
Thursday, January 26, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Cosmic rays, climate and the CERN CLOUD experiment
Jasper Kirkby, CERN
Thursday, February 2, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
The Gravitational Waves and the Search: Into the Future
Rana Adhikari, Assistant Professor of Physics, LIGO, Caltech
Thursday, February 9, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Black Holes Get Loud. And Bright.
Janna Levin, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College, Columbia University
Thursday, February 16, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Bose-metals of frustrated spins and bosons and towards non-Fermi-liquids of electrons
Lesik Motrunich, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Caltech
Thursday, February 23, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
This Is Your Brain On Music
Daniel Levitin, Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Music, McGill University
Thursday, March 1, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
STABILITY AND COMPLEXITY IN MODEL BANKING SYSTEMS
Robert May, Lord May of Oxford, Fellow of Merton College, The University of Oxford
Thursday, March 8, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Off-Site Talk
Elon Musk, SpaceX Facility
Thursday, April 5, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Dark Energy, Dark Matter and the Emergence of Gravity
Erik Verlinde, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam/KITP
Thursday, April 12, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Inflation, infinity, equilibrium and the observable Universe
Andreas Albrecht, Professor of Physics & Department Chair, UC Davis
Thursday, April 19, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Dark Matter in the Universe
Katherine Freese, George E. Uhlenbeck Professor of Physics, Assoc Director, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan
Thursday, April 26, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Quantum Coherence in Photosynthesis
Birgitta Whaley, UC Berkeley
Birgitta Whaley, Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley
Thursday, May 3, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
The Discovery of Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter?
Jason Alicea, Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine
Thursday, May 10, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Diving For Treasure in Complex Data: From Roman Urns to Alzheimer's
Marvin Weinstein, Theoretical Physicist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford
Thursday, May 17, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Beyond Watson and Crick: Recent advances in the use of DNA as a building material
Paul Rothemund, Senior Research Associate, Caltech
Thursday, May 24, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
From Black Holes to Biological Membranes: Utilizing the Local Nature of Physical Laws to Simplify Complex Problems
Ira Rothstein, Professor of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University
Thursday, October 4, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Electronic nematic phases in high temperature superconductors
Ian Fisher, Stanford University
Thursday, October 11, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
A Converted Skeptic: Climate Change and its Human Origins
Richard Muller, UC Berkeley
Thursday, October 18, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Neural computations in the retina
Markus Meister, Harvard University
Thursday, October 25, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Topological Insulators: Opportunities, Materials and Challenges
Kang L. Wang, UCLA
Thursday, November 1, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
New Views of the Physics of Solar Flares (and Subcosmic Rays)
Hugh Hudson, University of Glasgow
Thursday, November 8, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Probing Stellar Physics through Asteroseismology
Conny Aerts, University of Leuven, Belgium
Thursday, November 15, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
The Quest for Naturalness at the LHC
Raman Sundrum, University of Maryland
Thursday, November 29, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Topological Phases in Correlated Materials
Yong-Baek Kim, University of Toronto
Thursday, December 6, 2012
4:00 pm
201 E. Bridge
Quantum Feedback in a Superconducting Qubit
Irfan Siddiqui, UC Berkeley