2010 Colloquia Archive

• Materials Assembly – A complex route to merging nano- and micro- length scales
  Tuesday, January 26, 2010 – 3:15pm
  Kimani Stancil, Assistant Professor
• Aspects of One-Dimensional Quantum Many-Body Systems: Chaos, Dynamics, and Quantum Control
  Tuesday, February 2, 2010 – 3:15pm
  Prof. Lea Ferreira dos Santos
• Collapse and revival of an ultra-cold few-atom state
  Tuesday, March 2, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
  Eite Tiesinga
• Interaction of Femtosecond Terawatt Laser Radiation with Plasmas and Materials
  Tuesday, March 23, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
  Dr. Antonio (Tony) Ting
• Modeling adaptation in E. coli chemotaxis: precise, robust, and optimized
  Tuesday, March 30, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
  Ned Wingreen
• Self-assembly with a twist
  Tuesday, April 6, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
  Zvonimir Dogic
• Modeling the dynamics and gravitational-wave emission of coalescing binary black holes
  Tuesday, April 13, 2010 – 3:15pm
  Prof. Alessandra Buonanno
• The superconducting proximity effect in metals and molecules
  Tuesday, April 20, 2010 – 3:15pm
  Sophie Guéron
• Formation and properties of Cu2S-CdS and Ag2S-CdS nanorod heterostructures
  Tuesday, April 27, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
  Denis Demchenko
• Fluid turbulence: How nature mixes things up
  Wednesday, May 5, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
  Robert Ecke
• Ultrasensitive Superconducting Photon Detectors
  Tuesday, May 11, 2010 – 3:15pm
  Prof. Daniel Prober
• Quantum computing with entangled atoms and photons
  Tuesday, September 7, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
  Boris Blinov
• Scandal in Physics: The Affair of Jan Hendrik Schön at Bell Labs
  Tuesday, September 14, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
  Eugenie Samuel Reich
• Folding Landscapes of RNA – CANCELED
  Thursday, September 23, 2010 – 2:45pm – 4:00pm
  Dave Thirumalai
• Searching for exotic ground states of quantum many-body systems. What’s out there?
  Tuesday, September 28, 2010 – 3:15pm
  Gregory Fiete
• Interfacing Nanoscience and Biomedical Research
  Tuesday, October 5, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
  Jong-in Hahm
• Near-surface bacterial motility during biofilm formation
  Tuesday, October 12, 2010 – 3:15pm
  Jacinta C. Conrad
• The Physics and Applications of Superconducting Metamaterials.
  Tuesday, October 19, 2010 – 3:15pm
  Steven Anlage
• Solar Photovoltaics – Technology, Challenges, and Value
  Tuesday, November 2, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
  Ken Zweibel
• Ultra-wideband radio frequency signal analysis using spatial-spectral holography
  Thursday, November 11, 2010 – 2:45pm
  Dr. Kristian D. Merkel
• Directed Migration and Signal Relay in Dictyostelium Aggregation
  Tuesday, November 30, 2010 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
  Erin Rericha