2012 Colloquia Archive
- Quantum Physics for All
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Emily Edwards
- Nanoelectronics – a molecular view
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Avik Gosh
- Atom Circuits: Superflow in Toroidal Condensates
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Gretchen Campbell
- Thermal transport in heavy fermions and valence fluctuators
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Veljko Zlatic
- Advances in Spintronics
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 – 3:30pm
Mark Johnson
- Fine-Scale Observations and Study of Tornadoes and Landfalling Hurricanes
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – 3:30pm
Joshua Wurman
- Self-Organization and Mechanics of Active Matter
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
M. Cristina Marchetti
- A Little Big Bang: Strong Interactions in Ultracold Fermi Gases
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Martin Zwierlein
- Cool quantum optics with hot atoms
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Irinia Novikova
- On Shape and Order
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 – 3:30pm
Mark Bowick
- Public Lecture: “The Physics Of Cooking”
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 – 4:30pm – 5:30pm
David A. Weitz
- Emergent Phenomena at Oxide Interfaces
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Harold Hwang
- Cell motility and cell migration
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Andrea Liu
- Conceptual Discussion and Real-World Connections During Collaborative Group Problem Solving
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Mathew “Sandy” Martinuk
- Problem Solving, Scaffolding and Learning
Friday, May 25, 2012 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Shih-Yin Lin
- Response of Tokyo Students to Reformed Physics Curriculum
Monday, June 4, 2012 – 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Michael M. Hull
- Living in a Solar-Powered Home
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Victor M. Yakovenko
- Oxide Interface: a chance for new electronics
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Lu Li
- Controlling Growth of Large Area Graphene on SiC
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Kurt Gaskill
- Rethinking Physics for Biologists: Adapting to a major new service course constituency
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Joe (E. F.) Redish
- Quest for new superconductors, or superconductivity entering the Iron Age
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Igor Mazin
- Learning of Complex Networks through Adaptive Synchronization of Chaos
Tuesday, October 9, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
Francesco Sorrentino
- Non-equilibrium many-body dynamics with cold atoms in optical lattices
Tuesday, October 16, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Andrew Daley
- A Proteolytic Motor: Biased Diffusion of Collagenase and the Mechanism of Collagen Fibril Degradation
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Keir C. Neuman
- Algorithmic progress in the simulation of correlated fermionic quantum many-body systems and applications to superconductors and cold fermionic gases
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Emanuel Gull
- Soft Matter Physics in Construction
Monday, November 12, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Emanuela Del Gado
- Soft Matter Under Stress: shear banding and structure formation
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
Peter Olmsted
- Thermal Transport and Dissipation Studies of Carbon Nanotubes
Tuesday, December 4, 2012 – 3:15pm
John Cumings
