2011 Colloquia Archive

• Molecular Switches: Can a two-state conductance be controlled in single porphyrin molecules?
  Tuesday, January 18, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Kim Michelle Lewis
• Superconductivity in nanograins: smaller is different.
  Tuesday, January 25, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Antonio Garcia-Garcia
• POSTPONED – DATE TBD: Do Electrons in a Metal have the Same Charge as Free Electrons in Vacuum?
  Tuesday, February 1, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Neil Zimmerman
• Topological insulators and fractionalization
  Tuesday, February 8, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Michael Levin
• Do Electrons in a Metal have the Same Charge as Free Electrons in Vacuum?
  Tuesday, February 15, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Neil Zimmerman
• Probing Sub-Cellular Force Transduction and Soft Matter using Magnetic Nanowires
  Tuesday, February 22, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Daniel Reich
• Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Noble-Metal Nanocrystals
  Thursday, March 3, 2011 – 2:45pm – 4:00pm
  Younan Xia
• Coherent control of cold atoms in a double-well optical lattice
  Tuesday, March 15, 2011 – 3:15pm – 4:15pm
  Trey Porto
• The acoustics of Baroque bassoons
  Tuesday, March 29, 2011 – 3:15pm – 4:30pm
  Bryant Hichwa
• High-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials
  Tuesday, April 5, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Johnpierre Paglione
• Quantum Chaos and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
  Tuesday, April 12, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Mark Srednicki
• Entrepreneurial Life After the ILP
  Tuesday, April 19, 2011 – 3:15am
  Dr. Vincent Spinella-Mamo
• X-ray Polarimetry: A New Black Hole Probe
  Tuesday, April 26, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Kevin Black
• 2D or not 2D, Electronic Transport in Novel Low Dimensional Materials
  Tuesday, May 3, 2011 – 3:15pm
  Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
• Low-decoherence quantum simulation of lattice spin models with trapped ions
  Tuesday, September 6, 2011 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
  Wes Campbell
• Modeling Scattering-Assisted Transport in Nanodevices
  Tuesday, September 20, 2011 – 3:00pm
  Smitha Vasudevan
• A model for the origin and properties of flicker-induced geometric phosphenes
  Tuesday, September 27, 2011 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
  Bard Ermentrout
• The Greatest Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope
  Tuesday, October 4, 2011 – 3:00pm
  Mario Livio
• How angle resolved photoemission can help us understand high temperature superconductivity and other complex states of matter
  Tuesday, October 11, 2011 – 3:00pm
  Juan Carlos Campuzano
• Engineering Quantum Coherence
  Tuesday, October 25, 2011 – 3:00pm
  Christopher Lobb
• Quantum Physics for All
  Tuesday, November 1, 2011 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
  Emily Edwards
• From neural activity to movement
  Tuesday, November 8, 2011 – 3:00pm
  Sara Solla
• Superluminal quantum mass currents and the generation of gravitational radiation
  Tuesday, November 15, 2011 – 3:00pm – 4:00pm
  Raymond Chiao
• Tailoring Bottom-Up Nanostructures for New Frontiers of Ultrafast Nano-Optical Physics
  Tuesday, November 22, 2011 – 3:00pm
  Min Ouyang
• Radio pulsar populations in the Galaxy and beyond
  Tuesday, November 29, 2011 – 3:00pm
  Duncan Lorimer