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• The Greatest Scientific Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope

  Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 3:00pm Reiss 502Mario LivioSpace Telescope Science Institute I will review the most important scientific achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope. I will cover topics ran

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• A model for the origin and properties of flicker-induced geometric phosphenes

  Tuesday, September 27, 2011 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Reiss 502 Bard Ermentrout University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mathematics When the human visual system is subjected to diffuse flickering light in the

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• Modeling Scattering-Assisted Transport in Nanodevices

  Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 3:00pm Reiss 502 Smitha Vasudevan George Washington University Inorganic semiconductors have traditionally dominated as the material players in the electronics industr

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• Low-decoherence quantum simulation of lattice spin models with trapped ions

  Tuesday, September 6, 2011 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Reiss 502Wes CampbellUniversity of Maryland We use a collection of trapped atomic ions as a platform for the quantum simulation of lattice spin models. By

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• 2D or not 2D, Electronic Transport in Novel Low Dimensional Materials

  Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero MIT Department of Physics Over the past few years, the physics of low dimensional electronic systems has been revolutionized by the discov

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• X-ray Polarimetry: A New Black Hole Probe

  Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502 Kevin Black Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md Abstract: The polarization of X-rays emitted from black holes and neutron stars contains unique an

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• Entrepreneurial Life After the ILP

  Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 3:15am Reiss 502 Dr. Vincent Spinella-Mamo The ILP program has bridged the gap between physics and business, especially with respect to entrepreneurial endeavors. This talk w

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• Quantum Chaos and the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics

  Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Mark SrednickiUniversity of California, Santa Barbara The question of how isolated systems come to thermal equilibrium has been debated since before the adve

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• High-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials

  Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 3:15pm Reiss 502Johnpierre PaglioneUniversity of Maryland, Department of Physics The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in iron-based pnictide compounds has spar

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• The acoustics of Baroque bassoons

  Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 3:15pm - 4:30pm Reiss 502 Bryant Hichwa Hichwa and Rachor have developed a physical acoustical modeling procedure to characterize Baroque bassoons. In a previous work the r

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