Rutgers Department of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquium Schedule

Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
23-Jan	Sinisa Coh, Berkeley (Plano Award 2012)	Geometrical aspects of electrons in materials	David Vanderbilt
30 Jan	Sharad Ramanathan, Harvard	postponed for medical reasons	Anirvan Sengupta
6 Feb
13 Feb	Paul Tipton, Yale	The Higgs: What your tax dollars have taught us about Mass	John Paul Chou
20 Feb	Joel Moore, U C Berkeley	Topological insulators and their implications for electronic order	David Vanderbilt
27 Feb	John W. Harris (Yale)	Recreating the Primordial Quark-Gluon Plasma at the LHC	Sevil Salur & Larry Zamick
6 Mar	Leonid Mirny, MIT	The genome folding problem: Bridging physics and biology	Anirvan Sengupta
13 Mar	Fiona Harrison, Caltech	First Results From The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) High-Energy X-ray Mission	Jack Hughes
20 Mar	SPRING BREAK
27 Mar	Steven Kettell, Brookhaven National Laboratory	Daya Bay: Filling in the new Standard Model	John Paul Chou
3 Apr	Senior undergraduate students	Senior Honors Seminars	Mohan Kalelkar
10 Apr	Suzanne Staggs, Princeton	More Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope	Jack Hughes
17 Apr	John Mauro, Corning Glass	Topological Constraint Theory of Glass	Karin Rabe
24 Apr	David Grier, NYU	Photokinetic Effects: The leap from optical tweezers to practical tractor beams	Girsh Blumberg
1 May	Michel Devoret, Yale	The Road to the Poles: Quantum Measurements that Steer rather than Collapse	Girsh Blumberg & Karin Rabe

Last updated January 17, 2013