Rutgers Department of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2009/Spring 2010

Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
2-Sept	Yuri Gershtein (Rutgers)	"The quest to understand physics in the microworld: Physics at Hadron Colliders"	Piers Coleman
9-Sept	Zahid Hasan (Princeton)	"Topological Insulators and the Observation of Quantum Hall-like Effects Without Magnetic Fields"	Piers Coleman
16-Sept	Chuck Keeton (Rutgers)	"Shedding Light on Dark Matter with Gravitational Lensing"	Tad Pryor
23-Sept	Rick Casten (Yale)	Quantum phase transitions in Finite Nuclei and Nuclear structural Evolution	Jolie Cizewskii
30-Sept	Rachel Somerville (STSCI, Baltimore)	The Intertwined Lifecycle of Galaxies and Their Black Holes	Jerry Sellwood
7-Oct	Ron Gilman (Rutgers)	"Finding quarks in the nucleon"
14 Oct	Misha Gershenson (Rutgers)	Macroscopic Quantum Effects in Superconducting Circuits	Piers Coleman
21-Oct	Cristiano Galbiati(Princeton)	"The Quest for Dark Matter"	Eva Halkiadakis
28-Oct	Richard Gaitskell (Brown)	Noble Travails: Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter	Eva Halkiadakis
4-Nov	Jan Zaanen (Lorentz Inst, Leiden)	"A black hole full of answers"	Piers Coleman
11-Nov	Edward Gerjuoy (U. Pittsburgh)	Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger	Joel Lebowitz
18-Nov	George Crabtree(ANL)	The Sustainable Energy Challenge.	Piers Coleman
25-Nov	Thanksgiving recess
2-Dec	David Pine (NYU)	"Spherical Life: Structured colloids, artificial proteins, & self-replicating materials."	Lev Ioffe
9-Dec	Ani Aprahamian (Notre Dame)	"In a universe not so far away."	Jolie Cizewski

Date	Speaker	Topic	Host
20-Jan	Alexander Grosberg (NYU)	"Title"
27-Jan
3-Feb
10-Feb	Harvey Tananbaum (Center for Astrophysics)	"Chandra's First Decade of Discovery"	T. Matilsky
17-Feb
24-Feb
3-Mar
10-Mar
17-Mar	Spring Recess
24-Mar
SAT 27-Mar	IRONS LECTURE Michael Smith (Oak Ridge National Lab)	Explosions and Traffic Jams in the Cosmos	Jolie Cizewskii
31-Mar	Senior Honors seminars		Mohan Kalelkar
7-Apr	Soucheng Zhang		Stanford
14-Apr	Fred Reif (Carnegie Mellon U.)		Eugenia Etkina
21-Apr
28 -Apr