Colloquium Schedule
Spring 2017
Colloquia are held in the
Physics and Astronomy Lecture Hall
at 4:45 P.M. on Wednesday afternoons.
Tea served 4.30pm-4.45pm.
All welcome!
Colloquiua will begin on Feb 1st. Please contact our administrative assistant Stefanie Miller(stefanie.miller@rutgers.edu) with questions regarding travel arrangements and reimbursements. Questions about the colloquium schedule should be addressed to Prof. Piers Coleman (coleman@physics.rutgers.edu). Fall 2017 Colloquia| Day | Title | Speaker | Speaker's Host. |
| Feb 1 |
Searching
For Dark Matter In The Sky |
Tracy
Slatyer (MIT) |
Matt Baumgart |
| Feb 8 |
Unstable
fronts and stable "critters" formed by magnetic
microrollers |
Paul Chaikin (NYU) |
Piers Coleman |
| Feb 15 |
No Colloquium this week. |
||
| Feb 22 |
The
role of Mechanics and mechanical feedback in sculpting
multicellular systems. |
Madhav Mani (North Western U.) |
Gyan Bhanot |
| Mar 1 |
Next questions in neutrino physics and the NOvA experiment | Ryan Patterson, (Cal Tech) |
John Paul Chou |
| Mar 8 |
Quantal
Rotation: Molecules and Nuclei |
Stefan
Frauendorf (Notre Dame U.) |
Larry Zamick |
| Mar 15 |
Spring Break: no
colloquium |
||
| Mar 22 |
|
Stephen Blundell (Oxford U) |
Piers Coleman |
| Mar 29 |
Microscopy
of atomic Fermi-Hubbard systems in new regimes. |
Waseem Bakr (Princeton) |
Piers Coleman |
| Apr 5 |
Steve Pollock (CU Boulder) |
Eugenia Etkina |
|
| Apr 12 |
The Statistical Mechanics of Stem Cells |
Sid Goyal (U. Toronto) |
Gyan Bhanot |
| Apr 19 |
Observing
the signature of a single prolific r-process event in
an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy |
Anna Frebel (MIT) |
Saurabh Jha |
| Sat. Apr 22 (2pm) |
2017
Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Lecture Kitchen Physics: Using the power of nano turn pencils into electronic devices using only things found at home |
Jonathan
Coleman (Trinity College, Dublin) |
Eva Andrei |
| Apr 26 |
Star Hacking: Finding the Next Earth and getting there. |
Hakeem M. Oluseyi Florida Inst of Technology & NASA |
Andrew Baker |
