CMU/Pitt physics colloquium schedule

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2005/2006

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 7500 Wean Hall at CMU or at 102 Thaw Hall at Pitt. Refreshments are available at 4:15 pm.

Dates For Fall 2005

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Aug. 29 CMU Adrian Mellot, University of Kansas, "Did a Gamma-Ray Burst Initiate the Ordovician Extinction?"

Sept. 12 PITT Dr. Eric Swanson, Pitt, "Strong QCD: Explorations and Applications"

Sept. 19 PITT Daniel Styer, Oberlin College, "Relativity as a General Audience Course: The Inventor's Paradox and the Explainer's Paradox"

Sept. 26 PITT Dieter Strauch, University of Regensburg, "Photon, neutron, and X-ray Raman scattering in solids: What does one measure and how does one understand it?"

Oct. 3 PITT Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "The Role of Charge Order in the Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity"

Oct. 10 CMU Gary Steigman, Ohio State University, "Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Background Radiation: Probing the Universe at 20 Minutes and 400 Thousand Years"

Oct. 17 CMU Robert Griffiths, CMU, "Dense Coding Using Quantum Entanglement"

Oct. 24 PITT Reserved for Einstein Symposium

Oct. 31 CMU Martin Elvis, Harvard Smiothsonian Center for Astrophysics, "Quasar Winds: the 4th element"

Nov. 7 PITT Prof. N. Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigne, "Biocomplexity in Action: Pattern Formation and Microbial Ecology at Yellowstone's Hot Springs"

Nov. 14 CMU Daniel Kleppner, MIT, "Boost-Phase Intercept and the National Missile Defense"

Nov. 21 PITT David Newman, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, "Plasmas as a Prototypical Complexd System: Self-Organized Criticality as a Paradigm for Plasma Transport"

Nov. 28 CMU Colin Morningstar, CMU, "Explorations of the QCD spectrum using a space-time lattice"

Nov. 29 PITT Special Colloquium, Prof. Richard Blankenbeeler, Professor emeritus SLAC, Stanford University, "HEP to HEP: High Energy Physics techniques applied to Highly Entangled Proteins"

Dec. 5 PITT Mike Lilly, Sandia National Labs, "The contentious debate over the "mettalic" state of two-dimensional electrons in semiconductors"

Dates For Spring 2006

Date Place

Jan. 23 PITT Dr. Walter Goldburg, Pitt, "Counterintuitive Turbulence: compressible flow at zero Mach number"

Jan. 30 CMU Samir Mathur, Ohio State, "What is inside a black hole?"

Feb. 6 PITT Dr. Yadin Goldschmit, Pitt, "Melting of the nanocrystalline vortex matter in high-temperature superconductors"

Feb. 13 PITT Charles Falco, University of Arizona, "The Science of Optics; The History of Art"

Feb. 20 PITT Prof. Matt Dobbs, McGill University, "Probing the Opposite Ends of Time with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation"

Feb. 27 CMU Mohammad Islam, CMU, "Phase Transitions in Colloidal Systems Using Temperature Sensitive Gels"

March 6 CMU Vincent Crespi, Penn State University, "Prediction and design in materials theory at the nanoscale: Carbon nanostructures, photonic crystals and phyllotaxis"

March 13 PITT Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer, Michigan State University, "LON-CAPA: an open-source freeware learning content management and assessment system for the sciences"

March 20 CMU Csaba Csaki, Cornell University, "Searching for the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking"

March 27 PITT Chandralekha Singh, Pitt, "Improving student understanding of physics through research"

April 3 CMU Joe Dwyer, Florida Institute of Technology, "X-rays from Lightning"

April 4 PITT Crawford Lecture, Public Lecture: Prof. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate from Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, "The Universe is a Strange Place"

April 5 PITT Crawford lecture, Seminar 1, Prof. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate from Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, "Prospects in Unification" 102 Thaw Hall, 4:30 PM

April 6 PITT Crawford Lecture, Seminar 2, Prof. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate from Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, "Anyons: This Time for Real", 102 Thaw Hall, 4:30 PM, Coffee and tea at 4:00 PM

April 10 CMU 2006 Buhl Lecture, Prof. Keith Hodgson, Stanford University, "Brighter Than a Quadrillion Suns: Photon Science in the 21st Century"

April 17 CMU Scott Hughes, MIT, "Opening the gravitational-wave window"

April 24 CMU Andrea J. Liu, University of Pennsylvania, "Jamming"

May 22 PITT Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Center for Theoretical Physics, Lotnikow, Warszawa, "Trojan Dynamics: From the Solar System to Molecules, Atoms, and Electrons"

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Dates For Fall 2005
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Aug. 29	CMU	Adrian Mellot, University of Kansas, "Did a Gamma-Ray Burst Initiate the Ordovician Extinction?"
Sept. 12	PITT	Dr. Eric Swanson, Pitt, "Strong QCD: Explorations and Applications"
Sept. 19	PITT	Daniel Styer, Oberlin College, "Relativity as a General Audience Course: The Inventor's Paradox and the Explainer's Paradox"
Sept. 26	PITT	Dieter Strauch, University of Regensburg, "Photon, neutron, and X-ray Raman scattering in solids: What does one measure and how does one understand it?"
Oct. 3	PITT	Eduardo Fradkin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "The Role of Charge Order in the Mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity"
Oct. 10	CMU	Gary Steigman, Ohio State University, "Big Bang Nucleosynthesis and the Cosmic Background Radiation: Probing the Universe at 20 Minutes and 400 Thousand Years"
Oct. 17	CMU	Robert Griffiths, CMU, "Dense Coding Using Quantum Entanglement"
Oct. 24	PITT	Reserved for Einstein Symposium
Oct. 31	CMU	Martin Elvis, Harvard Smiothsonian Center for Astrophysics, "Quasar Winds: the 4th element"
Nov. 7	PITT	Prof. N. Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaigne, "Biocomplexity in Action: Pattern Formation and Microbial Ecology at Yellowstone's Hot Springs"
Nov. 14	CMU	Daniel Kleppner, MIT, "Boost-Phase Intercept and the National Missile Defense"
Nov. 21	PITT	David Newman, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, "Plasmas as a Prototypical Complexd System: Self-Organized Criticality as a Paradigm for Plasma Transport"
Nov. 28	CMU	Colin Morningstar, CMU, "Explorations of the QCD spectrum using a space-time lattice"
Nov. 29	PITT	Special Colloquium, Prof. Richard Blankenbeeler, Professor emeritus SLAC, Stanford University, "HEP to HEP: High Energy Physics techniques applied to Highly Entangled Proteins"
Dec. 5	PITT	Mike Lilly, Sandia National Labs, "The contentious debate over the "mettalic" state of two-dimensional electrons in semiconductors"

Dates For Spring 2006
Date	Place
Jan. 23	PITT	Dr. Walter Goldburg, Pitt, "Counterintuitive Turbulence: compressible flow at zero Mach number"
Jan. 30	CMU	Samir Mathur, Ohio State, "What is inside a black hole?"
Feb. 6	PITT	Dr. Yadin Goldschmit, Pitt, "Melting of the nanocrystalline vortex matter in high-temperature superconductors"
Feb. 13	PITT	Charles Falco, University of Arizona, "The Science of Optics; The History of Art"
Feb. 20	PITT	Prof. Matt Dobbs, McGill University, "Probing the Opposite Ends of Time with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation"
Feb. 27	CMU	Mohammad Islam, CMU, "Phase Transitions in Colloidal Systems Using Temperature Sensitive Gels"
March 6	CMU	Vincent Crespi, Penn State University, "Prediction and design in materials theory at the nanoscale: Carbon nanostructures, photonic crystals and phyllotaxis"
March 13	PITT	Dr. Gerd Kortemeyer, Michigan State University, "LON-CAPA: an open-source freeware learning content management and assessment system for the sciences"
March 20	CMU	Csaba Csaki, Cornell University, "Searching for the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking"
March 27	PITT	Chandralekha Singh, Pitt, "Improving student understanding of physics through research"
April 3	CMU	Joe Dwyer, Florida Institute of Technology, "X-rays from Lightning"
April 4	PITT	Crawford Lecture, Public Lecture: Prof. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate from Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, "The Universe is a Strange Place"
April 5	PITT	Crawford lecture, Seminar 1, Prof. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate from Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, "Prospects in Unification" 102 Thaw Hall, 4:30 PM
April 6	PITT	Crawford Lecture, Seminar 2, Prof. Frank Wilczek, Nobel Laureate from Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, "Anyons: This Time for Real", 102 Thaw Hall, 4:30 PM, Coffee and tea at 4:00 PM
April 10	CMU	2006 Buhl Lecture, Prof. Keith Hodgson, Stanford University, "Brighter Than a Quadrillion Suns: Photon Science in the 21st Century"
April 17	CMU	Scott Hughes, MIT, "Opening the gravitational-wave window"
April 24	CMU	Andrea J. Liu, University of Pennsylvania, "Jamming"
May 22	PITT	Iwo Bialynicki-Birula, Center for Theoretical Physics, Lotnikow, Warszawa, "Trojan Dynamics: From the Solar System to Molecules, Atoms, and Electrons"