CMU/Pitt physics colloquium schedule

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2006/2007

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 2006

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Sep. 18 PITT Emeritus Prof. Bernard Cohen, Pitt, "The cancer risk from low level radiation"

Sep. 25 CMU John Szymanski, LANL, "Science and Technology for Nuclear Nonproliferation"

Oct. 2 PITT Robert Beichner, North Carolina State University, " Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Univesity Physics"

Oct. 3 CMU Special Physics Colloquium, Dr. Robert Endres, Princeton University, "Quantitative Modeling of Bacterial Chemotaxis" NOTE DIFFERENT DAY

Oct. 9 CMU Carl Patton, Colorado State, "Microwave solitons in magnetic thin films - nonlinear spin wave dynamics, fractals, and chaos"

Oct. 10 CMU Special Physics Colloquium, Markus Deserno, Mainz, Germany, "Biological physics with biomembranes -- From budding virions to membrane mediated interactions" NOTE DIFFERENT DAY

Oct. 16 PITT Fedor Jelezko, University of Stuttgart, "Spin-based quantum information processing in diamond"

Oct. 23 PITT Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, "Quantum optics and condensed matter physics with cold polar molecules"

Oct. 30 CMU Robert Westervelt, Harvard, "Imaging Electrons in Nanodevices"

Nov. 1 CMU Special Physics Colloquium, K.C. Huang, Princeton, "The beginning of the ends: physical mechanisms for polar localization of proteins and lipids in bacteria" 4:30 PM Doherty Hall 1212 NOTE DIFFERENT DAY AND ROOM

Nov. 6 PITT Prof. Robert Pelcovits, Brown University, "Understanding Liquid Crystals and Brain Structure: visualizing tensor fields in three dimensions"

Nov. 8 CMU Special Physics Colloquium, Brian DiDonna, University of Minnesota, "Filamin cross-linkers in the cytoskeleton: fragility under strain" NOTE DIFFERENT DAY

Nov. 13 CMU L. Mahadevan, Harvard, "Surface tension shorts: from aphids to zippers" 4:30 PM, 7316 Wean Hall note unusual room

Nov. 15 CMU Eric Sorin, Stanford, "Fundamentals of folding: equilibrium ensemble simulations of the helix-coil transition", Wean Hall 6316 NOTE DIFFERENT DAY AND ROOM

Nov. 27 PITT Salman Habib, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Investigating the Dark Universe: Challenges in Precision Cosmology"

Nov. 29 CMU Maria D'Orsogna, UCLA, "Patterns, stability and collapse for two-dimensional biological swarms" NOTE DIFFERENT DAY

Dec. 4 CMU Iain Stewart, MIT, "New Tools for Understanding the Strong Interactions"

Dec. 6 CMU Prof. Charles L. Brooks, III, The Scripps Research Institute, "Exploring viral capsid self-assembly with coarse-grained models"

Dec. 11 CMU John Beacom, OSU, "A New Fossil Record of the Universe in Supernova Neutrinos"

Dates For Spring 2007

Date Place

Jan. 4 PITT Special Colloquium, Dan McIntosh, University of Massachusetts, "Building Giant Galaxies: When, Where, and How?" 4:30 pm, 103 Allen Hall, Coffee and cookies at 4:15 PM, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE

Jan. 4 PITT Special Colloquium, Hanna Salman, The Rockefeller University, "Emergence of collective behavior and diversity in Gene expression: A study in bacterial culture", 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, Coffee and cookies at 2:45 PM, PITT, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME AND PLACE

Jan. 8 PITT Special Colloquium, Matt Doty, The Naval Research Lab, "Spins in Quantum Dot Molecules", 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND PLACE

Jan. 8 PITT Dr. David Snoke, Pitt, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Polaritons"

Jan. 11 PITT Special Colloquium, Diego Krapf, Kavli Inst. of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology, "Solid-state nanopores as single molecule sensors" 3:00 pm 106 Allen Hall, Coffee and cookies at 2:45 PM, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Jan. 16 PITT Special Colloquium, Patrick Fox, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Playing Hide and Seek with the Higgs" , 4:30 pm, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, AND PLACE

Jan. 18 PITT Special Colloquium, Tesla Jeltema, The Observatories of the Carnegie Inst. of Washington, "The Evolution of Structure in Clusters of Galaxies," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUAL DAY AND PLACE

Jan. 23 PITT Special Colloquium, Carlos Kozameh, University of Cordoba, "A (non) existence theorem for Robinson-Trautman-Maxwell space times", 12 noon, 216 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Jan. 23 PITT Special Colloquium, David Rainwater, University of Rochester, "New Physics in the LHC Era," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE

Jan. 25 PITT Special Colloquium, Dragan Huterer, Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics, "Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE

Jan. 29 PITT Steve Cundiff, JILA, "Femtosecond Combs"

Jan. 30 PITT Special Colloquium, Ruth Britto, University of Amsterdam, "New and Compact QCD Amplitudes from Spinors and Complex Analysis" , 4:30 PM, 106 Allen Hall, Coffee and cookies at 2:45 PM, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE

Jan. 30 PITT Special Colloquium, Xuan Gao, Harvard University, "The Sensitivity Limits of Nanowire Bio-Sensors" 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Feb. 1 PITT Special Colloquium, Irene Dujovne, Kavli Inst. of Nanoscience, "Optical tracking of molecular processes at high resolution with a novel traveling wave technique," 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Feb. 1 PITT Special Colloquium, Andreas Berlind, New York University, "From Galaxy Clustering Measurements to Cosmology and Galaxy Formation Physics" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, AND PLACE

Feb. 5 PITT Special Colloquium, Haibing Peng, University of California at Berkeley, "Suspended Carbon-Nanotube Based Structrure: A Study of Electronic and Mechanical Behaviors", 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND PLACE

Feb. 5 PITT Special Colloquium, Gabriel Popescu, MIT, "Nanoscale cell membrane fluctuations quantified by optical interferometry", 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL PLACE

Feb. 6 PITT Special Colloquium, Ayres Freitas, Inst. fur Theoretische Physik, "Supersymmetric couplings at the LHC," 3:00 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Feb. 8 PITT Special Colloquium, Bumki Min, California Inst. of Technology, "Ultrahigh-Q optical microcavity laser on a chip," 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Feb. 8 PITT Special Colloquium, Jeff Newman, U. C. Berkeley, "DEEP2 and Beyond: Studying the Universe with Galaxy Surveys" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE

Feb. 12 PITT Special Colloquium, Sam Carter, JILAZ, University of Colorado, "Terahertz-optical spectroscopy of semiconductors: from "atomic" physics to terahertz optoelectronics", 4:30 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL PLACE

Feb. 13 PITT Special Colloquium, Svitlana Berezhna, The Scripps Research Institute, "Visualizing and gaining vision: imaging insights into RNA interference function", 3:00 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Feb. 15 PITT Special Colloquium, Janelle Leger, University of Washington, "Optoelectronic devices based on a semiconducting polymer homojunction" 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Feb. 15 PITT Special Colloquium, Sarah Gallagher, UCLA, "Fast Winds and Warm Dust: Mid-Infrared Views of Quasar Outflows," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE

Feb. 19 PITT Special Colloquium, Gurudev Dutt, Harvard University, "Quantum Bits in Diamond: Pure, Paired, Prepared and Probed", 4:30 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL PLACE

Feb. 22 PITT Special Colloquium, Thomas Klar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, "Nanophotonics and Nanoparticles", 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE

Feb. 26 CMU Ron Lifshitz, Tel Aviv University, "Quasicrystals - Some of nature's most intriguing forms of matter"

Mar. 13 PITT Special Colloquium, Peter Norlander, Rice University, "Plasmonic nanostructures: Artificial molecules," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE

Mar. 19 PITT Monique Combescot, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, "The crazy world of composite quantum particles"

Apr. 2 PITT Emmanual Tutuc, University of Texas at Austin, "Counterflow conductivity of bilayers at filling factor 1: evidence for a charge neutral superfluid"

Apr. 9 PITT Prof. Naomi Halas, Rice University, "Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Molecular Orbitals Writ Large"

Apr. 16 CMU Stephane Coutu, Penn State University, "The Nature and Origin of Cosmic Rays"

Apr. 23 CMU Gabriela Gonzalez, LSU, "Searching for Gravitational Waves with LIGO"

Apr. 30 PITT Adam Leibovich, Pitt, "A Question of Scale: Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics"

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Dates For Fall 2006
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Sep. 18	PITT	Emeritus Prof. Bernard Cohen, Pitt, "The cancer risk from low level radiation"
Sep. 25	CMU	John Szymanski, LANL, "Science and Technology for Nuclear Nonproliferation"
Oct. 2	PITT	Robert Beichner, North Carolina State University, " Student-Centered Activities for Large Enrollment Univesity Physics"
Oct. 3	CMU	Special Physics Colloquium, Dr. Robert Endres, Princeton University, "Quantitative Modeling of Bacterial Chemotaxis" NOTE DIFFERENT DAY
Oct. 9	CMU	Carl Patton, Colorado State, "Microwave solitons in magnetic thin films - nonlinear spin wave dynamics, fractals, and chaos"
Oct. 10	CMU	Special Physics Colloquium, Markus Deserno, Mainz, Germany, "Biological physics with biomembranes -- From budding virions to membrane mediated interactions" NOTE DIFFERENT DAY
Oct. 16	PITT	Fedor Jelezko, University of Stuttgart, "Spin-based quantum information processing in diamond"
Oct. 23	PITT	Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck, "Quantum optics and condensed matter physics with cold polar molecules"
Oct. 30	CMU	Robert Westervelt, Harvard, "Imaging Electrons in Nanodevices"
Nov. 1	CMU	Special Physics Colloquium, K.C. Huang, Princeton, "The beginning of the ends: physical mechanisms for polar localization of proteins and lipids in bacteria" 4:30 PM Doherty Hall 1212 NOTE DIFFERENT DAY AND ROOM
Nov. 6	PITT	Prof. Robert Pelcovits, Brown University, "Understanding Liquid Crystals and Brain Structure: visualizing tensor fields in three dimensions"
Nov. 8	CMU	Special Physics Colloquium, Brian DiDonna, University of Minnesota, "Filamin cross-linkers in the cytoskeleton: fragility under strain" NOTE DIFFERENT DAY
Nov. 13	CMU	L. Mahadevan, Harvard, "Surface tension shorts: from aphids to zippers" 4:30 PM, 7316 Wean Hall note unusual room
Nov. 15	CMU	Eric Sorin, Stanford, "Fundamentals of folding: equilibrium ensemble simulations of the helix-coil transition", Wean Hall 6316 NOTE DIFFERENT DAY AND ROOM
Nov. 27	PITT	Salman Habib, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Investigating the Dark Universe: Challenges in Precision Cosmology"
Nov. 29	CMU	Maria D'Orsogna, UCLA, "Patterns, stability and collapse for two-dimensional biological swarms" NOTE DIFFERENT DAY
Dec. 4	CMU	Iain Stewart, MIT, "New Tools for Understanding the Strong Interactions"
Dec. 6	CMU	Prof. Charles L. Brooks, III, The Scripps Research Institute, "Exploring viral capsid self-assembly with coarse-grained models"
Dec. 11	CMU	John Beacom, OSU, "A New Fossil Record of the Universe in Supernova Neutrinos"

Dates For Spring 2007
Date	Place
Jan. 4	PITT	Special Colloquium, Dan McIntosh, University of Massachusetts, "Building Giant Galaxies: When, Where, and How?" 4:30 pm, 103 Allen Hall, Coffee and cookies at 4:15 PM, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE
Jan. 4	PITT	Special Colloquium, Hanna Salman, The Rockefeller University, "Emergence of collective behavior and diversity in Gene expression: A study in bacterial culture", 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, Coffee and cookies at 2:45 PM, PITT, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND TIME AND PLACE
Jan. 8	PITT	Special Colloquium, Matt Doty, The Naval Research Lab, "Spins in Quantum Dot Molecules", 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND PLACE
Jan. 8	PITT	Dr. David Snoke, Pitt, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Polaritons"
Jan. 11	PITT	Special Colloquium, Diego Krapf, Kavli Inst. of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology, "Solid-state nanopores as single molecule sensors" 3:00 pm 106 Allen Hall, Coffee and cookies at 2:45 PM, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Jan. 16	PITT	Special Colloquium, Patrick Fox, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Playing Hide and Seek with the Higgs" , 4:30 pm, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, AND PLACE
Jan. 18	PITT	Special Colloquium, Tesla Jeltema, The Observatories of the Carnegie Inst. of Washington, "The Evolution of Structure in Clusters of Galaxies," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUAL DAY AND PLACE
Jan. 23	PITT	Special Colloquium, Carlos Kozameh, University of Cordoba, "A (non) existence theorem for Robinson-Trautman-Maxwell space times", 12 noon, 216 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Jan. 23	PITT	Special Colloquium, David Rainwater, University of Rochester, "New Physics in the LHC Era," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE
Jan. 25	PITT	Special Colloquium, Dragan Huterer, Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics, "Cosmological Probes of Dark Energy," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE
Jan. 29	PITT	Steve Cundiff, JILA, "Femtosecond Combs"
Jan. 30	PITT	Special Colloquium, Ruth Britto, University of Amsterdam, "New and Compact QCD Amplitudes from Spinors and Complex Analysis" , 4:30 PM, 106 Allen Hall, Coffee and cookies at 2:45 PM, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE
Jan. 30	PITT	Special Colloquium, Xuan Gao, Harvard University, "The Sensitivity Limits of Nanowire Bio-Sensors" 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Feb. 1	PITT	Special Colloquium, Irene Dujovne, Kavli Inst. of Nanoscience, "Optical tracking of molecular processes at high resolution with a novel traveling wave technique," 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Feb. 1	PITT	Special Colloquium, Andreas Berlind, New York University, "From Galaxy Clustering Measurements to Cosmology and Galaxy Formation Physics" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, AND PLACE
Feb. 5	PITT	Special Colloquium, Haibing Peng, University of California at Berkeley, "Suspended Carbon-Nanotube Based Structrure: A Study of Electronic and Mechanical Behaviors", 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL TIME AND PLACE
Feb. 5	PITT	Special Colloquium, Gabriel Popescu, MIT, "Nanoscale cell membrane fluctuations quantified by optical interferometry", 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL PLACE
Feb. 6	PITT	Special Colloquium, Ayres Freitas, Inst. fur Theoretische Physik, "Supersymmetric couplings at the LHC," 3:00 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Feb. 8	PITT	Special Colloquium, Bumki Min, California Inst. of Technology, "Ultrahigh-Q optical microcavity laser on a chip," 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Feb. 8	PITT	Special Colloquium, Jeff Newman, U. C. Berkeley, "DEEP2 and Beyond: Studying the Universe with Galaxy Surveys" 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE
Feb. 12	PITT	Special Colloquium, Sam Carter, JILAZ, University of Colorado, "Terahertz-optical spectroscopy of semiconductors: from "atomic" physics to terahertz optoelectronics", 4:30 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL PLACE
Feb. 13	PITT	Special Colloquium, Svitlana Berezhna, The Scripps Research Institute, "Visualizing and gaining vision: imaging insights into RNA interference function", 3:00 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Feb. 15	PITT	Special Colloquium, Janelle Leger, University of Washington, "Optoelectronic devices based on a semiconducting polymer homojunction" 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Feb. 15	PITT	Special Colloquium, Sarah Gallagher, UCLA, "Fast Winds and Warm Dust: Mid-Infrared Views of Quasar Outflows," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE
Feb. 19	PITT	Special Colloquium, Gurudev Dutt, Harvard University, "Quantum Bits in Diamond: Pure, Paired, Prepared and Probed", 4:30 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL PLACE
Feb. 22	PITT	Special Colloquium, Thomas Klar, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, "Nanophotonics and Nanoparticles", 3:00 PM, 106 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY, TIME AND PLACE
Feb. 26	CMU	Ron Lifshitz, Tel Aviv University, "Quasicrystals - Some of nature's most intriguing forms of matter"
Mar. 13	PITT	Special Colloquium, Peter Norlander, Rice University, "Plasmonic nanostructures: Artificial molecules," 4:30 PM, 103 Allen Hall, NOTE UNUSUAL DAY AND PLACE
Mar. 19	PITT	Monique Combescot, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, "The crazy world of composite quantum particles"
Apr. 2	PITT	Emmanual Tutuc, University of Texas at Austin, "Counterflow conductivity of bilayers at filling factor 1: evidence for a charge neutral superfluid"
Apr. 9	PITT	Prof. Naomi Halas, Rice University, "Plasmonic Nanoparticles: Molecular Orbitals Writ Large"
Apr. 16	CMU	Stephane Coutu, Penn State University, "The Nature and Origin of Cosmic Rays"
Apr. 23	CMU	Gabriela Gonzalez, LSU, "Searching for Gravitational Waves with LIGO"
Apr. 30	PITT	Adam Leibovich, Pitt, "A Question of Scale: Effective Field Theory in Particle Physics"