CARNEGIE MELLON
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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2008/2009
Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 7500 Wean Hall at CMU or at 104 Thaw Hall at Pitt. Refreshments are available at 4:15 pm.
Dates For Fall 2008
Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title" Aug. 25 Sep. 1 No Colloquium - Labor Day Holiday Sep. 8 CMU Eric Braaten, Ohio State University, "Discrete Scale Invariance in Ultracold Atoms" Sep. 15 PITT J. D. Crawford Memorial Lecture, William Bialek, Princeton University, "More Than We Imagined: A Physicist’s View of Life" Sep. 22 PITT Tina Kahniashvili, Kansas State University, "Gravitational Waves Astronomy as a Probe of the Early Universe" Sep. 29 PITT Dr. Vincent Liu, Univ. Pittsburgh, "Condensed Matter Physics of Cold Atoms" Oct. 6 CMU Francis Halzen, Univ. of Wisconsin, "High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory" Oct. 13 PITT Andrei Frolov, Simon Frazer University, "Simulating the Big Bang" Oct. 20 Oct. 27 CMU Priya Natarajan, Yale University Nov. 3 PITT James Glazier, Professor & Director of Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University, "Biocomplexity and the Computational Modeling of Biological Development" Nov. 10 PITT Prof. Rabindra Mohapatra, University of Maryland, "Do Neutrons Oscillate?" Nov. 17 CMU Eva Andrei, Rutgers University Nov. 24 PITT Andre de Gouvea, Northwestern University, "Neutrino Phenomenology" Dec. 1 PITT Vitaliy Fadeyev, Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, "Imaging the Voices of the Past: Using Optical Metrology to Restore Early Recorded Sounds" Dec. 8 PITT David Charbonneau, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "Detecting Habitable Exoplanets: The Small Star Opportunity" Dec. 15 Dates For Spring 2009
Date Place Jan. 12 Jan. 19 Jan. 26 Feb. 2 PITT Gus Evrard, University of Michigan, "Computing the Universe: A Status Report" Feb. 9 Feb. 16 Feb. 23 Mar. 2 Mar. 9 Mar. 16 Mar. 23 Mar. 30 Apr. 6 PITT Carl Bender, Washington University in St. Louis, "Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians" Apr. 13 PITT Beth William, Haverford College, "A Nearby Window to Cosmology through (nearly) Invisible Ultra-Faint Galaxies" Apr. 20 Apr. 27 May 4 May 11 May 18 PITT Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington, "Reaching for the Sky with SDSS and LSST" May 25 No Colloquium - Memorial Day Holiday
Colloquium Archive: 1999/2000, 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008
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