Colloquium

Spring 2012

• April 12
  Tsvi Tlusty (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  Physics of Molecular Recognition
  
• April 19
  Bruce T. Draine (Princeton University)
  Microwave and Submm Emission from Interstellar Nanoparticles
• April 26
  Andrea M. Armani (University of Southern California)
  Non-Linear Behavior in Integrated Optical Devices
  
• May 3
  Shimon Weiss (University of California, Los Angeles)
  Superresolved Ultrasensitive Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy
  
• May 10
  Till Rosenband (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder)
  An Optical Clock based on Quantum Logic
  
• May 17
  E. Michael Ostap (University of Pennsylvania)
  Myosin Motors as Molecular Force Sensors
• May 24   
  Special Colloquium - Saxon Lecture                                                                                                        Hitoshi Murayama (University of Berkeley, and IPMU, Japan )
  TBA
  
• May 31
  Bertrand I. Halperin (Harvard University)                                                                                                 Defects with Character - Majorana States in Condensed-Matter Systems
  
• June 7
  William Daughton (Los Alamos National Laboratory)                                                                                 Emerging Connections between Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection

Winter 2012

• January 12
  Geoff Marcy (University of California, Berkeley)
  Planets as small as Twice the Size of Earth: Orbits, Radii, and Occurrence
  
• January 19
  CANCELLED
  
• January 26
  CANCELLED
  
• February 2
  Christopher Monroe (University of Maryland)
  Quantum Networks of Trapped Ions
  
• February 9
  Robin Santra (University of Hamburg)
  Ultrafast processes at high x-ray intensity
• February 16
  Piers Coleman (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey)
  Magnetism and Superconductivity: A new era of convergence in condensed matter physics
• February 23
  Matthias Steinmetz (AIP - Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics)
  The Milky Way as a Cosmological Laboratory
  
• March 1
  Frank H. Shu (University of California, Berkeley & San Diego)
  Molten Salt Approaches to Mitigate Climate Change
• March 8
  Edmund Bertschinger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  Cosmological Scale Tests of General Relativity
  
• March 15
  Vivek Sharma (University of California, San Diego)
  Title: The Hunt for the Higgs Boson at CERN

Fall 2011

• September 29
  Jianwei (John) Miao (UCLA)
  Three-Dimensional Imaging of Human Breast Cancer and Atomic Structure of Nanomaterials by Using Equally Sloped Tomography
  
• October 6
  M. Zahid Hasan (Princeton University)
  Topological Insulators and Superconductors
• October 13
  Jose Onuchic (University of California, San Diego)
  Decision making at the cell level: from microorganisms to possibly cancer
• October 20
  Eliot Quataert (University of California, Berkeley)
  The Physics of Galaxy Cluster Plasmas
  
• October 27
  Chris Regan (UCLA)
  Light blubs and black holes
• November 3
  Chris Niemann (UCLA)
  Laboratory simulations of collisionless shocks with high-power lasers
• November 10
  Margaret Murnane (University of Colorado at Boulder)
  Science at the Timescale of the Electron: Coherent X-rays Beams from Tabletop Lasers and Applications in Materials and Molecular Science
  
• November 17
  Cancelled
• December 1
  Peter Wölfle (Institute for Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Germany)                                               The Kondo effect: from magnetic alloys to nanoelectronics