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The Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium is held on Monday afternoons at 4:15 pm in room SLH 102 unless otherwise noted. Refreshments served at 3:45 pm.
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Fall 2009
Colloquium Bibliographies (from the Science & Engineering Library)
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August 31
- Tangling with Entanglement: Area Laws in Condensed Matter Physics
Roger G Melko
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Waterloo
Abstract
September 7
- Labor Day, University Holiday
September 14
- Quantum fluctuations in small laser diodes
A.F.J. Levi
Departments of Electrical Engineering and Physics,
University of Southern California
Abstract
September 21
- Magnetometry and magnetic resonance on a small scale
Louis Bouchard
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
September 28
- Superatoms: A Third Dimension to the Periodic Table
Nanoscale Materials Using New Building Blocks Shiv N. Khanna
Department of Physics,
Virginia Commonwealth University
Abstract
October 5
- Surprises at Strong Coupling and How to Cope
Clifford V. Johnson
Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Southern California
Abstract
October 12
- Theoretical Investigations of Nanostructures and Biosystems at Surfaces
Rosa Di Felice
Theoretical Nanoscience,
National Center for nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces (S3),
Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia (INFM)
Abstract
October 19
- Shedding light on the origin of life
Mattanjah de Vries
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Abstract
October 26
- Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Tools
Rosalba Perna
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences,
University of Colorado at Boulder
Abstract
November 2
- TBA
Harry A. Atwater, Jr.
Applied Physics and Materials Science,
California Institute of Technology
November 9
- Gelation of stomach mucus and its relevance to motility of the ulcer causing bacterium
Rama Bansil
Physics Department,
Boston University
Abstract
November 16- — WiSE Speaker. SGM 101 (Note Different Location)
- Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
Andrea Ghez
UCLA Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics,
University of California, Los Angeles
Abstract
November 23
- Close Encounters with the Quantum Berry Phase
Hari Manoharan
Manipulation of the Atom,
Department of Physics,
Stanford University
Abstract
November 30
- Exploring the quantum vacuum with the Casimir force
Umar Mohideen
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of California, Riverside
Abstract
December 7
- Learning about dark matter from our neighbors
Manoj Kaplinghat
Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of California, Irvine
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