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>> All Department Seminars and Colloquia      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.         Previous Term   Archive of all terms    Fall 2009 Colloquium Bibliographies (from the Science & Engineering Library)  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 Abstract >> All Department Seminars and Colloquia

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