January 10
- The Greatest Crisis in the History of Animal Life
David J. Bottjer
Department of Earth Sciences,
USC
January 17
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, University Holiday
January 24
- Quantum Spin Noise
Alexander V. Balatsky
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT),
Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
January 31
- Confined water and adsorbed hydrogen in carbon nanotubes: A neutron-scattering study and its relevancy to bionanotechnology
Chun Loong
Intense Pulsed Neutron Source,
Argonne National Laboratory
February 7- — Joint colloquium with Astronautics and Space Technology Division
- Solar System Frontier: Where the Solar Wind Meets Interstellar Medium
Mike Gruntman
Astronautics and Space Technology Division,
Viterbi School of Engineering,
University of Southern California
February 14
- Coronas and glories: phenomenon, explanations and experiments
Michael Vollmer
University of Applied Sciences
, Brandenburg, Germany
Abstract
February 21
- Presidents Day, University Holiday
February 28
- The history and current state of water on Mars
Jeff Plaut
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 7
- Quantum Coherence and Coupling in Superconducting Josephson Phase Qubits
Ken Cooper
Department of Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara
March 14
- Spring Break
March 21
- No Colloquium: March APS Meeting
March 28
- Quantum diffusion on a lattice re-visited: decoherence and dissipation
Narendra Kumar
Raman Research Institute
, Bangalore, India
April 4
- Computational design of nanostructures and nanostructured materials
Giulia Galli
Quantum Simulation Group,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Abstract
April 11
- The new wave in shock waves
Dana D. Dlott
School of Chemical Sciences,
University of Illinois
Abstract
April 18
- Designing molecular dynamics methods to reach time scales on which real things happen
Arthur F. Voter
Theoretical Division,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Abstract
April 25
- Why is the Universe Accelerating?
Sean Carroll
Department of Physics,
University of Chicago
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