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Past Colloquia Spring 2009

Date

Speaker

Host
January15 Ephraim Fischbach
Purdue University
EVIDENCE FOR A CORRELATION BETWEEN NUCLEAR DECAY RATES AND SOLAR ACTIVITY
 Nick Giordano/Ian Shipsey
January22 George Crabtree
Argonne National Laboratory
"The sustainable Energy Challenge"
 Ian Shipsey
January29 Stefan Funk
Stanford
GLAST, HESS and Beyond, Status and Future of Gamma-ray Astronomy
 Ian Shipsey
February05 David Archer
University of Chicago
The Long Thaw: How humans are changing the next 100,000 years of Earth's climate
 Ian Shipsey
February12 Robin Santra
Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago
High-intensity laser control of x-ray processes
 David Miller
February19 Sascha Hilgenfeldt
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bubbles, Foams, Cells:Interfacial Geometry and Mechanics
 Ian Shipsey
February26 Angela Olinto
University of Chicago
The Highest Energy Cosmic Particles
 Maxim Lyutikov
March05 Patricia Rankin
University of Colorado-Boulder
Why Physicists need to know more than Newton’s Laws – Why Diversity Matters and How to Increase It
 Ian Shipsey
March12 Jen-Chieh Peng
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Search for Neutron Electric Dipole Moment
 Wei Xie
March26 Leslie Looney
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Youth Vote: The Youngest Protostars Are All About Change
 Ian Shipsey
April02 Alexander N. Korotkov
University of California ~ Riverside
"Non-projective measurement of solid-state qubits: collapse and uncollapse"
 Leonid Rohkinson
April09 Jay Melosh
University of Arizona
Our Catastrophic Solar System: Impacts and the Latest Revolution in Earth Science.
 Marc Caffee - Crough Lecture
April16 Alexander Pines
Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and a Faculty Affiliate at QB3-the California Institute of Quantitative Biomedical Research.
Some recent developments in unconventional NMR and MRI
 Yuli Lyanda-Geller and A.K. Ramdas
April23 Sid Nagel
University of Chicago
The Life and Death of a Drop: Topological Transitions and Singularities in Fluids
 Ian Shipsey
April29 Professor Manuel Cardona
Max-Planck-Institut fur Festkorperforschung Stuttgart, Germany, European Union
Max Planck: A conservative revolutionary
 A.K. Ramdas
April30 Taekjip Ha
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Little engines that could: Imaging single molecular motors
 Ian Shipsey