Spring 2009 Colloquia
All colloquia will take place in Thornton Hall Room 411 unless otherwise noted. Colloquia generally start at 4:05 PM with refreshments being served at 3:50. Talks that are specifically marked to take place in Thornton 429 begin at 4:00 with refreshments at 3:45.
Past Colloquia: Fall 08
| 2/2 | Anthony Aguirre, UC Santa Cruz The Inflationary Multiverse |
| 2/9 | Jung-Tsung Shen, Stanford University Novel Properties of Light- and Meta-Materials |
| 2/16 | Fang Peng, CalTech Plasma Physics in Galaxy Clusters |
| 2/23 | Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley New Forms of Convection in Galaxy Cluster Plasmas: How do Galaxy Clusters Boil? |
| 3/2 | Ophir Auslaender, Stanford University Probing microscopic and dynamical properties of superconducting vortices by vortex dragging |
| 3/9 | Jerry Moloney, University of Arizona Extreme Nonlinear Optics with Ultrashort Intense Laser Pulses |
| 3/16 | Gibor Basri, UC Berkeley The Search for Earth-Sized Planets Around Other Stars |
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| 3/23 | No Colloquium (spring break) |
| 3/30 | Na Young Kim, Stanford Towards Solid-state Bose-Hubbard Quantum Simulators |
| 3/30 | No Colloquium | |
| 4/13 | Special Panel Careers in Teaching and Outreach |
| 4/20 | Horacio Camblong, USF Topics in General Relativity |
| 4/27 | Maarten Golterman, SFSU Topics in QCD |
| 5/4 | Srinivas Raghu Topics in Medical Physics |
| 5/11 | No Colloquium |
