Past Seminars & Colloquia

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Currently Displaying: Physics Colloquia


Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Liquid and Glass Structures and their Influence on Phase Transitions"
Kenneth Kelton, Washington University, St. Louis

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Superconductivity at Dawn of the Iron Age"
Zlatko Tesanovic, Johns Hopkins University

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"How NSLS Came to Brookhaven"
Robert Crease, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"The New Muon g-2 Experiment"
Chris Polly, Fermilab

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Profiling RHIC collisions with electromagnetic probes"
Takao Sakaguchi, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Recent Results From HERA"
Sasha Glazov, DESY

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"CP violation and the CP"
Dmitri Kharzeev, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"The CMS Detector and LHC Physics: the Good, the Bad, and The Ugly"
Nick Hadley, University of Maryland

Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Roughness-induced criticality and large fluctuations in turbulence"
Nigel Goldenfeld, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"The Antikythera Mechanism: a century of research, and beyond."
Dr. Alexander Jones, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Friday, April 17, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Buddhism and Science"
Donald Lopez, Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, University of Michigan

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Five aspects of dark matter"
Michel Tytgat, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Understanding cosmic inflation"
Anze Slosar, University of California Berkeley

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Shedding (some) light on dark matter"
Daniel Boyanovsky, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Strong lensing and the mass of massive galaxies"
Adam Bolton, University of Hawaii

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Superstrings and RHIC"
Steven Gubser, Princeton University

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Ab Initio calculations in Lattice QCD"
Zoltan Fodor, Wuppertal University

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"How perfect is the RHIC liquid?"
Jean-Yves Ollitrault, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Categorification"
Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Physics Colloquium
"Theory and experiments about an elementary coding system based on RNA"
Jean Lehmann, The Rockefeller University, New York

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"A quantum computer can determine who wins a game faster than a classical computer"
Edward Farhi, MIT

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"The Rest of Newton's Apple"
Hooman Davoudiasl, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Controlling Chaotic Activity in Neural Networks"
Larry Abbott, Columbia University

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Financial Modeling and Its Discontents"
Emanuel Derman, Columbia University

Monday, November 10, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"WiTricity: non-radiative wireless power transfer"
Marin Soljacic, MIT

Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"From quarks to nuclei to compact stars and back"
Mannque Rho, CEA

Monday, October 27, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"The Cosmic Yardstick: Recent Developments and Future Prospects for Baryon Oscillations"
Nikhil Padmanabhan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Studying the Universe Underground"
Hitoshi Murayama, IPMU Tokyo and Berkeley

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"The Nature of Cosmic Acceleration"
Viviana Acquaviva, Princeton University

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Final results on K+ => pi+,nu,nubar from BNL E949"
David Jaffe, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Collisions of granular jets as a classical analog of RHIC collisions"
Sidney Nagel, University of Chicago

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics - an Experimenter's Point of View"
Szabolcs Marka, Columbia University

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"The Limits of Quantum Computers"
Scott Aaronson, MIT

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"HERMES -- more than a decade of pioneering research"
Elke-Caroline Aschenauer, Jefferson Lab.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Worrying about the LHC, a lesson from astrophysics?"
Alvaro de Rujula, CERN

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Transverse Spin Physics"
Akio Ogawa, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Friday, May 16, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Gravitational lensing in the era of large surveys"
Brice Menard, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"CESR's Last Campaign - Latest Results from CLEO-c"
Ian P. Shipsey, Purdue University

Monday, May 12, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Trueman Fest: Celebrating 46 Years of Scientific Work and Service: T. Laurence Trueman"
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Theory meets Experiment: Theory-Experiment Collaboration for Hot QCD Matter (TECHQM)"
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Theory meets Experiment: Theory-Experiment Collaboration for Hot QCD Matter (TECHQM)"
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"More Neutrinos + More Space Dimensions = More^2 New Physics Possibilities"
Tom Weiler, Vanderbilt University

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Shedding Light to the Dark Universe via Cosmological Simulations"
Argyro Tasitsiomi, Princeton University

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"What the inflaton might tell us about RHIC"
Juergen Berges, TU Darmstadt

Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Developments in charm quark mesons: chaos, confusion and craziness"
Ted Barnes, Oak Ridge National Lab.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"The observation of the GZK suppression in ultra-high energy cosmic rays"
Pierre Sokolsky, University of Utah

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Progress and challenges in the physics of nuclei"
David J. Dean, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Dark and Luminous Matter in the Universe"
Erin Sheldon, New York University

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Nuclear Physics and The New Standard Model"
Michael Ramsey-Musolf, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Scientific Achievements and Opportunities at Jefferson Lab"
Anthony Thomas, Jefferson Lab.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Astroparticle Physics of the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory"
Paul Sommers, Penn State

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Unusual peaks around the open charm threshold"
Mikhail Voloshin, University of Minnesota

Friday, January 4, 2008
Physics Colloquium
"Cosmology from Space"
Charles Bennett, John Hopkins University

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) - Science Goals and Realization"
Walter Henning, Argonne National Laboratory

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Directions in Neutron Source Development"
Thomas Mason, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Many Body Physics of Graphene"
Alexei Tsvelik, BNL

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Inelastic Electron Scattering Off Magnetic Impurities"
Leonid Glazman, Yale University

Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Algorithms, Equations, and Logic"
martin Davis, UC Berkeley

Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Past, Present, and Future of Hard Probes at RHIC"
James Dunlop,

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound"
Daniel Eisenstein, University of Arizona

Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Countdown to LHC Turn-on - Preparing ATLAS"
Chris Bee, CERN

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"The Expanding VHE Gamma-Ray Horizon"
David Kieda, University of Utah

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Cold Dark Matter's Small Scale Crisis"
George Lake, University of Zurich

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"High-Temperature Superconductivity: What Have We Learned after 20 Years?"
John Tranquada, BNL - CMPMSD

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Approaches to Cosmic Acceleration"
Mark Trodden, Syracuse University

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatory"
Francis Halzen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Colliding 5nm Electron Positron Beams at the International Linear Collider"
William Morse, BNL - Physics Department
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Searches for Magnetic Monopoles"
Giorgio Giacomelli, University of Bologna and INFN

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"A Scientific Approach to Increasing the Number of Women in Physics"
Evalyn Gates, University of Chicago
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"An Energy Revolution for the 21st Century"
Marty Hoffert, New York University
Presentation Slides

Monday, April 16, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Bringing CO2 Laser to the Forefront of Advanced Accelerator Research"
Igor Pogorelsky, BNL - Physics Department

Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Magnetic Monopoles: The Unicorns of Physics"
Alfred Scharf Goldhaber, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"History of the Development of the Bubble Chamber"
David Rahm, BNL - Physics Department

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Larry Leipuner as a Mentor; and a Tale of Two Lifetimes"
Michael Schmidt, Yale University
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"The Tipping Point: How Does A Little Noise Make a Big Difference?"
Daniel Stein, New York University

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Excited Electronic States in Carbon Nanotubes"
Louis Brus, Columbia University

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"New Era in UHE Astro Particle Physics"
Angela Olinto, University of Chicago and APC

Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Physics Colloquium
"Color Superconductivity in Dense Quark Matter"
Mark Alford, Washington University

Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"LHeC: Sub-Attometric lepton-quark Physics?"
John Dainton, University of Liverpool

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Search for Gluonic Excitations in Light Unconventional Mesons"
Paul Eugenio, Florida State University

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"PASER: Particle Acceleration by Simulated Emission of Radiation"
Levi Schachter, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"The Nearby Universe"
John Huchra, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Gravitational Lensing and Dark Energy"
Bhuvnesh Jain, University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Adventures at the Terascale"
Sally Dawson, BNL - Physics Department

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerators"
Scott Berg, BNL - Physics Department

Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Ion Transports in Ion Channels and Nanopores"
Boris Shklovskii, University of Minnesota

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Science on the National Agenda: The Road Back"
Michael S. Lubell, City College of New York

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Exploring the Proton Spin"
Werner Vogelsang, BNL - Physics Department

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Atoms, Axions and Amplifiers"
Karl van Bibber, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"The ATLAS Experiment Getting Ready for LHC - Exploring the High-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics"
Peter Jenni, CERN

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"NSLS-II: Challenges and Opportunities"
Steve Dierker, BNL - NSLS

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Stealing Einstein's Blunder(s) - Aspects of Dark Energy Measurements"
Lam Hui, Columbia University

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Search for the Mass of the Neutrino: The EXO Experiment"
William Fairbank, Colorado State University

Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Theoretical and Experimental Status of Magnetic Monopoles"
Kimball Milton, Washington University & University of Oklahoma

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Manipulating Nanomagnets Using Spin-Polarized Currents"
Dan Ralph, Cornell University

Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"The MARIACHI Experiment"
Helio Takai, BNL - Physics Department

Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"The Nearby Universe"
John Huchra, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Rapture of the Deep Sky"
Melville P. Ulmer, Northwestern University

Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Electrons and Mirror Symmetry"
Krishna Kumar, University of Massachusetts

Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Physics Colloquium
"Present Status of the Theory of High Tc"
Philip W. Anderson, Princeton University

Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Surprises and Anomalies in Heavy Quarkonium Production"
Jianwei Qiu, Iowa State University

Tuesday, December 6, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"The Equation of State of Matter at Extreme Densities from Observations of Neutron Stars"
Jim Lattimer, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Strange Beauty and the Matter/Antimatter Puzzle"
Christoph Paus, MIT

Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"The International Linear Collider"
Barry Barish, Cal Tech.

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Doing Something About the Climate: Greenhouse Gases, Aerosols, Radiative Forcing, and Implications"
Steve Schwartz, BNL - Environmental Sciences Department

Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Resolving Neutrino Mass Hierarchy and CP Degeneracy by Two Identical Detectors with Different Baselines - Dectectors in Kamioka and Korea for the JPARC Neutrino Beam"
Takaaki Kajita, University of Tokyo

Tuesday, November 1, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"A Theoretical Perspective on type Ia Supernova Cosmology"
Philip A. Pinto, University of Arizona

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"High Energy and Condensed Matter Physics: Parallel Universes"
Alexei Tsvelik, Physics - BNL

Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Exploring the Quantum Vacuum through the Casimir Effect"
Umar Mohideen, University of California, Riverside

Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Assembling An Elephant: Recent RHIC Results in Context"
Dave Morrison, BNL - Physics Department

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"The Resonance Method of Electric Dipole Moment Measurements of Nuclei and Ions"
Yuri Orlov, Cornell University

Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Experimental Test of High Field Electrodynamics in the Physics Department's Accelerator Test Facility"
Vitaly Yakimenko, BNL - Physics Department

Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Quantum Black Holes and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions"
Dima Kharzeev, BNL - Physics Department

Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Searching in the Dark: Energy and Matter in the Universe"
Andrew Connolly, University of Pittsburgh

Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"The Quasiparticle Spectrum Termination in a Quantum Spin Liquid"
Igor Zaliznyak, Physics - BNL

Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Current Ideas about QGP Formed at RHIC: Old and New Hydro Effects, and New Spectroscopy"
Dr. E. Shuryak, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Search for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron Using PbO"
David DeMille, Yale University

Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Non-Stick Water"
David Quere, College de France

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Polyoxomolybdates: Flexible Frameworks for Molecular Spin Arrays"
Paul Koegerler, Iowa State University

Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Simulating Neutron Stars, Quark-Gluon Plasmas and High-Tc Superconductors with Ultracold Atoms"
Ken O'Hara, Penn State University

Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Cosmic Acceleration and Gravity Modified at Largest Observable Distances"
Georgi Dvali, New York University

Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"Evolution and Merging of Compact Objects; Gravitational Waves for LIGO"
Gerry Brown, Stony Brook University

Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Physics Colloquium
"What is so Special About 1 NM?"
Daniel Mattis, University of Utah

Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Physics Colloquium
"Does the Resonant Valence Bond theory describe the physics of high-Tc superconducting cuprates?"
T. M. Rice, Theoretische Physik

Thursday, May 27, 2004
Physics Colloquium
"Can M-Theory Dressage Really Control This Universe?"
Sylvester James Gates, Jr., University of Maryland

 

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