Past Seminars & Colloquia
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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" Related Website Wednesday, May 7, 2008 Physics Colloquium "Theory meets Experiment: Theory-Experiment Collaboration for Hot QCD Matter (TECHQM)" Related Website Tuesday, May 6, 2008 Physics Colloquium "Theory meets Experiment: Theory-Experiment Collaboration for Hot QCD Matter (TECHQM)" Related Website 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 Presentation Slides 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 Presentation Slides 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 Presentation Slides 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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