Physics Colloquia Schedule

Spring 2013

The colloquia are held in Room 128 (old number: 114), Physics Building at 3:30 P.M. on Wednesdays unless noted otherwise (please see abstract for specific details). Tea and coffee is available before the colloquium in Room 128. Refreshments will be served after the colloquium (at around 5:00pm), and further discussions with the speaker are encouraged during this time. For additions, corrections, or questions please contact Cristin Paul at cristin.paul@duke.edu.
January 16
Deborah Jin
JILA Colorado University Boulder
Ultracold Polar Molecules
January 30 Phil Barbeau
Stanford University
Searching for Neutrino Mass with the Enriched Xenon Observatory
February 6 Ke Han
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Neutrino Physics with and without Neutrinos
February 13 Xin Qian
Caltech
"Neutrino Oscillation: the Daya Bay Experiment and Beyond"
February 18 Nadia Fomin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nuclear and Particle Physics with Cold Neutrons

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February 20 Maxime Brodeur
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Mass measurements and surfing of the shortest-lived nuclei
February 27 Kim Palladino
MIT
"Shining Some Light on Dark Matter: The MiniCLEAN Direct Detection Experiment"
April 3 Aditi Mitra
New York University
"Dynamics of Closed Quantum Systems: Prethermalization, Thermalization, and Dynamical Phase Transitions"
April 24 -- London Lecture Judith Klinman
UC Berkeley
"Moving through Barriers: Unlocking the Mysteries of How Enzymes Really Work"

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