Physics Colloquia Schedule

Fall 2012

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.
August 29 Seog Oh
Duke University

 
Discovery of the Higgs Boson like particle at the Large Hadron Collider
September 5 Barbara Jacak
Stony Brook
University
(host:  Berndt Mueller)
Hot QCD Matter: Liquid, Strong and Stringy?
September 19 Nadya Mason
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(host: Gleb Finkelstein)
Using graphene to study superconductivity (new tricks for an old dog)
September 26 Corey S. O'Hern
Yale University
(host:  Bob Behringer) 
Soft and biological materials:
From sand to proteins to cells
October 17 Gene Sprouse
APS
(host:  Kate Scholberg) 
Electronic Publishing and the Internet
 November 7  Michele Wang
Cornell
University
(host: Haiyan Gao) 
Single Molecule Biophysics with a Twist
 November 28   Brenda Winnewisser
(host: Roxanne Springer)
The Life and Work of Hedwig Kohn

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