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 |
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| 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 |