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 Nasser Demir at nsd5@phy.duke.edu.
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| Sept. 10 | Mirjam Cvetic UPenn |
Modern String Theory and Particle Physics |
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| Sept. 24 | Tom Lubensky UPenn |
Liquid Crystals - Broken Symmetry in Action |
| Oct. 1 | Reka Albert Penn State |
From Network Physics to Systems Biology |
| Oct. 8 | John Kirtley Stanford/IBM |
Scanning magnetic microscopies | Oct. 29 | Heinrich Jaeger U. of Chicago |
Dried to Order: Electronic and Mechanical Properties of Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Monolayers |
| Nov. 12 | Sidney Nagel U. of Chicago |
The Life and Death of a Drop: Topological Transitions and Singularities in Fluids |
| Dec. 3 | Charlie Marcus Harvard |
Holding Quantum Information in Electron Spins |
| Dec. 10 NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Room 130 |
Mark Raizen UT Austin |
Controlling the Motion of Matter with Light |