The colloquia are held in Room 128 (old number: 114), Physics Building at 4:00 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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| Jan. 17 | Steffen Bass Duke |
The Quest for the Quark-Gluon-Plasma |
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| Jan. 24 | Bernard Yurke Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent Host: John Thomas |
Powering the nanoworld with DNA |
| Jan. 31 | Mario Belloni Davidson Hosts: Mary Creason, Calvin Howell |
Teaching Quantum Mechanics in the 21st Century: Recent Advances |
| Feb. 27 LONDON LECTURE Tuesday, 8:00pm French Science Center Auditorium |
John Hopfield Princeton University Host: David Beratan |
How do we think so fast? From neurons to brain computations |
| Apr. 4 | David Weitz Harvard Host: Anna Lin |
Composite Actin Networks: Mechanics of Living Cells |
| Apr. 25 | Xiao-Gang Wen MIT Host: Albert Chang |
From new states of matter to a unification of light and electrons |
| May 15 NOTE NON-STANDARD DAY Tuesday, 4:00pm Room 128 |
Anton Tonchev Duke University & TUNL |
Low Momentum Transfer Nuclear Physics at TUNL and HIgS |
| May 23 | Pawel Nadel-Turonski George Washington University |
Strange decays of excited nucleons and rescattering of polarized hyperons |
| May 30 | Adam Hecht University of Maryland |
Termination of the rp-Process of Nucleosynthesis Near 100Sn |