Duke Physics

Physics Colloquia Schedule

Spring 2008

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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Jan. 16	Francis Everitt Stanford University	Testing Einstein in Space: Gravity Probe B and STEP
Jan. 30	Karen Daniels NCSU	Faults & Earthquakes as Granular Phenomena: Controls on Stick-Slip Dynamics
Feb. 6	Jan Skotheim Rockefeller University	Feedback and Modularity in Cell Cycle Control
Feb. 20	Ilya Nemenman LANL	Exploring dynamics and function of small biochemical networks
Feb. 27	Naomi Makins UIUC	In Search of L: Orbital Motion in the Land of Quarks
Mar. 5	Erel Levine UCSD	Silence and Noise in Gene Regulation by small RNA
Mar. 19	Tom Mehen Duke University	QCD, Effective Field Theory, and Charmed Hadrons
Mar. 25 FRITZ LONDON LECTURE TUESDAY 8:00 PM	Jerry Gollub Haverford College	Novel Ways of Studying Fluid Flows
Mar. 26	Chris Wiggins Columbia University	Inferring and encoding functional modules in biological networks
Apr. 23	Richard Wilson Harvard University	Risk Analysis of Catastrophic Events and Terrorism
May 6	Jian-Guo Liu University of Maryland	The Challenge of Simulating Incompressible Fluid Flow Accurately in the Presence of Boundaries
June 9	Matthew Hastings LANL	How Hard is Quantum Many-Body Theory?

Past Colloquia:

• Fall 2007 colloquium dates

Upcoming Colloquia:

• Fall 2008 colloquium dates