Physics Colloquia Schedule

Spring 2009

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. 14 John Ralston
Univ. of Kansas
The History of Light You Never Knew
Jan. 21 Ayana Holloway Arce
LBL
Near the Frontier: preparing for discovery with the LHC
Jan. 23 Jose Onuchic
UCSD
The energy landscape for folding and molecular motors
Jan. 28 Hitoshi Murayama
UC Berkeley
Big World of Little Neutrinos
Feb. 4 Pisin Chen
Kavli Institute/Stanford
The Dark Energy Puzzle
Feb. 25 Herbert Levine
UCSD
Dictyostelium chemotaxis - how amoebae use non-equilibrium physics to figure out where to go
Mar. 4 Nynke Dekker
Delft University of Technology
Single-Molecule Techniques: Real-Time Dynamics in Biology
Mar. 25 Michael Ramsey-Musolf
Univ. of Wisconsin
Nuclear Physics and the New Standard Model
April 1
NOTE SPECIAL ROOM AND TIME:4:15 PM FFSC Rm 2231
Nicholas Buchler
Rockefeller University
Bait and switch: How protein sequestration generates a flexible ultrasensitive response
April 6, 4:00 PM, Schiciano Auditorium, Fitzpatrick Center Ingrid Daubechies
Princeton Applied Mathematics and Mathematics (Hertha Sponer Presidential Lecture)
Applications woven into the mathematical fabric
April 7, 8:00 PM, French Family Science Center Auditorium, Room 2231 William H. Miller
Kenneth H. Pitzer Distinguished Professor, University of California, Berkeley (Fritz London Memorial Lecture)
Quantum effects in the dynamics of complex molecular systems
April 8 Ian Shipsey
Purdue
Bringing Hearing to the deaf with Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account
Friday, June 19 Nicholas Buchler
Rockefeller University
From genes to dynamics: combinatorial logic and thresholds in molecular networks

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