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 |
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| 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 |