University of Michigan, Physics Department

Physics Colloquium Schedule

Winter 2014
(for the past semesters, see 2007-08 (PDF) 2008-09 (PDF) Winter 2010 Fall 2010 Winter 2011 Fall 2011 + Winter 2012 Winter 2013 Fall 2013 )

Time: Wednesdays at 4:00 pm

Place: 340 West Hall

Organizers: Ratin Akhoury, Xiaoming Mao, Mark Newman (chair)


Date
Speaker  
January 2014
1/8/14
No colloq
1/15/14
Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich: Validating quantum devices   (Abstract)
1/22/14
CANCELLED
1/29/14
Kevin Wood, University of Michigan (Biophysics): Decoding the multi-drug response in populations of bacteria and human cancer cells   (Abstract)
February 2014
2/5/14
Philip Nelson, University of Pennsylvania:   (Abstract)
2/12/14
Ta-You Wu Lecture: Dennis Overbye, Science Correspondent, New York Times   (Abstract)
2/19/14
Bill Zajc, Columbia University   (Abstract)
2/26/14
Daniel Holz, University of Chicago: Listening to the Universe with gravitational waves   (Abstract)
March 2014
3/5/14
No colloq (Spring Break)
3/12/14
Kai Sun, University of Michigan: Topological Kondo Insulator: the history and recent progress on the study of SmB6   (Abstract)
3/19/14
Michael Brenner, Harvard University: Linear Algebra and the Shape of Bird Beaks   (Abstract)
3/26/14
Greg Boebinger, Director, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory: High-Temperature Superconductivity, Energy and Life: Entertaining Aspects of High Magnetic Field Research   (Abstract)
April 2014
4/2/14
Daniel Stein, New York University: Spin Glasses: What's the Big Idea? (Is There One?)   (Abstract)
4/9/14
Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute: Spin Glasses and Computational Complexity   (Abstract)
4/16/14
Nikhil Padmanabhan, Yale University: Achieving 1% Measurements of Cosmological Distances with Cosmic Sound   (Abstract)
4/23/14
Joe Polchinski, UC Santa Barbara and KITP: