University of Michigan, Physics Department

Physics Colloquium Schedule

Fall 2010
(for the past semesters, see 2007-08 (PDF) 2008-09 (PDF) Winter 2010 )

Time: Wednesdays at 4:00 pm

Place: 340 West Hall

Organizers: Ratin Akhoury (chair), Dragan Huterer, Len Sander


Date
Speaker  
September 2010
9/8/10
Brad Orr State of the Department Address
9/15/10
Aaron Pierce, Michigan Physics The Dark Frontier
9/22/10
Salman Habib, Los Alamos National Lab The Dark Universe Challenge: Is Theory up to the Task?   (Abstract)
9/29/10
Jens-Christian Meiners, Michigan Mechanics Matters... for Regulating Gene Expression
October 2010
10/6/10
Jun Zhang, New York University Physical mechanisms of animal flight and swimming   (Abstract)
10/13/10
Eddie Farhi, MIT Quantum Money
10/20/10
Len Sander, University of Michigan How to do six impossible things before breakfast: numerical calculation of very unlikely events
10/27/10
Charles Brooks, UM Chemistry From Folding to Function   (Abstract)
November 2010
11/3/10
Richard B. Rood, UM Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Global Warming: Simple Physics in a Complex System   (Abstract)
11/10/10
Peter Jung, Ohio University How Nerves get into Shape   (Abstract)
11/17/10
Tony Heinz, Columbia University Seeing Electrons in Graphene: A Model 2-Dimensional Material   (Abstract)
11/24/10
No colloq (Thanksgiving)
December 2010
12/1/10
Paul Drake, University of Michigan High Energy Density Physics
12/8/10
No colloquium
12/15/10
Maria Spiropulu, Caltech LHC: Year 0