University of Michigan, Physics Department

Physics Colloquium Schedule

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

Time: Wednesdays at 4:00 pm

Place: 340 West Hall

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


Date
Speaker  
January 2010
1/5/11
Michael Byers, English Department, UM Finding Percival's Planet
1/12/11
Zohar Nussinov, Washington University, St. Louis Glassy Dynamics and Unusual Thermodynamics on Curved Surfaces   (Abstract)
1/19/11
David Weitz, Harvard University Fluctuations and Dynamic Arrest in Cells: The Glass Transition in Cells   (Abstract)
1/26/11
Jan Tobochnik, Kalamazoo College The Computational Core of the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum   (Abstract)
February 2011
2/2/11
Ken Elder, Oakland University The ABC's of modeling pattern formation: From classical DFT to the Hohenberg/Halperin alphabet soup of models.   (Abstract)
2/9/11
Scott Dodelson, Fermilab and University of Chicago The Dark Sector vs. Modified Gravity   (Abstract) (PDF of talk)
2/16/11
Bill Unruh, University of British Columbia Measurement of thermal spectrum of stimulated Hawking radiation from an Analog black Hole
2/23/11
Heather Lewandowski, JILA and Physics Department University of Colorado Controlling Molecular Interactions with Electric Fields   (Abstract)
March 2011
3/2/11
No Colloquium - Spring Break
3/9/11
Raphael Bousso, UC Berkeley: The Multiverse Of String Theory, The Measure Problem, And The Cosmological Constant   (Abstract)
3/16/11
Gary Horowitz, UC Santa Barbara: The Remarkable Power of General Relativity
3/23/11
Frans Pretorius, Princeton University: Black Holes: Probes of the Cosmos and Fundamental Physics   (Abstract)
3/30/11
Ford Lecture
April 2011
4/6/11
John Wahr, University of Colorado: The GRACE satellite mission: using time-variable gravity to study the Earth   (Abstract)
4/13/11
Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University: The Demographics of Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing   (Abstract)   (CANCELED)
4/20/11
NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK