Research Opportunities for Graduate Students
Presentations from the 2010 Symposium on Research Opportunities for Graduate Students
February 1, 2010
- Welcoming Remarks
- Don Candela
- Quantum Fluids and Solids — the Magic of the very Cold
- Robert Hallock (ppt)
- Theory of Quantum Fluids, Solids and Gases
- Egor Babaev, Jon Machta, Nikolay Prokof'ev, and Boris Svistunov (pdf)
- Experimental Granular and Soft Condensed Matter. Quantum Fluids and Solids
- Donald Candela (ppt)
- The Geometry of Complex Fluids and Soft Materials
- Christian Santangelo (pdf)
- Soft Condensed Matter Physics: Colloids, Emulsions and Membranes
- Anthony Dinsmore (pdf)
- Single Molecule Biophysics I
- Lori Goldner (ppt)
- Single Molecule Biophysics II
- Adrian Parsegian (ppt)
- Biophysics of Microtubules
- Jennifer Ross (ppt)
- Nanophysics
- Mark Tuominen (pdf)
- Experiments on Nonequilibrium Systems
- Narayanan Menon (ppt)
- Continuum Mechanics: Pattern Formation and Dynamics of Soft Matter (2.5)
- Benny Davidovitch (ppt)
- Statistical Physics of Complex and Disordered Systems
- Jonathan Machta (ppt)
- Statistical Mechanics of Filamentous Assemblies
- Gregory Grason (PSE) (ppt)
- Experimental Nuclear Physics at UMass
- David Kawall, Andrea Pocar, and Krishna Kumar (ppt)
- Experimental Gravitation and Particle Astrophysics
- Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar (pdf)
- Nuclear Physics Research with Polarized Photons and Protons
- Rory Miskimen (pptx)
- Black Hole Thermodynamics, or what you *really* didn't want to know about being a grown-up physicist
- Jennie Traschen
- High Energy and Gravitational Theory
- Lorenzo Sorbo, Jennie Traschen, John Donoghue, Barry Holstein, Eugene Golowich, and David Kastor (ppt)
- Elementary Particle Physics Experiment: The ATLAS Experiment at the LHC
- Carlo Dallapiccola, Ben Brau, and Stephane Willocq, (ppt)