Seminars & Colloquia
| Mon, Jan 23 11:15am |
Pattern formation, Superfluidity and Coherence of Polariton Condensates Jonathan Keeling, University of St. Andrews |
| Thu, Jan 26 11:15am |
Oxide Nanoelectronics on Demand Cheng Cen, Semiconductor Research and Development Center, IBM, Hopewell Jn. .NY. |
| Thu, Feb 2 11:15am |
Tailoring Dirac Fermions in Molecular Graphene Kenjiro Gomes, Karl van Bibber Postdoctoral Fellow in Atom Manipulation Nanoscience, Stanford University. |
| Thu, Feb 9 11:15am |
Electron transport in graphene heterostructures Cory Dean, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Department of Physics, Columbia University |
| Tue, Feb 21 11:15am |
Building Synthetic Materials from Ultracold Atoms: Quantum Magnetism in an Optical Lattice Jonathan Simon, Harvard/MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms |
| Thu, Feb 23 11:15am |
Probing Many-Body States in Nanostructures: Pseudo-spin Resolved Transport Spectroscopy of the Kondo Effect Sami Amasha, Stanford University, Department of Physics |
| Mon, Mar 5 11:15am |
Correlation Effects in Quantum Spin Hall Insulators Thomas Lang, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| Mon, Mar 5 12:15pm |
Stress focusing and collapse of a thin elastic sheet subjected to constant pressure Eugenio Hamm, Universidad de Santiago de Chile |
| Tue, Mar 6 11:15am |
Spintronics & Nanophotonics for Quantum Information Science Maiken H. Mikkelsen, NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Thu, Mar 8 11:15am |
Shining light on graphene Jun Yan, University of Maryland, College Park |
| Fri, Mar 9 12:15pm |
Fold and Leaf Shapes Etienne Couturier, Universidad de Santiago de Chile |
| Thu, Mar 15 11:15am |
The micropiston reveals softness of the bacterial chromosome Suckjoon Jun, Bauer Fellow, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University |
| Tue, Mar 20 11:15am |
Shape transformations and symmetry breaking of confined membrane vesicles Martin Michael Müller, Université de Lorraine, Metz |
| Tue, Mar 27 11:15am |
Studying Quantum Dynamics in Ultracold Atomic Systems Courtney Lannert, Wellesley College |
| Thu, Mar 29 11:15pm |
The Three-Dimensional Ising Spin Glass at Low Temperatures Jonathan Machta, Dept. of Physics, UMass Amherst |
| Thu, Apr 5 11:15pm |
Electrostatic Interactions in Polymers and Soft Matter Andrey Dobrynin, Institute of Material Science and Dept of Physics, U of Connecticut |
| Thu, Apr 12 11:15am |
Rigidity of granular solids: Is it rooted in topological order? Prof. Bulbul Chakraborty, Department of Physics, Brandeis University |
| Thu, Apr 19 11:15am |
Topological solitons in superconductors with broken time-reversal symmetry Dr. Julien Garaud, Dept. of Physics, UMass Amherst |
| Thu, Apr 26 11:15am |
A particle walks into an interface... Prof. Vinothan Manoharan, Dept of Physics, Harvard University |
| Thu, May 3 11:15am |
Statistical mechanics of genes in expanding microbial colonies Kirill Korolev, Pappalardo Fellow, MIT |
| Wed, Feb 8 4:00pm |
Ask Not For Whom The Coffee Rings, It Rings For Spheres But Not Ellipsoids Arjun Yodh, University of Pennsylvannia |
| Wed, Feb 15 4:00pm |
Fluctuations and Dynamic Arrest in Cells David Weitz, Harvard University |
| Wed, Mar 28 4:00pm |
Putting the Squeeze on Biology: Biomolecules Under Pressure Sol Gruner, Cornell |
| Wed, Apr 4 4:00pm |
The Hunt for the Higgs Boson at CERN Vivek Sharma, University of California, San Diego |
| Wed, Apr 11 4:00pm |
Quantum Field Theory of Inflation for Pedestrians Nemanja Kaloper, University of California, Davis |
| Wed, Apr 18 4:00pm |
The limits of the nuclear landscape Witold Nazarewicz, University of Tennessee |
| Tue, Jan 31 12:15pm |
Search for TeV-scale Gravity Signatures in Final States with Leptons and Jets at ATLAS German Colon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Tue, Feb 21 12:15pm |
ATLAS, Electroweak physics, and the R+jets Measurement Andrew Meade, UMass |
| Tue, Mar 27 12:15pm |
Sudden events during inflation and features in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Lorenzo Sorbo, UMass |
| Tue, Apr 3 12:15pm |
Higher Gravity in Lower Dimensions David Kastor, UMass |
| Tue, Apr 10 12:15pm |
What we could learn from the inflationary gravitational wave spectrum Jessica Cook, UMass |
| Tue, Apr 24 12:15pm |
Hadronic Parity Violation Jared Vanasse, UMass |
| Tue, May 1 12:15pm |
Gauge-Invariance Violation Basem El-Menoufi, UMass |
| Fri, Feb 3 2:00pm |
SUSY, the Third Generation and the LHC Andrey Katz, Harvard University |
| Fri, Feb 10 2:00pm |
Top quarks at the Tevatron and the LHC Jessie Shelton, Yale University |
| Tue, Feb 14 11:00am |
Higgs Underproduction at the LHC Adam Martin, Fermilab |
| Fri, Feb 17 2:00pm |
Electroweak Phase Transition, Scalar Dark Matter, and the LHC Michael Ramsey-Musolf, University of Wisconsin |
| Fri, Feb 24 2:00pm |
Conformal Invariance and the Real World Walter Goldberger, Yale University |
| Tue, Feb 28 11:00am |
Beta decays and non-standard interactions in the LHC era Vincenzo Cirigliano, Los Alamos |
| Fri, Mar 2 2:00pm |
Effective Field Theory Tools in the LHC Era Sonny Mantry, Argonne/Northwestern |
| Tue, Mar 6 11:00am |
Improving gravitational wave templates with Effective Field Theories Andreas Ross, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Fri, Mar 16 2:00pm |
Listening for new physics with gravitational waves John Veitch, NIKHEF |
| Fri, Mar 30 2:00pm |
The Neutrino Matrix Ed Kearns, Boston University |
| Fri, Apr 6 2:00pm |
Observation of electron-antineutrino disappearance at Daya Bay Jiajie Ling, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Fri, Apr 13 2:00pm |
Search for Weakly-interacting Long-lived Particles in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector Dan Ventura, University of Massachusetts |
| Fri, Apr 27 2:00pm |
Searching for BSM physics in LHCb Tomasz Skwarnicki, Syracuse University |
| Fri, May 4 2:00pm |
Search for W' bosons at the CMS Experiment Tulika Bose, Boston University |