Seminars & Colloquia

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Departmental Colloquium | Condensed Matter Seminar | High Energy/Nuclear Seminar
High Energy/Nuclear Lunch | Biological Physics Seminars | Mathematical Physics Seminar | Special Talks

Departmental Colloquium

Wed, Sep 30 4:00pm	Searches for New Physics in Colliders Benjamin Brau, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Wed, Oct 28 4:00pm	Lepton Moments and Physics Beyond the Standard Model William Marciano, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wed, Nov 18 4:00pm	Collapse Mechanism of Lung Surfactant Ka Yee Lee, University of Chicago
Wed, Dec 2 4:00pm	Optical Excitations and Interactions in Metal and Semiconductor Nanostructures Marc Achermann, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Condensed Matter Seminar

Thu, Sep 17 11:15am	Leaf Veins and Pollen Grains: Robustness, Optimization and Design Principles in the Plant Kingdom Eleni Katifori, Rockefeller University/Physics & Mathematical Biology
Thu, Sep 24 11:15am	Charge Measurements of Single-Electron Tunneling and Highly Resistive Thin Films Marc Kastner, MIT/Physics
Thu, Oct 1 11:15am	Probing Electronic Interactions in Quantum Dot-conjugated Organic Composite Nanostructures Michael Barnes, University of Massachusetts, Chemistry
Thu, Oct 8 11:15am	Active Emulsions Seth Fraden, Physics, Brandeis
Thu, Oct 15 11:15am	Quantum Spin Liquids and the Mott Transition Senthil Todadri, Physics, MIT
Thu, Oct 22 11:15am	From negative refraction to single photon control: New frontiers of quantum coherence Susanne Yelin, UConn
Thu, Oct 29 11:15am	Alpha-synuclein: probing the conformations of a polymorphic membrane-binding protein Liz Rhoades, Yale
Thu, Nov 5 11:15am	Applying and Quantifying Forces in Soft Matter Dan Blair, Georgetown University
Thu, Nov 12 11:15am	Crystal-Melt Interfaces, Rotator Phases, and Nucleation in Polyethylene Scott Milner, Penn State University
Thu, Nov 19 11:15am	The mechanics of swimming microorganisms Thomas Powers, Brown University
Thu, Dec 3 11:15am	TBA Panayotis Kevrekidis, Math, UMass
Thu, Dec 10 11:15am	Electrostatics and RNA: Insights From x-ray Scattering Experiment Lois Pollack, Cornell University

High Energy/Nuclear Seminar

Fri, Sep 25 2:00pm	Postponed until 10/2 Andreas Ross, Yale University
Fri, Oct 2 2:00pm	Black hole effective field theories Andreas Ross, Yale University
Fri, Oct 9 2:00am	Commissioning of ATLAS with Cosmics and Prospects for Early Physics Kevin Black , Harvard University
Fri, Oct 16 2:00pm	Seminar Cancelled Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado, Tufts University
Fri, Oct 23 2:00pm	Properties of Hyperons in covariant chiral perturbation theory Jorge Martin Camalich, IFIC, Valencia
Fri, Oct 30 2:00pm	The Spectrum of D-brane Inflation Daniel Baumann, Institute for Advanced Studies
Fri, Nov 6 2:00pm	Quantum Tunneling in Flux Compactifications Jose Juan Blanco-Pillado, Tufts University
Fri, Nov 13 2:00pm	Flavor physics from "Gaussian" landscapes Michael Salem, Tufts University
Fri, Nov 20 2:00pm	Hadron Physics with Polarized Photons at 9 GeV Richard Jones, University of Connecticut
Fri, Dec 4 2:00pm	TBA David Hornidge, Mt. Allison University

High Energy/Nuclear Lunch

Tue, Sep 22 12:15pm	Horava-Lifshitz Gravity Lorenzo Sorbo, UMass, Physics
Tue, Nov 3 12:15pm	Inflation on Steep Potentials Mohamed Anber, UMass Physics
Tue, Nov 10 12:15pm	EXO Update Tim Daniels, UMass, Physics
Tue, Nov 17 12:15pm	Emergent gauge symmetry John Donogue, UMass, Physics
Tue, Nov 24 12:15pm	The Anion: New work on an old subject Barry Holstein, UMass, Physics
Tue, Dec 1 12:15pm	TBA Ufuk Aydemir, UMass, Physics
Tue, Dec 8 12:15pm	Dark Matter Detection with Depleted Argon Andrea Pocar, UMass Physics

Biological Physics Seminar

None.

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Wed, Sep 16 2:30pm	Frustrating Geometry: Elastic Theory of non-Euclidean Plates Efi Efrati, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Wed, Oct 7 2:30pm	Integrable PDEs in mathematical physics and algebraic curves. Franz Pedit, UMass Mathematics Department
Wed, Nov 18 2:30pm	Elliptic functions in cosmology Jennie D'Ambroise, UMass Mathematics Department
Wed, Dec 2 2:30pm	On generalized monopole spherical harmonics and the wave equation of a charged massive Kerr black hole Floyd Williams, UMass Mathematics Department

Special Talks

None.

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