General Colloquium

FALL 2011

9/7/11	Brad Orr, University of Michigan	"State of the Department"
9/14/11	Jennifer Ogilvie,University of Michigan	"Snapshots of Biology with a Femtosecond Camera"
9/21/11	Dragan Huterer, University of Michigan	"Fundamental Physics from Large-Scale Structure"
9/28/11	Jim Liu, University of Michigan	"Recent Advances in Applied String Theory"
10/5/11	Cagliyan Kurdak, University of Michigan	"The 1/f Spectrum: A Not-So-Fundamental Noise Distribution?"
10/12/11	Finn Larsen, University of Michigan	"The Status of String Theory"
10/19/11	Scott Gaudi, Ohio State University	"The Demographics of Exoplanets with Gravitational Microlensing"
10/26/11	T.W. Hansch, Ludwig-Maximilians-University	Ta-You Wu Colloquium, "Laser-Spectrocopy of Hydrogen" Note location change: Michigan League Ballroom with refreshments in the Michigan League Vandenberg room at 3:30 pm.
11/2/11	Daniel S. Fisher, Stanford University	"Can Evolutionary Dynamics Be Understood Quantitataively?"
11/9/11	Dave Hertzog, University of Washington	Helmut Baer Colloquium, "Precision Muon Phyics: Capturing a Moment in a Lifetime"
11/16/11	Lydia Bieri, University of Michigan	"The Discovery of the Expanding Universe"
11/23/11	Thanksgiving
11/30/11	Rachel Bean, Cornell University	"Observing Brane Inflation"
12/7/11	Greogry D. Scholes, University of Toronto	"Lessons From Nature About Solar Light Harvesting"

1/11/12	Alexander Grosberg, New York University	"Two Meters of DNA in Micron Size Cell Nucleus: The Role of Topological Constraints in Genome Folding"
1/18/12	Peter Littlewood, Argonne National Laboratory	CANCELLED "Polariton Condensation and Collective Dynamics"
1/25/12	Henriette Elvang, University of Michigan	"Exciting New Approaches to Particle Scattering Amplitudes"
2/1/12	Robert Roser, Fermilab	"From the Top Quark to the Higgs Boson - A Quest for Discovery at the Tevatron"
2/8/12	Stefan A. Maier, Imperial College London	"Plasmonics: Oscillator physics on the nanoscale"
2/15/12	Jane Kondev, Brandeis University	"How Cells Make Decisions and What Does Physics Have to Say About It"
2/22/12	David DeMille, Yale University	"Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics: Searching for the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron"
2/29/12	Spring Break
3/7/12	Michael Flatté, University of Iowa	"Solotronics: manipulation, control, and applications of a solitary dopant within a semiconductor"
3/14/12	Lene Hau, Harvard University	"Quantum Control of Light and Matter... From the Macroscopic to the Nanoscale"
3/21/12	Chris Hirata, California Institute of Technology	"Understanding the Cosmic Recombination Epoch"
3/28/12	Marija Drndic, University of Pennsylvania	"Biomolecule Detection and Analysis with Nanopores in Graphene Membranes"
4/4/12	Frank von Hippel, Princeton University	Ford Lecture
4/11/12	Junjie Zhu	"Latest Results from the ATLAS Experiment"