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