Fall 2009 Events

Regular Colloquium Schedule

September 8th
Student Summer Research Symposium

September 15th
Michelle L. Povinelli
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California

"Two Applications of Computational Electromagnetics:
Moving Objects with the Force of Light and Improving Solar Cell Performance"

September 29th
Keith Schwab
Department of Applied Physics
California Institute of Technology

"Cooling a mechanical resonator close to the quantum ground state"

October 13th
Eric Hudson
University of California, Los Angeles

November 3rd
Christoph Baranec
California Institute of Technology

November 17th
Joint Colloquium
Chemistry, Computer Science, Molecular Biology, &
Physics
Note: Special time & Place
11 am Rose Hills Theater

Paul Rothemund
Senior Research Associate, Computer Science & Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology

"Beyond Watson and Crick: Recent advances in the use of DNA as a building material"
 

Past Events

David J. Griffiths, Howard Vollum Professor of Science,
Reed College
March 24th 2009

Dr. Eric Cornell
Fellow, JILA, NIST, University of Colorado, Boulder
Nobel Laureate in Physics 2001

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Seaver North Auditorium, 8 pm
"Stone Cold Science: Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Weird World of Physics a Millionth of a Degree Above Absolute Zero"
Public Talk

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Seaver North Auditorium, 4:30 pm
"Is Warm Glass Stickier than Cold Glass?"
Physics Colloquium

Rob Philips
Calfornia Institute of Technology
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
"How Viruses Make New Viruses: A Single Molecule View"
Joint Biology/Physics Department Colloquium

Luke Donev
Cornell University
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
"Experiments with Carbon Nanotube Transistors"
 

Links to Other Events in the Claremont Area
Cal Poly Pomona Physics
Harvey Mudd College Physics