Department of Physics Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2006

All colloquia are held in 100 Willamette unless otherwise noted. Coffee, tea, and cookies begin at 3:40pm in the atrium. Speakers: Maps and directions to the Department of Physics can be found here. Graham Kribs is the organizer of the Fall 2006 colloquia.

Date Speaker Title Host Thursday, Sep 28 4:00pm Dave Soper University of Oregon State of the Department (local) Thursday, Oct 5 4:00pm Mark Halpern University of British Columbia WMAP 3 Year Results: Beginning to Constrain Inflation Graham Kribs Thursday, Oct 12 4:00pm Hitoshi Murayama University of California-Berkeley Quantum Universe Graham Kribs Thursday, Oct 19 4:00pm Raman Sundrum Johns Hopkins University Extra Dimensions, the Hierarchy Problem and Particle Colliders Graham Kribs Thursday, Oct 26 4:00pm Eric Adelberger University of Washington Tests of the Gravitational Inverse-Square Law at the Dark-Energy Length Scale Eric Torrence/Graham Kribs Thursday, Nov 2 4:00pm Phil Bucksbaum Stanford University Ultrafast Quantum Control Michael Raymer Thursday, Nov 9 4:00pm Ramamurti Shankar Yale University Dots for Dummies Steve Hsu Thursday, Nov 16 4:00pm John Toner University of Oregon Squeezing superfluid from a stone: Coupling superfluidity and elasticity in a supersolid (local) Thursday, Nov 23 4:00pm Happy Thanksgiving (no colloquium) Thursday, Nov 30 4:00pm Philip Hammer Franklin Institute Benjamin Franklin: America's First Civic Scientist Russ Donnelly