Physics Colloquia Archive 2004-2005

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October 5, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 5, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The Black Hole Information Paradox
  Prof. Gerard 't Hooft
  Utrecht University
  (Abstract available on web page)

October 12, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The First Billion Years
  Prof. Piero Madau
  UC Santa Cruz, Lick Observatory, KITP
  (Abstract available on web page)

October 19, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 19, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Physics of Cell Shape and Adhesion
  Prof. Sam Safran
  Weizmann Institute
  (Abstract available on web page)

October 26, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Mysterious Metamorphoses: Duality in Quantum Theory
  Prof. Matthew Strassler
  Univ. Washington, KITP
  (Abstract available on web page)

November 2, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 2, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Listening for the Dark
  Prof. Harry Nelson
  UC Santa Barbara
  (Abstract available on web page)

November 9, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 9, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Observing Relativistic Binary Pulsars
  Prof. Ingrid Stairs
  Univ. British Columbia
  (Abstract available on web page)

November 16, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 16, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  New Results on Matter-Antimatter Asymmetries from BaBar
  Prof. Jeff Richman
  UC Santa Barbara
  (Abstract available on web page)

November 23, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 23, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The calculation of electronic excitations in condensed matter
  Dr. Lorin Benedict
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  (Abstract available on web page)

November 30, 2004

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The Astrophysics of Galaxy Formation: Quantifying the Role of Feedback
  Prof. Crystal Martin
  UC Santa Barbara, KITP
  (Abstract available on web page)

January 4, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 4, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Impact: void collapse and jet formation
  Professor Detlef Lohse
  University of Twente (The Netherlands)
  (Abstract available on web page)

January 11, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Direct Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations from KamLAND
  Stuart Freedman
  University of California at Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  (Abstract available on web page)

January 18, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Dynamics of Large Deformations in Glassy Solids: Why Structural Engineers May Need New Ideas in Nonequilibrium Physics
  Professor James Langer
  Dept. of Physics, UCSB
  (Abstract available on web page)

January 25, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, January 25, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The Initial Mass Function of Forming Stars
  Professor Frank Shu
  National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan
  (Abstract available on web page)

February 1, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 1, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  A Future for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Physics
  Sterl Phinney
  California Institute of Technology
  (Abstract available on web page)

February 8, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 8, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The security of quantum cryptography
  Professor John Preskill
  Caltech
  (Abstract available on web page)

February 15, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  The universe: a sphere, a dougnut, or a fractal?
  Professor Andrei Linde
  Stanford University
  (Abstract available on web page)

February 22, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, February 22, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account
  Ian Shipsey
  Purdue University
  (Abstract available on web page)

March 1, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, March 1, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Physical Aspects of Growth Control in Development
  Professor Boris Shraiman
  KITP
  (Abstract available on web page)

March 4, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Friday, March 4, 2005 2:00 pm - KITP Small Seminar Room
  Holographic Cosmology
  Thomas Hertog
  UCSB

March 8, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, March 8, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Dissipationless quantum spin current and the intrinsic spin Hall effect
  Professor Shoucheng Zhang
  Stanford University
  (Abstract available on web page)

April 5, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 5, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Emergent Photons and Decaying Electrons: In Search of a New Paradigm for Quantum Materials
  Ashvin Vishwanath

April 12, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 12, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Deformation and failure of glassy materials
  Joerg Rottler
  Princeton University
  (Abstract available on web page)

April 19, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 19, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Long-range cooperativity in yeast mating polarization
  Dr Chin-Lin Guo
  (Abstract available on web page)

April 26, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, April 26, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  How the Quantum Universe Became Classical
  Jonathan Halliwell
  Imperial College, London
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 3, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 3, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in Higher Dimensions
  Matthew Hastings
  LANL
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 10, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 10, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Highlights from Cassini's Imaging Adventures at Saturn
  Carolyn Porco
  Univ. of Arizona and Head of the Cassini Imaging Team
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 17, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Stellar Magnetic Fields
  Henck Spruit
  Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 24, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 24, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Naturalness, the Landscape and the LHC
  Nima Arkani-Hamed
  Harvard
  (Abstract available on web page)

May 31, 2005

• Physics Colloquium
  Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:00 pm - Broida 1640
  Classical and Quantum Chaos
  Mark Srednicki
  Department of Physics, UCSB
  (Abstract available on web page)