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Physics Colloquium Series

Physics Colloquium Series

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Probing Maxwell's Demon with a Nanoscale Thermometer

Probing Maxwell's Demon with a Nanoscale Thermometer

Understanding thermal transport and thermoelectric effects at the nanoscale is a scientific challenge with important con... Read more

19 Apr 2013

59mins

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Physics in Flatland: Turbulence in Two Dimensions

Physics in Flatland: Turbulence in Two Dimensions

The physics of natural systems is often highly influenced by spatial dimensionality from the nature of phase transitions... Read more

8 Feb 2013

1hr 5mins

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Pattern Formation Exhibited by Biofilm Formation within Microfluidic Chambers

Pattern Formation Exhibited by Biofilm Formation within Microfluidic Chambers

This talk focuses on the dynamics of an important bacterial pathogen, Xylella fastidiosa within artificial plant xylem. ... Read more

26 Apr 2013

57mins

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The Discovery of Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter?

The Discovery of Majorana Fermions in Condensed Matter?

The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions (particles that are their own anti-particles) has since impacted div... Read more

29 Mar 2013

1hr 8mins

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A Close Look at Black Holes

A Close Look at Black Holes

The compact source of radio emission known as Sagittarius A* marks the location of the Milky Way's central supermassive ... Read more

15 Feb 2013

1hr 7mins

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Localization at bilayer graphene and topological insulator edges

Localization at bilayer graphene and topological insulator edges

Localization phenomena play an important role in our understanding of the properties of graphene and topological insulat... Read more

11 Jan 2013

58mins

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Earth-Dust, Cloud-Dust, Storm-Dust. The Pervasive Nature of Atmospheric Aerosols in our Lives

Earth-Dust, Cloud-Dust, Storm-Dust. The Pervasive Nature of Atmospheric Aerosols in our Lives

Abstract: Atmospheric aerosols, including dust and clouds, play a significant but under appreciated role in our lives. F... Read more

7 Dec 2012

1hr 4mins

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Quantum Antiferromagnetism with Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Quantum Antiferromagnetism with Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates

Dr. Raman's group investigates macroscopic quantum mechanics using ultralow temperature gases—laser cooled clouds of ato... Read more

12 Jun 2012

53mins

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Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Networks and the Scaling of Form, Function, and Diversity in Biology

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Networks and the Scaling of Form, Function, and Diversity in Biology

Dr. Enquist's lab investigates how functional constraints at the level of the individual (anatomical and physiological) ... Read more

12 Jun 2012

1hr 4mins

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Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Without a Higgs Boson Meets the LHC

Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Without a Higgs Boson Meets the LHC

Dr. Simmmons concludes that the Standard Higgs Model is a low-energy effective theory of electrroweak symmetry breaking ... Read more

12 Jun 2012

1hr

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Spintronics and Spin Caloritronics in Magnetic Nanostructures

Spintronics and Spin Caloritronics in Magnetic Nanostructures

Dr. Wang's research interests are ultra-low energy magnetization switching, electron tunneling in ferromagnet/insulator/... Read more

12 Jun 2012

54mins

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Axions, the Anthropic Principle, and the Tilted Universe

Axions, the Anthropic Principle, and the Tilted Universe

Axions are particles associated with the Peccei-Quinn mechanism for solving the strong CP problem. They are also interes... Read more

24 Jan 2012

55mins

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MCB 315: Key Concepts in Quantitative Biology

MCB 315: Key Concepts in Quantitative Biology

Ryan Gutenkunst received his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University, where he worked with Jim Sethna on unveiling univ... Read more

23 Jan 2012

53mins

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The Dark Energy Puzzle and The Cosmological Constant Problem

The Dark Energy Puzzle and The Cosmological Constant Problem

(Note: background noise the last 15 minutes) Abstract: We give an overview of the dark energy (DE) puzzle triggered by t... Read more

14 Jun 2011

1hr 8mins

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Neutrinos, Nature's Messengers

Neutrinos, Nature's Messengers

Abstract: Over the past decade, physicists and astrophysicists have examined signals from neutrino interactions to learn... Read more

19 Dec 2010

1hr

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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom … and Time at the Top!

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom … and Time at the Top!

Abstract: Over fifty years ago, Feynman predicted the rise of nanotechnology, even before it was on the horizon. Today, ... Read more

18 Dec 2010

58mins

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Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Beyond the Quantum Spin Liquid Approach

Superconductivity in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems: Beyond the Quantum Spin Liquid Approach

Prior to the advent of the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory in 1957, superconductivity had been referred to as the... Read more

18 Dec 2010

22mins

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Individual and Collective Dynamics of Micro-Swimmers

Individual and Collective Dynamics of Micro-Swimmers

Abstract: The swimming of micro-organisms is governed by "Low Reynolds number" fluid dynamics where shear force Fy ~ dVy... Read more

15 Jun 2010

54mins

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The Origins of the Universe and the Arrow of Time

The Origins of the Universe and the Arrow of Time

Abstract: Over a century ago, Boltzmann and others provided a microscopic understanding for the tendency of entropy to i... Read more

11 May 2010

1hr 4mins

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Entropy and Time

Entropy and Time

Abstract: The emergence of a direction of time in statistical mechanics from an underlying motion-reversal-invariant dyn... Read more

11 Mar 2010

55mins

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