Colloquium Schedule
Colloquium: Thursday, April 24, 4:10 PM, Lewis Lab 316
From Theorist’s Playground to Precision Science: The Evolution of Modern Cosmology
Robert Scherrer
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Vanderbilt University
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Physics and Astronomy Colloquia are usually scheduled for Thursdays at 4:10 PM in Lewis Lab room 316. Refreshments and snacks are available in the nearby coffee room at 3:45 PM.
Physics Colloquium Schedule for SPRING 2014
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| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
| January 23 | Moumita Das | Rochester Institute of Technology | Touchy Feely Physics of Living Cells: Mechanics and Force Transmission |
| January 30 | Daniel Ou-Yang | Lehigh University | Motions of Brownian and Active Particles in an External Field: Einstein's 1905 Paper on Brownian Motion Revisited |
| February 6 | Lehigh Astronomy | Lehigh University | Astrophysics at Lehigh: Probing the Physics of Stars and Planets |
| February 13 Cancelled | Waseem Bakr | Princeton University | Synthetic Condensed Matter Systems with Ultracold Atoms |
| February 20 | Heather Jaeger | Lehigh University | Modeling the Effects of Environment-Induced Decoherence on Nonradioactive Relaxation Pathways of Electrically Excited Molecules |
| February 27 | Chris Quigg | Fermilab | Particle Physics in a Season of Change |
| March 6 | No Colloquium | APS March Meeting | |
| March 13 | Allison Brooks | Rutgers University | Solving the "Small Scale Crisis" of Cold Dark Matter |
| March 20 | Kathryn Ross | Johns Hopkins/NIST | Towards Emergent Electrodynamics in a Geometrically Frustrated Magnet |
| March 27 | John Mather | NASA Goddard | The History of the Universe from Beginning to End, and Observing with the James Webb Space Telescope |
| April 3 | Jungsang Kim | Duke University | Engineering Quantum Information Processing Systems |
| April 10 | Donna Strickland | Univ. of Waterloo | Short Pulse Generation Through Multi-Frequency Raman Generation |
| April 17 | Megan Valentine | Univ. CA, Santa Barbara | New Insight into Biomaterials Design Through Molecular and Geometric Control of Protein Based Structures |
| April 17 | Elliott Elson | Washington University | Bioelectromechanics of Engineered Heart Tissues |
| April 24 | Robert Scherrer | Vanderbilt University | From Theorist’s Playground to Precision Science: The Evolution of Modern Cosmology |