Physics Colloquia

Each week during the semester, the Department of Physics hosts prominent scientists from around the country to speak at our colloquium series. This is an excellent opportunity for faculty, students and the local science community to learn about some of the most intriguing topics in the field of physics today. Colloquia are held Tuesdays in the John S. Toll Physics Building, Room 1410 at 4:00 p.m. (preceded by light refreshments at 3:30 p.m.). The Spring 2012 schedule is listed below.

Parking is available in the Parking Garage 2 (PG2), across the street from the Physics Lecture Hall. An attendant will direct visitors within the garage. A free ShuttleUM bus runs to and from the College Park Metro station at about eight-minute intervals.

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January 31	Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland Living in a Solar-Powered Home
February 7	Bill McDonough, University of Maryland Geoneutrinos and Heat Production in the Earth: Constraints and Implications
February 14	Tom Cohen, University of Maryland The Curious Saga of the Hagedron Spectrum
February 21	Hod Lipson, Cornell University Machine Science: Distilling Natural Laws from Experimental Data, from Particle Physics to Computational Biology
February 28	Ian Spielman, Joint Quantum Institute Bose-Einstein condensates subject to synthetic gauge fields
March 6	Andrey Korytov, University of Florida Higgs Boson: On the Verge of Discovery
March 13	Wendell Hill, University of Maryland The First Neutral Atom Circuit Analogs to Basic Electric Circuit Elements
March 27	David Campbell, Boston University The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam Problem and the Birth of Nonlinear Science
April 3	Daniel Mittleman, Rice University Plasmonic Terahertz Waveguides
April 10	Nigel Goldenfeld, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Statistical Mechanics of the Genetic Code: A Glimpse of Early Life?
April 17	W.J. Carr Lecture Mac Beasley, Stanford University A Contemporary Look at the Search for Higher Temperature Superconductors
April 24	Graham Farmelo The Strangest Man: The Life of Paul Dirac
May 1	Yuan Ping, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Short-Pulse Laser-Matter Interaction: From Superheated Solid to Ultra-Relativistic Plasma
May 8	Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck Quantum Simulation with Atoms, Ions and Molecules

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