Physics Research Conference 2009-10

The Physics Research Conference is held on Thursday at 4:00 P.M. in 201 E. Bridge, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served in 114 E. Bridge at 3:45 P.M. If that room is not available, they are served in 108 E. Bridge. All talks are intended for a broad audience, and everyone is encouraged to attend.

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Date	Speaker*	Title*	Host
October 1	John Peacock Royal Observatory, Edinburgh	Studying the Dark Universe with Galaxy Clustering	Tom Soifer
October 8	Sean Carroll Caltech	The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time	Marc Kamionkowski
October 15	Roger Romani Stanford University	Fermi LAT Pulsars: The New Gamma-ray View of the Pulsar Machine	Tom Soifer
October 22	Ramamurti Shankar Yale University	Dots for Dummies	Gil Refael
October 29	Thomas Levenson MIT	Isaac Newton: Mathematician, Natural Philosopher, Alchemist.....Cop?	Sean Carroll
November 5	Bonnie Bassler Princeton University	Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria	Sean Carroll
November 12	Daniel Holz Los Alamos National Laboratory	Cosmology from standard sirens	Marc Kamionkowski
November 19	M. Zahid Hasan Princeton University	Topological Insulators : the Observation of Quantum Hall-like Effects without Magnetic Field	Gil Refael
December 3	Subir Sachdev Harvard University	Quantum phase transitions: from antiferromagnets and superconductors to black holes	Anton Kapustin
January 7	Rob Phillips Caltech		Michael Roukes
January 14	Paul Sommers Penn State University		Marc Kamionkowski
January 21	David Charbonneau Harvard University		Tom Prince
January 28	Gary Horowitz UC Santa Barbara		Yanbei Chen
February 4	Sunil Golwala Caltech		Marc Kamionkowski
February 11	Sheperd Doeleman Haystack Observatory, MIT	The Event Horizon Telescope	Tom Soifer
February 18	Boris Kayser Fermilab		Robert McKeown
February 25	Yanbei Chen Caltech		Marc Kamionkowski
March 4	Norval Fortson University of Washington		Robert McKeown
April 1	Peter Zoller University of Innsbruck		Jeff Kimble
April 8	Saul Teukolsky Cornell University		Yanbei Chen
April 15	Eugene Polzik Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University		Jeff Kimble
April 22	Shamit Kachru UC Santa Barbara		Anton Kapustin
April 29	David Tirrell Caltech	Reinterpreting the Genetic Code: Non-Canonical Amino Acids in Protein Design, Evolution and Analysis	Nai-Chang Yeh
May 6
May 13	Sharad Ramanathan Harvard University		Gil Refael
May 20
May 27

2008-2009 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

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Physics Research Conference 2009-10

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