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Tuesday, January 4
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Measurement of Time-Dependent CP Violation in b-->s Penguins
  • Fang Fang, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Hawaii,
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Wednesday, January 5
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Fermi Golden Rule at Thresholds
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12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Lauritsen Library
Deformation and Seaquarks in the Baryon Wave Functions
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Thursday, January 6
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Recent Lattice QCD Results on Finite Density and Mesoniums
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Geography of Extra Dimensions
  • Sergei Gukov, Long-Term CMI Prize Fellow, Harvard University,
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Friday, January 7
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Entropy Counting of Supertubes
  • Yoshifumi Hyakutake, UC Santa Barbara,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Charge-Symmetry Breaking in QCD and Pion Production
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Monday, January 10
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
The Problem of Mass in QCD; Meson Bound States at RHIC above Tc
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
The Strong CP Problem, Naturalness, and Extra Dimensions
  • Matthew Schwartz, UC Berkeley,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Subgrid Scale Dynamics and Simplified Two-Point Closure Modeling of Rayleigh-Taylor Turbulence and Mixing
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Tuesday, January 11
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
From Three Dimensions to Two: Biology and Chemistry at Interfaces
  • Milan Mrksich, Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Chicago,
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Thermodynamical Cost of Erasure of Correlations in Quantum Systems
  • Michal Horodecki, Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, University of Gdansk,
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4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Gates Annex B122
Diophantus, Fermat, and Beyond
  • Jordan Ellenberg, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Princeton University / University of Wisconsin,
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Wednesday, January 12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Ferromagnetic Ordering of Energy Levels and Applications
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Thursday, January 13
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Electrons in One Dimension: Spin-Charge Separation and Localization
  • Amir Yacoby, Professor of Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel,
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Friday, January 14
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Predictive Landscapes?
  • Shamit Kachru, Professor, Stanford University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Manipulation of Polar Molecules with Electric Fields
  • Gerard Meijer, Professor Dr., Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Neutrinos in the Early Universe
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Information, Control, and Statistical Mechanics
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Tuesday, January 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Evidence of New Physics in Neutrino Experiments
  • Karsten M. Heeger, Chamberlain Fellow, Physics Division, LBNL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Testing E = mc2 and Weighing Chemical Bonds
  • David E. Pritchard, Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moore B270
Information, Control and Statistical Mechanics
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Wednesday, January 19
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Dispersion of One-Dimensional Schrödinger Operator with Periodic One-Gap Potential
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Molecular Gas in Galaxies
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Thursday, January 20
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Moore 239
Reflection Positivity for Smooth Manifolds Fails in Dimension Four and Higher
  • Michael Freedman, Professor, Microsoft Research,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Quantum Computation and Anyons
  • Alexei Y. Kitaev, Professor , Physics, Caltech,
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Friday, January 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Supertubes, Black Rings, and Black Hole Entropy
  • Iosif Bena, UCLA,
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Downs 107
Electron Spin Injection from Ferromagnetic Contacts into Semiconductors
  • Darryl Smith, Dr., Physics Department, LANL,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
"Current Status of MiniBooNE"
  • Tony Thomas, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility,
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Monday, January 24
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Moore B270
Information, Control and Statistical Mechanics
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Chromosome Structure and Gene Regulation
  • Jonathan Widom, Professor, Biochemistry, Northwestern University,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Precision Low Energy Experiments in the LHC Era
  • Yury Kolomensky, UC Berkeley,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Convergence and Dynamics of Iterative Eigensolvers
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Tuesday, January 25
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
CANCELLED
  • Wim van Dam, TBD, Department of Physics, MIT,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moore B270
Information, Control and Statistical Mechanics
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
BNL SLAC E158: A Precision Measurement of the Weak Mixing Angle at Low Q^2
  • David Relyea, PDS, Physics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 114
The Status of Virgo
  • Paolo Lapenna, Dr., European Gravitational-Wave Observatory,
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Wednesday, January 26
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lax pairs for the Ablowitz-Ladik System via Orthogonal Polynomials on the Unit Circle
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
Accretion and Its Consequences
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8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Beckman Auditorium
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Thursday, January 27
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Particle Physics Circa 2010
  • Savas Dimopoulos, Professor , Physics, Stanford University,
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Friday, January 28
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Polarization of Closed Strings by Ramond-Ramond Fluxes
  • Vatche Sahakian, Harvey Mudd College,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Nuclear Physics and Lattice QCD
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Monday, January 31
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Searches for New Physics in the Top Quark Sector
  • Robin Erbacher, UC Davis,
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