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Yale Physics Club

The Physics Club at Yale has a long history of presenting talks by the foremost researchers in all fields of physics, including many Nobel Physics prizewinners. The meetings are held on Fridays during the regular school year from 4:00 p.m.-5 :00 p.m. in 57 Sloane Physics Laboratory. Tea and coffee are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Sloane Lounge. The Sloane Lounge is located on the third floor of the Sloane Physics Laboratory. Visitors are welcome.

For more information contact the Chairman's Office (203) 432-3650.


FALL 2007

Previous semesters: [Spring 2007] [Fall 2006] | [Spring 2006] [Fall 2005] | [Spring 2005] [Fall 2004] | [Spring 2004] [Fall 2003] | [Spring 2003] [Fall 2002]

Friday, September 14, 2007
Brad Sherrill
Michigan State University
Femtotechnology: Prospects and progress in creating designer nuclei [Abstract]
Host: Volker Werner

Friday, September 21, 2007
Aneesh Manohar
University of California, San Diego
Precison Particle Physics with Effective Field Theory [Abstract]
Host: Witold Skiba

Friday, September 28, 2007
Miller-Breit Lecture
SPL 59 at 4:00 PM
Robert Socolow
Princeton University
Living in a Greenhouse with the Help of Stabilization Wedges [Abstract] & [Poster]
Host: Richard Easther

Friday, October 5, 2007
Fiorenzo Omenetto
Tufts University
From a scarf to a lens- the beauty of silk optics [Abstract]
Host: Steve Lamoreaux

Friday, October 12, 2007
Dan Stamper-Kurn
University of California, Berkeley
Thermal and quantum phases of a spin-1 Bose gas [Abstract]
Host: David DeMille

Friday, October 19, 2007
Paul Richards
University of California, Berkeley
Measurements of the Cosmic Microwave Background [Abstract]
Host: Daniel Prober

Friday, October 26, 2007
Jens Gundlach
University of Washington
Gravity on the Test Bench: Torsion Balance Renaissance [Abstract]
Host: Steve Lamoreaux

Friday, November 2, 2007
Lorenza Viola
Dartmouth College
A quantum-entangled view of quantum critical phenomena [Abstract]
Host: Steve Lamoreaux

Friday, November 9, 2007
Carl Wunsch
MIT
A view of climate change physics [Abstract]
Host: John Wettlaufer

Friday, November 16, 2007
34th Hanan Rosenthal Memorial Lecture
SPL 59 at 4:00 PM
Jean Michel Raimond
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Quantum jumps of light [Abstract] or [Poster]
Host: Jack Harris

Friday, November 30, 2007
Michael Shaevitz
Columbia University
Reactor Neutrino Experiments and the Hunt for the Little Mixing Angle [Abstract]
Host: Bonnie Fleming

Friday, December 7, 2007
Fyl Pincus
University of California, Santa Barbara
A New View of the Hydrophobic Interaction [Abstract]
Host: Simon Mochrie

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