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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 2008
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Charles Baltay
Yale University
Long Range Plan for Particle
Physics [Abstract]
Host: Jack Sandweiss
Friday, September 19, 2008
Gail C. McLaughlin
North Carolina State University
Stellar Explosions, Neutrinos
and Nucleosynthesis [Abstract]
Host: George Fleming
Friday, September 26, 2008
Xiao-Jing Wang
Yale University School of Medicine
How stochastic neurons in the
brain make decisions: theory meets experiments [Abstract]
Host: Simon Mochrie
Friday, October 3, 2008
Mikhail Lukin
Harvard University
Sensing single nuclei and lighting nanowires:
new frontiers of quantum optical science [Abstract]
Host: David DeMille
Friday, October 10, 2008
Joseph Formaggio
MIT
When going underground, remember
the sunscreen…
(What the sun has told us about neutrinos, and vice-versa)
[Abstract]
Host: Bonnie Fleming
Friday, October 17, 2008
Paul Sommers
Penn State
The Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray
Observatory: the high energy frontier of astroparticle
physics [Abstract]
Host: Keith Baker
Friday, October 24, 2008
Richard Easther
Yale University
The Observational Fingerprints
of Inflation [Abstract]
Host: Jack Sandweiss
Friday, October 31, 2008
Zheng-Tian Lu
Argonne National Laboratory
Simple Atom, Extreme Nucleus: Laser Trapping and Probing of Helium-8 [Abstract]
Host: Keith Baker
Friday, November
7, 2008 at 1:00 PM in SPL 57
Shaul Hanany
University of Minnesota
Probing the Big Bang with the
Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation [Abstract]
Host: Richard Easther
Friday, November 14, 2008
R. Shankar
Yale University
The Renormalization Group and
the Landau Fermi liquid: what are they and who cares? [Abstract]
Host: Jack Sandweiss
Friday, November 21, 2008
Steven Girvin
Yale University
Quantum Measurements,
Noise, and Amplification
[Abstract]
Host: Jack Sandweiss
Friday, December 5, 2008
Walter Henning
Argonne National Laboratory
The ups and downs, and the strange charm of roadmaps: about the future of nuclear physics [Abstract]
Host: Keith Baker
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