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New Haven, CT 06520-8120

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Physics Department
Sloane Physics Lab
217 Prospect Street
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06511-8499 USA


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(203) 432-3650


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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.



Spring 2006

 

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

 

Friday, January 13, 2006
Juan Maldacena
Institute for Advanced Studies & Princeton University
QCD, strings and black holes: The Large N limit of field theories and gravity

 

Friday, January 20, 2006
Max Tegmark
MIT
Measuring and predicting cosmological parameters

 

Friday, January 27, 2006
Leonid Glazman
University of Minnesota
Electrons in Quantum Wires

 

Friday, February 3, 2006
Gordon Woo
Risk Management Solutions
A Physicist's Perspective on Catastrophes

 

Friday, February 10, 2006
Alex Zettl
University of California, Berkeley
Exploiting the unique properties of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes

 

Friday, February 17, 2006
Vladan Vuletic
MIT and the Center for Ultracold Atoms
Single and paired photons from many atoms

 

Friday, February 24, 2006
Andrea Liu
University of Pennsylvania
Jamming

 

Friday, March 3, 2006
Nergis Mavalvala
MIT
Detecting gravitational-waves with interferometers: Giant detectors, precision measurement, and the search for the elusive waves

 

March 6-17, 2006: Spring Break

 

Friday, March 24, 2006 at 4:30 PM
Graduate Student Recruiting Weekend
David P. DeMille

Yale University
Fundamental physics with diatomic molecules: from CP violation to quantum computation
Tea is at 4:00 in SPL 3rd Floor Lounge

 

Friday, March 31, 2006
Eugene Polzik
Niels Bohr Institute
Light - Atoms Quantum Interface

 

Wednesday, April 5, 2006
Leigh Page Prize Lectures
Michael Peskin
SLAC & Stanford University
Dark Matter: What is it? Where is it? Can we make it in the Lab?

 

Thursday, April 6, 2006
Leigh Page Prize Lectures
Michael Peskin
SLAC & Stanford University
Supersymmetry: The Next Spectroscopy?

 

Friday, April 7, 2006
Leigh Page Prize Lectures
Michael Peskin
SLAC & Stanford University
The Quantitative Analysis of Invisible Particles

 

Friday, April 14, 2006 [Good Friday - Administrative Staff off]
Federico Capasso
Harvard University
Harnessing quantum fluctuations: physics and nanomechanics of Casimir-Lifshitz forces

 

Friday, April 21, 2006
Helen Caines
Yale University
Sampling the flavour of the QGP

 

Friday, April 28, 2006
Karin Rabe
Rutgers University
Designer Oxides that Work

 

Friday, May 5, 2006
Steven Koonin
British Petroleum
Energy trends and technologies for the coming decades

 

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