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EVENTS
JFI Colloquium - Autumn Quarter 2005
Every Tuesday at 4 p.m., the James Franck Institute
hosts a colloquium now being held at The Center For Integrative
Science (CIS) in W301/W303, 929 E. 57th St.
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Tea is served at 3:45 during open discussion before the start of the
talk. Persons with disabilities may request assistance in advance from
Zena Anderson: zenaa@uchicago.edu
or 773-702-7180.
For more information, contact our Colloquium Chair,
Thomas Witten. He can be reached via e-mail or by calling (773)
702-0947.
| Dates |
Speakers |
Title |
| Sep. 27 |
Howard Stone
Harvard University, Division of Engineering and
Applied Sciences
Host: Wendy Zhang, 2-0609
& Rustem Ismagilov,
2-5816 |
"Themes
in Microfluidics: Bubbles in Curved Tubes, Colloidal Armor and a
Cellular-Scale Differential Manometer" |
| Oct. 04 |
Ivar Martin
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Host: Paul Wiegmann, 2-4208 |
"Quantum
Coherence in Nanomechanical Systems" |
| Oct. 11 |
Jack H. Freed
Cornell University, Chemistry & Chemical
Biology
Host: Karl Freed, 2-7202 |
"Modern
ESR Methods in Biophysical Studies of Proteins and Membranes" |
| Oct. 18 |
Robert E. Wyatt
University of Texas
Host: David Mazziotti, 4-1762 |
"Solving
the Time-Dependent Schrodinger Equation with Trajectories:
Application to Multi-mode Reactive Scattering" |
| Oct. 25 |
Paul S. Julienne
National Institute of Standards & Technology
(NIST)
Host: Cheng Chin, 2-7192 |
"Scattering
Resonances and Molecules in Ultracold Atomic Gases" |
| Nov. 01 |
Paul Goldbart
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain
Host: Tom Rosenbaum, 2-7256 |
"Superconducting
Quantum Interference Devices at the Nanoscale" |
| Nov 08 |
Huey W. Huang
Rice University
Host: Ka Yee Lee, 2-7068
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"Cooperative
Phenomena of Pore Formation in Membranes by Antimicrobial Peptides" |
| Nov 15 |
Rod Ruoff
Northwestern University
Host: Tom Witten, 2-0947 |
"Synthesis/Characterization
of Boron and Metal Boride Nanowires; and Novel High-aspect Ratio
Platelets from Graphite”
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| Nov 22 |
Victor Flambaum
The University of New South Wales, Dept of Physics
Host: Cheng Chin, 2-7192
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"Effects
of variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks" |
| Nov 29 |
CANCELLED
Alexandra Navrotsky
University of California at Davis
Host: David Mao, 2-8106
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TO BE RESCHEDULED |
| Dec. 06 |
Bernard Derrida
Universite Paris 6,
Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure
Host: Leo Kadanoff, 2-7189 |
"Fluctuations
and large deviations in non-equilibrium systems" |
| Dec. 13 |
END OF QUARTER
N/A
Host: N/A |
"END
OF QUARTER" |
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