EVENTS
JFI Seminars - Spring Quarter 2008

This website will be updated as information becomes available. The Seminars are held at the Gordon Center For Integrative Science (GCIS) in W301/W303, 929 E. 57th St. (unless indicated otherwise)

Tea is served at 3:45 during open discussion before the start of the talk. Persons with disabilities may request assistance in advance from Brenda Thomas: bthomas@uchicago.edu or 773-702-7156.

For more information contact our Colloquium Chair Who can be reached via email

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  • Dates Speakers Title
    April 22, 2008-CLOSS LECTURE
    Vadim Backman
    Biomedical Engineering Department McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Northwestern University
    Host: Amy Hee Kim, 4-1877
    "Cancer Screening via Biophotonics: A "Remote Sensing" Approach"
         
    April 29, 2008
    Sabre Kais
    Department of Chemistry and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University
    Host: David Mazziotti,4-1762
    "Finite Size Scaling and Quantum Criticality"
         
    May 13, 2008
    Thomas P. Pearl
    North Carolina State University
    Host: Steven Sibener, 2-7193
    "Probing Molecular-Level Organizational Structure and Electronic Decoupling of Weakly Surface Bound Metallic Nanoparticles, Chiral Domains and Bomolecular Species"
         
    May 20, 2008
    Peter Engels
    Department of Physics, Washington State University
    Host: Paul Wiegmann, 2-4208
    "Nonlinear Dynamics in BECs ~ Quantum Shocks, Solitons, and Faraday Waves"
    May 27, 2008
    Luca Cipelletti
    Laboratoire des Colloides, Verres et Nanomateriaux Universite' Montpellier II
    Host: Tom Witten, 2-0947
    "Hard Spheres: Is There a Glass Transition Below Random Close Packing?
    August 19, 2008
    Sergio Rica
    Ecole Normale in Paris
    Host: Tom Witten, 2-0947
    "Supersolidity: Dissipationless Flow and Lattice Ordering in Helium"
         



     

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