| 23 Sept. | Prof. Susan Courtney ’88 – Johns Hopkins University Title: “Biased Competition in Working Memory and Cognitive Control: Evidence from Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging” |
| 30 Sept. | Dr. Fenner Milton ’62 – Director/Army Night Vision Laboratory Title: “Twenty Lessons Learned from an “alternate” Career in Physics and an Introduction to Cutting Edge Night Vision Technology” |
| 6 Oct. | Johnny Huckans – N.I.S.T. – Gaithersburg, MD Title: “Optical Lattices: A Playground for Ultra-cold Atoms” Time: 4:00 pm |
| 13 Oct. | Dr. Michael Johanning – N.I.S.T. – Gaithersburg, MD Title: “Atom Molecule Superposition and the all Optical Sodium BEC” |
| 28 Oct. | Carlos Vicente – University of Virginia Title: “The Two Dimensional Electron Gas in Tilted Magnetic Fields: Localization and Delocalization in the Second Landau Level” |
| 4 Nov. | Peter Nicholas ’98 – Univ. of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Leo Tsai ’98 – Harvard-Smithsonian Title: “Some Current Topics in Magnetic Resonance Imaging” |
| 8 Nov. | Dr. Benjamin Lev – California Institute of Technology Title: Magnetic Microtraps for Cavity QED, BECs, and Atom Optics” – Time: 4:00 pm |
| 18 Nov. | David Santiago – Stanford University Title: “On the Existence of Roton Excitations in Bose Einstein Condensates: Signature of Proximity to a Mott Insulating Phase” [abstract] |
| 2 Dec. | Lily Childress – Harvard University Title: “Quantum Repeaters and the Nitrogen-vacancy Center in Diamond” |
| 6 January | Thesis Students – Progress Reports 2:00pm/Syed Akhtar, 2:15pm/Ersen Bilgin, 2:30pm/Utsav KC, 2:45pm/Robert Cooper, 3:00pm/Creston Herold – 3:15pm/Break, 3:30pm/Paul Lindemann, 3:45pm/Joseph Shoer, 4:00pm/David Butts III, 4:15pm/Joseph Gangestad, 4:30pm/Owen Westbrook Thompson Physical Laboratory, Room 205 |
| 3 February | Prof. Mihai Stoiciu – Williams College Mathematics Dept. Title: “Spectral Theory of Random Schrodinger Operators” [abstract] |
| 24 February | Daniel Aalberts – Williams College Title: “Asymmetry and Abundance of RNA Pseudoknots” Biology Colloquium – 2:30pm- TBL112 |
| 1 March | James Voelkel Title: “Myths about Tycho and Kepler’s Work” Time: 12:00 noon |
| 3 March | Prof. M. Cristina Marchetti – Syracuse University Title: “Hydrodynamics and soft physics: from complex fluids to living cells” [abstract] |
| 10 March | Prof. Seth Major – Hamilton College Title: “Quantum Gravity: Is it Physics? [abstract] |
| 7 April | Michael Rust – Harvard University Title: “Watching Viruses Infect Cells in Real-Time” |
| 14 April | Prof. David Cohen – Swarthmore College Title: “X-ray Emission from Massive Stars” [abstract] |
| 20 & 21 April | Sigma Xi Lectures – 4:15pm – Jay Pasachoff, Astronomy Dept. |
| 28 April | Colin Mccormick – NIST – Gaithersburg, MD Title: “Bullseye: Nonlinear Diffraction and Beam Reshaping in Hot Atomic Rubidium Vapor” |
| 5 May | Prof. Nima Arkani-Hamed – Harvard University Title: “Fundamental Physics in 2010” |
| 15 May | Physics Dept. & Astronomy Dept. Thesis Students’ Results 1:00pm – Kashif Akhtar; 1:25pm – Joseph Schoer; 1:50pm – Joseph Gangestad; 2:15pm – Owen Westbrook; 2:40pm – David Butts; 3:15pm- BREAK; 3:20-pm – Paul Lindemann; 3:45pm – Ersen Bilgin; 4:10pm – Rob Cooper; 4:35pm – Utsav KC |