Spring 2012 Colloquia
4:30 PM Jadwin A10
February 9, 2012
Hamilton Lecture
Special Time and Location: 8:00 pm McDonnell A02
Leo Kadanoff
University of Chicago
"Making a Splash, Breaking a Neck: The Development of Complexity in Physical Systems"
February 16, 2012
Michael Brenner
Harvard
"Towards the principles of self assembly"
Host: Paul Steinhardt
February 23, 2012
Richard Prum
Yale
"Self-Assembly and Evolution of Color Producing Nanostructures of Birds and Insects"
Host: Paul Steinhardt
March 1, 2012
Jeffrey McClintock
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Measuring the Spins of Black Holes and Applying the Results"
Host: Frans Pretorius
March 8, 2012
Holger Mueller
University of California, Berkeley
Host: Mike Romalis
March 15, 2012
No Colloquium
March 22, 2012
Spring Recess
March 29, 2012
Ana Maria Rey
Jila
Host: David Huse
April 10, 2012 (Tuesday)
Sackler Lecture
Special Time and Location:
Rashid Sunyaev
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
April 12, 2012
Christopher Jarzynski
University of Maryland, College Park
"Irreversibility and the Second Law of Thermodynamics at the Nanoscale"
April 26, 2012
Steve Koonin
Institute for Defense Analysis
April 19, 2012
Erik Verlinde
Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Amsterdam
Host: Herman Verlinde
May 3, 2012
Bernard Schutz
Max Planck Institut fur Gravitationsphysik
Host: Frans Pretorius