Spring 2006

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May 1, 2006
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
"The Endless Universe"

April 24, 2006
Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
“Tests for Yukawa-Type Forces at sub-mm distance” 

April 17, 2006
Prof. Peter Meszaros, Pennsylvania State University
“TeV to EeV emission from Gamma Ray Bursts and Active Galaxies, and prospects for VHE-UHE neutrino and cosmic ray measurements”
  

April 10, 2006
Prof. Leo Kouwenhoven
Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Tech
"Spin Qubits with Quantum Dots"

April 3, 2006
Dr. Peter Jenni (CERN), Spokesperson of the ATLAS Collaboration
"The ATLAS Experiment Getting Ready for LHC - Exploring the High-Energy Frontier of Particle Physics"

March 27, 2006
Prof. Hal Evans, Indiana University
“Latest News on Bs Mixing from D0”
 

March 20, 2006
Prof. Gerhard Abstreiter
Technische Universitat Muenchen, Germany
"Manipulating and Controlling Semiconductor Quantum Dots" 

March 6, 2006
Prof. Goraq Shlyapnikov
"Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases in the Molecular & Unitary
 


February 27, 2006
Prof. Max Tegmark, MIT
"From Derision Cosmology to Precision Cosmology"
 

February 20, 2006
Prof. Lawrence M. Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
"Life, The Universe, and Nothing: Life and Death in an Ever-Expanding Universe" 

February 13, 2006
Prof. Israel Bar-Joseph
Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
"Electrical conductance of a single conjugated molecule" 

February 6, 2006
Prof. Juan Maldacena, IAS
“QCD, strings and black holes: The Large N limit of field theories and gravity” 

January 30, 2006
Prof. Frithjof Karsch, BNL
"Lattice Gauge Theory and Heavy Ion Collisions"


January 23, 2006
Prof. Guy Moore, McGill University
“Plasma Instabilities in Quantum Chromodynamics?”