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The Physics Club at Yale has a long history of presenting talks by the foremost researchers in all fields of physics, including many Nobel Physics prizewinners. The meetings are held on Mondays during the regular school year from 4:00 p.m.-5 :00 p.m. in 57 Sloane Physics Laboratory. Tea and coffee are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Sloane Lounge. The Sloane Lounge is located on the third floor of the Sloane Physics Laboratory. Visitors are welcome.
For more information contact the Chairman's Office (203) 432-3650.
FALL 2009
Previous semesters: [Spring 2009] [Fall 2008] | [Spring 2008] [Fall 2007] | [Spring 2007] [Fall 2006] | [Spring 2006] [Fall 2005] | [Spring 2005] [Fall 2004] | [Spring 2004] [Fall 2003] | [Spring 2003] [Fall 2002]
Monday, September
21, 2009
Rob Schoelkopf
Yale University
Making and Measuring Entanglement in Superconducting Circuits [Abstract]
Host: David DeMille
Monday, September
28, 2009
Leigh Page Prize Lecture
Talk at 4:30pm in SPL 59 (Tea at 3:45pm in 3rd
Floor Lounge)
John Mather
NASA
How did the Universe make people?
A brief history of the Universe, from the beginning
to the end [Abstract] or [Poster]
Host: Meg Urry
Tuesday, September
29, 2009
Leigh Page Prize Lecture
Talk at 4:30pm in SPL
59 (Tea at 3:45pm in 3rd Floor Lounge)
John Mather
NASA
Progress on the James Webb
Space Telescope – Successor to the Hubble Space Telescope [Abstract]
or [Poster]
Host: Meg Urry
Wednesday, September
30, 2009
Leigh Page Prize Lecture
Talk at 4:30pm in SPL
59 (Tea at 3:45pm in 3rd Floor Lounge)
John Mather
NASA
Basic physics questions addressed
by astrophysics [Abstract] or [Poster]
Host: Meg Urry
Tuesday, October
6, 2009 Note different date and room
2009 Wilbur Cross Medalist
Talk at 4:00 pm in SPL 59
William J. Willis
Columbia University
Can We Make Large Facilities with Global Collaborations? [Abstract]
Host: Meg Urry
Monday, October
12, 2009
Marin Soljacic
MIT
WiTricity: Non-Radiative Wireless Power Transfer [Abstract]
Host: Doug Stone
Monday, October
19, 2009
Matthew Strassler
Rutger University
The Large Hadron Collider: What's it For, and What's at Stake? [Abstract]
Host: Witold Skiba
Monday, October
26, 2009
David Pritchard
MIT
Precision Mass Measurement: Ωcyclotron is not qB/m, does E=mc2? [Abstract]
Host: David DeMille
Tuesday, October
27, 2009
36th Hanan Rosenthal Lecture in SPL 59
David Pritchard
MIT
Are They Really Learning, and What Seems to Help? [Abstract] or [Poster]
Host: David DeMille
Monday, November
2, 2009
Mayly Sanchez
Iowa State University
Measuring the Elusive: Neutrino Oscillations in MINOS and Beyond [Abstract]
Host: Bonnie Fleming
Monday, November
9, 2009
Sean Ling
Brown University
Single-molecule biophysics with solid-state nanopores [Abstract]
Host: Daniel Prober
Monday, November
16, 2009
Kevin Schawinski
Yale University
Galaxy Zoo: Astronomy with over 230,000 collaborators [Abstract]
Host: Daisuke Nagai
Monday, November
30, 2009
Walter Goldberger
Yale University
Gravitational radiation, black holes, and effective field
theories [Abstract]
Host: Daisuke Nagai
Monday, December
7, 2009
Karyn LeHur
Yale University
Spin in the Quantum Many-Body World --- Entanglement Entropy, Decoherence, and the Landau-Zener-Stückelberg-Majorana riddle [Abstract]
Host: David DeMille
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