2008-2009
Events
All SPS talks are held on Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m. in the 3rd floor Lounge, Sloane Physics Lab unless otherwise noted.
Previous Calendars: [2007-2008] | [2006-2007] | [2005-2006] | [Spring 2005]
| Fall 2008 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Sept. 6 (Sat.) @ 1:30 pm in Cross Campus | Blue-Booking Party |
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| Sept. 10 | Yale DROP Team | Experiments in Microgravity |
| Sept. 24 | Professor Shankar | Renormalization group for dummies Kadanoff Article Link |
| Oct. 8 | Witold Skiba | Symmetry, Supersymmetry, and the LHC |
| Oct. 24 (Fri.) @ 8:00 pm | SPS Happy Hour |
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| Nov. 5 | Michel Devoret | Quantum Information Physics with Superconducting Circuits |
| Nov. 19 | Various Students | Undergraduate Research Experiences |
| Dec. 3 | Karyn Le Hur | Entanglement, Decoherence, and the Dream of a Universal Quantum Computer in a World of Many Particles |
| Spring 2009 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| Jan. 28 | Stephen Irons |
Demo Day |
| Feb. 11 | John Harris | What's that Black Hole Doing in My Quark Soup Illusion of Gravity Article |
| Feb. 25 | Marla Geha | Dark Matter and Dwarf Galaxies |
| Mar. 6-22 | Spring Recess |
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| Apr. 1 | Steve Lamoreaux | Listening to the Sounds of Silence: The Casimir Force |
| Apr. 15 | Jack Harris | Can an atomic orbital flow through a resistive wire? Quantum mechanics takes on Ohm's Law |
| Apr. 29 | SPS Picnic (catered by Cranberries) | |
