Fall 2010 PHYSICS COLLOQUIA

School of Physics and Astronomy
Tel Aviv University

DATE SPEAKER TITLE
17/Oct/2010 Prof. Kirill Tuchin (Iowa State University) Coherence at Extreme Energy and Densities (Abstract)
24/Oct/2010 NO COLLOQUIUM
31/Oct/2010 Prof. Eli Barkai (Bar Ilan University) Weak Ergodicity Breaking: From Blinking Quantum Dots to mRNA Diffusion in the Cell (Abstract)
7/Nov/2010 Prof. Adi Nusser (Technion) Towards a better theory for structure formation (Abstract)
14/Nov/2010 Dr. Eytan Grosfeld (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign) Aharonov-Casher Interferometry of non-Abelian vortices in topological superconductors (Abstract)
21/Nov/2010 Prof. David Goldhaber-Gordon (Stanford) Spin-orbit in ballistic semiconductor nanowires (Abstract)
28/Nov/2010 Dr. Alexander Retzker (Universitaet Ulm, Germany) Laser cooling schemes for cold atoms (Abstract)
IPS2010
5/Dec/2010
56th Annual Meeting of the Israeli Physical Society at TAU Website
Special Colloquium & Sackler Lecture; Tuesday at 17:00, Lev auditorium
7/Dec/2010
Prof. Douglas Osheroff (Stanford) The Nuclear Spin Ordered Phases of Solid 3He
John Bahcall Colloquium
12/Dec/2010
Prof. Hans-Walter Rix (Director, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg) Impressively Unimpressive: the Tiniest of Galaxies (Abstract)
19/Dec/2010 Prof. Avi Loeb (Director, Institute for Theory and Computation, Harvard) How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? (Abstract)
26/Dec/2010 Dr. Rafi Blumenfeld (Imperial College and Cambridge, UK) Da Vinci Fluid - a minimal model for flow of dense granular materials (Abstract)
2/Jan/2011 Dr. Oded Hod (Chemistry, TAU) Stacking and Registry Effects in Layered Materials: The Case of Hexagonal Boron Nitride
9/Jan/2011 Prof. Istvan Hargittai (Budapest) Judging Edward Teller (Abstract)
16/Jan/2011 Prof. Eytan Domany (Weizmann) Unexpected complex dynamics of cellular transcriptional response (Abstract)