Colloquia 2010 at School of Physics UNSW

School Colloquia

Colloquia 2011

Date	Title	Speaker
3-4pm Tues. 22 February	The Mysteries of the “Telescopes” in Jan Brueghel the Elder's Paintings with a "Dessert"	Prof. Paolo Molaro, INAF - Trieste Observatory (Italy)
3-4pm Tues. 8 March	The Neptune Trojans: A window to the birth of the Solar system	Dr. Jonti Horner, School of Physics, UNSW
3-4pm Tues. 22 March	The Large Hadron Collider at CERN: will it produce a Big Bang?	Prof. Vincent Smith, School of Physics, University of Bristol, UK
3-4pm Tues. 5 April	Where Planets Form: the Dead Zone in Protostellar Disks	Dr. Neal Turner, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA
3-4pm Tues. 17 May	How players use their vocal tracts during advanced wind instrument performance	Dr. Jer-Ming Chen, School of Physics, UNSW
3-4pm Wed. 8 June	Early Cosmology Results from the South Pole Telescope	Dr. Antony A Stark, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, USA
3-4pm Wed. 22 June	The TERMS Project: Systematic Transit Exclusion	Dr. Stephen Kane, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech, USA
3-4pm Tues. 26 July	New avenues to an “old” material: ultra-doping germanium with atomic precision	Dr. Giordano Scappucci, CQC2T, School of Physics, UNSW
3-4pm Tues. 9 August	Universality in ultracold Fermi gases	Dr. Chris Vale, CAOUS, Swinburne University of Technology
3-4pm Tues. 16 August	The GBT H II Region Discovery Survey	Professor Tom Bania, Department of Astronomy, Boston University
3-4pm Tues. 23 August	Molecular ions: a new addition to the quantum toolbox	Prof. Eric Hudson, Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, USA
3-4pm Tues. 30 August	Molecules in the Quantum Regime	Prof. Jun Ye, National Institute of Standards & JILA, University of Colorado, USA
3-4pm Frid. 14 October	Lamb Shift in Muonic Hydrogen and the Proton Charge Radius	Dr. Savely Karshenboim, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
3-4pm Tue. 18 October	Large-Scale Surveys of Star Formation in the Milky Way	Dr Peter Barnes, Department of Astrophysics, University of Florida
3-4pm Frid. 28 October	Einstein, Nanoscience and Superconductivity	Professor Marvin L. Cohen from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Department of Physics, University of California
3-4pm Tues. 29 November	Demonstration of a Single Photon Router Based on a Superconducting Qubit	Professor Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
3-4pm Tues. 6 December	Decoherence in Nature	Professor Philip C. E. Stamp, Pacific Institute for Theoretical Physics and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
3-4pm Thurs. 8 December	New Directions in Materials Science and Technology: Two-Dimensional Crystals	Professor Antonio H. Castro Neto, National University of Singapore & Boston University, USA
3-4pm Thurs. 15 December	Unveiling the Central Molecular Zone with Mopra	Professor Michael Burton, School of Physics, University of New South Wales

Note: Postgraduate and undergraduate students are most welcome to attend colloquia.

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