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Week of February 24, 2008

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Monday, February 25
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Noyes 153 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Frontiers in Fluorescence Imaging
  • Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, head of the unit on organelle biology, cell biology and metabolism, National Institute of Child Health and Humann Development, National Institutes of Health,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Linde 106
New Science with Large-Aperture Infrared Interferometry: First Fringes on Galactic Center Stars and the Near Future of the Keck Interferometer
  • Jörg-Uwe Pott, Physikalisches Institut, Universität zu Köln,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
Top Jets and Precision Measurements of the Top Quark Mass
  • Sean Fleming, assistant professor of physics, University of Arizona,
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4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Firestone 306
Topic to be announced.
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Tuesday, February 26
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jorgensen 74
Complementarity and Wave-Particle Duality
  • Berthold-Georg Englert, professor of physics, National University of Singapore,
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3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
Galaxies, Dark Matter and Black Holes at z=1
  • Alison Coil, postdoctoral researcher and Hubble Fellow, University of Arizona,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
West Bridge 351 (LIGO Science Conference Room)
A Periodic Table for Black Hole Orbits
  • Janna Levin, professor of physics and astronomy, Barnard College of Columbia University,
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Moore 239
Formal Verification of Hybrid Systems
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen 248
Goodness-of-fit—Pitfalls and Power
  • Frank Porter, professor of physics, Caltech,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Towards Fusion Energy for Space Propulsion
  • Setthivoine You, department of electrical engineering, University of Tokyo,
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Wednesday, February 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zeros of Heine-Stieltjes Polynomials and Critical Measures
  • Andrei Martinez-Finkelshtein, professor of mathematics, Universidad de Almeria,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Watson 104
Sensing Nanomechanical Motion with a Resonant Microwave Interferometer
  • Konrad Lehnert, associate fellow, JILA, and assistant professor of physics , University of Colorado,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arms 155 (Robert P. Sharp Lecture Hall)
The Old Disk of the Milky Way as Revealed by the SEGUE Survey
  • Connie Rockosi, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz, and assistant astronomer, UCO/Lick Observatory,
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Thursday, February 28
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
The Noisy Dynamics of Cell-Fate Decision-Making
  • Michael Elowitz, Bren Scholar and assistant professor of biology and applied physics, Caltech,
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Friday, February 29
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
A Strong Coupling Expansion for N=4 SYM and Other Superconformal Field Theories
  • David Berenstein, assistant professor of physics, UC Santa Barbara,
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2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lauritsen 469
D-Branes in LG-Models and Mirror Symmetry
  • Dmitri Orlov, Steklov Institute, Moscow,
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4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Lauritsen Library
Gamma Ray Telescope
  • Rene Ong, professor of astronomy, UCLA,
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