Department of Physics and Astronomy

Johns Hopkins University

Colloquium schedule for Spring 2012

The colloquia are held on Thursdays at 3:00 pm in the Schafler Auditorium of the Bloomberg Center, unless indicated otherwise.
Refreshments are served in the third floor lounge at 2:45 pm.
Directions to the department.

Brickwedde Lecture
February 9
Speaker: Charles W. Clark (NIST)
Host: Dan Reich
Title: Ferdinand Brickwedde and the Discovery and Exploitation of Deuterium

February 23
Speaker: Randy Kamien (U Penn)
Host: Oleg Tchernyshyov
Title: Smectics!

March 15
Speaker: Lyman Page (Princeton)
Host: Colin Norman
Title: Neutrinos and the CMB

March 22
Spring Break

March 28 Wednesday, 12 noon
Speaker: Bill Foster
Host: Andrei Gritsan
Title: What Life is Like as a Scientist in Congress

April 5
Speaker: Laura Ferrarese (Herzberg Inst. Astrophysics)
Host: Colin Norman
Title: The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies: New Results from New Surveys

April 12
Speaker: Jack Lissauer (NASA Ames)
Host: Colin Norman
Title: TBA

April 19
Speaker: Zvi Bern (UCLA)
Host: Andrei Gritsan
Title: Harmony of Scattering Amplitudes: From Particle Colliders to Supergravity

April 26
Colloquium cancelled

May 3
Speaker: Krishna Rajagopal (MIT)
Host: Andrei Gritsan
Title: The Hottest, and Most Liquid, Liquid in the Universe

May 10
Speaker: Piero Rosati (ESO)
Host: Colin Norman
Title: TBA

Fall 2012 schedule
Colloquium talks are aimed at the general audience in the Department, including graduate students and staff in all fields. We rely on your suggestions to improve future colloquia. If you have any questions or comments, please contact Nina Markovic at 410-516-6422 or email nina at pha.jhu.edu