Colloquium Preview
Spring Term 2017
Date: Thursday, April 6, 2017
Speaker: Victor Watson Brar, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Title: Probing Sub-Critical and Super-Critical Impurities in Graphene
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Benjamín Alemán
Date: Thursday, April 13th, 2017
Speaker: Martin Lavery, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow
Title: Communications with a Twist
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Benjamin McMorran
Date: Thursday, April 20th, 2017
Speaker: Stephanie Simmons, Simon Fraser
Title: The International Race For A Quantum Computer
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Brian Smith
Date: Thursday, April 27th, 2017
Speaker: Francisco Elohim Becerra, University of New Mexico
Title: Quantum Technologies for Optical Communication
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Brian Smith
Date: Thursday, May 4th, 2017
Speaker:Rouven Essig, Stony Brook University
Title: The Next Frontier in Searching for Dark Matter
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Graham Kribs
Date: Thursday, May 11th, 2017
Speaker: David Hestenes, Arizona State University
Title: Waves versus Particles: Hunting for Snarks in Quantum Mechanics
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Saul Propp
Date: Thursday, May 18th, 2017
Speaker: Dan McKinsey, UC Berkeley
Title: “Who Has Seen The WIMP? Neither You Nor I.”
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Graham Kribs
Date: Thursday, May 25th, 2017
Speaker: Carl Caves, University of New Mexico
Title: Quantum-limited measurements: One physicist’s crooked path from quantum optics to quantum information
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Mike Raymer
Date: TUESDAY, May 30th, 2017
Speaker: Nobel Laureate, David Wineland, NIST
Title: Single-atom Optical Clocks
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 123 PACIFIC hall
Host: Mike Raymer
Date: Thursday, June 1st, 2017
Speaker: Tim Nelson, SLAC
Title: TBA
Time:4:00-5:00pm
Location: 100 Willamette Hall
Host: Jim Brau