MAKE-UP EXAMS
Phys & Ast make up exams are scheduled Wednesday, 1/21, 6:00=8:00, A1
DRL, bring your i.d.
Department Colloquium: Restoration of Early Sound Recordings using Optical Metrology and Image Analysis
Carl Haber, LBL
Sound was first recorded and reproduced by Thomas Edison in 1877. Until about 1950, when magnetic tape use became common, most recordings were made on mechanical media such as wax, foil, shellac, lacquer, and…
Condensed Matter Seminar: "Universally Slow"
Ariel Amir, Harvard University
Glassy systems are very common in nature, from disordered electronic and magnetic systems to window glasses and crumpled paper. Among their key properties are slow relaxations to equilibrium without a typical…
Department Colloquium: "Topological Boundary Modes from Quantum Electronics to Classical Mechanics"
Professor Charles Kane (Univ of Penn)
Over the past several years, our understanding of topological electronic phases of matter has advanced dramatically.
Advances in Biomedical Optics Seminar: "Laser Doppler Methods in the Health Sciences: from Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy to Optical Coherence Tomography"
Professor David Boas (Harvard Med)
Please join in on this Seminar.
*Pizza will be made available*
Condensed Matter Seminar: Light-induced Reconfiguration and Directed Motion of Chemo-responsive Gels
Anna C. Balazs, University of Pittsburgh
A remarkable feature of certain biological organisms is their ability to alter their shape and functionality in response to environmental cues. Polymer gels undergoing the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction are…
Astronomy Seminar: TBD
Suvrath Mahadevan (Penn State)
Special Condensed Matter Seminar: "Ferromagnetism, Tactoids, and Smectic Correlations in Colloidal Liquid Crystal Suspensions of Inorganic Nanosheets”
Noel Clark (University of Colorado Boulder)
Condensed Matter Seminar: Frustrated Filaments and Crystalline Caps: Defect Patterns in Flexible Assemblies
Professor Greg Grason, UMass Amherst
In this talk I will discuss recent theoretical results on the optimal structure of two related, geometrically frustrated systems of soft matter: 1) condensed and twisted bundles of chiral filaments; and 2)…