Week |
Date |
Name of Speaker |
Affiliation |
Title/Topic |
Comments/Host |
6-Sep-2011 |
Professor Hiroshi Yamada | National Institute for Fusion Science | Alternative and Complementary Role of Large Helical Device in Fusion Science | Hutch Neilson | |
| 1 | 15-Sep-2011 |
STUDENTS RETURNING | |||
2 |
21-Sep-2011 |
Professor Edgar Choueiri | Princeton University | 3D Audio | Tiana Dodson |
3
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28-Sep-2011 |
Marc Goldsmith | Marc Goldsmith & Associates LLC | Natural Disaster Aftermaths | Harry Mynick |
| 3 | 29-Sept-2011 | Dr. Chris C. Chaston | University of California - Berkeley | Flow Shear and Tearing in Auroral Plasmas | |
4
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5-Oct-2010 |
Professor Philip Holmes |
Princeton University |
The Neuromechanics of Insect Locomotion: How Cockroaches Run Fast and Stably Without Much Thought |
Dennis Mansfield |
5
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12-Oct-2011 |
Dr. C S Chang |
Princeton University |
Extreme Scale Computing for First-Principles Plasma Physics Research |
Harry Mynick |
5 |
12-Oct-2011 |
PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING, OCTOBER 12-13, 2011, PPPL |
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6
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19-Oct-2011 |
Chris Wilson |
Slate Magazine |
The Rosslyn Code: Can Physics Explain a 500-Year Old Melody Etched in the Walls of a Scottish Chapel? |
Tiana Dodson |
7
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25-Oct-2011 |
Professor Hod Lipson |
Cornell University |
The Robotic Scientist: Distilling Natural Laws from Experimental Data, From Cognitive Robotics to Computational Biology |
Harry Mynick |
8 |
2-Nov-2011 |
Al Matos / Rick Stuby | PSE&G / Petra Solar | Distributed Solar Photovoltaic Power Production - Technology and Benefits | Harry Mynick |
9
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9-Nov-2011 |
Professor Richard Lindzen |
MIT |
Climate Sensitivity |
Harry Mynick |
10 |
14-Nov-2011 |
53RD ANNUAL APS DPP CONFERENCE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, NOVEMBER 14-18, 2011 |
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10
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16-Nov-2011 |
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11 |
23-Nov-2011 |
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11 |
23-Nov-2011 |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
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12 |
28-Nov-2011 |
21ST INTERNATIONAL TOKI CONFERENCE, TOKI-CITY, GIFU, JAPAN, NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 1, 2011 |
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| 12 | 30-Nov-2011 | Professor David Attwood | University of California - Berkeley | Undulators to FELs: Nanometers, Femtoseconds, Coherence and Applications | Harry Mynick |
| 13 | 1-Dec-2011 | Dr. Adam Galinsky | Northwestern University | Psychological Forces at the Bargaining Table and the Auction House | Bill Blanchard |
13 |
7-Dec-2011 |
Professor Seth Putterman | UCLA | Evidence of a Phase Transition Inside a Sonoluminescing Plasma | Harry Mynick |
14
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14-Dec-2011 |
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15 |
21-Dec-2011 |
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16 |
23-Dec-2011 |
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S DAY HOLIDAYS - LABORATORY CLOSED - DECEMBER 23, 2011 TO JANUARY 2, 2012 | |||
17 |
28-Dec-2011 |
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| 18 | 04-Jan-2012 | ||||
19
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09-Jan-2012 |
Dr. Brian Czech | Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy | The Exclusive Role of Physicists in Steady State Economics | Harry Mynick |
| 20 | 17-Jan-2012 | Dr. Justin C. Kasper | Harvard University | Solar Probe Plus: Instruments for a Solar Encounter Mission | Dennis Mansfield |
21 |
25-Jan-2012 |
Dr. Mohan Sankaran | Case Western Reserve University | Micro-Plasmas and Nanotechnology | Dennis Mansfield |
22 |
1-Feb-2012 |
Professor Dan Roth | University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | Machine Learning, Reasoning, and Natural Language Processing | Harry Mynick |
23 |
10-Feb-2012 |
Dr. Tom Malzbender | Hewlett Packard | Imaging the Antikythera Mechanism | Dennis Mansfield |
24
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16-Feb-2012 |
Professor A. Bhattacharjee | University of New Hampshire - Durham | Fast Magnetic Reconnection: Bridging Laboratory and Space Plasma Physics | Stewart Prager |
25 |
22-Feb-2012 |
Professor James Hendler |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Web 3.0 Emerging |
Harry Mynick |
| 25 | 23-Feb-2012 | Kitty Ferguson | Stephen Hawking: "An Unfettered Mind" | Kitta MacPherson | |
| 26 | 29-Feb-2012 | Professor Bart Selman | Cornell University | Solving Large-Scale Computational Problems Using Insights From Statistical Physics | Harry Mynick |
27 |
7-Mar-2012 |
Professor Sarbani Basu | Yale University | What the Sun Has Taught Us About Basic Properties of Matter | Harry Mynick |
| 28 | 14-Mar-2012 | Professor Stephen Stearns | Yale University | Evolution in a Contemporary Human Population: Intersexual Contraints and Costs of Reproduction | Harry Mynick |
29 |
22-Mar-2012 |
Heather Paul | NASA Johnson Space Center | Houston: We are GO for Exploration | Stephanie Wissel |
30 |
28-Mar-2012 |
Dr. David Gates | Princeton University | Overview of the PPPL International Experimental Stellarator Collaboration Activity | Bill Blanchard |
30 |
31-March-2012 |
2012 INTERNATIONAL SHERWOOD FUSION THEORY CONFERENCE | |||
31 |
4-April-2012 |
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32 |
11-April-2012 |
Dr. Mitchell Erickson | Department of Homeland Security | Science and Technology at DHS: Resiliency of our Physical and Social Infrastructure | Bill Blanchard |
33
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18-Apr-2012 |
Professor Sabine Stanley | University of Toronto | Planetary Dynamos: Investigations of Saturn and Ancient Mars | Eric Fredrickson |
34 |
25-April-2012 |
Professor John Rogers | University of Illinois | Semiconductor Devices Inspired By and Integrated With Biology | Eric Fredrickson |
35 |
2-May-2012 |
Dr. Tony Rothman | Princeton University | A Slightly Longer History of E=mc 2, Or How I Came to Hate 4/3 | Harry Mynick |
36 |
9-May-2012 |
Mark Herrmann | Sandia National Laboratory | Using Magnetic Fields to Create and Control High Energy Density Matter | Bill Blanchard |
| 37 | 16-May-2012 | Dr. Alexander Glaser | Princeton University | A New Approach to Nuclear Warhead Verification Using a Zero-Knowledge Protocol | Bill Blanchard |
| 38 | 23-May-2012 | Dr. Oscar Schofield | Rutgers University | Ocean Robotic Networks | Bill Blanchard |
| 38 | 30-May-2012 | Dr. James Stone | Princeton University | Eric Fredrickson | |
39 |
06-June-2012 |
Dr. Virginia Dale | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Ecological Lessons Learned 30 Years After Mount Saint Helens | Eric Fredrickson |
40 |
13-June-2012 |
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41 |
20-June-2012 |
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42 |
27-June-2012 |
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Last Update: August 23, 2010