2011 - 2012 PPPL Colloquium Schedule

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
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
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
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
6
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
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
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
10
16-Nov-2011
 
11
23-Nov-2011
       
11
23-Nov-2011
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
12
28-Nov-2011
21ST INTERNATIONAL TOKI CONFERENCE, TOKI-CITY, GIFU, JAPAN, NOVEMBER 28 - DECEMBER 1, 2011
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
14-Dec-2011
       
15
21-Dec-2011
       
16
23-Dec-2011
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S DAY HOLIDAYS - LABORATORY CLOSED - DECEMBER 23, 2011 TO JANUARY 2, 2012
17
28-Dec-2011
18 04-Jan-2012        
19
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
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
       
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
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
       
41
20-June-2012
       
42
27-June-2012
 

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