Computations in Science Seminars
Wednesdays at KPTC
206, unless otherwise specified
The Kersten Physics Teaching Center is on the
corner of 57th Street and Ellis Avenue.
Discussion over bag-lunch at 12:15 PM.
Talk starts at 12:30 PM.
- May 21, 2008
- Gregory Falkovick, Weizmann Institute of Science
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- How Does Rain Start?
- The brief history of rain theories, from primordial chaos to modern turbulence, will be presented.
Recent experimental and theoretical results on fractal distribution of water droplets in clouds will be reviewed.
Some unsolved problems of cloud physics will be described along with their relations to problems
in field theory and condensed matter physics.
- June 25, 2008
- Etienne Reyssat, Harvard University
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Wendy Zhang,
- June 27, 2008
(MRSEC Baglunch Seminar - 12:30 in CIS E123)
- Mathilde Reyssat, Harvard University
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Wendy Zhang,
- July 9, 2008
- Dean Astumian, University of Maine
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- July 23, 2008
(&)
- Itamar Procaccia, Weizmann Institute of Science
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- July 30, 2008
- Robert Deegan, University of Michigan
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- August 6, 2008
- (open date)
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- August 13, 2008
- Norman Lebovitz, University of Chicago
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- August 20, 2008
(&)
- (open date)
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- August 27, 2008
(&)
- (open date)
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- September 3, 2008
- (open date)
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- September 10, 2008
- (open date)
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- September 17, 2008
- Michael Marder, University of Texas
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- September 24, 2008
- (open date)
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- October 1, 2008
- Doug Smith
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- October 8, 2008
- (open date)
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- October 15, 2008
- (open date)
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- October 22, 2008
- Berni Alder, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- October 29, 2008
- E. G. D. Cohen, Rockefeller University
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- November 5, 2008
(^)
- (open date)
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- November 12, 2008
- (open date)
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- November 19, 2008
- (open date)
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- November 21, 2008
(Special Seminar: 12:30 in KPTC 206)
- Detlef Lohse, University of Twente
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- December 3, 2008
- V. Ramanathan, University of California, San Diego
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e-mail:
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Faculty contact: Leo Kadanoff,
- January 7, 2009
- (open date)
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- January 14, 2009
- (open date)
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- January 21, 2009
- (open date)
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- January 28, 2009
- (open date)
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- February 4, 2009
- (open date)
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- February 11, 2009
- (open date)
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- February 18, 2009
- (open date)
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- February 25, 2009
- (open date)
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- March 4, 2009
- (open date)
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- March 11, 2009
- (open date)
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- March 18, 2009
(During APS March Meeting)
- (open date)
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- March 25, 2009
- (open date)
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(&) : When Wendy Zhang is unavailable for
the seminar.
(^) : When Leo Kadanoff is unavailable for the
seminar.
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