Colloquium – Archive
Fermilab Colloquium Calendar 2005-2006
Lectures begin at 4:00 p.m. in 1 West
Orange titles are specialized; Green titles are general interest.
| Date | Speaker/Institute | Title | Host | Abstract | Video | |
| Sep 7 | Thomas Newman University of California, San Francisco |
The Power of Stories Over Statistics: Illustrations from Neonatal Jaundice and Infant Airplane Safety | C. Newman-Holmes | Download | PPT | Video |
| Sep 14 | Tim Gay University of Nebraska |
Football Physics | C. Newman-Holmes | Download | PPT | Video |
| Sep 21 | Andreas Kronfeld Fermilab |
Predictive Lattice QCD | M. Albrow | Download | Video | |
| Sep 28 | Sidney Redner Boston University |
Statistical Physics of Citations | B. Dobrescu | Download | Video | |
| Oct 5 | Paul Davies Macquarie University |
Multiverse Cosmological Models and the Anthropic Principle | T. Zimmerman | Download | Video | |
| Oct 12 | Jonathan P. Gardner NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
Galaxy Formation with the Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes | C. Newman-Holmes | Download | ||
| Oct 19 | David Gross UCSB |
The Future of Physics | A. Kronfeld | Download | Video | |
| Oct 26 | Maya Tolstoy Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University |
Applications of Ocean Acoustic Monitoring to Understanding Our Planet | A. Boehnlein | Download | PPT | Video |
| Nov 2 | Larry Bartoszek Bartoszek Engineering |
Taking the Space Elevator from Science Fiction to Engineering | E. Prebys | Download | PPT | Video |
| Nov 9 | Eric Adelberger Univeristy of Washington |
Sub-Millimeter Tests of the Newtonian Inverse Square Law | B. Dobrescu | Download | Video | |
| Nov 16 | NOT HELD | |||||
| Nov 23 | Thanksgiving | No Colloquium | ||||
| Nov 30 | Gary Bernstein University of Pennsylvania |
Seeing the Invisible Universe with Gravitational lensing and SNAP | C. Newman-Holmes | Video | ||
| Dec 7 | Robert Scherrer Vanderbilt University |
Science and Science Fiction | S. Dodelson | |||
| Dec 14 | Henry Petroski Duke University |
J. Nachtman | PPT | Video | ||
| Dec 21 | Christmas Holiday | No Colloquium | ||||
| Dec 28 | New Year’s Holiday | No Colloquium | ||||
| Jan 4 | James Rosenzweig UCLA |
Reinventing the Accelerator for the High Energy Frontier | C. Newman-Holmes | PPT | Video | |
| Jan 11 | Not Held | |||||
| Jan 18 | Joshua Frieman Fermilab |
Mapping the Heavens: Probing Cosmology with Large Surveys | S. Dodelson | PPT | Video | |
| Jan 25 | Fred Rasio Northwestern University |
The Million-Body Problem: Particle Simulations in Astrophysics | Video | |||
| Feb 1 | Lisa Randall Harvard University |
Warped Geometry: Consequences and Signatures | B. Dobrescu | |||
| Feb 8 | Raymond Pierrehumbert University of Chicago |
Early Life Crises of Habitable Planets | T. Zimmerman | Video | ||
| Feb 15 | Daniel Dennett Tufts University |
Religion as a Natural Phenomon | D. Whiteson | PPT | Video | |
| Feb 22 | Maria Klawe Syracuse University |
Gender, Lies and Video Games: The Truth about Females and Computing | C. Newman-Holmes | PPT | Video | |
| Mar 1 | Mark Trodden Syracuse University |
Is Cosmic Acceleration Telling Us Something about Gravity? | S. Dodelson | Video | ||
| Mar 8 | Nir Goldman Lawrence Livermore Lab |
Astrochemistry: Discovery of Novel Forms of Matter in Large Planets | D. Whiteson | PPT | Video | |
| Mar 15 | Allan Cameron and Fredi Lajvardi Carl Hayden High School, Phoenix, AZ |
“La Vida Robot” = High School Engineering Program Combats Engineering Brain Drain | E. Prebys | PPT | Video | |
| Mar 22 | Elizabeth Simmons Michigan State University |
How to Popularize Physics | B. Dobrescu | Video | ||
| Mar 29 | Robert Scherrer Vanderbilt University |
Science and Science Fiction | S. Dodelson | PPT | Video | |
| Apr 5 | Joseph Lykken Fermilab |
Is Particle Physics Ready for the LHC? | C. Newman-Holmes | Video | ||
| Apr 12 | George Hart SUNY Stony Brook |
Solid Freeform Fabrication of Aesthetic Objects | R. Plunkett | PPT | Video | |
| Apr 19 | Warren Washington NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
Climate Change in the 20th and 21st Centuries | T. Zimmerman | PPT | Video | |
| Apr 26 | Michael A’Hearn University of Maryland |
Deep Impact: Excavating Comet Tempel 1 | D. Whiteson | |||
| May 3 | Jill Tartar SETI |
The Allen Telescope Array: 42 is More than the Answer to “Life, the Universe, and Everything” | M. Albrow | PPT | Video | |
| May 10 | Gene Spafford Purdue University |
The Cyber Security Crisis | T. Zimmerman | Video | ||
| May 17 | Michael Baden, MD | E. Prebys | PPT | Video | ||
| May 24 | Neal Lane Rice University |
The Future of U.S. Science – to Follow or to Lead? | C. Newman-Holmes | Video | ||
| May 31 | Fermilab Users Meeting | |||||
| June 7 | Lance Dixon SLAC |
Twistor Spinoffs for Collider Physics | B. Dobrescu | PPT | Video | |
| Jun 14 | Lillian Hoddeson University of Illinois |
Megascience and the Powers and Paradoxes of Pushing Frontiers at Fermilab | P. Bauer | PPT | Video | |
| Jun 21 | Seth Putterman California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA |
Energy Focusing Phenomena: From Sonoluminescence to Crystal Fusion | P. Bauer | |||
| Jun 28 | Charles Falco University of Arizona |
The Science of Optics; The History of Art | A. Boehnlein | Video | ||
| Jul 5 | No Colloquium | |||||
| Jul 12 | Bradley Filippone Cal Tech |
Ultra-Cold Neutrons: From neV to TeV | M. Albrow | PPT | Video | |
| Jul 19 | Gary Westfall Michigan State University |
Recent Results from RHIC – The Perfect Liquid | A. Boehnlein | PPT | Video | |
| Jul 26 | No Colloquium | |||||
| Aug 2 | Nicholas Hatsopoulos University of Chicago |
Encoding and Decoding of Neuronal Ensembles in the Motor Cortex | C. Newman-Holmes | PPT | Video | |
| Aug 9 | Young-Kee Kim Fermilab and University of Chicago |
Passing the Baton: Tevatron-LHC Team | B. Dobrescu | PPT | Video | |
| Aug 16 | Tim Tait Argonne National Laboratory |
High Energy Colliders as Tools to Understand the Early Universe | B. Dobrescu | Video | ||
| Aug 23 | Wolfgang Panofsky SLAC |
CANCELED | ||||
| Aug 30 |