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Physics Colloquium Winter 2006


January 10, 2006
Mapping electronic states in complex oxides
Kyle McElroy
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ***Please note, event is on Tuesday and in 102 ISB at 4:00 p.m.***

January 12, 2006
Condensed gray matter: Emergent properties in networks of cortical neurons
John Beggs
Indiana University

January 17, 2006
Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Quantum Magnet
Vivien S. Zapf
Los Alamos National Laboratory ***Please note, event is on Tuesday, 1/17 in 231 ISB***

January 19, 2006
Imaging the injection, accumulation, and flow of spin-polarized electrons in lateral ferromagnet/semiconductor devices
Scott Crooker
Los Alamos National Laboratory

January 24, 2006
Exploring molecular electronics using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Yayu Wang
UC Berkeley ***Please note: Held in ISB 102, 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, 1/24***

January 26, 2006
Probing spin-charge-lattice interplay in high temperature superconductors
Gey-Hong Gweon
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

January 31, 2006
Nodal quasiparticle in pseudogapped colossal magnetoresistive manganites
Norman Mannella
Physics Department - Stanford University Advanced Light Source - LBNL **Please note, event in ISB 102, at 4:00 p.m.**

February 2, 2006
The Search for Charm Meson Mixing
David C. Williams
Physics Department, UCSC

February 7, 2006
Top Physics @ CDF: A window to the Standard Model and beyond
Anyes Taffard
Fermilab **Please note: event is in ISB 102 at 4:00 pm**

February 9, 2006
Physics in the third generation: Testing the standard model at the energy frontier
Reinhard Schwienhorst
Physics & Astronomy Dept., Michigan State University

February 21, 2006
The Search for the Higgs Boson
Jason Nielsen
Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory **Please note, event is in ISB 102, at 4:00 p.m.**

February 28, 2006
Half A Billion Bottom Quarks for BaBar: Particle Physics at the Virtual Energy Frontier
Jeffrey Berryhill
UCSB & SLAC **Please note, event is in ISB 431, at 4:00 p.m.**

March 2, 2006
Measuring the Mass of the Heaviest Known Elementary Particle
Ariel Schwartzman
Princeton University & Fermilab

March 7, 2006
LHC and ILC - Two strong partners for Particle Physics
Ariane Frey
Max Planck Institute ***Please note, event is in 431 ISB at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday***

March 9, 2006
Hadron Collider Physics - Challenges and Opportunities
Arnulf Quadt
University of Bonn

March 14, 2006
What's So Special About the Top Quark?
Joao Guimaraes da Costa **Please Note: event in 102 ISB on Tuesday**
Harvard University & Fermi National Laboratory