Spring 2009

February
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• February 2, 2009
  Guifre Vidal, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
  "Recent Progress in Entanglement Renormalization" [abstract]
  Host: Xiao-Gang Wen
  

• Special Condensed Matter/BioPhysics talk
  1:15pm Tuesday, February 3, 2009
  Ido Golding, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
  "Information Processing in Living Cells: Beyond First Approximations" [abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• Wednesday, February 4, 2009
  Paul Canfield, Iowa State University
  "Effects of pressure and doping on iron arsenic based superconductors" [abstract]
  Host: Young Lee
  
  
  Special Condensed Matter/BioPhysics talk
• 1:15pm Thursday, February 5, 2009
  Nicolas Buchler, The Rockefeller University
  "From genes to dynamics: Combinatorial logic and thresholds in molecular networks" [abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• 10:00am Friday, February 6, 2009
  Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  "Insights in High-Tc Superconductivity From the Study of Cuprate Heterostructures" [abstract]
  Host: Ray Ashoori
  
  
  Special Condensed Matter/BioPhysics talk
• Friday, February 6, 2009
  Julie Biteen, Stanford University
  "Nanophotonics: From in Vivo Single-Molecule Superresolution Imaging to Plasmon-Enhanced Silicon Quantum Dots" [abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  Michael Fuhrer, University of Maryland
  "Massless and Massive Electrons in Atomically-thin Carbon" [abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
  Special Condensed Matter/BioPhysics talk
• 1:15pm Tuesday, February 10, 2009
  Pankaj Mehta, Princeton University
  "Information processing and signal integration in bacterial quorum sensing" [abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
  Special Condensed Matter/BioPhysics talk
• Wednesday, February 11, 2009
  Meera Parish, Princeton University
  "Polarized Fermi superfluidsPolarized Fermi superfluids" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee
  
  
  Special Condensed Matter/BioPhysics talk
• 1:15pm Friday, February 13, 2009
  Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Games microbes play: The game theory behind cooperative sucrose metabolism in yeast" [abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar
  
  
• February 16, 2009
  Presidents Day - Holiday
  
  
• February 23, 2009
  
  

MARCH
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• March 2, 2009
  
  
  
• March 9, 2009 CANCELLED
  Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  "A particle-hole asymmetry and the pseudogap phase of the High-Tc superconductors" [abstract]
  Host: Eric Hudson
  
  
• March 16, 2009
  First day of March Meeting
  
  
• March 23-27, 2009
  Spring Holiday
  
  Special Chez Pierre Seminar in Celebration of the 2009 Oliver Buckley Prize to
  MIT Physicists Bob Meservey, Paul Tedrow & Jagadeesh Moodera
• March 30, 2009
  Jagadeesh Moodera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Spin polarized tunneling and tunnel magnetoresistance" [abstract]
  Host: Patrick Lee

APRIL
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• April 6, 2009
  Martin Zwierlein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "Swimming in the Fermi sea: Observation of Fermi Polarons in a tunable Fermi liquid of ultracold atoms" [abstract]
  Host: Nuh Gedik
  
  
• April 13, 2009
  Dr. Frank Koppens, Harvard University
  "Near-field Electrical Detection of Optical Plasmons and Single Plasmon Sources" [abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
  
  
• April 20, 2009
  Patriots Day - Holiday
  
  
• April 23, 2009 - Thursday 1:15PM
  Prof. Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
  "Nodal Excitation Spectrum and Underlying Mechanism for Optimal
  Superconductivity in Cuprates" [abstract]
  Host: Senthil Todadri
  
  
• April 27, 2009
  Peter Johnson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
  "A particle-hole asymmetry and the pseudogap phase of the High-Tc superconductors" [abstract]
  Host: Eric Hudson
  
  

MAY
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• May 4, 2009
  Kerson Huang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  "CSAW: Simulation of Protein Folding" [abstract]
  Host: Mehran Kardar

• May 11, 2009
  Michael Crommie, University of California at Berkeley
  "Imaging Dirac Fermions in a Two-dimensional Sheet of Carbon" [abstract]
  Host: Pablo Jarillo-Herrero