"Physical Principles Underlying the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect"
Professor Juerg Froelich, Institute for Advanced Study
Department Colloquium:
Andrew Hamilton, University of Colorado Boulder
Basic Vacuum and Leak Detection Principles
Rob Wilson (Sales/Systems Engineer from Pascal Technologies)
Short Course which will cover topics
* Pressure, measurement, viscous flow, molecular flow
* The common ways to create a vacuum - different pumps and
where they
are used
*…
Condensed Matter seminar: "Grain Growth: materials, curvature flow, topology"
David Srolovitz, Penn Materials Science & Engineering
Grain growth is the process through which a polycrystalline material coarsens. Large grains grow, small grains shrink and disappear; the average grain size increases. This process is driven by the surface tension of…
Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Stefano Anselmi (Case Western)
Condensed Matter seminar: "High-dimensional surprises near the glass and the jamming transitions"
Patrick Charbonneau, Duke University
The glass problem is notoriously hard and controversial. Even at the mean-field level, there is little agreement about how a fluid turns sluggish while exhibiting but unremarkable structural changes. It…
Astrophysics and Cosmology Seminar
Paul Sutter (Ohio State University/IAP)
Department Colloquium
Scott Tremaine, Institute for Advanced Study - RITTENHOUSE LECTURE