Date: Wednesday February 10, 2016
Location: 101 Brockman Hall for Physics
Title: TBA
Abstract: TBA
Rice P&A Colloquia are scheduled on Wednesdays at 4:00pm in Brockman Hall for Physics (BRK), room 101.
Graduate students are encouraged to meet the speaker for coffee & cookies between 1h15-2pm in BRK 200.
On December 15 at 2h30pm Berndt Müller (BNL) will give a physics colloquium at UH.
UH Colloquia are scheduled on Tuesdays at 2:30pm in SR1 room 634
More information can be found at the following link: UH Physics Colloquium calendar Fall 2015
On March 18 at 4pm Kevin Dusling (PRL) will give the P&A colloquium at Rice
Title: Physical Review Letters: The Inside Story
Abstract: Physical Review Letters publishes over 20,000 pages of scientific content per year while maintaining its presence as the premier physics journal. The purpose of this talk is to shed light into Physical Review Letter’s editorial process and policy and address the many questions frequently raised by the thousands of active authors, referees and readers. I will discuss upcoming projects and policy changes that may affect you and reflect on how PRL needs to orient itself in the rapidly changing landscape of scientific publishing.
Rice P&A Colloquia are scheduled on Wednesdays at 4:00pm in Brockman Hall for Physics (BRK), room 101.
Graduate students are encouraged to meet the speaker for coffee & cookies between 1h15-2pm in BRK 200.
On October 29 at 4pm Matt Luzum (LBNL) will give a physics colloquium at UH.
UH Colloquia are scheduled on Tuesdays at 4:00pm in SR1 room 634.
On October 23 at 4pm Thomas Schaefer (North Carolina State) will the P&A colloquium at Rice
Title:
NEARLY PERFECT FLUIDITY: From Cold Atoms to Hot Quarks and Gluons
Abstract:
A dimensionless measure of fluidity is the ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density. In this talk I will argue that fluidity is a sensitive probe of the strength of correlations in a fluid. I will also discuss evidence that the two most perfect fluids ever observed are also the coldest and the hottest fluid ever created in the laboratory. The two fluids are cold atomic gases (~10^-6^ K) that can be probed in optical traps, and the quark gluon plasma (~1012K) created in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. Remarkably, both fluids come close to a bound on the shear viscosity that was first proposed based on calculations in string theory, involving the non-equilibrium evolution of back holes.
Rice P&A Colloquia are scheduled on Wednesdays at 4:00pm in Brockman Hall for Physics (BRK), room 101.
Graduate students are encouraged to meet the speaker for coffee & cookies between 1h15-2pm in BRK 200.
On Tuesday September 24 at 4pm Frithjof Karsch (BNL) will give a physics colloquium at UH on Lattice QCD.
UH Colloquia are scheduled on Tuesdays at 4:00pm in SR1 room 634.