“Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.” –Bill Bryson
2014 Colloquia at the Aspen Center for Physics
Links to slides from the weekly colloquia given by physicists, for physicists, are listed below by date, title and speaker.
- May –
Quasiparticle excitations in frustrated quantum matter. The case of
metallic quantum magnets, Peter Woelfle (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
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- June –
Solving the `Small Scale Crisis' of Cold Dark Matter, Alyson Brooks (Rutgers)
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- Life at High Reynolds Number, David R. Nelson (Harvard)
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Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz)
- The Flavor Puzzle, Wolfgang Altmannshofer (Perimeter Institute)
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- July –
A Physicist Looks at Cancer, Clare Yu (UC Irvine)
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The Emergence of Spacetime: Hints, Questions, and Progress, Don Marolf (UCSB)
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- Planck's View of the Origin of the Universe, Hiranya Peiris (UCL)
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Observing the Dark side of the Universe, Catherine Heymans (ROE)
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- August –
Unification of Fundamental Interactions, Hans Peter Nilles (University of Bonn)
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Science at the Timescale of the Electron: Ultrafast X-Rays and Applications in the Nanoworld, Margaret Murnane (JILA, U Colorado)
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How the Chandra X-ray Observatory is enriching our view of the Universe, Pepi Fabbiano (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
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Experimental Evidence for Majorana Fermions in a Condensed Matter System, Ali Yazdani (Princeton University)
- September –
Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level, Immanuel Bloch (Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics)
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Galaxies in the Dark, Alexie Leauthaud (IPMU)
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