Photo by Michele Vallisneri
“Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year? –
We won't know for a few years. –Stephen W. Hawking”
2015 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 –
The tidal disruptions of stars by supermassive black holes, Ryan Chornock (Ohio University)
- June –
Atomic Quantum Simulation of Abelian and non-Abelian Gauge Theories, Uwe-Jens Wiese (University of Bern)
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- Dark Matter in Cosmology, Katharine Mack (University of Cambridge)
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- But wait! There's more!: A Wealth of Science from Millisecond Pulsars, Scott Ransom (University of Virginia)
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- Primordial Physics: Inflation, String Theory and the CMB, Liam McAllister (Cornell University)
- July –
What Birds Have Taught Us about Structural Color, Vinothan Manoharan (Harvard)
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- The Ecology of Galaxy Formation within the “Cosmic Web”, Charles Steidel (Caltech)
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- Exciting New Approaches to Scattering Amplitudes, Henriette Elvang (University of Michigan)
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Ultracold Atoms as Quantum Simulators for New Materials: Optical Lattices, Synthetic Magnetic Fields and Topological Phases, Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT)
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Ergodicity, Entanglement and Many-body Localization in Quantum Dynamics, Ehud Altman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
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- August –IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos, Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)
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Inside Neutron Stars, Gordon Baym (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
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- Cosmology at the Crossroads, Michael Turner (University of Chicago)
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- How Might a Fermi Surface Die?, Senthil Todadri (MIT)
- September –
What the Fly's Nose Tells the Fly's Brain: Use of Physics–style Theory to Understand How Brains Compute, Charles Stevens (Salk Institute)
- The LHC Confronts Supersymmetry, Joanne Hewett (SLAC)
