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31 Jan |
S. Lindsay (Phoenix, Arizona) |
Darwinian nanoscience |
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7 Feb |
A.V. Balatsky (Los Alamos) |
Electronic nanoscale inhomogeneities and Dirac fermions in d-wave superconductors and graphene |
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21 Feb |
F. MacKintosh (VU Amsterdam) |
Active, non-equilibrium gels: Polymer physics and cell mechanics |
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7 March |
Th. Rasing (Nijmegen) |
From Huygens to Faraday: Controlling magnetism by light |
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21 March |
W. Zurek (Los Alamos) |
Probabilities (and more) from entanglement |
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11 April |
R. Jackiw (MIT) |
Topological order and fractional charge |
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18 April |
J. Engelen (CERN, Geneva) |
Experimental exploration of the terascale: The Large Hadron Collider |
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2 May |
A.O. Caldeira (UNICAMP, Sao Paulo) |
Quantum dissipation: Overview and applications |
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16 May |
S. Tans (AMOLF) |
Darwinian walks in empirical fitness landscapes |
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30 May |
L. Smolin (Perimeter, Waterloo) |
Background independent approaches to quantum gravity: Lessons and quandries |
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13 June |
C.C. Tsuei (IBM Yorktown Heights) |
Gap symmetry and pairing mechanism in high-temperature superconductors: The road to d-wave and beyond |
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20 June |
R. Tromp (IBM Yorktown Heights) |
Nanoscale surface dynamics |
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26 Sep |
A.J. Liu (Pennsylvania) |
Jamming |
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10 Oct |
S.J.G. Vandoren (Utrecht) |
Nonperturbative string theory and the cosmological constant |
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24 Oct |
J.B. Pendry (Imperial College, London) |
A cloak of invisibility: Harry Potter does electromagnetism |
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14 Nov |
U. Schollwoeck (Aachen) |
Disentangling strongly correlated quantum systems |
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28 Nov |
A.P. Mackenzie (St. Andrews) |
Quantum criticality as a driver for discovery |
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12 Dec |
S.R. Nagel (Chicago) |
The life and death of a drop: Topological transitions and singularities in fluids |