| date | speaker | institution | title | host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 26 | Departmental Awards | |||
| September 2 | Ashish Orpe | Clark University | Study of granular surface flows in rotating cylinders | Kudrolli |
| Tuesday, September 7 | Lev Tsimring | UCSD | Self-organization of Microtubules and Molecular Motors | Kudrolli |
| September 9 | no colloquium | |||
| September 16 | no colloquium | |||
| September 23 | Michael Mallary | Thunder's Mouth Press | Our Improbable Universe: The Evolution of Primordial Energy into Mind | Gould |
| September 30 | Jacinta Conrad | Harvard University | Topology, jamming, and settling: Investigating slow dynamics in the colloidal glass transition | Gould |
| Tuesday, October 5, 2:00 pm | Milton Cole | Penn State | Wetting transitions of liquids on solid surfaces, abstract | Gould |
| October 7 | Cythnia Olson Reinhardt | LANL | Fluctuations at Jamming and Melting Transitions, abstract | Gould |
| October 14 | Eric Dufresne | Yale University | Mechanics of Drying Suspensions: How Colloidal Fluids Jam, Buckle and Crack | Mukhopadhyay |
| Saturday, October 16 | Greater Boston Area Statistical Mechanics Meeting | |||
| October 21 | no colloquium | |||
| Friday, Saturday, October 22, 23 | APS/NES meeting | |||
| October 28 | Rafael Garcia | WPI | Casimir forces and the wetting of thin films, abstract | Gould |
| November 4 | David Andersen | Stellar Schools Project | Franchising Self-Paced Web-Enabled K-12 Schools: Applications to Non-Profit and Public Schools | Gould |
| November 10, 4:00 pm, Jefferson 218 | Robert Williams | Princeton | Crude Oil, Climate Change, Coal, Cane and Cars, abstract, bio | Goble |
| November 11 | Nick Gross | Northeastern | Embedded Learning Modules (ELMO): Reforming the University General Science Curriculum | Gould |
| November 18 | Gabriel Popescu | MIT | Structure and dynamics of live cells quantified by Fourier Phase Microscopy | C. Martin |
| November 25 | THANKSGIVING | |||
| December 2 | Paul Wormser | UMass, Lowell | Photovoltaics as a solution to the world's biggest problem abstract | Agosta |
| December 9 | Jeremy Schmidt | UC - Santa Barbara | Covalent-like Bonding Between Conjugated Polymers | Mukhopadhyay |