| date | speaker | institution | title | host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 22 | Yaacov Shapira | Tufts University | Magnetization steps in diluted low-D materials (chains and 2D) | Landee |
| Friday, January 23 | Klebert Feitosa | UMass, Amherst | Experimental studies of an inelastic gas in 2D | Kudrolli |
| January 29 | Gyorgy Korniss | RPI | Extreme Fluctuations in Small-Worlds with Relaxational Dynamics, abstract | Gagne |
| February 5 | Shan-Wen Tsai | Boston University | Nanoscale d-wave superconductivity: surface, impurity and finite-size effects | Agosta |
| February 12 | Peter Weichman | ALPHATECH | A physicist's guide to the landmine/unexploded ordnance problem: Theory and experiment abstract | Mukhopadhyay |
| February 19 | Stephane Dorbolo | Univ. of Liege, Belgium and Clark Univ. | 'Old forgotten problems in Physics : Part I : Branly's effect in granular materials. Part II : Antibubbles and coated drops' | Kudrolli |
| February 26 | Timothy Paul Smith | Dartmouth College | Hidden Worlds: Hunting for Quarks in Ordinary Matter | Gagne |
| March 4/Joint Colloquium with Chemistry | David Reichman | Harvard | Short ranged attractions in jammed liquids: How cooling can melt a glass | Gould |
| March 11 | Spring Break | |||
| March 18 | Simon Trebst | ETH Zurich | "Overcoming entropic barriers in Monte Carlo simulations" | Gould |
| Friday, March 19, 2:00 pm | Denis Fenistein | Leiden University | Wide and universal shear zones in granular materials | Kudrolli |
| March 25 | APS March Meeting | |||
| March 26, 27 | NES/APS/AAPT Spring Meeting | |||
| April 1 | Sean Ling | Brown University | Electrically Addressable Nanopore Arrays for DNA Sequencing: A Cutting-Edges Approach. | Landee |
| April 8 | Kenneth Brecher | Boston University | Seeing the LITE | Gould |
| April 15 | Buddhapriya Chakrabarti | UMass, Amherst | Nonlinear Elasticity of alpha helical domains abstract | Gagne |
| April 22 | Alex Levine | UMass, Amherst | Affine vs. Nonaffine deformations and mechanics of the cytoskeleton | Kudrolli |
| April 29 | no colloquium | |||
| May 6/Joint Colloquium with Chemistry | Udayan Mohanty | Boston College | Fragility, spatial heterogeneity, and cooperative relaxation in glass-forming liquids: old problems and many new twists | Gagne |
| May 27 | Natali Gulbahce | Clark University | Mean-field systems, spinodals, annd homogeneous and heterogeneous nucleation (thesis proposal) | Gould |
| June 24 | Jan Fiala | University of Maine | The Transfer Operator: Phase Transitions in One Dimension abstract | Gould |