Colloquium Schedule – Spring 2016 Date Spring 2016 – Colloquium Information Feb. 3, 2016 Semion Saikin Bioantenna in a cavity: engineering energy transfer in natural photosynthetic systems Feb. 10, 2016 Sebastian Deffner Quantum thermodynamics: Thermodynamics and information processing at the nanoscale Feb. 17, 2016 Liping Yu Designing Advanced Materials for Next-Generation Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications Feb. 24, 2016 Oleksandr Kyriienko Light-matter interaction for quantum technologies Mar. 2, 2016 Nicolas Large Plasmonic Properties of Metallic and Hybrid Nanostructures from Fundamental Physics to Applications Mar. 9, 2016 Archana Kamal Quantum information processing with superconducting quantum circuits Mar. 16, 2016 Spring Break – No colloquium scheduled Mar. 23, 2016 Garnett Bryant Approaching the quantum limit for nanoplasmonics Mar. 30, 2016 Linda Reichl Transport Processes and Sound Mode Decay in Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates Apr. 6, 2016 Jonathan Baugh Superconductivity in semiconductor nanowires Apr. 13, 2016 Michel Orrit Optical microscopy and spectroscopy of single molecules and single plasmonic gold nanoparticles Apr. 20, 2016 Gregory Harry LIGO, GW1509014, and the Future of Gravitational Wave Astronomy Apr. 27, 2016 Cole Miller The Wave of the Future May 4, 2016 2016 Joseph F. Mulligan Memorial Lecture Presented by Catherine Rossbach The Life and Work of Emmy Noether