Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Schedule for 2000-2001

Colloquiums are held on Wednesday afternoons at 4pm in the David Rittenhouse Laboratories (Lecture Hall A2 unless otherwise posted).

Spring Semester 2001 (Fall Semester 2000)

Colloquiums for: January, February, March, April

3 March 2000: The Selove Lecture on 4 April 2000 has been cancelled
Please note the resulting adjustments to the colloquium schedule

Jan. 17:
No colloquium - beginning of term
Jan. 24:
Michael J Berry II

Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Neural Computation in the Retina

Host: Balasubramanian
Jan. 31:
Paul Schechter

MIT
Microlensing of Multiply Imaged Quasars

Host: Ma
Feb. 7:
Ned Seeman

NYU
DNA Nanotechnology

Host: Kikkawa
Feb. 14:
Ka Yee Lee

Dept. of Chemistry, University of Chicago
Collapse Mechanism in Lung Surfactant Systems

Host: Kamien
Feb. 21:
Paul Langacker

University of Pennsylvania
Physics Implications of High Precision Electroweak Experiments

Host: Langacker
Feb. 28:
William Bialek

NEC Research Institute
Thinking About the Brain

Host: Nelson
Mar. 7:
Joseph Lykken

Fermilab
The Search for Extra Dimensions

Host: Cvetic
Mar. 14:
No Colloquium: Spring Break and March APS

Mar. 21:
No Physics Colloquium - Special Occasion

The Harold Pender Lecture

Jack St. Clair Kilby
Co-recepient 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics

Invention of the Integrated Circuit

Special time and location
4:30pm
Heilmeier Hall, Towne Building

Mar. 28:
Michael Jura

UCLA
What Next for the Likely Pre-Supernova, HD 179821?

Host: Koerner
Apr. 4:
Larry Gladney

University of Pennsylvania
Asymmetry in Beauty: From the Early Universe to the Near Future

Host: Langacker
Apr. 11:
Primakoff Lecture

Lev Okun

ITEP, Moscow
The concept of Mass

Host: Langacker
Apr. 18:

Charles S. Peskin

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU
Brownian Ratchet Biomolecular Motors

Host: Nelson
Apr.25:
Special Symposium on Inflationary Cosmology

Lynch Auditorium
Department of Chemistry
1:15pm to 4:00pm

Alan Guth
 MIT

followed by talks by

Michael Turner
Fermilab and University of Chicago

Paul Steinhardt
Princeton University

Host: Segre

Fall Semester 2000 (Spring Semester 2001)

Colloquiums for: September, October, November, December

Sep. 13:
Alan Perelson

Los Alamos National Laboratory
Modeling Viral Infection Dynamics in Vivo

Host: P. Nelson
Sep. 20:
Priscilla Laws

Dickinson College
Incorporating the Results of Physics Education Research in Curriculum Development

Host: Berner
Different day, time and place:
Monday Sep. 25, 4 - 6pm in Logan 402

Joint Colloquium with the Department of History and Sociology of Science and the Center for East Asian Studies

F. Richard Stephenson

University of Durham
East Asian Star Maps and Modern Astronomy

Host: Department of History and Sociology of Science
Oct. 4:
Alan T. Charlie Johnson, Jr.

University of Pennsylvania
One-dimensional Electrons and Phonons in Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Host: Langacker
Oct. 11:
Josh Frieman

Fermilab/University of Chicago
Probing the Large-scale Structure of the Universe with Galaxy Surveys and Weak Lensing

Host: Kroll
Oct. 18:
Mara Prentiss

Harvard University
Guiding Atoms on a Chip

Host: Yodh
Oct. 25:
Albrecht Wagner

Director
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
TESLA: Electron-Positron Linear Collider and Integrated X-ray Laser

Host: Kroll
Nov 1:
Bill Gelbart

UCLA Dept. of Chemistry
Physical Aspects of Chromatin Structure and Dynamics

Host: Lubensky
Nov. 8:
Rittenhouse Lecture

Charles Alcock

University of Pennsylvania
The Dark Side of Astronomy

Host: Langacker
Nov. 15:
Doug Cowen

University of Pennsylvania
Icefishing for Neutrinos with AMANDA

Host: Langacker
Nov. 22:
No Colloquium: Thanksgiving Holiday

Nov. 29:
WISP Colloquium

Reshmi Mukherjee

Barnard College, Columbia University
High Energy Gamma Ray Astrophysics in the GeV Domain and Beyond

Host: WISP/Cowen
Dec. 6:
Joseph Kroll

University of Pennsylvania
High Precision Tests and the Next Energy Frontier in Experimental Particle Physics

Host: Langacker
Selove Lecture

Sau Lan Wu

University of Wisconsin
Observation of Higgs Candidates around 114 GeV/c2 at LEP's Highest Energies

Host: Kroll