Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Spring 2003
(1997/98,
1998/99,
1999/00,
2000/01,
2001/02,
Fall 2002)
(Wednesdays 4pm in DRL A4 unless otherwise posted).
Sep. 11:
7th Selove Lecture
James Hudspeth
Rockefeller University
How the ear's works work:
Mechanoelectrical transduction and amplification by hair cells
Host: Nelson
Oct. 2:
Paul Chaikin
Princeton University
Trillions of Quantum Dots, Fingerprints -
Nanolithography with Di-BlockCopolymers and the Annealing of Stripe Phases
Host: Mele
Oct. 9:
Julianne Dalcanton
University of Washington
Is there a dark matter crisis in astrophysics?
Host: Tegmark
Oct. 16:
JoAnne Hewett
Probes of Spacetime Geometries
Host: Langacker
Oct. 23:
Rittenhouse Lecture
Claude Canizares
MIT
Probing Cosmic Plasmas with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory
Host: Tegmark
Oct. 30:
Chris Quigg
Fermilab
The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics
Host: Langacker
Nov. 6:
Max Tegmark
University of Pennsylvania
Beyond Cosmological Parameters
Host: Tegmark
Nov. 13:
Jay Kikkawa
University of Pennsylvania
Getting a Handle on Spintronics with Optical Electrodes
Host: Mele
Nov. 20:
Geralynn "Sam" Zeller
Fermilab
Neutrino Quandary: Electroweak Results from NuTeV
Host: Langacker
Dec. 4:
David Sherrington
Fermilab
Magnets, micorchips, memories and markets:
statistical physics of complex systems
Host: Harris
Jan. 15:
Burstein Lecture
Jean Pierre Hansen
Cambridge
Mixing Colloids & Polymers: from Coarse-Graining to Accurate Phase Diagrams
Host: Yodh
Jan. 22:
Doug Durian
UCLA
Granular Matter
Host: Mele
Jan. 29:
Joint colloquium with Mathematics Department
Tadashi Tokieda
Universite Quebec a Montreal
Surprises from the physics and mathematics of rolling
Host: Balasubramanian
Feb. 5:
Jill Bechtold
Univ. of Arizona
Quasars & the High-Redshift Universe
Host: Alcock
Feb. 12:
Robert Willett
Lucent Bell Labs
Experiments at Small Length Scales in Condensed Matter Systems
Host: Mele
Feb. 19:
Steven M. Girvin
Yale
Superconducting Quantum Bits that (Really!) Work
Host: Mele
Feb. 26:
Joint colloquium with Mathematics Department
Shmuel Nussinov
Tel Aviv University
A Physicist's Approach to Complex Mathematics Problems
Host: Langacker
Mar. 5:
No colloquium (APS March Meeting in Atlanta)
Mar. 12:
No colloquium (Spring Break)
Mar. 19:
Primakoff Lecture
Lyman Page
Princeton University
Cosmic Microwave Background Results from the
WMAP Satellite
Host: Tegmark
Mar. 26:
Karen Cummings
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Using A Scientific Approach to Improving Science Instruction
Host: Bill Berner
Apr. 2:
No colloquium
Apr. 9:
Eli Waxman
Weizmann Institute
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Host: Langacker
Apr. 16:
Wayne Hu
Univ. of Chicago
Gravitational Lensing and the Dark Energy: Future Prospects
Host: Tegmark
Apr. 23:
Hitoshi Murayama
Berkeley (KAMLAND)
Big World of Small Newtrinos
Host: Langacker
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