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:
CANCELED ===== Jill Bechtold ===== CANCELED
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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