Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquia
Fall 2002

(1997/98, 1998/99, 1999/00, 2000/01, 2001/02)

(Wednesdays 4pm in the DRL A4 unless otherwise posted - note room change).

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

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