University of Pennsylvania
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Colloquium Schedule


Colloquia are held on Wednesday afternoons at 4pm in the David Rittenhouse Laboratories.
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There will be no more colloquia until the Fall.

Here is what you missed:

Fall Semester 1997 (Spring Semester 1998)


Seminars for: September, October, November, December

Sept 10:
Charles Marcus
Stanford
Small Electronics and Quantum Chaos

Sept 17:
Mirjam Cvetic
University of Pennsylvania
Strings Shedding Light on Black Holes

Sept 24:
D. Allan Bromley
Yale University
The Future of Research Universities

Oct. 1:
Sidney Coleman
Harvard University
Quantum Mechanics in Your Face

Oct. 8:
Brian Greene
Columbia University
String Theory, Black Holes and The Structure of Spacetime

Oct. 15:
Burstein Symposium
No Colloquium


Oct. 22:
Charles Bennett
IBM
Quantum Information Processing

Oct. 29:
Douglas Durian
UCLA
Dynamics Inside Flowing Sand

Nov. 5:
Rama Bansil
Boston University
A Physicist's Answer to the Puzzle of Why the Stomach Doesn't Digest Itself

Nov. 12:
Selove Lectureship
Michael Tinkham

Harvard University
Discrete Energy Levels and Superconductivity in Nanometer-Scale Aluminum Particles

Nov. 19:
Vernon Barger
University of Wisconsin
Closing in on Supersymmetry

Nov. 27:
Thanksgiving
No Colloquium


Dec. 3:
Rittenhouse Lectureship
Roger Blandford

Caltech
Black Holes: The Ultimate Energy Source

Dec. 10:
Mehran Kardar
MIT
The `Friction' of Vacuum, and other Fluctuation-Induced Forces

Spring Semester 1998 (Fall Semester 1997)


Seminars for: January, February, March, April

Jan. 14:
Barry Barish
Caltech
The LIGO Project

Jan. 21:

CANCELLED - no colloquium



Jan. 28:
William Marciano
Brookhaven National Laboratory
The Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment: Theory versus Experiment

Feb. 4:
Philip Nelson
University of Pennsylvania
A Physicist Looks at DNA

Feb. 11:
Paul Langacker
University of Pennsylvania
Weaker Interactions

Feb. 18:
Mark Oreglia
University of Chicago
Physics of the Large Electron-Positron Collider at CERN: Something Old, Something New

Feb. 25:
Joshua Socolar
Duke University
Stresses in Granular Materials

Mar. 4:
Curtis Callan
Princeton University
String Theory, Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Entropy: New Answers to Old Questions

Mar. 11:
Michael Green
Cambridge University
Strings, M-Theory and Quantum Gravity

Mar. 18:
American Physical Society March Meeting
No Colloquium


Mar. 25:
Reuben Mezrich
University of Pennsylvania
Digital Radiology -- No More Film

Apr. 1:
Primakoff Lectureship
Maurice Goldhaber

Brookhaven National Laboratory
Reminiscences from the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1930s

Apr. 8:

CANCELLED - no colloquium



Apr. 15:
Robert Behringer
Duke University
The Physicist in the Sandbox

Apr. 22:
Brigitte Pansu
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Orsay
An Overview on Blue Phases

Apr. 29:

CANCELLED - no colloquium



May 6:
Andrew Gould
Ohio State University
Microlensing at the Edge

Last modified 16 May 1998