Colloquium Schedule

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The 1999-2000 Colloquium Series has ended. Come back in the Summer to see the Fall lineup.

Fall Semester 1999 (Spring Semester 2000)

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Sep. 15:

Cherry Murray
Lucent Technologies
Video Imaging and Assisted Self-Assembly of Colloids

Host: Kamien

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Sep. 22:

Steven Gubser
Harvard University
What Have We Learned From AdS/CFT?

Host: Cvetic

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Sep. 29:

WISP Colloquium
Meg Urry
Space Telescope Science Institute
Blazars, Jets, and the Black Hole - Galaxy Connection

Host: Ma

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Oct. 6:

Victor Emery
Brookhaven National Laboratory
New Physics from New Materials

Host: Mele

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Oct. 13:

Mark Wise
California Institute of Technology
Desperately Seeking the Unitarity Triangle

Host: Lockyer

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Oct. 20: SPECIAL ROOM: DRL A1

Rittenhouse Lecture
Geoffrey Marcy
University of California Berkeley
Extrasolar Planets

Host: Koerner

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Oct. 27:

Special Joint Math/Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
David Morrison
Duke University
Is There a Pot of Gold at the End of Every Rainbow? The Search for New Dualities in String Theory CANCELED!

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Nov. 3:

Randall Kamien
University of Pennsylvania
Turn of the Screws

Host: Kamien

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Nov. 10:

Marla Feller
National Institutes of Health
Wiring up the Brain: Mechanisms of Correlated Activity in Developing Neuronal Networks

Host: Nelson

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Nov. 17:

Paul Lawrence Rose
Pennsylvania State University
Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project: Problems of Scientific Biography, Science and Culture

Host: Kamien/History of Science

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Nov. 24:

Thanksgiving
No Colloquium

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Dec. 1:

Mark Devlin
University of Pennsylvania
Determining the Fate of the Universe from the Top of the World

Host: Kamien

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Dec. 8:

Ronald Larson
University of Michigan
Single-Molecule Hydrodynamics of DNA Polymer Molecules

Host: Lubensky/MSE

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Dec. 15: SPECIAL ROOM: DRL A4

Chung-Pei Ma
University of Pennsylvania
Weighing Superclusters of Galaxies

Host: Kamien

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Spring Semester 2000 (Fall Semester 1999)

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Jan. 19:

Lars Bildsten
Institute for Theoretical Physics
Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Neutron Stars: Implications for Millisecond Pulsar Formation and LIGO

Host: Ma

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Jan. 26:

Elizabeth Simmons
Boston University
Postponed Due to Weather

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Feb. 2:

WISP Colloquium
Elizabeth Simmons
Boston University
Women in Physics: Prospects for the 21st Century

Host: WISP/Cowen

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Feb. 9:

Thomas Halsey
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
How Sandcastles Fall

Host: Lubensky

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Feb. 16:

Mirjam Cvetic
University of Pennsylvania
Domain Wall World(s)

Host: Kamien

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Feb. 23:

David Weinberg
Ohio State University
Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha Forest

Host: Ma

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Mar. 1: SPECIAL ROOM: DRL A1

Selove Lecture
Steven Chu
Stanford University
New Stuff with Ultracold Atoms

Host: Yodh

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Mar. 8:

Special Joint Math/Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
David Morrison
Duke University
Is There a Pot of Gold at the End of Every Rainbow? The Search for New Dualities in String Theory

Host: Ovrut/Grassi

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Mar. 15:

Spring Break
No Colloquium
Come to Order and Disorder: A Symposium in Honor of the 65^th Birthday of A. Brooks Harris, 17-18 March 2000

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Mar. 22:

American Physical Society March Meeting
No Seminar

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Mar. 29:

Primakoff Lecture
Wolfgang Ketterle
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bose-Einstein Condensation -- Quantum Mechanics at Zero Temperature

Host: Yodh

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Apr. 5:

Steven Majewski
University of Virginia
Studying the Cannibalistic History of the Milky Way

Host: Reid

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Apr. 12:

Dava Sobel
Bestselling Author
Longitude

Host: Ovrut

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Apr. 19:

Paul Janmey
University of Pennsylvania
Polyelectrolyte Effects and Strain Hardening in Soft Biological Gels

Host: Kamien

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Apr. 26:

N. David Mermin
Cornell University
Knowledge about What?
Quantum Computation and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Come to the Franklin Institute Symposium on Bose-Einstein Condensates from 1:15-3:45

Host: Segrè

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