The departmental colloquia are organized by the Colloquium Committee (Delos, Averett, Carone, Reilly and Zhang), and are usually held at 4:00 PM Friday afternoon in Room 109 in William Small Physical Laboratory. Coffee, cookies and other goodies are available ( gratis!) in the conference room (Small 123) starting at 3:30 PM. All are welcome (no cookies if you don't attend the talk...) Talks are intended to be on the level of advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students.

COLLOQUIA WILL APPEAR HERE AS THEY ARE SCHEDULED

Spring 2001

• Jan. 19 - Al Osborne,   U. Torino and W & M
  "Recent Advances in Nonlinear Wave Physics ­ Applications to Oceanic Freak Waves"   Abstract
• Jan. 26 - John Delos,   W & M
  "TBA"  
• Feb. 2 - Bonnie Fleming,   Columbia U.
  "Where in the world is the oscillating neutrino?"   Abstract
• Feb. 9 - Peter Reynolds,   ONR
  "What Do We Know and Where Do We Go with the Nodes of Atomic Wavefunctions?"  
• Feb. 28 - Chunlei Guo,   Los Alamos National Lab
  "TBA"  
   (note unusual day)
  
• Mar. 1 - Jie Shan,   Columbia U.  
  "TBA"  
   (note unusual day)
  
• Mar. 9 -   [No colloquium, Spring Break]  

• Mar. 16 - Don York,   U. Chicago
  "New Insights into the Origins of the Chemical Elements"   Abstract
• Mar. 23 - Kai Liu,   U.C. San Diego
  "Magnetism and Magneto-Transport in Nanostructured Materials"   Abstract
• Mar. 30 - Chris Benner,   W & M
  "TBA"  
• Apr. 6 - Olivier Pfister,   U. Virginia
  "Quantum Information"  
• Apr. 13 - Barry Holstein,   U. Mass. (Amherst)
  "Effective Interactions are Effective Interactions"   Abstract
• Apr. 20 - Yasutomo Uemura,   Columbia U.
  "TBA"  
• Apr. 27 - Bill Egelhoff,   NIST
  "TBA"  
• May 4 - Peter Bandettini,   NIH
  "TBA"  

Fall 2000

• Sep. 15 - No colloquium, Undergraduate Research Symposium

• Sep. 29 - Cetin Savkli,   William and Mary
  "A new way to solve field theories exactly"   Abstract

• Oct. 6 - Richard Haglund ,   Vanderbilt U.
  "Physics and Applications of Laser-Induced Desorption and Ablation using a Free-Electron Laser"   Abstract

• Oct. 13 - John Mintmire,   U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
  "Carbon Nanotubes: Band Structure with a Twist"   Abstract

• Oct. 20 - Robert R. Jones,   U. Virginia
  "Using Short Electromagnetic Pulses to Manipulate Electronic Wavefunctions"   Abstract

• Oct. 27 - Volker Burkert,   Jefferson Lab
  "First Results from CLAS"  

• Nov. 3 - ,  
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• Nov. 10 - Cliff Will,   Washington University, St. Louis
  "Einstein's Relativity put to Nature's Test: A Turn-of-the-Century Perspective"   Abstract

• Nov. 17- Brian Holloway,   Applied Science , William and Mary
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• Nov. 24 - No colloquium,   Thanksgiving Holiday  

• Dec. 1 - John Ralston,   U. Kansas
  "The First Gauge Theory: A story of poverty and riches, intrigue and deception, brilliance and stupidity, and untimely tragic death"   Abstract

• Dec. 8 - Betsy Beise,   U. Maryland
  "The SAMPLE Experiment at MIT/Bates"  

• 1999/2000
• 1998/1999
• 1997/1998
• 1996/1997
• 1995/1996
• 1994/1995

Eric J. Dawnkaski, November 6, 1997. ejd@physics.wm.edu