College of William & Mary

The colloquia are organized by J. Delos and the colloquium committee, 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...)

Spring 1997

• Jan. 17 - J.D. Walecka, William & Mary "Electron Scattering"
• Jan. 24 - Jorge V. José, Northeastern U. " Quantum Manifestations of Classical Chaos: Electrons in a Quantum Dot "
• Jan. 27 - (5:30 PM; Note special time and day)- K. Subbaswamy, U. Kentucky "Old Dogs with New Tricks: New Structural Forms of Carbon and Silicon "
• Jan. 31 - Kalidi S. Babu, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton "Neutrino Masses and Oscillations"
• Feb. 3 - (Note special day) Laura Reina, Brookhaven National Lab. "Highlights of Flavor Physics"
• Feb. 7 - Christopher Carone, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. "Supersymmetry and the Flavor Problem"
• Feb. 10 - (Note special day) Steve Martin, U. Michigan "Signals of Supersymmetry Breaking"
• Feb. 14 - Bira van Kolck, U. Washington "The Nucleus and the Neo-Impressionist"
• Feb. 17 - Ina Sarcevic, U. Arizona "Prospects for detection of Ultrahigh Energy neutrinos from AGNs and from topological defects found in the Early Universe"
• Feb. 21 - Mark Raizen, U. Texas (Austin)
• Feb. 28 - Carol Jo Crannell , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, "Imaging Solar Flares in Hard X-Rays and Gamma Rays"
• Mar 7. - A. Douglas Stone, Yale "Chaotic Light: A Theory of Asymmetric Resonant Cavities"
• Mar. 14 -
• Mar. 21 - C.K. Hargrove, Carleton U. and Center for Research in Particle Physics "LAND - A New Lead Astronomical Neutrino Detector"
• Mar. 28 -
• Apr. 4 - Bill Kessler, Physical Sciences Inc. "Applications for Ultrasensitive Absorption Spectroscopy using Diode Laser Systems"
• Apr. 25 Leonardo Golubovic, West Virginia U. "Fluctations and Phase Transition in Smectics A and Lamellar Fluid Membrane Phase"

Fall 1996

• Sept. 6 - John Delos, William & Mary "The Zeeman Effect 100 Years Later: New Insights into Classical Physics"
• Sept. 13 - L. D. Van Woerkom, Ohio State U. "Atoms in Strong Light Fields: The Explosive Nature of Light"
• Sept. 20 - Stan Wojcicki, SLAC/ Stanford "MINOS: A Neutrino Connection from Illinois to Minnesota"
• Oct. 4 - Beverly K. Berger, Oakland U. "In Search of the Generic Big Bang"
• Oct. 11 - Keith MacAdam , University of Kentucky, "Electron Capture from a Stark State"
• Oct. 18 - Ray P. Hosker, Director, NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division, Oak Ridge, "Where Physics Meets Archeology: A Plan for Arresting the Deterioration of Cultural Resources in the Wieliczka Salt Mine"
• Oct. 25 - Gail E. Dodge, Old Dominion U. "Coherent Neutral Pion Production at NIKHEF"
• Nov. 1 - Jim Gates, U. Maryland "Superspace: Fact or Fancy"
• Nov. 8 - Syd Meshkov, Caltech "Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ( LIGO)"
• Nov. 15 - Lukas Schaller, U. Fribourg "The Muon: A Probe of Atomic, Molecular, and Nuclear Physics"
• Nov. 22 - Brian Schwartz, CUNY/AIP "Is there Life After a Ph.D. in Physics?"
• Nov. 29 - (Thanksgiving)
• Dec. 6 - Barbara Levy, Physics Today
• Dec. 13 - Carl Weiman, U. Colorado "Bose-Einstein Condensation"

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