The departmental colloquia are organized by the Colloquium Committee (Griffioen, Carone, Hoatson, Welsh 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.

Spring 2000

• Jan. 21 - Mark Robbins, Johns Hopkins
  "Where Does Friction Come From?" Abstract
• Jan. 28 - Dan Dahlberg University of Minnesota
  "Magnetic Microscopy for Micromagnetics" Abstract
• Feb. 4 - Keith Dienes , University of Arizona
  "The Fifth Dimension: It's Closer Than You Think" Abstract
• Feb. 18 - Joe Carlson Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Lab
  Building Nuclei with Nucleons Abstract
• Feb. 25 - Chris Greene JILA, University of Colorado
  Collision Physics and Spectroscopy of Complexes with Three Atoms or More Abstract
• Mar. 10 - No colloquium; Spring Break
• Mar. 17 - Arlan Mantz, Connecticut College
  Measurement of Molecular Absorption Line Parameters at Temperatures to 10 Kelvin Using a Tunable Diode Laser Abstract
• Mar. 31 - Tom Cohen University of Maryland
  Effective and Ineffective Field Theory in Nuclear Physics Abstract
• Apr. 7 - Deborah Jin JILA, University of Colorado
  Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas of Atoms Abstract
• Apr. 14 - Margaret Murnane JILA, University of Colorado
  Ultrafast Laser and X-Ray Sources: Life in the Fast Lane Abstract
• Apr. 21 - Andrew Hirsch Purdue University
  What happens when you heat a nucleus to 70 billion degrees? Abstract
• Apr. 28 - Jerzy Bernholc North Carolina State University
  "Carbon Nanotubes -- The Physics, the Prospects, the Excitement" Abstract
• May 5 - Karl VanBibber Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  The Search for Dark-Matter Axions Abstract

Fall 1999

• Sept. 21 (rescheduled due to Floyd - note unusual day) - Victor J. Stenger, U. Hawaii
  "Quantum Quackery" Abstract
• Sept. 24 - David Richards, Jefferson Lab
  "Lattice Gauge Theory - QCD from Quarks to Hadrons"
• Oct. 1 - Stephen D. Landy, College of William & Mary
  "Cosmologically Interesting Measurements from Galaxy Redshift Surveys"
• Oct. 8 - No colloquium; all-campus faculty meeting.
• Oct. 15 - Priscilla Cushman, U. Minnesota
  "The Brookhaven g-2 Experiment: A `virtual accelerator' to probe the Standard Model"
• Oct. 22 - Marc Sher, College of William & Mary
  "Will the Heavy Ion Collider Destroy the Earth/Universe?" Abstract
• Oct. 29 - Nathan Isgur, Jefferson Lab and College of William & Mary
  "Where's the Glue? A Puzzle in the Strong Interactions" Abstract
• Nov. 12 - Warren Warren, Princeton
  "Shaped Optical Pulses for Coherent Control" Abstract
• Nov. 19 - Richard Wilson, Harvard
  Sizes, Form Factors, and Momenta of Atoms, Nuclei and Quarks: A Historical Review
• Nov. 25 - No colloquium; Thanksgiving break.
• Dec. 3 - Charles Jaffe, West Virginia University
  Chaotic Ionization of Hydrogen in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields: Transition State Theory Abstract

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