Physics Department Colloquia
The departmental colloquia are organized by the Colloquium Committee (Delos,
Perdrisat, Walecka and Welsh), 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
Fall 2003
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Aug. 29 - Jeff Yepez, Air Force Research Laboratory, Hanscom
AFB
"Using Quantum Computers for Computational
Physics"
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Sept. 5 - Peter D. Zimmerman, Democratic Chief Scientist, Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
"Dirty Bombs" A Discouraging Second Look
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Sept. 19 - Francesco Iachello, Yale University
Cancelled due to Hurricane Isabel
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Oct. 3 - Francesco Iachello, Yale University
"The Structure of the Nucleon"
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Oct. 10 - Christopher del Negro, College of William &
Mary
"The Neural Basis of Rhythmic Behavior"
Abstract
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Oct. 17 - Allena Opper, Ohio University
"Charge Symmetry Breaking--Measuring it and what we can learn from
it"
Abstract
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Oct 24 - Elton Smith, Jefferson Lab
"Pentaquarks"
Abstract
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Oct 31 - William Westwood, Think Films
"Evolution of Reactive Sputtering"
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Nov. 7 - No Colloquium
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Nov. 14 - Chung-Kang Peng, Associate Director, Institute for Nonlinear
Dynamics in Physiology & Medicine, Harvard School of Medicine
"Statistical Physics Approach to Information Categorization of Symbolic
Sequences"
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Nov. 21 - Diego del Castill-Negrete, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
TBA
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Dec. 5 - Burkhard Militzer, Carnegie Institute of Washington
TBA
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Dec. 12 -
TBA
Spring 2004
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Jan. 23 - Joshua Erlich, University of Washington, Seattle
"The modern riddle of Einstein's greatest blunder"
Abstract
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Jan. 26 - Christian Armendariz-Picon, University of Chicago
"Known and Unknown around Inflation"
Abstract
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Feb. 2 - Danny Marfatia, Boston University
"The Story of our Universe and its Particle
Physics Morals"
Abstract
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Feb. 6 - Manoj Kaplinghat, University of California, Davis
"Neutrinos and Cosmology"
Abstract
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Feb. 16 - Giti A. Khodaparast, Rice University
"Optical Phenomena in Ferromagentic InMnAs/GaSb Semiconductors"
Abstract
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Feb. 20 - Jeffrey Guest, University of Michigan
"Rydberg Gases and Plasmas: Cold, Trapped, and Strongly Magnetized"
Abstract
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Feb. 23 - Kenneth M. O'Hara, NIST
"A New Playground for Many-Body Physics: Strongly-Correlated
Atomic Gases"
Abstract
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Feb. 27 - Michael Zudov, University of Utah
Resistance Oscillations and "Zero-Resistance" States in Microwave-Pumped
2D Electron Systems"
Abstract
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Mar. 5 - Jeffrey M. McGuirk, NIST/JILLA - University of Colorado
"Cold Atoms, Warm Surface: Atomic probes of fluctuating and
static fields near surfaces"
Abstract
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Apr. 9 -
TBA
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Apr. 16 -
TBA
An archive of older colloquia is available:
last updated 18 February 2004
D. B. Fannin
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