Colloquium Schedule 2003-2004

Tuesday 11 November 2003

University Holiday - No Colloquium

Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures
Ellen Williams, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Will Saam

Tuesday 2 December 2003

Boost-Phase Intercept Systems for National Missile Defense
Daniel Kleppner, MIT
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

Tuesday 9 December 2003
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

The Fundamental Physics Problems Associated with Laser Initiated Fusion: Recent Progress and Frustrations
Richard Freeman, Dean, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

"The Basics of Fusion Energy using Lasers: Why is it so darn hard?"
Pre-colloquium talk restricted to Undergraduates, Grad Students and Post Docs
2:00 pm in 4079 Smith

Tuesday 13 January 2004

Comparing classical and quantum complex systems
Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Faculty host: Bunny Clark

Tuesday 20 January 2004

Interaction of intense laser pulses with nano-clusters
Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 22 January 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

QCD at High Energy
Yuri Kovchegov, University of Washington

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 22 January 2004
1:30 p.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas
Adam Durst, Yale University

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday 27 January 2004
12:30 p.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Frontiers in Neutrino Astrophysics
John Beacom, Schramm Fellow in Astrophysics, Fermilab

Tuesday 27 January 2004

Dark Matter Caustics
Pierre Sikivie, University of Florida, Gainesville
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 2 February 2004
10:00 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Cooling and trapping OH molecules
Heather Lewandowski, NIST/JILA, University of Colorado

Tuesday 3 February 2004

COLLOQUIUM CANCELED
Peter Wolynes, University of California, San Diego
Dept. of Chemistry
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Wednesday 4 February 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Quantum gases, quantum gates and atom waveguides: applications of ultracold atoms
Michael Chapman, Georgia Institute of Technology

Tuesday 10 February 2004

The Large Binocular Telescope Project
Patrick Osmer, Ohio State University, Dept. of Astronomy
Faculty host: Terry Walker

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM CANCELED
Thursday 12 February 2004
9:00 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Quantitative Imaging Strategies for Studying Intermolecular and Intracellular Dynamics
Loling Song, Cornell University

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 16 February 2004
1:00 p.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Mass Without Mass from QCD Instantons
Thomas Schaefer, North Carolina State University and Riken-BNL

Tuesday 17 February 2004

Just What is the Connection Between Physics and Music?
George N. Gibson, University of Connecticut
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 19 February 2004
9:00 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Stress-Driven Processes & Nanostructure Formation in Compound Semiconductor Films
Rachel Goldman, University of Michigan

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Tuesday 24 February 2004
12:30 p.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Neutrinos on the Rocks
Gail McLaughlin, North Carolina State University

Tuesday 24 February 2004

The Exploding Field of Quantum Gases
Tin-Lun Ho, Ohio State University
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Wednesday 25 February 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

The Physics of the Top Quark
Evelyn Thomson, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Tuesday 2 March 2004

Did a Gamma-Ray Burst Initiate the Ordovician Extinction?
Adrian Melott, University of Kansas
Faculty host: Gary Steigman

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 4 March 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Studies of molecular motion using the scanning tunneling microscope
Jay A. Gupta, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California

Tuesday 9 March 2004

X-rays in the Solar System
Alexander Dalgarno, Harvard University
Faculty host: Eric Herbst

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Wednesday 10 March 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

High pT Phenomena at RHIC
Saskia Mioduszewski, Brookhaven National Laboratory

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday 18 March 2004
11:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Three-Dimensional Diffraction Microscopy and Its Applications in Structural Biology
Jianwei Miao, Stanford University, Linear Accelerator Center

Femtosecond electron diffraction: making ultrafast movie of atomic motions
Jianming Cao, Florida State University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday 5 April 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Neutral Atoms in an Optical Lattice: A Quantum Simulator for Many-Body Physics
Ken O'Hara, NIST

Tuesday April 6 2004

New Insights into Hard Problems with Soft Materials
David Weitz, Harvard University
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh

Tuesday April 13 2004

Neutrinos have Mass!!
Pierre Ramond, University of Florida
Faculty host: Steve Pinsky

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Wednesday April 14 2004
11:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Electron transport in granular arrays
Julia Meyer, University of Minnesota

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Monday April 19 2004
10:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Supersymmetry, Dark Matter and the Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
Carlos Wagner, Argonne National Laboratory

Tuesday April 20 2004

Intracellular calcium signaling - non-equilibrium physics meets cell biology
Herbert Levine, UCSD
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Wednesday April 21 2004
11:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

The Higgs Boson and the Origin of Mass
Marcela Carena, Fermi Lab

Thursday April 22 2004

ANNUAL SMITH LECTURE
You can't drink a quantum liquid!
Prof. Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics
131 Hitchcock Hall Auditorium, 8:00 p.m.

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Friday April 23 2004
1:30 p.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

Detection and Control of Broken Symmetries with Planar Tunneling Spectroscopy of High-Temperature Superconductors
Laura H. Greene, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday April 27 2004

On the meaning of global warming claims -- or When Anxious, Alarm Accompanies Innocent Climate.
Richard Lindzen, MIT
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

Tuesday May 4 2004

Detecting Human Induced Climate Change: Insights from the Paleoclimate Record
Michael E. Mann, University of Virginia
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Thursday May 6 2004
1:30 p.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

New Phases in Disordered Quantum Systems
Nandini Trivedi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Tuesday May 11 2004

Modeling Viral Infections in Vivo
Alan S. Perelson, LANL
Faculty host: Ralf Bundschuh

Tuesday May 18 2004

Patterned bilayers and tethered vesicles: tools for membrane biology
Steven G. Boxer, Stanford University
Faculty host: Dongping Zhong

Tuesday May 25 2004

Multiphoton EUV Photonics
Margaret Murnane, JILA,
University of Colorado
Faculty host: Bunny Clark

SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM
Friday May 28 2004
11:30 a.m. in Room 1094 Smith Lab

High Tc Superconductors: Recent Progress and Open Questions
Mohit Randeria, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Tuesday June 1 2004

A physicist's approach to complex problems
Shmuel Nussinov, Tel Aviv University
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

Tuesday 8 June 2004
Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

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2003-2004 Colloquium Committee

Schumacher, Chair
Bundschuh
Clark
Hayot
Kagan
Raby
Sooryakumar
Zhong

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