Courses
Colloquium Schedule 1997-8
Fall Quarter
Tuesday 30 September 1997
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Recent Results from Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collisions--Have we seen Quark Matter yet?
- Tom Humanic (The Ohio State University)
Tuesday 7 October 1997
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Fluid Dynamics Experiments in Flatland
- Maarten Rutgers (OSU)
Tuesday 14 October 1997
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Scientific Knowledge as a Social Construct
- Kurt Gottfried (Cornell)
Tuesday 21 October 1997
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(Cancelled due to Illness)
Tuesday 28 October 1997
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Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Gas
- Carl Weiman (Colorado)
Tuesday 4 November 1997
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Some Like It Hot: Probing the Early Universe with Relativistic Heavy Ions
- Berndt Mueller (Duke)
Tuesday 11 November 1997
- Veterans Day
- No Colloquium
Tuesday 18 November 1997
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Kicking Big Atoms with Short Pulses of Light
- Robert Jones (Virginia)
Tuesday 25 November 1997
Tuesday 2 December 1997
Winter Quarter 1998
Tuesday 6 January 1998
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Bose-Einstein Condensation in Quantum Gases--What Does It Bring to the
Condensed Matter Community ?
- Jason Ho (The Ohio State University)
Tuesday 13 January 1998
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Macroscopic Quantum Physics of a Superfluid 3He Weak Link,
or, "Whistle While you Work"
- Seamus Davis (Berkeley)
Tuesday 20 January 1998
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Image and Logic
- Peter Galison (Harvard)
Tuesday 27 January 1998
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Photo-Nuclear Physics at Medium Energies
- Robert Redwine (MIT)
Tuesday 3 February 1998
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High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: the Amanda Experiment
- Francis Halzen (Wisconsin)
Tuesday 10 February 1998
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Heavy Quarks on the Lattice and Testing the
Standard Model of Particle Physics
- Junko Shigemitsu (OSU)
Tuesday 17 February 1998
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The Origin of Universal Scaling Laws in Biology: The Physics of the
Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Plant Vascular Systems
- Geoffrey West (Los Alamos)
Tuesday 24 February 1998
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Statistical Mechanics, Euler's Equation and Jupiter's Red Spot
- Peter Weichman (CalTech)
Tuesday 3 March 1998
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The Physics of Microorganism Patterns
- Herbert Levine (UC San Diego)
Tuesday 10 March 1998
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The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment:
On the Road to a Final Answer
- Thomas Walther (Texas A&M)
Spring Quarter 1998
Tuesday 31 March 1998
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Strings Shedding Light on Black Holes
- Miriam Cvetic (Pennsylvania)
Tuesday 7 April 1998
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How to Parallel Park an Aircraft Carrier
- David Campbell (Illinois)
Tuesday 14 April 1998
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Exploring the High and the Deep Frontiers
- Kathy Sullivan (COSI)
Tuesday 21 April 1998
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Information is Physical
- Rolf Landauer (IBM)
Tuesday evening 21 April 1998
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Alpheus Smith Lecture:
Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping
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William Phillips (NIST)
Tuesday 28 April 1998
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String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime
- Brian Greene (Columbia)
Tuesday 5 May 1998
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Using Supercomputers to Design and Model Novel Materials
- Steve Richardson (Howard)
Tuesday 12 May 1998
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Friction, Especially in Granular Matter
- Jerry Gollub (Haverford)
Tuesday 19 May 1998
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Probing the Symmetry of the Pairing State of the High
Temperature Superconductors---when "D" is a good grade
- Dale van Harlington (Illinois)
Tuesday 26 May 1998
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Is There Anything Left to Learn from Ordinary Beta Decay?
- Stuart Freedman (Berkeley)
Tuesday 2 June 1998
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Better Bomb-Detection Through Interaction-free Measurements
- Paul Kwiat (Los Alamos National Lab)