Fall 2003 Physics Colloquium Schedule

PAS 228, 3pm
Tea and cookies following the talk

Date Speaker Topic
Sep 5
 Nico Bloembergen
University of Arizona		 Femtosecond Science and Technology
Sep 12
 Huan Huang
UCLA		 Physics of Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at RHIC -- A Glimpse of Micro-Bangs
Sep 19
 Peter Milonni
LANL 		Slow light, Fast light
Sep 26
 Leonid Glazman
University of Minesota 		Transport in a Luttinger Liquid
Oct 3
 Stamatis Vokos
SPU		 Cultivating scientific reasoning in physics: Special relativity as a case study
Mon Oct 6
 Gerald Gabrielse
Harvard University		 Anti-hydrogen Trapping
Oct 10
 Feryal Ozel
University of Arizona		 Neutron Stars: Young and Hot (and Magnetic)
Oct 17
 Steve Lamoreaux
LANL		 Experimental Searches for Electric Dipole Moments of the Neutron and Electron
Oct 24
 --- No Colloquium
Oct 31
 Charles Stafford
University of Arizona 		Reinventing Metals at the Nanoscale
Nov 7
 Xiaowei Zhuang
Harvard University		 Visualizing infection of individual influenza viruses and folding of individual RNA enzymes
Nov 14
 Gregg Harry
MIT		 Beginning to do gravitational wave astronomy with LIGO
Nov 21
 Deborah Jin
University of Colorado		 Fun with Fermions: Exploring and Manipulating a Fermi Gas of Atoms
Nov 28
 Thanksgiving No Colloquium
Dec 5
 Hendrik Schatz
MSU		 Exotic nuclei in cosmic explosions and in radioactive beams on earth