Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Schedule for 2001-2002
Colloquiums are held on Wednesday afternoons at 4pm in the David
Rittenhouse Laboratories (Lecture Hall A2 unless otherwise posted).
Colloquiums for:
January,
February,
March,
April
Jan. 9:
No colloquium - beginning of term
Jan. 16:
Josh Klein
University of Pennsylvania
Unraveling the Solar Neutrino Problem at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
Host: T. Lubensky
Jan. 23:
Jonathan Bagger
Johns Hopkins University
A Roadmap for the Future of U.S. High Energy Physics
Host: J. Kroll
Jan. 30:
Joel Karp
Department of Radiology
School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
PET Instrumentation and Image Performance:
What do clinicians/researchers want? What can Physicists deliver?
Host: N. Lockyer
Feb. 6:
Arjun Yodh
University of Pennsylvania
Entropically Driven Self-assembly and Interaction in Suspension
Host: T. Lubensky
Feb. 13:
Richard Garwin
IBM T J Watson Research Center
National Missile Defense and Missile Defense in General:
What's Feasible? What's Worthwhile?
Host: J. Kroll
Feb. 20:
Andrew Hamilton
Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
University of Colorado, Boulder
Fellow, JILA
Black Hole Flight Simulation
Host: M. Tegmark
Feb. 27:
Nima Arkani-Hamed
Harvard University
Deconstructing Dimensions: Adventures in Theory Space
Host: M. Cvetic
Mar. 6:
Vivek Sharma
University of California, San Diego
The Asymmetry Between Matter and Anti-Matter
Host: J. Kroll
Mar. 13:
No Colloquium: Spring Break
Mar. 20:
No Colloquium: March APS
Mar. 27:
19th Primakoff Lecture
David Gross
Department of Physics, UCSB
Director, Institute for Theoretical Physics
The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics
Host: P. Langacker
Apr. 3:
WISP Colloquium
Vicki L. Colvin
Department of Chemistry
Rice University
From Opals to Optics: Building Photonic Materials from the Bottom Up
Host: WISP & C. Johnson
Apr. 10:
6th Selove Lecture
Anneila I. Sargent
Professor of Astronomy
Director, Owens Valley Radio Observatory
California Institute of Technology
President, American Astronomical Society
Divide and Conquer: Astronomical Research with Arrays of Telescopes
Host: J. Kroll
Apr. 17:
Ali Yazdani
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fine-Tuning Electronic States in Carbon Nanotubes
Host: C. Johnson
Colloquiums for:
September,
October,
November,
December
Sep. 12 Postponed: rescheduled for Oct. 17:
Gary Bernstein
University of Michigan
Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Primordial Solar Systems:
The View from a Billion-Pixel Observatory
Host: C. Alcock
Sep. 19:
John Ruhl
University of California, Santa Barbara
Peaks in the CMB: Recent results and cosmological parameters from Boomerang
Host: M. Devlin
Sep. 26:
Selove Lecture
Eric G. Adelberger
University of Washington
Sub-millimeter Tests of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law:
a Search for "Large" Extra Dimensions
Host: J. Kroll
Oct. 3:
Gino Segre
University of Pennsylvania
Enrico Fermi's One Hundredth Birthday
Host: T. Lubensky
Oct. 10:
Reinhardt Lipowsky
Director, Theory Division
Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Movements of Molecular Motors
Host: T. Lubensky
Oct. 17:
Gary Bernstein
University of Michigan
Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Primordial Solar Systems:
The View from a Billion-Pixel Observatory
Host: C. Alcock
Oct. 24:
Nicholas White
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Cosmic Journeys: To the edge of Gravity, Space and Time
Host: C. Alcock
Oct. 31:
Randy Kamien
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
What's Kelvin's Problem?
Host: T. Lubensky
Nov. 7:
Rittenhouse Lecture
Saul Perlmutter
LBNL
Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe -- What Next?
Host: C. Alcock
Nov. 14:
Steven Beckwith
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University
Director,
Space Telescope Science Institute
Circumstellar Disks and Extrasolar Planets viewed from the Hubble
Space Telescope
Host: D. Koerner
Nov. 21:
No Colloquium - Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 28:
Joint Colloquium with Department of Mathematics
Frank Morgan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Williams College
Soap Bubble Geometry
Hosts: R. Kamien and S. Shatz
Dec. 5:
Gary W. Gibbons
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge
Holonomy in Physics and Super-Physics
Host: M. Cvetic
Dec. 12:
Amnon Aharony
Tel Aviv University
Which phase is measured in the Aharonov-Bohm interferometer?
Host: B. Harris