Colloquium Schedule
Colloquia are held on Wednesday afternoons at 4pm in the David
Rittenhouse Laboratories.
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Seminars for:
September, October,
November, December
- Sep. 9:
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Neill Reid
Caltech
L-Dwarfs and Low Mass Binaries
- Sep. 16:
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Adam Burrows
University of Arizona
The Physics of Extrasolar Giant Planets
- Sep. 23:
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Scott Tremaine
Princeton University
Dynamics of New Planetary Systems
- Sep. 30:
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Ed Kearns
Boston University
Evidence for Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation from the Super-Kamiokande Experiment
- Oct. 7:
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Andrea Liu
UCLA
Why do Like-charged Rods Attract? Physical Questions Posed by DNA Condensation
- Oct. 14:
-
Juan Maldacena
Harvard University
QCD, Strings and Black Holes: The Large-N Limit of Field Theories and Gravity
- Oct. 21:
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The Adolf and Felicia Leon Lecture of the School of Arts and Sciences
Anthony Aveni
Colgate University
Reading Between the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of
Nazca, Peru
Special Location: Rainey Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania Museum
- Oct. 28:
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Eberhard Bodenschatz
Cornell University
Wax Tectonics: Parallels With and Insights Into Earth Processes
- Nov. 4:
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Paul Langacker
University of Pennsylvania
Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics: from 10-33 to 1028 cm
- Nov. 11:
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Gabriele Veneziano
CERN
Probing the Pre-Big Bang Universe
- Nov. 18:
-
Horst Meyer
Duke University
Dynamic Phenomena Near the Liquid-Vapor Critical Point of a Pure Fluid
- Nov. 25:
-
Thanksgiving
No Colloquium
- Dec. 2:
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William Langer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Imaging Star Formation
- Dec. 9:
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John Spiesberger
Penn State University
Acoustic Thermometry of the Ocean and Climate Change
Seminars for:
January, February,
March, April
- Jan. 27:
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Alfred Mann
University of Pennsylvania
The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States
- Feb. 3:
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Reza Ansari
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay
Probing Galactic Structure with Micro-Lensing
- Feb. 10:
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Erwin Frey
Technische Universität München and Harvard University
Statistical Mechanics and Rheology of Biomaterials
- Feb. 17:
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Jonathan Bagger
Johns Hopkins
The Microphysical Origin of Mass
- Feb. 24:
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Burt Ovrut
University of Pennsylvania
Non-Perturbative Particle Physics: M-Theory Confronts The Real World
- Mar. 3:
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Rittenhouse Lecture
Wendy Freedman
Carnegie Institute
The Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant
- Mar. 10:
-
Spring Break
No Colloquium
- Mar. 17:
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Primakoff Lecture
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Collège de France
From Rice to Snow: Disputes about Granular Matter
- Mar. 24:
-
American Physical Society March Meeting
No Seminar
- Mar. 31:
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David Wright
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The New Missile Defense Debate
- Apr. 7:
-
Shobo Bhattacharya
NEC Research Institute
Moving Phases of Vortex Matter in Type-II Superconductors
- Apr. 9: SPECIAL TIME: 3:00pm, SPECIAL PLACE: LRSM Auditorium
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Frontiers of Materials Science Lecture
Gene Golovchenko
Harvard University
Towards Electronic Sequencing of DNA Using Electrophoresis through Nanopores
- Apr. 14:
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Laurence Abbott
Brandeis University
Causality, Variability, and Temporal Correlation in the Experience-Dependent Modification of Neural Networks
- Apr. 21:
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Jerry Gollub
Haverford College
A New Perspective on Friction: Granular Matter
Last modified 21 April 1999