Colloquium Schedule


Colloquia are held on Wednesday afternoons at 4pm in the David Rittenhouse Laboratories.
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Fall Semester 1998 (Spring Semester 1999)


Seminars for: September, October, November, December

Sep. 9:
Neill Reid
Caltech
L-Dwarfs and Low Mass Binaries

Sep. 16:
Adam Burrows
University of Arizona
The Physics of Extrasolar Giant Planets

Sep. 23:
Scott Tremaine
Princeton University
Dynamics of New Planetary Systems

Sep. 30:
Ed Kearns
Boston University
Evidence for Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillation from the Super-Kamiokande Experiment

Oct. 7:
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:
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:
Eberhard Bodenschatz
Cornell University
Wax Tectonics: Parallels With and Insights Into Earth Processes

Nov. 4:
Paul Langacker
University of Pennsylvania
Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics: from 10-33 to 1028 cm

Nov. 11:
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:
William Langer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Imaging Star Formation

Dec. 9:
John Spiesberger
Penn State University
Acoustic Thermometry of the Ocean and Climate Change

Spring Semester 1999 (Fall Semester 1998)


Seminars for: January, February, March, April

Jan. 27:
Alfred Mann
University of Pennsylvania
The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States

Feb. 3:
Reza Ansari
Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, Orsay
Probing Galactic Structure with Micro-Lensing

Feb. 10:
Erwin Frey
Technische Universität München and Harvard University
Statistical Mechanics and Rheology of Biomaterials

Feb. 17:
Jonathan Bagger
Johns Hopkins
The Microphysical Origin of Mass

Feb. 24:
Burt Ovrut
University of Pennsylvania
Non-Perturbative Particle Physics: M-Theory Confronts The Real World

Mar. 3:
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:
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:
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
Frontiers of Materials Science Lecture
Gene Golovchenko

Harvard University
Towards Electronic Sequencing of DNA Using Electrophoresis through Nanopores

Apr. 14:
Laurence Abbott
Brandeis University
Causality, Variability, and Temporal Correlation in the Experience-Dependent Modification of Neural Networks

Apr. 21:
Jerry Gollub
Haverford College
A New Perspective on Friction: Granular Matter

Last modified 21 April 1999