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Fall 2005

Month Day Speaker Host
August 25 Professor Peter Geltenbort
Institut Laue-Langevin, France
"Physics with Ultra-Cold Neutrons (UCN) at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble"
 Shipsey
September 8 Professor Brian Cole
Columbia University
"High Transverse Momentum Photon and Hadron Probes of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions"
 Wang
September 15 Professor David E. Moncton
MIT
"Frontiers in X-ray Source Development: The Quest for an X-ray Laser"
 Durbin
September 22 Dr. Martin C. Weisskopf
Project Scientist, Chandra X-ray Observatory
Chief Scientist for X-ray Astronomy, Marshall Space Flight Center
"Six Years of Science with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory"
 Cui
September 29 Professor Lu Jeu Sham
Department of Physics
University of California San Diego
"Quantum Control of Nano-dots"
 Ramdas
October 6 Dr. Eric Isaacs
Director, Center for Nanoscale Materials
Argonne National Laboratory
""New Approaches to Studies of Quantum and Critical Phenomena""
 Durbin
October 13 Professor Jorge Rodríguez
Department of Physics
Purdue University
"Computational Electronic Structure and Quantum Biochemistry of Metalloproteins"
October 20 Professor Joseph Lykken
Theoretical Physics Department
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
"Gravity in extra dimensions"
 Barnes
October 27 Professor Ken Ritchie
Department of Physics
Purdue University
"Single Molecule Investigations of Cell Membrane Structure and Function"
November 3 Professor Michele Limon
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
" WMAP: The Mission, the Data and Cosmology"
 Cayon
November 10 Professor Brian Foster
Oxford University
"A decade of particle physics – progress over the last ten years and prospects for the next"
 Shipsey
November 17 Professor Boris Altshuler
Columbia University, NEC Laboratories-America, Princeton NJ, USA
"“Mesoscopic Physics – From Brownian Particles to Quantum Computer”"
 Rokhinson
December 1 Professor Richard Martin
Illinois (UIUC)
"Electronic Structure Theory: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow"
 Rodríguez
December 3 Professor Paul Davies
Macquarie University, Sidney, and Imperial College, London
"Does Quantum Mechanics Violate the Principle of Equivalence?"
 Colella
December 8 Professor Harry Nelson
University of California Santa Barbara
"Listening for the Dark"
 Shipsey

Spring 2006

Month Day Speaker Host
January 12 Professor Jeffrey Trapp
Purdue University
"Tornadoes and Damaging Winds Within Lines of Thunderstorms"
  
January 19 Professor Evgeniy Narimanov
Princeton University
"Light in Anisotropic Media - from Negative Refraction to Wave Chaos"
  
January 26 Dr. Larry Bartoszek
Bartoszek Engineering
"Taking the Space Elevator from Science Fiction to Engineering"		  
February 2 Professor Paul Goldbart
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign		  
February 9 Professor Rob de Ruyter van Steveninck
Indiana University
"How to compute motion from natural visual input signals"		  
February 23 Dr. Alexander Konopelko
Purdue University
"Imaging the Universe in High-Energy Gamma-Rays with H.E.S.S."		  
March 2 Professor Nigel Lockyer
University of Pennsylvania
"International Linear Electron Collider – ILC"
March 9 Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture, Professor Manuel Cardona
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
"Einstein’s Contributions to Solid State Physics"		  
23 Professor Steve Cramer
Univ. of California at Davis & LBLN
"Synchrotron X-ray and Nuclear Spectroscopy of Nitrogen Fixation Metalloenzymes"
March 30 Professor Natalie Roe
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory		  
April 6 Dr. Marcos Grimsditch
Argonne National Laboratory
"Magnetism in submicron particles"		  
March 13 Hubert M. James Lecture
Dr. Alexei Abrikosov
Materials Science Division Argonne National Laboratory
"Superconductivity: History and Current State"		  
March 20 Professor Igor Aleiner
Columbia University
"Zero-resistance State in Ac-driven Two-dimensional Electron Gas and Related Phenomena"		  
March 27 Professor Kara Hoffman
University of Maryland
“ICECUBE: Exploring the heavens by looking up through the earth”