Colloquia 2000-2001
Fall 2000
8/24, Prof. Gutay, "Precision Measurement of Electroweak Z, W Parameters and Search for Higgs at the New e+e- Collider's Energy Frontier"
8/31, Prof. Funk, "The Detector Control System of the CMS Experiment at CERN"
9/7, Prof. Pyrak-Nolte, "Seismic Imaging of Fracture Heterogeneity"
9/14, Prof. Berry, "Seven Wonders of Physics"
9/21, Prof. Vashishta, "Multimillion Atom Simulation of Materials on Parallel Computers - Past, Present and Future"
9/28, Prof. Wolfe
10/5, Prof. Bortoletto, "The frontier of particle physics"
10/12, Prof. Netterfield, "BOOMERANG: Cosmological Results from the Cosmic Microwave Background."
10/19, Prof. Bassani, "Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Atoms and Solids"
10/26, Prof. Womble,"The PELAN System for the Detection of Explosives "
11/2, Prof. Car, "Modeling Materials with First-Principles Molecular Dynamics "
11/9, Prof. Wyslouch, "First results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: a new frontier of nuclear physics"
11/16, Prof. Tao, "Formation of Superconducting Balls"
11/30, Dr. Driscoll, "Future Surface Combatant Chemical and Biological Warfare Protection"
12/7, Dr. Richardson, "Using Supercomputers to Design and Model Novel Materials and Molecules"
Spring 2001
1/11, Prof. Fischbach, "Extra Dimensions, New Forces, and Non-Newtonian Gravity"
1/18, Dr. Caffee, "Cosmic-ray-produced nuclides: field applications, limitations, and new development."
1/25, Prof. Ceperley, "The Path Integral Theory of Superfluidity and Bose Condensation."
2/1, Prof. Cui, "Tunes" from Neutron Stars: What Do They Mean?
2/8, Prof. Adelberger, "Sub-millimeter Tests of the Gravitational Inverse Square Law"
2/15, Prof. Ketterle, "Collective enhancement and suppression in Bose-Einstein condensates"
2/22, Prof. Shen, "Solving the Phase Problem in X-ray Crystallography"
3/1, Prof. Wang, "Searching for a New State of Matter: the Quark Gluon Plasma"
3/8, Prof. Datta, What is the "Resistance" of a Molecule?
3/22, Prof. McEuen, "Electrons in Carbon Nanostructures"
3/29, Prof. Cooks, "Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry"
4/5, Prof. Telegdi, "Gravitation, photons, clocks"
4/12, Prof. Slichter, "50 Years of Surprises; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, A Scientific Evergreen"
4/19 Prof. Sligar, "Cryocrystallography and Cryoenzymology of
4/26, Prof. Finnemore, "Superconductivity at 40 K in MgB2, a Brand New Arena"
