Colloquium Schedule, Fall of 1999 All talks will be held on Thursday, except where noted, at 4:30 P.M. in Room 58 Science Tower with refreshments at 4:10 P.M., Room 58 (Foyer) Science Tower. Month Day Speaker and Institution Title September 16th Not Scheduled 23rd John Huennekens Lehigh Experimental Studies of the NaK Molecule 30th Rick Jensen Wesleyan University Deciphering the Neural Code: The Challenge of Computational Neuroscience October 7th N. Menon UMass Dynamics in driven granular media: how sand melts and flows 14th Gerhard Muller URI Computational probes of collective excitations in quantum spin chains 21st Fall Break! 28th Dr. Andrea Freitag, Brookhaven National Lab Adsorption studies on MgO November 4th Dr. John Birmingham Brandeis University Extending the Dynamic Range of Neural Coding 11th Werner Wolf Yale University . "The Role of Quantum Mechanics in Understanding Magnetic Materials" 18th Catherine Crouch Harvard University "Peer Instruction: Turning a Lecture Into a Seminar." 25th Thankgiving December 2nd Jan Northby URI Spectroscopy of excited He2 molecules floating on liquid helium 9th Chandra Raman MIT "Shaking and Stirring a Quantum Gas: Probing superfluidity in Bose gases" Please E-mail Vacek with additions or updates View previous Colloquia Schedules: Fall 2000   Fall, 1999 Spring, 2000 Fall, 1998 Spring, 1999 Fall, 1997, Spring, 1998 Fall, 1996, Spring, 1997 Fall, 1995, Spring, 1996 Fall, 1994, Spring, 1995