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Colloquium Schedule, Spring 2003

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.

Date

Speaker

Title

February

6th
Talk 4 PM
Refreshments 3:45
David Helfand
(Columbia University)
"Contemplating Original Spin"
(on neutron stars).
10th Colin Denniston
(Johns Hopkins University)
" Does Glass Really Flow? Signatures of the Jammed State"
20th Jianbing Qi
(UConn physics)
Prospects for All-Optical Alignment and Quantum State Control of Nonpolar Molecules
27th Erica Carlson,
(Boston University)
High Temperature Superconductivity:
The Secret Life of Electrons in Cuprate Oxides

March

13th Spring Break!  
20th  
27th John Salzer
(Wesleyan University)
KISS and Tell: Using Emission-Line Galaxies to Probe the Universe

April

3rd    
10th    
17th    
24th Matias Zaldarriaga
(Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
"Cosmology: Implications of WMAP and other CMB experiments"

May

2nd    

Please E-mail Vacek with additions or updates


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