Colloquium Schedule, Fall 2007

All talks will be held on Thursday, except where noted, at 4:30 P.M. in Room 58 Exley Science Center with refreshments at 4:10 P.M., Room 58 (Foyer) Exley Science Center.

Date

Speaker

Title
September
20th Prof. Tomaz Prosen
Department of Physics,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia		 Title: Quantum chaos in systems of many particles
27th Professor Doron Cohen,
Department of Physics
Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev Israel.		 Energy absorption and the conductance of small mesoscopic rings
October
4th Steve Renwick, Ph.D. '92
Principal Engineer, Advanced Technology Dept.
Nikon Precision, Inc		 Big Lenses and
Small Features: Industrial Physics in Semiconductor Lithography
11th Reinhold Blumel
Wesleyan Physics Department
  		  Chair's Colloquium
18th   Richard M. Stratt
Department of Chemistry
Brown University		 Lasting Lessons from Landscapes: The Origins of Slow Dynamics in Liquids.
25th Tom Keyes
Theoretical and Computational Biochemistry,
Boston University		 Getting results you thought were quantum mechanical with classical polarization: IR spectra, vibrational Stark effect, ligand binding and water properties
November
1st
8th Antonio Politi
Director of Institute of Complex Systems
Florence, Italy		 “Synchronization Transitions in Cold Atoms” 
15th Dr. Sheng Zhang
Department of Physics
Queens College, CUNY		 Speckle patterns of waves propagating through random media
22nd Thankgiving
29th
December
6th Bill Herbst
Astronomy Department
Wesleyan University		 Reflection from Sand in the Terrestrial Planet Formation Zone of a Protoplanetary Disk
13th

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