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    

 

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