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" |
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