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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