Physics Colloquium Schedule, Spring 1998

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.

March
	5^th	Job Applicant Presentation Dr. Stephen Strong, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University	Entropy and Information in Neural Spike Trains
Note: Date and time change	9^th, 2:30pm	Job Applicant Presentation Professor Adam Landsberg, Haverford College	Symmetries, Bifurcations and Pattern Formation
Note: Date and time change	11^th, 2:30pm	Job Applicant Presentation Dr. Andrew Rutenberg, McGill University	New Probes of Coarsening Dynamics
	12^th	Job Applicant Presentation Dr. Mark Millonas, University of Chicago	Studying the Slow Conformational Kinetics of Proteins with Nonequilibrium Response Spectroscopy
	13^th	Spring Break
	20^th	Spring Break
	26^th
April
	3^rd	Elizabeth McCormack, Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College	Molecular Excited-State Structure and Dynamics Probed by Laser-Induced Grating Techniques Note: this is a joint colloquium with Chemistry held at 3:30 pm with refreshments at 3:10 on Friday, April 3rd.
	9^th	Myriam P. Sarachik, Professor, CCNY	Quantum-Mechanical Tunneling of a Large Spin
	16^th	Karen Barad, Laurie Professor of Women's Studies at Rutgers University and Associate Professor of Physics at Pomona College	"Getting Real: Materiality, Performativity, and Technoscientific Practices" Joint Colloquium with Science in Society Program and Women's Studies Program 4:15 p.m. in the Millett Room of Russell House, 350 High Street
	23^rd	Sean Barrett, Assistant Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Yale University	"Optically Pumped Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in the Quantum Hall Regimes"
	30^th	BERTMAN LECTURE: Thomas Rosenbaum, University of Chicago	"New Results on O