Physics Colloquium: Monday, January 14
David HammerHost: Ruth Chabay
Department of Physics, University of Maryland
What do students need?
Unless noted otherwise, Physics Colloquia are held at 4:00 pm
in Riddick 301.
Refreshments are served from 3:30 to 4:00 in Riddick Hall's reading room.
To arrange a meeting with a colloquium speaker during their visit, please contact the corresponding host.
Host: Ruth Chabay
Department of Physics, University of Maryland
What do students need?
Physics Colloquium: Monday, January 21
No Colloquium - Martin Luther King HolidayPhysics Colloquium: Monday, January 28
Tom SolomonHost: Karen Daniels
Department of Physics, Bucknell University
Pattern formation and front propagation in reacting systems with chaotic mixing
Physics Colloquium: Monday, February 4
David T. BrookesHost: John Risley
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Role of Language in Learning Physics
Physics Colloquium: Monday, February 11
To Be AnnouncedPhysics Colloquium: Monday, February 18
Viginia M. AyresHost: Celeste Sagui
Electronic and Biological Nanostructures Laboratory, Michigan State University
Scanning Probe Recognition Microscopy Investigations of Tissue Scaffolds for Spinal Cord Repair
L. H. Thomas Lecture: Tuesday, February 26 - NOTE SPECIAL DAY
Sir Harry KrotoHost: Jerzy Bernholc
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Florida State University
Architecture in NanoSpace
Physics/Engineering Colloquium: Wednesday, February 27 in Room 1007 EB1 on Centennial Campus - NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND LOCATION
Steven J. SibenerHost: Thomas Pearl
The James Franck Institute and Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago
Interfacial Dynamics of Polymers and SAMs: Glassy Dynamics, Hierarchical Assembly and the Quest for Perfection
Physics Colloquium: Monday, March 10
Eugen MerzbacherHost: Chris Gould
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Erwin Schrödinger: His Wave Mechanics and His Cat
Physics Colloquium: Monday, March 17
To Be AnnouncedPhysics Colloquium: Monday, March 24
Hendrik SchatzHost: John Kelley
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University
Palladium oceans, superbursts and cold fusion - the strange world of accreting neutron stars
Physics Colloquium: Monday, March 31
Hendrik OhldagHost: Harald Ade
Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University
X-rays and Magnetism - A Perfect Match
Physics Colloquium: Monday, April 7
D. E. ShawHost: Celeste Sagui
D. E. Shaw Research, LLCResearch and Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University
Toward Millisecond-Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Proteins
Physics Colloquium: Monday, April 14
Harold EricksonHost: Robert Riehn
Duke University Program in Cell and Molecular Biology
Bacterial cell division - reconstituting contractile FtsZ rings in tubular liposomes
Physics Colloquium: Monday, April 21
Michael DeemHost: Robert Riehn
Physics & Astronomy Department, Rice University
Antigenic Distance, Glassy Dynamics, and Localization in the Immune System