Department of Physics Colloquia - Fall 2000
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Unless noted otherwise, Physics Colloquia are held at 4:00 pm
in Cox 206. Refreshments are served from 3:30 to 4:00 in Cox 400.
Monday, August 28
Ted Jacobson
University of Maryland
Black Hole
in a Bottle?
Condensed Matter Analogies for Horizons and Hawking Radiation
Monday, September 4
Labor Day
Monday, September 25
Diane Markoff
Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
Parity-Violating Studies of the Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction
Using Neutron Beams
Monday, October 2
Roland Winston
University of Chicago
The Last Hyperon Decay (Neutral Cascade Beta Decay)
Monday, October 9
Rick Trebino
Georgia Institute of Technology
The Musical Score,
the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, and the Measurement
of the Shortest Events Ever Created
Monday, October 16
Fall Break
Monday, October 23, John B. Derieux Lecture
Humphrey J. Maris
Brown University
The Fission of the Electron
Lecture at 4:00 pm in 2215 Williams Hall
Tea at 3:30 in the first-floor foyer between Cox and Dabney Halls
Monday, October 30
Paul Huffman
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Prospects
for an Improved Neutron Lifetime Measurement
Using Magnetically Trapped Ultracold Neutrons
Monday, November 6
David Brown
North Carolina State University
Detecting
Supernovae with Gravitational Waves
Monday, November 13
Hans Hallen
North Carolina State University
Light,
Electric Fields, and Metal Probes in the Near-Field of a Sample
Monday, November 20
Albert Young
North Carolina State University
Fundamental
Physics with Cold and Ultra-Cold Neutrons
Monday, November 27
Una Hwang
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
New
Views of Young Supernova Remnants with the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Monday, December 4
Brian Borovsky
North Carolina State University
Nanotribology:
Friction and Wear in the World of Very Small Machines
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