Department of Physics Colloquia - Fall 2001

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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, September 10
John Blondin
NCState University
Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Bubbles

Monday, September 17
Dale Russell
NCState University, Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Department
Physics of the Mesozoic Atmosphere: the Air the Dinosaur's Breathed

Monday, September 24
Bugra Borasoy
Technical University of Munich
The Effective Field Theory of the Strong Interactions: Chiral Perturbation Theory

Monday, October 1
Geoffrey Greene
Los Alamos Neutron Science Center
The Neutron, the Big Bang, and the "Left-Handed Universe"

Monday, October 8
William D. Phillips
National Institute for Standards and Technology
Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping (the Thomas Lecture)

Monday, October 15
Fall Break

Monday, October 22
Stefan Franzen
North Carolina State University
Critical tests for the functional significance of conformational substates in proteins.

Monday, October 29
Christopher Roland
North Carolina State University
Quantum Transport Through Novel Carbon Nanotube Devices

Tuesday, November 6 (NOTE CHANGE OF DATE)
Tom Shutt
The Universe, as Viewed from Deep Undergraound

Monday, November 12
Amber Miller
University of Chicago
Bumps, Wiggles and Holes in the sky - Probing the Early Universe

Tuesday, November 20
Jill Trewhella
Bringing the Genome to Life; Small-angle Neutron Scattering Provides a Critical Framework for Understanding Bio-Molecular Machines and Signaling Networks

Wednesday, November 28
Ruth Chabay
Creating a novel physics course: The role of physics education research

Monday, December 3
Dale Sayers
North Carolina State University
Medical Research Using X-ray Synchrotron Radiation

Monday, December 10