Department of Physics Colloquia - Spring 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, January 22
Robert Greenler
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Sunlight and Ice Crystals in the Skies of Antarctica

Monday, January 29
Daniel McKinsey
CLEAN - An Idea For the Detection of Low Energy Solar Neutrinos

Monday, February 5
Alexey Petrov
CP violation and heavy quarks: a quest for charm and beauty

Tuesday, February 13
Dean Lee
Taking on hard problems in non-perturbative hadronic physics

Thursday, February 15
Michael Nowak
Wiggles, Winds, and Warps in X-ray Binaries

Monday, February 19
Alan T. Charlie Johnson, Jr.
One-dimensional confinement of electrons and phonons in carbon nanotubes

Thursday, February 22
Gail McLaughlin
Neutrinos and Supernovae

Monday, February 26
Sergei Savikhin
Energy transfer in light-harvesting pigment-protein complexes of photosynthetic bacteria

Monday, March 5
Stephan Koehler
Foam Drainage and Coarsening - experiments and theory

Monday, March 26
Ruth Chabay and Bruce Sherwood
Making Introductory Physics More Like Real Physics

Monday, April 2
Seunghun Hong
Dip-Pen Nanolithography and Nanoscale Physics: Towards a 2,000,000 DPI Molecular Plotter for Solid Substrates

Monday, April 9
Christopher Harrison
Mechanisms of Ordering in Striped Patterns

Monday, April 16
Alan Wuosmaa
The Phobos Experiment at RHIC - the Early Universe on a Tabletop

Monday, April 23
T. E. Mason
The Spallation Neutron Source: a Powerful Tool for Materials Research
(NOTE: the time for this colloquium has been changed to 3:30 PM)

Monday, April 30
Undergraduate Research Colloquium / McCormick Award Presentation

Tuesday, May 1
Dawn Bonnell
Local Properties and Length Scale Dependent Behavior





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