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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 outside Cox 110.
Monday, January 14 - Saskia Mioduszewski (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
"Suppression of high p_T hadrons from Au+Au at sqrt(s)=130GeV/c"
Thursday, January 17 - “Femtosecond Studies of Complex Molecular Systems:
From Gas-Phase Reaction to Protein Dynamics” Dongping Zhong, Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
California Institute of Technology
Wednesday, January 23 – “Nanoscale Electric Phenomena By Scanning Probe Microscopy”
Sergei V. Kalinin
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, January 28 – “Strange Attractors - From Art to Science”
J. C. Sprott
University of Wisconsin
Tuesday, February 5 - "Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe"
Alexei Filippenko
University of California, Berkeley
Monday, February 11 – “Gold Nanocrystal Arrays: Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Electronic Transport”
Xiao-Min Lin
James Franck Institute - University of Chicago
Wednesday, Februry 13 – “Bringing
the Genome to Life; Small-angle Neutron Scattering Provides a
Critical Framework for Understanding Bio-Molecular Machines and Signaling Networks”
Jill Trewhella,
Director, Biosciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wednesday, February 20 – “Soft matter interactions with interfaces. Experimental approaches for their molecular-scale characterization”
Mathias Lösche
Institute for Experimental Physics - Leipzig University
Tuesday, February 26 – “Materials by Design: Theory of Compositional Manipulation of Perovskite Ferroelectrics”
David Vanderbilt
Rutgers University
Wednesday, February 27– “Using STM and Individual Impurity Atoms to Probe Correlated Electron Effects in Metals and Superconductors”
Vidya Madhavan
University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, February 28 – Carbon Nanoelectronics
Marc Bockrath,
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Monday, March 4 – Professor Rod Ruoff - Mechanics of Nanostructures
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Monday, March 11 – No Colloquium – Spring Break
Monday, March 18 "The Nuclear Many-Body Problem Revisited"
Richard Furnstahl
Ohio State University
Monday, March 25 - "Structure and properties of organic thin films and its relevance to
Giacinto Scoles
Donner Professor of Science at Princeton University
Chemistry Department and Princeton Materials Institute
Princeton University
Monday, April 1 - "Extreme Quantum Chromo Dynamics"
Thomas Schaefer
Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Laboratory
Monday, April 8 - "Spatial Voids in Lattice Polymers and in Proteins"
Jie Liang
Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago
Tuesday, April 16 - " Dark matter detection and the CDMS experiment"
Laura Baudis
Department of Physics, Stanford University
Monday, April 22 - " Silicide and Oxide Heteroepitaxy on Silicon - what we know and what we think"
Rodney McKee
Metals and Ceramics
Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Monday, April 29 - "Magic Sizes, Doping, and Optical Transitions in Silicon Nanocrystals"
Undergraduate Research Colloquium
Lucas Wagner,
Winner of 2002 McCormick
Award
for Undergraduate Research in Physics
Monday, May 6 - Improving Student Learning at the Introductory Level and Beyond: The Role of Research
Paula R. L. Heron
University of Washington