Department of Physics Colloquia - Spring 2004

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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 of Cox 110.

Monday, January 26
Martin Muser
University of Western Ontario
Friction Mechanisms at the Nanoscale

Wednesday, January 28 (note special day)
Gene Nemanich
Chevron Texaco Technology Venture
Science and Technology Challenges for the Hydrogen Economy

Monday, February 2
Reserved for Harrelson Lecture (Nina Totenberg)

Monday, February 9
Ted Bunn
University of Richmond
The Cosmic Microwave Background after WMAP

Monday, February 16
Worth Seagondollar
NC State University
The First Man Made Nuclear Explosion

Monday, February 23
Aubrey Hanbicki
Naval Research Lab
Introducing spin polarized electrons into semiconductor devices: a new direction for electronics?

Monday, March 8
Spring Break

Monday, March 15
Daniel J. Gauthier
Duke University
Measuring the Information Velocity in Fast- and Slow-Light Media

Monday, March 22
Paul Kwiat
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Entangled Photons for Quantum Information: 101 uses for a Schroedinger cat

Monday, March 29
Steve Reynolds
NC State University
Physics and Astrophysics of Supernova Remnants

Monday, April 5
Phil Stiles
NC State University
The Physics of Music and Physics itself

Monday, April 12
Art Edwards
Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque
Theory of Intrinsic Defects in GeTe and GeTe2

Monday, April 19
Dale Choi
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Gravitational Wave Topic

Monday, April 26
Undergraduate Research Symposium