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