Colloquium Schedule 2002-2003

Regular colloquia at 3.30 p.m., Smith Laboratory, Room 1005
Refreshments in 1094 at 3:00 pm

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Autumn Quarter 2002

Tuesday 1 October 2002

Lattice QCD enters the Real World
Peter Lepage, Cornell University
Faculty host: Junko Shigemitsu

Tuesday 8 October 2002

QCD, strings and black holes: The Large N limit of field theories and gravity.
Juan Maldacena, Princeton University
Faculty host: Samir Mathur

Tuesday 15 October 2002

Advanced Magnetic Materials and Transducers: Enabling Information Explosion and Magnetic Nanotechnology
Shan Wang, Stanford University
Faculty host: Phil Wigen

Tuesday 22 October 2002

What happens when Topology, Quantum Mechanics and Superconductivity meet?
Carlos Sa de Melo, Georgia Tech
Faculty host: David Stroud

Tuesday 29 October 2002

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of single biological cells and other small things
Charles Pennington, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: David Stroud

Tuesday 5 November 2002

Jet Suppression in RHIC Collisions
David Hardtke, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Faculty host: Tom Humanic

Tuesday 12 November 2002

Detecting Broken Symmetries in High-Temperature Superconductors
Laura H. Greene, University of Illinois
Faculty host: David Stroud

Tuesday 19 November 2002

The Quantum Hall Effect Meets Bose Condensation
Jim Eisenstein, California Institute of Technology
Faculty host: Tom Gramila

Tuesday 26 November 2002

Neuronal Dynamics
David H. Terman, The Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics
Faculty host: Fernand Hayot

Tuesday 3 December 2002

Biophysics - Photosynthesis
Neal Woodbury, Arizona State University
Faculty host: Linn Van Woerkom

Tuesday 10 December 2003

Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

Organic-Based Magnets: From Impossibility to Fractal Magnets, Photoinduced Magnetism and Spintronics
Arthur J. Epstein, Ohio State University,
Director, OSU Center for Materials Research

Tuesday 14 January 2003

The Chemistry of Protoplanetary Disks
Eric Herbst, Ohio State University

Tuesday 21 January 2003

Trillions of Quantum Dots, Fingerprints, Nanolithography with Diblock Copolymers and Annealing of Striped Phases
Paul Chaikin, Princeton University
Faculty host: David Stroud

Tuesday 28 January 2003

Pseudopotential Theory of Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Wires and Films
Alex Zunger, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Faculty host: Leonard Brillson

Tuesday 4 February 2003

New Materials and Interactions for Nonlinear Optics
Robert Boyd, University of Rochester
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

Tuesday 11 February 2003

A brute force approach to quantum computation
Gabriel Aeppli, NEC, Princeton, NJ
Faculty host: John Wilkins

Tuesday 18 February 2003

Fluctuations of Nanoscale Structures
Ellen Williams, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Will Saam

Tuesday 25 February 2003

Mechanical constraints on gene expression: hints from single molecule studies.
Michelle Wang, Cornell University
Faculty host: Linn Van Woerkom

Tuesday 4 March 2003

Vacuum Energy and Condensate Stars: A Quantum Alternative to Classical Black Holes
Emil Mottola, LANL
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 11 March 2003

There's Something About SUSY
Maria Spiropulu, University of Chicago
Faculty host: Stuart Raby

Tuesday 18 March 2003

Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

Universal Dynamics in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas
John Thomas, Duke University
Faculty host: Jason Ho

Tuesday 8 April 2003

Bringing the Web to America
Paul F. Kunz, Stanford University
Faculty host: K.K. Gan

Tuesday 15 April 2003

Photonic Band Gap Materials: Semiconductors of Light
Sajeev John, University of Toronto
Faculty host: David Stroud

Tuesday 22 April 2003

Environment - Assisted Invariance, Ignorance, and Information in Quantum Physics
Wojciech H. Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Faculty host: Douglass Schumacher

Tuesday 29 April 2003

A Place in the Sun for the Neutrino
R.G. Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Faculty host: K.K. Gan

Tuesday 6 May 2003

Analogy as the Central Motor of Discovery in Physics
Douglas Hofstadter, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition
Indiana University, Bloomington
Faculty host: David Stroud

Thursday 8 May 2003

ANNUAL SMITH LECTURE
X-Ray Visions of the Universe
Prof. Riccardo Giacconi, 2002 Nobel Laureate in Physics
131 Hitchcock Hall Auditorium, 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday 13 May 2003

First Results from LIGO
Keith Riles, University of Michigan
Faculty host: K.K. Gan

Tuesday 20 May 2003

Spin Transport and Spin Transfer Effects in Magnetic Nanostructures
Robert A. Buhrman, Director, Center for Nanoscale Systems, Cornell University
Faculty host: P. Chris Hammel

Tuesday 27 May 2003

Science and Science Fiction
Stanley Schmidt, Editor, Analog: Science Fiction and Fact
Note Special Location: McPherson 1000
Faculty host: Robert Scherrer

Tuesday 3 June 2003

Evolution of Black Hole Binaries in the Galaxy; The Possibility that they are Fossil Evidence of Gamma Ray Bursters
Gerald Brown, SUNY Stony Brook
Faculty host: Richard Furnstahl

Tuesday 10 June 2003

Note - Finals Week - No Colloquium

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