Colloquium Schedule 1997-8

Fall Quarter

• Recent Results from Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions--Have we seen Quark Matter yet?
• Tom Humanic (The Ohio State University)

• Fluid Dynamics Experiments in Flatland
• Maarten Rutgers (OSU)

• Scientific Knowledge as a Social Construct
• Kurt Gottfried (Cornell)

• (Cancelled due to Illness)

• Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Gas
• Carl Weiman (Colorado)

• Some Like It Hot: Probing the Early Universe with Relativistic Heavy Ions
• Berndt Mueller (Duke)

• Veterans Day
• No Colloquium

• Kicking Big Atoms with Short Pulses of Light
• Robert Jones (Virginia)

• TBA
• TBA

• TBA
• TBA

Winter Quarter 1998

• Bose-Einstein Condensation in Quantum Gases--What Does It Bring to the Condensed Matter Community ?
• Jason Ho (The Ohio State University)

• Macroscopic Quantum Physics of a Superfluid 3He Weak Link, or, "Whistle While you Work"
• Seamus Davis (Berkeley)

• Image and Logic
• Peter Galison (Harvard)

• Photo-Nuclear Physics at Medium Energies
• Robert Redwine (MIT)

• High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: the Amanda Experiment
• Francis Halzen (Wisconsin)

• Heavy Quarks on the Lattice and Testing the Standard Model of Particle Physics
• Junko Shigemitsu (OSU)

• The Origin of Universal Scaling Laws in Biology: The Physics of the Cardiovascular, Respiratory and Plant Vascular Systems
• Geoffrey West (Los Alamos)

• Statistical Mechanics, Euler's Equation and Jupiter's Red Spot
• Peter Weichman (CalTech)

• The Physics of Microorganism Patterns
• Herbert Levine (UC San Diego)

• The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiment: On the Road to a Final Answer
• Thomas Walther (Texas A&M)

Spring Quarter 1998

• Strings Shedding Light on Black Holes
• Miriam Cvetic (Pennsylvania)

• How to Parallel Park an Aircraft Carrier
• David Campbell (Illinois)

• Exploring the High and the Deep Frontiers
• Kathy Sullivan (COSI)

• Information is Physical
• Rolf Landauer (IBM)

• Alpheus Smith Lecture: Almost Absolute Zero: The Story of Laser Cooling and Trapping
• William Phillips (NIST)

• String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime
• Brian Greene (Columbia)

• Using Supercomputers to Design and Model Novel Materials
• Steve Richardson (Howard)

• Friction, Especially in Granular Matter
• Jerry Gollub (Haverford)

• Probing the Symmetry of the Pairing State of the High Temperature Superconductors---when "D" is a good grade
• Dale van Harlington (Illinois)

• Is There Anything Left to Learn from Ordinary Beta Decay?
• Stuart Freedman (Berkeley)

• Better Bomb-Detection Through Interaction-free Measurements
• Paul Kwiat (Los Alamos National Lab)