Colloquium Schedule 1998-99

Colloquia	Room 1005, Smith Laboratory at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesdays
Reception	Room 1094, Smith Laboratory at 4:30 p.m. after the talk
Graduate Students - chat with the speaker before the talk at 2:00 p.m. in Room 1094. Refreshments provided.

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Autumn Quarter 1998

• PROBING THE NUCLEAR LIQUID-GAS PHASE TRANSITION
• William Lynch (Michigan State University)

Tuesday 13 October 1998

• Why Do We Think Neutrinos Have Mass? And Who Cares?
• Boris Kayser (National Science Foundation)

Tuesday 20 October 1998

• Classical and Wave Chaos In Asymmetric Optical Resonant Cavities
• A. Douglas Stone (Yale University)

Tuesday 27 October 1998

• Fun With Random Matrices And Hamiltonians
• Tony Zee (UC Santa Barbara)

Tuesday 3 November 1998

• Bose-Einstein Condensation In Atomic Hydrogen
• Thomas J. Greytak (MIT)

Tuesday 10 November 1998

• Grain Dynamics In Fluidized Sand
• Douglas J. Durian (UCLA)

Tuesday 17 November 1998

• Cosmic Microwave background
• Wayne Hu (Institute For Advanced Study)

Tuesday 24 November 1998

• No Colloquium

Tuesday 1 December 1998

• Stellar Arrhythmias
• J. Robert Buchler (University of Florida)

Winter Quarter 1999

Tuesday 5 January 1999

• No Colloquium

Tuesday 12 January 1999

• No Colloquium

Tuesday 19 January 1999

• New Frontiers Of QCD At RHIC
• Dmitri Kharzeev (RIKEN-BNL)

Tuesday 26 January 1999

• No Colloquium

Tuesday 2 February 1999

• Current Developments In Bose-Einstein Condensation
• Eric Cornell (JILA)

Tuesday 9 February 1999

• Building Atomic Bridges: Kinetics And Thermodynamics Of Interface Formation
• Marjorie Olmstead (University of Washington)

Tuesday 16 February 1999

• Melting Nuclei Into Quarks - What We Know Now And What RHIC Will Tell Us
• Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook)

Tuesday 23 February 1999

• Magneto-Sonoluminescence: Interplay of Light, Sound, and Magnetic Field
• Woowon Kang (University of Chicago)

Tuesday 2 March 1999

• Intermittently Flowing Rivers Of Quantized Magnetic Flux: Vortex Motion, Noisy Fractal Networks, And Flux Avalanches in Superconductors
• Franco Nori (University of Michigan)

Tuesday 9 March 1999

• No colloquium

Spring Quarter 1999

• Exorcising Ghosts - In Pursuit Of The Missing Solar Neutrinos
• Andrew Hime (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Tuesday 6 April 1999

• Macroscopic Quantum Interference Experiments: Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms Under the Influence of Gravity
• Mark Kasavich (Yale)

Tuesday 13 April 1999

• Exploring the High Energy Universe
• Rene Ong (University of Chicago)

Tuesday 20 April 1999

• Making Sense of What We See in the Classroom: Elements of a theoretical frame for physics education research
• Joe Redish (University of Maryland)

Tuesday 27 April 1999

• Icefishing for Neutrinos with AMANDA
• Douglas Cowen (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday 4 May 1999

• The Physics of the Middle Ear
• John J. Rosowski (MIT)

Tuesday 11 May 1999

• Wavepacket Sculpting With Ultrafast Optical Radiation
• Philip Bucksbaum (University of Michigan)

Tuesday 18 May 1999

• How Solids Break
• Jim Langer (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Tuesday 25 May 1999

• CP Violation
• Claudio Campagnari (SLAC)

Tuesday 1 June 1999

• No colloquium