Colloquium Schedule 1999-2000
Regular colloquia at 3.30 p.m., Smith Laboratory, Room 1005
Refreshments in 1094 at
3:00 pm
Autumn Quarter 1999
Tuesday 28 September 1999
The Little Bang - Searching for the quark-gluon plasma in
relativistic nuclear collisions
Ulrich Heinz, University of Regensburg and CERN
Faculty host: Robert Perry
Tuesday 5 October 1999
Research About Physics Learning, Linguistics, Our Minds, and the Workplace
Alan Van Huevelen, The Ohio State University
Tuesday 26 October 1999
Warning-- Faculty Meetings
TBA
Thursday 28 October 1999 - 10:30 A.M. -
NOTE: Special day, time and room (1094 Smith)
Letter Spirit Project
Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University
Faculty host: Harris Kagan
Tuesday 2 November 1999
High Resolution Scanned Probe Magnetic Resonance Microscopy
Chris Hammel, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Faculty host: Phil Wigen
Tuesday 9 November 1999
Coming Attractions in Particle Physics
Chris Quigg, Fermilab
Faculty host: Brian Winer
Tuesday 16 November 1999
Back to the Drawing Board: Recent NMR Experiments (at OSU) on High
Temperature Superconductors
Charles Pennington, Ohio State
Faculty host: David Stroud
Tuesday 23 November 1999
Surface Growth and Fluid Turbulence: Intermittent Interfaces?
Sankar Das Sarma, University of Maryland
Faculty host: Yong Baek Kim
Tuesday 30 November 1999
Supersymmetric Domain Wall World
Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday 7 December 1999
Warning-- Finals week
TBA
Winter Quarter 2000
Tuesday 11 January 2000
Quantum Confinement, Dots, Resonant Tunneling:
Exotic Phenomena in Electronic Plastics
Arthur Epstein, The Ohio State University
Tuesday 18 January 2000
Martin Luther King Day is Monday-- no colloquium
Tuesday 25 January 2000
Microwave Limb Sounding of Earth's Atmosphere
Joe Waters, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Faculty host: Frank DeLucia
Tuesday 1 February 2000
Tuesday 8 February 2000
Transport and Diffusion in Porous Media: Computation at the Interface
Between Physics and Geology
Larry Schwartz, Schlumberger-Doll Research Laboratories
Faculty host: David Stroud
Tuesday 15 February 2000
Unconventional Magnetism and Superconductivity in Heavy Fermions CeRhIn5,
CeIrIn5, and Related Compounds
John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Lab
Faculty host: Jonathan Pelz
Tuesday 22 February 2000
Risk Analysis of Wastes from Electricity
Generation
Bernard Cohen, University of Pittsburgh
Faculty host: Mike Lisa
Tuesday 29 February 2000
Detecting Gravitational Waves from Gamma Ray Bursts
Sam Finn, The Pennsylvania State University
Faculty host: Eric Braaten
Tuesday 7 March 2000
Global Warming
Lonnie Thompson, The Ohio State University
Faculty host: Doug Schumacher
Tuesday 14 March 2000
Warning-- Finals week
TBA
Spring Quarter 2000
Tuesday 28 March 2000
Tuesday 4 April 2000
Tuesday 11 April 2000
Life on the Wall
Mikhail Shifman, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of
Minnesota
Faculty host: Arkady Tseytlin
Tuesday 18 April 2000
The Nanoscale Physics of Advanced Electronic Materials
Len Brillson, The Ohio State University
Tuesday 25 April 2000
Untangling the proton's spin with STAR
Les Bland, Indiana University
Faculty host: Mike Lisa
Tuesday 2 May 2000
Singing for one's supper:
physicists interacting with society, 1500 AD-present.
Kenneth Wilson, The Ohio State University
Tuesday 9 May 2000
Neutrinos North! The Fermilab MINOS Project
Rob Plunkett, Fermilab
Faculty host: Brian Winer
Tuesday 16 May 2000
CANCELLED due to fires in New Mexico
Tuesday 23 May 2000
Measurement of the Quantum of Thermal Conductance
Keith Schwab National Security Agency
Faculty host: Phil Wigen
Tuesday 30 May 2000
Warning-- Memorial Day is Monday
TBA
Tuesday 6 June 2000
Warning-- Finals week
TBA
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