Colloquium Schedule 1999-2000

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

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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

TBA

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

TBA

Tuesday 4 April 2000

No Colloquium

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