Physics Department at the University of Illinois, ca. 1923, when the tradition of Thursday Physics colloquia began.

Physics Colloquium Fall 2002 ~Thursdays since 1923~ Thursdays, 4 p.m. Room 141 Loomis Laboratory Semester Chair-Jen-Chieh Peng

 

August 29, 2002	Dr. Thomas J Bowles Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos NM	Solar Neutrinos and New Physics - A New Landscape After SNO
September 5, 2002	Assist. Prof. Ali Yazdani Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Urbana IL	Fine-Tuning Electronic States in Carbon Nanotubes
September 9, 2002 Monday   7:30 190 ESB (Engineering Sciences Building)	Prof. Stephen H. Schneider Institute for International Studies Stanford University	Is Climate Change Too Uncertain for Policy
September 19, 2002	Prof. Kenneth Laws Department of Physics and Astronomy Dickinson College Carlisles PA United States	The Physics of Dance
September 26, 2002	Prof. Louis Bloomfield Department of Physics University of Virginia Charlottesville VA United States	Physics for the Rest of Us: Examining the Physics of Everyday Life
October 3, 2002	Dr. Geoffrey West Los Alamos National Lab/ Santa Fe Institute Los Alamos NM United States	The Origin of Universal Scaling in Biology from Molecules & Cells to Whales & Ecosystems
October 10, 2002	Prof. W. E. Moerner Department of Chemistry Stanford University Stanford CA United States	Emerging Frontiers in Single-Molecule Spectroscopy
October 17, 2002	Dr. John Martinis NIST Boulder CO United States	Rabi Oscillations in a Large Josephson Junction Qubit
October 24, 2002	Prof. Matthew Fisher Institute for Theoretical Physics University of California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA United States	Cuprates Amiss: Sublime simplicity or a matted mess?
October 31, 2002	Prof. Malvin Kalos Lawrence Livermore National Lab Liverrmore CA United States	Is Fermion Monte Carlo Hard?
November 7, 2002	Dr. Boris Kayser Fermilab Batavia IL United States	The Neutrino World: Present and Future
November 14, 2002	Prof. Rainer Weiss LIGO Scientific Collaboration M.I.T. Cambridge MA United States	Interferometric Detection of Gravitational Waves - The Status of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory)
November 21, 2002	Prof. David Hertzog Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL United States	Has the muon magnetism revealed a crack in the standard model?
December 5, 2002	Prof . Robert Jaffe MIT Cambridge MA United States	The Casimir Effect: Theory and Practice
December 12, 2002	Asst. Prof. David Goldhaber-Gordon Physics Department Stanford University	A Survey of the Kondo Effect in Mesoscopic Systems