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

Physics Colloquium Fall 2003 ~Thursdays since 1923~ Thursdays, 4 p.m. Room 141 Loomis Laboratory Semester Chair-Vijay Pandharipande

 

September 4, 2003	Professor Matthias Grosse Perdekamp Department of Physics University of Illinois	The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider: From Proton Structure to the Quark Gluon Plasma.
September 11, 2003	Professor Frederick K. Lamb Fortner Chair and Professor Co-Chair, APS Study Group on Boost-Phase Missile Defense Departments of Physics & Astronomy University of Illinois Urbana IL	Defending the United States Against Ballistic Missiles (Click here for full report)
September 18, 2003	Professor Michelle Wang Physics Department Cornell University Ithaca NY	Probing Gene Expression and Regulation at the Single Molecule Level
September 25, 2003	Professor Brian DeMarco Department of Physics University of Illinois Urbana IL	Experiments With One to a Million Ultra-cold Atoms
October 2, 2003	Professor James Langer Department of Physics University of California-Santa Barbara	Do Structural Engineers Need New Ideas in Nonequilibrium Physics?
October 9, 2003	Professor Hitoshi Murayama Physics Department University of California, Berkeley	The Big World of Small Neutrinos
October 16, 2003	Professor Thomas R. Junk Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL	Physics at the High-Energy Frontier
October 23, 2003	Professor James Sethna Department of Physics Cornell University Ithaca NY	Sophisticated Statistical Mechanics of Sloppy Models: Making Predictions about Protein Dynamics in Cells
October 30, 2003	Professor Amnon Aharony Nussenzveig Professor of Statistical Physics School of Physics and Astronomy Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel	What is Really Measured in the Mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm Interferometer?
November 6, 2003	Professor Richard Price Physics Department University of Utah Salt Lake City UT USA	Gravitational Waves, Lasers, Black Holes, Supercomputers and Approximations
November 13, 2003	McMillan Award winner, Assistant Professor Alessandra Lanzara Department of Physics & Materials Sciences Division University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Berkeley CA	Anomalous Electronic Structure of Cuprates Superconductors: A View from Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy
November 20, 2003	Professor Donald Q. Lamb Enrico Fermi Institute and the College; ASCI Flash Center Astronomy and Astrophysics Department University of Chicago Chicago IL	New Insights Into Novae and Type Ia Supernovae from Large-Scale Numerical Simulations
November 27, 2003	No Colloquium, Thanksgiving
December 4, 2003	Professor Deepto Chakrabarty Department of Physics and Center for Space Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA	Clocking Millisecond X-Ray Pulsars: A Speed Limit for the Fastest Spinning Stars in the Universe Center for Space Research
December 11, 2003	Professor John Campbell Author of Rutherford-Scientist Supreme Physics Department University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand	Rutherford, Maestro of the Atom