Physics Colloquium


The Spring 2002 Series


Thursdays at 4:00pm
Room 141 in Loomis Lab
1110 West Green Street, Urbana
Please send your comments and suggestions to the Colloquium Chair:

Jon Thaler

Coffee and Refreshments will be served in the lobby at 3:30pm.

Click here for maps and directions to and from Loomis Lab

The Schedule

Date
Speaker Title (click to see the abstract)
Jan 17
Prof. Jonathan Friedman
Amherst College
Quantum Taxonomy: Making a (Schroedinger's) Cat out of a SQUID
Jan 24 Prof. Lance Cooper
UIUC
Colossal Effects and Self-Organizing Structures in Strongly-Correlated Systems
Jan 31 Prof. Russ Gianetta
UIUC
The Meissner State:  The Lion in Winter
Feb 7
Prof. Ben Wandelt
UIUC
The Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
Feb 14
Prof. Alexey Bezryadin
UIUC
DNA Molecule: Insulator, Metal or Superconductor?
Feb 21
Prof. Dik Bouwmeester
Univ. of Oxford
Stimulated Entanglement and Quantum Cloning
Feb 28
Prof. Albert Wattenberg
UIUC
Enrico Fermi Centennial

Experiments in which Neutrons are Both Waves and Particles

March 7
Dr. Keith Schwab
Laboratory for Physical Science/NSA
Nanomechanics and Single Electronics: Putting the Mechanics Back Into Quantum Mechanics
March 14
Prof. Joe Redish
Univ. of Maryland
Rethinking the algebra-based service course: Can physics offer something useful to bio-science and health-care students?
March 21
SPRING BREAK  
March 28
Prof. Wick Haxton
Univ. of Washington
The Proposed National Underground Science Laboratory
April 4
Prof. Jeff Richman
UC, Santa Barbara
New Results on Matter-Antimatter Asymmetries from BaBar
April 11
Prof. Tom Rosenbaum
The Univ. of Chicago
Attacking Optimization Problems with Quantum Mechanics
April 18
Dr. Tony Tyson
Bell Labs
Doing Astronomy with Gravitational Lensing
April 25
Dr. David Branning
UIUC
Introduction to Bell's Inequality: Confessions of a Closet Local Realist
May 2
READING DAY  

 

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