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

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.

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