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

Physics Colloquium Spring 2003 ~Thursdays since 1923~ Thursdays, 4 p.m. Room 141 Loomis Laboratory Semester Chair-Dale Van Harlingen

 

January 30, 2003	Professor Philip W. Phillips Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The Full Mottness
February 6, 2003	Professor Paul R. Selvin Department of Physics and Biophysics Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Nanometer resolution with single molecule fluorescence imaging: Application to biomolecular motors.
February 13, 2003	Professor Louis Taillefer Department of Physics, Superconductivity Program University of Sherbrooke and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Canada	Probing New States of Matter with Heat and Sound
February 20, 2003	Professor Edwin "Ned" L. Goldwasser Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	The Founding of Fermilab: A Scientific, Political, Sociological, Fiscal and Technical Adventure
February 27, 2003	Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman Resident Scholar, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Director Emeritus, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Pritzker Professor of Science, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago Lederman Science Center Batavia IL	A Physicist in Science Education: Mired but Triumphant
March 6, 2003	No Colloquium - APS Meeting in Austin, TX
March 13, 2003	Professor, Head Allen M. Goldman School of Physics and Astronomy University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN	Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in Disordered Ultrathin Films*
March 20, 2003	Dr. Robert Tycko Laboratory of Chemical Physics, NIDDK National Institutes of Health Bethesda MD	Molecular and Supramolecular Structure of Amyloid Fibrils Associated with Alzheimer's Disease: Insights from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
March 27, 2003	Spring Break
April 3, 2003	Emeritus Professor Arnold J. Dahm Physics Department Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Ohio	Quantum computing with bits made of electrons on a helium surface.
April 10, 2003	IBM Fellow Stuart S. P. Parkin IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA	Instant Access Memory - Tunneling into the Future with Magnetic Random Access
April 17, 2003	Nobel Laureate, Professor Leon Cooper Departments of Physics and Neuroscience Brown University	Matrices to Molecules: Towards a Physiological Basis for Learning and Memory Storage
April 24, 2003	Lillian M. Gilbreth Distinguished Professor W. Dale Compton School of Industrial Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette IN	The Physics of Machining Processes
May 1, 2003	George A. Miller Visiting Professor Mohit Randeria Department of Physics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Science In India: From Zero to IIT