Physics Department, University of Illinois, ca. 1920

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

Physics Colloquium
Spring 2004

~Thursdays since 1923~

Thursdays, 4 p.m.
Room 141 Loomis Laboratory

Semester Chair-Vijay Pandharipande

 
January 22, 2004
  
Professor Anthony J. Leggett
2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Department of Physics
University of Illinois
Urbana IL
Superfluid 3-He: The Early Days as Seen by a Theorist


January 29, 2004
  
Professor Charles M. Falco
Chair of Condensed Matter Physics
Professor of Optical Sciences
Department of Physics, Optical Sciences Center
University of Arizona
Tucson AZ
Optics at the Dawn of the Renaissance


February 5, 2004
  
Professor Aurel Bulgac
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Seattle WA USA
The Many Facets of Superfluidity in Dilute Fermi Systems


February 12, 2004
  
Professor Philip Nelson
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Penn State University
Philadelphia PA USA
From Spinning Tops to DNA


February 19, 2004
  
Professor Andrew Cleland
Associate Professor of Physics
Department of Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara CA
Quantum Electromechanical Systems: Are we There Yet?


February 26, 2004
  
Professor Tom Browder
Physics Department
University of Hawaii
Honolulu HI
CP Violation from Belle


March 4, 2004
  
Professor James Wolfe
Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL USA
Imaging Excitonic Matter and Phonons in Crystals


March 11, 2004
  
Professor C. Megan Urry
Director, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics
Department of Physics
Yale University
New Haven CT USA
The Demographics of Supermassive Black Holes


March 18, 2004
  
Professor David J. Wineland
Physics, NIST Boulder Laboratories
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Boulder CO
Quantum-mechanical Entanglement and Raising Schrödinger's Cat


March 25, 2004
  
No Colloquium -SPRING BREAK


No Colloquium-Spring Break


April 1, 2004
  
Professor Susan W. Kieffer
Walgreen Professor of Geology
Department of Geology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL
The Physics of Geologic Nozzles


April 8, 2004
  
Professor Nigel Goldenfeld
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ecology and Evolution at the Forgotten Frontier: The Biocomplexity of Microbes


April 15, 2004
  
Professor Carl Wieman
2001 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Department of Physics & JILA
University of Colorado
Boulder CO
Applying the Tools of Physics to Teaching Physics


April 22, 2004
  
Professor William A. Zajc
Department of Physics
Columbia University
New York NY
SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: Spring 2004 Axel Lecture-Recent Discoveries at RHIC: Do They Indicate a New State of Matter?


April 29, 2004
  
Dr. Robert A. Eisenstein
President
Santa Fe Institute,
Santa Fe NM
Searching for Creativity: Tales from the Santa Fe Institute


 

 

Join us for coffee and conversation in the Loomis West Foyer 30 minutes before Colloquium,
courtesy of the Physics Alumni Association.

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