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 2001

~Thursdays since 1923~

Thursdays, 4 p.m.
Room 141 Loomis Laboratory

Semester Chair—Professor Gordon Baym

 

Date
Speaker
January 18
 
Klaus J. Schulten, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Quantum Biology of Photosynthesis"
January 25 Mark Strikman, Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University
"Portraying Hadrons in High-energy Diffractive Processes"
February 1 Cherry A. Murray, Senior Vice President, Physical Sciences,
Bell Labs
, Lucent Technologies
, Murray Hill, NJ
"The Physics of Communications"
February 8

Michael Stone, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Flying through Superfluids"

February 15

Celia M. Elliott, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"The Bleak Face of Post-Soviet Science—A Personal View"

February 22 Mats A. Selen, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 1 Naomi C.R. Makins, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 8 Alfred Hubler, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Self-Adjusting Systems Avoid Chaos"
March 15 NO COLLOQUIUM THIS WEEK, SPRING BREAK
March 22 Charles F. Gammie, Depts of Physics and Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Toward a Theory of Black Hole Accretion Flows"
March 29 Malcolm Perry, Trinity College, Cambridge University
April 5 Barbara Jacak, Department of Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Stony Brook
April 12 Frederick Seitz, Rockefeller University
April 19 N.P. Ong, Department of Physics, Princeton University
"Two-dimensional Gases"
April 26

Susan Coppersmith, Department of Physics, University of Chicago
"The Complexity of Materials"

May 3 Special Colloquium, Manfred Eigen, Nobel Laureate

 

Campus Maps

Traveling to Urbana

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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