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 2005

~Thursdays since 1923~

Thursdays, 4 p.m.
Room 141 Loomis Laboratory

Co-Chairs—Paul M. Goldbart and David W. Hertzog

January 20, 2005
  
Professor Michel H. Devoret
Department of Applied Physics
Yale University
The Quantronium: A Quantum-Mechanically Coherent Electrical Circuit Behaving Like An Atom


January 27, 2005
  
Professor Gordon Baym
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL USA


February 3, 2005
  
Professor Paul Goldbart
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL USA


February 10, 2005
  
Professor Alexei Abrikosov

Argonne National Laboratories
Superconductivity: History and Modern State


February 17, 2005
  
Professor Kimberly M. Hill
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL USA
Granular Materials


February 24, 2005
  
Professor Naomi Makins
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL USA
Transversity New Structure Function of the Proton


March 3, 2005
  
Professor Daniel Fisher
Professor of Physics and Professor of Applied Physics
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Cambridge MA USA
Evolution (Friday CMS "glasses")


March 10, 2005
  
Profefssor Moses H. W. Chan
Evan Pugh Professor
Department of Physics
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park PA USA
Supersolids


March 17, 2005
  
Professor Scott Tremaine
Professor and Chair
Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University
Princeton NJ
The Stability of the Solar System


March 31, 2005
  
Professor Nigel S. Lockyer
Department of Physics & Astronomy
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA USA
CDF Particles


April 7, 2005
  
Professor Alan Nathan
Department of Physics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana IL USA
TBA

 

 

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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