colloquium

Carnegie Mellon University-
University of Pittsburgh
Colloquium Dates and Schedule for 1999/2000

*Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 7500 Wean Hall at CMU or at 104 Thaw Hall at Pitt. Refreshments are available at 4:15 pm.

Aug. 23

[CMU]

Jeff Peterson, CMU,"The Fate of the Universe"

Aug. 30

[CMU]

Bhuvnesh Jain, Johns Hopkins Univ.,"Mapping dark matter with galasy surveys and gravitational lensing"

Sept. 6

[PITT]

LABOR DAY, UNIVERSITY CLOSED

Sept. 20

[PITT]

Dr. Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard,"Observing the Quantum Limit of an Electron Cyclotron"

Sept. 27

[CMU]

Dr. Pabitra Sen, Schlumberger-Doll Research, "Can One Hear the Shape of a Pore?"

Oct. 4

[PITT]

H. D. I. Abarbanel (UCSD) Title: "Pursuing and Using Nonlinear Dynamics in Science and Engineering"

Oct. 11

[PITT]

Prof. Joe Boudreau, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Measurement of the CP violation parameter sin(2Beta) from CDF"

Oct. 18

[PITT]

Prof. Umstadter, Univ. of Michigan, "Interactions of Intense Lasers with Plasma: Relativistic Nonlinear Optics and Table-top Particle Accelerators"

Oct. 25

[PITT]

Jeff Byers, Naval Research Laboratory, "Issues in interfacing biology and electronics"

Nov. 1

[CMU]

Ted Jacobson, Univ. of Maryland, "Hawking Radiation and the Short Distance Structure of Spacetime"

Nov. 8

[CMU]

P. Shor , AT&T, Dickson Prize talk, "Quantum Computing", Mellon Inst. Auditorium

Nov. 15

[CMU]

Robert Nichol, CMU, "High Precision Cosmology,"

Nov. 22

[PITT]

Martin White, Harvard, "A Cosmic Rosetta Stone"

Nov. 29

[PITT]

E. Cohen, Rockfeller University, "Boltzmann and Statistical Mechanics"

Dec. 6

[PITT]

Dr. Sally Heap, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, "The Hell Gunn-Peterson Effect"

Dates For Spring 2000

Jan. 17

[CMU]

John Marko, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, "Physics of DNA and Chromosomes"

Jan. 24

[PITT]

Chandralekha Singh, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Physics Education Research: Closing the gap between what we teach and what is learned"

Jan. 31

[CMU]

Remy Mosseri, Univ. of Paris, "Leon Brillouin: At the crossing of waves and matter"

Feb. 7

[PITT]

Dr. Max Pettini, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England, "The First Galaxies: Clues from Element Abundances"

Feb. 21

[CMU]

Prof. Carl Wieman, Univ. of Colorado, "Bose-Einstein condensation: Quantum weirdness at the lowest temperature in the universe"

Feb. 25

[CMU]

Pittsburgh Symposium on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science and Colloid, Polymers and Surfaces Program, Steven Chu, Stanford, "What Biology Can Do For Physics"

Feb. 28

[PITT]

Jeremy Levy, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Optical Probes of Mesoscopic Ferroelectric Dynamics"

Mar. 6

[CMU]

CMU mid-semester break, PITT spring break

Mar. 13

[CMU]]

Ira Rothstein, CMU, "Looking for New Laws of Physics in the Haze of the Standard Model"

Mar. 20

[CMU]

APS March Meeting

Mar. 27

[PITT]

CMU spring break

April 3

[CMU]

J. Widom, Biochemistry, Northwestern University, "DNA structure and function from angstroms to meters"

April 10

[PITT]

Bryan Gaensler, Center for Space Research, MIT,

April 17

[CMU]

David Weitz, Harvard, "Crystals, Glasses and Gels: Real Space Imaging of Soft Solids"

April 24

[CMU]

Lee Samuel Finn, Penn State Univ.,Topic: LIGO and hopes for gravitational radiation

May 1

[CMU]

Richard Griffiths, CMU, "The Cosmic X-ray Background-Recent Results from the Chandra and XMM Observatories"

Aug. 23	[CMU]	Jeff Peterson, CMU,"The Fate of the Universe"
Aug. 30	[CMU]	Bhuvnesh Jain, Johns Hopkins Univ.,"Mapping dark matter with galasy surveys and gravitational lensing"
Sept. 6	[PITT]	LABOR DAY, UNIVERSITY CLOSED
Sept. 20	[PITT]	Dr. Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard,"Observing the Quantum Limit of an Electron Cyclotron"
Sept. 27	[CMU]	Dr. Pabitra Sen, Schlumberger-Doll Research, "Can One Hear the Shape of a Pore?"
Oct. 4	[PITT]	H. D. I. Abarbanel (UCSD) Title: "Pursuing and Using Nonlinear Dynamics in Science and Engineering"
Oct. 11	[PITT]	Prof. Joe Boudreau, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Measurement of the CP violation parameter sin(2Beta) from CDF"
Oct. 18	[PITT]	Prof. Umstadter, Univ. of Michigan, "Interactions of Intense Lasers with Plasma: Relativistic Nonlinear Optics and Table-top Particle Accelerators"
Oct. 25	[PITT]	Jeff Byers, Naval Research Laboratory, "Issues in interfacing biology and electronics"
Nov. 1	[CMU]	Ted Jacobson, Univ. of Maryland, "Hawking Radiation and the Short Distance Structure of Spacetime"
Nov. 8	[CMU]	P. Shor , AT&T, Dickson Prize talk, "Quantum Computing", Mellon Inst. Auditorium
Nov. 15	[CMU]	Robert Nichol, CMU, "High Precision Cosmology,"
Nov. 22	[PITT]	Martin White, Harvard, "A Cosmic Rosetta Stone"
Nov. 29	[PITT]	E. Cohen, Rockfeller University, "Boltzmann and Statistical Mechanics"
Dec. 6	[PITT]	Dr. Sally Heap, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, "The Hell Gunn-Peterson Effect"

Jan. 17	[CMU]	John Marko, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, "Physics of DNA and Chromosomes"
Jan. 24	[PITT]	Chandralekha Singh, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Physics Education Research: Closing the gap between what we teach and what is learned"
Jan. 31	[CMU]	Remy Mosseri, Univ. of Paris, "Leon Brillouin: At the crossing of waves and matter"
Feb. 7	[PITT]	Dr. Max Pettini, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, England, "The First Galaxies: Clues from Element Abundances"
Feb. 21	[CMU]	Prof. Carl Wieman, Univ. of Colorado, "Bose-Einstein condensation: Quantum weirdness at the lowest temperature in the universe"
Feb. 25	[CMU]	Pittsburgh Symposium on the Frontiers of Condensed Matter Science and Colloid, Polymers and Surfaces Program, Steven Chu, Stanford, "What Biology Can Do For Physics"
Feb. 28	[PITT]	Jeremy Levy, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Optical Probes of Mesoscopic Ferroelectric Dynamics"
Mar. 6	[CMU]	CMU mid-semester break, PITT spring break
Mar. 13	[CMU]]	Ira Rothstein, CMU, "Looking for New Laws of Physics in the Haze of the Standard Model"
Mar. 20	[CMU]	APS March Meeting
Mar. 27	[PITT]	CMU spring break
April 3	[CMU]	J. Widom, Biochemistry, Northwestern University, "DNA structure and function from angstroms to meters"
April 10	[PITT]	Bryan Gaensler, Center for Space Research, MIT,
April 17	[CMU]	David Weitz, Harvard, "Crystals, Glasses and Gels: Real Space Imaging of Soft Solids"
April 24	[CMU]	Lee Samuel Finn, Penn State Univ.,Topic: LIGO and hopes for gravitational radiation
May 1	[CMU]	Richard Griffiths, CMU, "The Cosmic X-ray Background-Recent Results from the Chandra and XMM Observatories"