CMU/Pitt physics colloquium schedule

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2002/2003

Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at 4:30 pm in 7500 Wean Hall at CMU or at 102 Thaw Hall at Pitt. Refreshments are available at 4:15 pm.

Dates For Fall 2002

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Sept 16 PITT Dr. Eric Swanson, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Confinement and Exotic Particles"

Sept 23 CMU Ron Shen, U. C. Berkeley, "Nonlinear Optical Probing of Molecular Chirality,"

Sept 24 PITT Ron Shen, U. C. Berkeley, "Surface Melting of Ice", 2:30 PM, Room 12 Chevron Science Center, PITT

Sept 30 CMU Ralph Chamberlin, Arizona State University, "Nanothermodynamics and Bose-Ising Statistics"

Oct 7 PITT Albert Libchaber, Rockefeller, "Stochastic Computation in Biology Using RecA Polymerization"

Oct 14 PITT Dr. Julia Shifman, Caltech, "Computational Protein Design"

Oct 21 CMU David Kestenbaum, NPR, "My Father Sees Muons in the Driveway or How to Explain Science to Everybody Else"

Oct 28 CMU Timothy Hallman, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Topic: The STAR Experiment

Nov 4 CMU Fred Gilman, CMU, "Particle Physics in the 21st Century"

Nov 11 CMU Eric Adelberger, University of Washington, "Testing the gravitational inverse square law for length scales less than 1mm"

Nov 18 CMU Robert Wald, University of Chicago, "Black Holes, Thermodynamics and the "Information Paradox""

Nov 25 PITT David Latham, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "The Search for Habitable Planets"

Dec 2 PITT Prof. Tom Weiler, Vanderbilt University, "Highest Energy Cosmic Rays: Puzzles, Models, and maybe Neutrinos"

Dates For Spring 2003

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Feb 3 CMU Richard Martin, Urbana, "The nature of the insulating state: Theory of polarization and localization of electrons in insulators and relatons to Berry's phases"

Feb 10 CMU Francis Halzen, Wisconsin, "High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Results from the South Pole,"

Feb 17 PITT Bhuvnesh Jain, University of Pennsylvania, "The Clustering of Massive Halos and Cosmology"

Feb 24 CMU Seth Fraden, Brandeis, "Engineering Entropy: Progress and Puzzles"

March 3 PITT Mark Chen, Queen's University, "Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory"

March 10 CMU Robert Rosner, University of Chicago, "Blowing up stars in one's office..."

March 11 CMU Hans-Guenther Doebereiner, Max Planck Institute/Columbia University, "Physics and Biology of Interfaces: Insights and New Questions"

March 24 CMU Ned Wright, UCLA, "MAPping the Universe"

March 31 CMU Moishe Pripstein, "Unconventional Physics-from the Kennedy Assassination to Cold Fusion: Breakthroughs, Breakdowns and Reactions,"

April 7 CMU Buhl lecture, Steven Chu, Stanford University, "Single Molecule Biology: It's More than Just Showing Off",
Mellon Institute Auditorium

April 14 PITT Lillian C. McDermott, University of Washington, "Physics Education Research: The key to student learning"

April 28 PITT John Terning, LANL, "Axion Cosmology"

May 5 CMU David Landau, University of Georgia, "A New Approach to Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics" Please note that this talk will start at 4:15 PM with coffee at 4:00 PM

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Dates For Fall 2002
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Sept 16	PITT	Dr. Eric Swanson, Univ. of Pittsburgh, "Confinement and Exotic Particles"
Sept 23	CMU	Ron Shen, U. C. Berkeley, "Nonlinear Optical Probing of Molecular Chirality,"
Sept 24	PITT	Ron Shen, U. C. Berkeley, "Surface Melting of Ice", 2:30 PM, Room 12 Chevron Science Center, PITT
Sept 30	CMU	Ralph Chamberlin, Arizona State University, "Nanothermodynamics and Bose-Ising Statistics"
Oct 7	PITT	Albert Libchaber, Rockefeller, "Stochastic Computation in Biology Using RecA Polymerization"
Oct 14	PITT	Dr. Julia Shifman, Caltech, "Computational Protein Design"
Oct 21	CMU	David Kestenbaum, NPR, "My Father Sees Muons in the Driveway or How to Explain Science to Everybody Else"
Oct 28	CMU	Timothy Hallman, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Topic: The STAR Experiment
Nov 4	CMU	Fred Gilman, CMU, "Particle Physics in the 21st Century"
Nov 11	CMU	Eric Adelberger, University of Washington, "Testing the gravitational inverse square law for length scales less than 1mm"
Nov 18	CMU	Robert Wald, University of Chicago, "Black Holes, Thermodynamics and the "Information Paradox""
Nov 25	PITT	David Latham, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, "The Search for Habitable Planets"
Dec 2	PITT	Prof. Tom Weiler, Vanderbilt University, "Highest Energy Cosmic Rays: Puzzles, Models, and maybe Neutrinos"
Dates For Spring 2003
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Feb 3	CMU	Richard Martin, Urbana, "The nature of the insulating state: Theory of polarization and localization of electrons in insulators and relatons to Berry's phases"
Feb 10	CMU	Francis Halzen, Wisconsin, "High Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Results from the South Pole,"
Feb 17	PITT	Bhuvnesh Jain, University of Pennsylvania, "The Clustering of Massive Halos and Cosmology"
Feb 24	CMU	Seth Fraden, Brandeis, "Engineering Entropy: Progress and Puzzles"
March 3	PITT	Mark Chen, Queen's University, "Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem with the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory"
March 10	CMU	Robert Rosner, University of Chicago, "Blowing up stars in one's office..."
March 11	CMU	Hans-Guenther Doebereiner, Max Planck Institute/Columbia University, "Physics and Biology of Interfaces: Insights and New Questions"
March 24	CMU	Ned Wright, UCLA, "MAPping the Universe"
March 31	CMU	Moishe Pripstein, "Unconventional Physics-from the Kennedy Assassination to Cold Fusion: Breakthroughs, Breakdowns and Reactions,"
April 7	CMU	Buhl lecture, Steven Chu, Stanford University, "Single Molecule Biology: It's More than Just Showing Off", Mellon Institute Auditorium
April 14	PITT	Lillian C. McDermott, University of Washington, "Physics Education Research: The key to student learning"
April 28	PITT	John Terning, LANL, "Axion Cosmology"
May 5	CMU	David Landau, University of Georgia, "A New Approach to Monte Carlo Methods in Statistical Physics" Please note that this talk will start at 4:15 PM with coffee at 4:00 PM