CMU/Pitt physics colloquium schedule

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2003/2004

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 2003

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Sept. 15 CMU J. J. Kasianowicz (NIST) "DNA Transport in Single Nanopores: Potential Applications in Biotechnology?"

Sept. 29 PITT Fred Sachs (SUNY Buffalo) "Electrophysiology by AFM"

Oct. 9 CMU D. Chatenay (Strasbourg, France) "What can we learn from single molecule experiments?" (Note special day)

Oct. 20 PITT Elisha Moses, Weizmann Inst. of Science, "Probing Shape Transitions in Cells"

Oct. 27 CMU Shelley Anna (CMU Mechanical Engineering), "Designing Emulsions One Drop at a Time"

Nov. 3 PITT Dr. Xiao-Lun Wu, Pitt, "Vesicle Dynamics in Single Synapses"

Nov. 10 CMU Reinhard Schumacher (CMU) "Hunting the Pentaquark"

Nov. 24 PITT Terry Hwa (UCSD), "Control of gene expression by molecular Boltzmann machines"

Dates For Spring 2004

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Jan. 12 CMU Chao Tang, NEC, "Biological Networks Are Robustly Designed"

Jan. 19 CMU Elizabeth Beise, University of Maryland, "Parity Violation and Strange Quarks in the Proton"

Feb. 2 PITT Prof. George Gollin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, "Buying a PhD from a University That Doesn't Exist"

Feb. 9 PITT Prof. Dan Marlow, Princeton University, "Beautiful Physics Results from BELLE"

Feb. 23 PITT Dr. Paul Corkum, National Research Council, Canada, "Attosecond Science"

March 1 CMU Prof. Phillip Phillips, University of Illinois, "The Full Mottness: Asymptotic Slavery"

March 15 PITT Dr. Susan Coppersmith (University of Wisconsin), "Comparing classical and quantum complex systems"

March 18 PITT John David Crawford Memorial Lecture, Prof. Leo P. Kadanoff, Univ. of Chicago, "Scientific Computer Simulation: From the Excellent to the Awful" NOTE SPECIAL DAY

March 19 PITT Prof. Leo P. Kadanoff, University of Chicago, "Something New in 2-D: Singularities, Fractals, and Critical Behavior via Loewner Evolution", 106 Allen Hall, 2:00 PM, Coffee at 1:45 PM, NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME

April 5 PITT Eric Mazur, Harvard University, "Femtosecond Laser Micromachining: Applications in Technology and Biology"

April 12 CMU Andrew Connolly, Pitt, "Searching in the Dark: Energy and Matter in the Universe"

April 20 CMU Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University, ""See" Proteins in Action Using Infrared Light"

April 26 CMU Prof. Robert Joynt, University of Wisconsin, "Quantum Pattern Recognition"

April 27 CMU Buhl Lecture, Michael Turner, University of Chicago, "The Dark Side of the Universe--Beyond stars and the starstuff we are made of", 4:30 PM Mellon Institute Auditorium, Reception at 5:30 PM, NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND LOCATION

May 3 PITT Mark Goulian, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "Circuit science of two-component signaling systems"

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Dates For Fall 2003
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Sept. 15	CMU	J. J. Kasianowicz (NIST) "DNA Transport in Single Nanopores: Potential Applications in Biotechnology?"
Sept. 29	PITT	Fred Sachs (SUNY Buffalo) "Electrophysiology by AFM"
Oct. 9	CMU	D. Chatenay (Strasbourg, France) "What can we learn from single molecule experiments?" (Note special day)
Oct. 20	PITT	Elisha Moses, Weizmann Inst. of Science, "Probing Shape Transitions in Cells"
Oct. 27	CMU	Shelley Anna (CMU Mechanical Engineering), "Designing Emulsions One Drop at a Time"
Nov. 3	PITT	Dr. Xiao-Lun Wu, Pitt, "Vesicle Dynamics in Single Synapses"
Nov. 10	CMU	Reinhard Schumacher (CMU) "Hunting the Pentaquark"
Nov. 24	PITT	Terry Hwa (UCSD), "Control of gene expression by molecular Boltzmann machines"
Dates For Spring 2004
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Jan. 12	CMU	Chao Tang, NEC, "Biological Networks Are Robustly Designed"
Jan. 19	CMU	Elizabeth Beise, University of Maryland, "Parity Violation and Strange Quarks in the Proton"
Feb. 2	PITT	Prof. George Gollin, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, "Buying a PhD from a University That Doesn't Exist"
Feb. 9	PITT	Prof. Dan Marlow, Princeton University, "Beautiful Physics Results from BELLE"
Feb. 23	PITT	Dr. Paul Corkum, National Research Council, Canada, "Attosecond Science"
March 1	CMU	Prof. Phillip Phillips, University of Illinois, "The Full Mottness: Asymptotic Slavery"
March 15	PITT	Dr. Susan Coppersmith (University of Wisconsin), "Comparing classical and quantum complex systems"
March 18	PITT	John David Crawford Memorial Lecture, Prof. Leo P. Kadanoff, Univ. of Chicago, "Scientific Computer Simulation: From the Excellent to the Awful" NOTE SPECIAL DAY
March 19	PITT	Prof. Leo P. Kadanoff, University of Chicago, "Something New in 2-D: Singularities, Fractals, and Critical Behavior via Loewner Evolution", 106 Allen Hall, 2:00 PM, Coffee at 1:45 PM, NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND TIME
April 5	PITT	Eric Mazur, Harvard University, "Femtosecond Laser Micromachining: Applications in Technology and Biology"
April 12	CMU	Andrew Connolly, Pitt, "Searching in the Dark: Energy and Matter in the Universe"
April 20	CMU	Aihua Xie, Oklahoma State University, ""See" Proteins in Action Using Infrared Light"
April 26	CMU	Prof. Robert Joynt, University of Wisconsin, "Quantum Pattern Recognition"
April 27	CMU	Buhl Lecture, Michael Turner, University of Chicago, "The Dark Side of the Universe--Beyond stars and the starstuff we are made of", 4:30 PM Mellon Institute Auditorium, Reception at 5:30 PM, NOTE SPECIAL DAY AND LOCATION
May 3	PITT	Mark Goulian, Univ. of Pennsylvania, "Circuit science of two-component signaling systems"