CMU/Pitt physics colloquium schedule

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY -
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH

Physics Colloquium Schedule for 2004/2005

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 2004

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Aug. 30 PITT Hari Manoharan, Stanford University, "Manipulation of Matter at the Spatial Limit,"

Sept. 20 PITT Dr. Jeremy Levy, Pitt, "Quantum Computing with Electron Spins in Semiconductors"

Sept. 27 CMU Prof. Mark Alford, Washington University, "Superconducting Quarks"

Oct. 4 PITT Prof. Shmuel Nussinov, Tel Aviv Unitersity, "A physicist's approach to complex problems"

Oct. 11 CMU Wojciech H. Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Quantum Origins of the Classical"

Oct. 18 CMU Michael Dine, UC Santa Cruz, "The Landscape of String Theory"

Nov. 1 CMU Seamus Davis, Cornell University, "The Secret Order of the Cuprates"

Nov. 8 PITT Regina Schulte-Ladbeck, University of Pittsburgh, "Chemical Evolution with Cosmic Time"

Nov. 22 CMU Roy Briere, CMU, "The CLEO-c and CESR-c Program: How We Got Here and First Results"

Nov. 29 PITT John Hillier, University of Pittsburgh, "Quantitative Spectroscopy: Massive Stars, Winds & Supernovae"

Dec. 6 PITT David Nelson, Harvard University, "Pauses and Jumps in Single Molecule Biophysics Experiments"

Dec. 13 PITT Moses Chan, Penn State University, "Observation of Superflow in Solid Helium"

Dates For Spring 2005

Date Place Person, affiliation, topic or "title"

Jan. 10 PITT Hideo Mabuchi, Caltech, "Quantum control and nano-photonics in quantum information science"

Jan. 24 PITT Ken Krane, Oregon State University, "The Characteristics of Thriving Undergraduate Physics Programs: Lessons from Project SPIN-UP"

Jan. 31 PITT Prof. Jason Ho, Ohio State University, "The Exploding Field of Quantum Gases"

Feb. 3 CMU Mathias Loesche, NIST, "Molecular-scale characterization of adaptive ("soft") condensed matter at interfaces," 4:30 PM, NOTE SPECIAL DAY, Room TBA

Feb. 7 PITT Michael Dennin, University of California at Irvine, "Foam Under Stress: the response of foam to applied strain"

Feb. 14 PITT Edward Gerjuoy, Pitt, "Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger"

Feb. 21 CMU Harold Baranger, Duke University, "Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures"

March 7 PITT Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg, Germany, "Turbulence transition without linear instability"

March 21 CMU Steven Adler, Institute for Advanced Study, "Anomalies"

March 28 PITT Vladimir Savinov, University of Pittsburgh, "ATLAS Experiment at the LHC and the (HEP) World of Tomorrow"

April 4 CMU Prof. Robert Scherrer, Vanderbilt University, "Dark Energy and the Coincidence Problem"

April 11 PITT Prof. Keith Baker, Hampton University, "Quantum Universe"

April 18 CMU John Henry Scott, "Electron Microscopy and Tomography"

April 21 CMU Buhl Lecture, Dr. Hitoshi Murayama, University of California at Berkeley, "E=MC^2",

April 25 CMU Prof. Ian Shipsey, Purdue University, "Bringing Hearing to the Deaf, Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account"

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Dates For Fall 2004
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Aug. 30	PITT	Hari Manoharan, Stanford University, "Manipulation of Matter at the Spatial Limit,"
Sept. 20	PITT	Dr. Jeremy Levy, Pitt, "Quantum Computing with Electron Spins in Semiconductors"
Sept. 27	CMU	Prof. Mark Alford, Washington University, "Superconducting Quarks"
Oct. 4	PITT	Prof. Shmuel Nussinov, Tel Aviv Unitersity, "A physicist's approach to complex problems"
Oct. 11	CMU	Wojciech H. Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Quantum Origins of the Classical"
Oct. 18	CMU	Michael Dine, UC Santa Cruz, "The Landscape of String Theory"
Nov. 1	CMU	Seamus Davis, Cornell University, "The Secret Order of the Cuprates"
Nov. 8	PITT	Regina Schulte-Ladbeck, University of Pittsburgh, "Chemical Evolution with Cosmic Time"
Nov. 22	CMU	Roy Briere, CMU, "The CLEO-c and CESR-c Program: How We Got Here and First Results"
Nov. 29	PITT	John Hillier, University of Pittsburgh, "Quantitative Spectroscopy: Massive Stars, Winds & Supernovae"
Dec. 6	PITT	David Nelson, Harvard University, "Pauses and Jumps in Single Molecule Biophysics Experiments"
Dec. 13	PITT	Moses Chan, Penn State University, "Observation of Superflow in Solid Helium"

Dates For Spring 2005
Date	Place	Person, affiliation, topic or "title"
Jan. 10	PITT	Hideo Mabuchi, Caltech, "Quantum control and nano-photonics in quantum information science"
Jan. 24	PITT	Ken Krane, Oregon State University, "The Characteristics of Thriving Undergraduate Physics Programs: Lessons from Project SPIN-UP"
Jan. 31	PITT	Prof. Jason Ho, Ohio State University, "The Exploding Field of Quantum Gases"
Feb. 3	CMU	Mathias Loesche, NIST, "Molecular-scale characterization of adaptive ("soft") condensed matter at interfaces," 4:30 PM, NOTE SPECIAL DAY, Room TBA
Feb. 7	PITT	Michael Dennin, University of California at Irvine, "Foam Under Stress: the response of foam to applied strain"
Feb. 14	PITT	Edward Gerjuoy, Pitt, "Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger"
Feb. 21	CMU	Harold Baranger, Duke University, "Interference and Interactions in Electronic Nanostructures"
March 7	PITT	Bruno Eckhardt, University of Marburg, Germany, "Turbulence transition without linear instability"
March 21	CMU	Steven Adler, Institute for Advanced Study, "Anomalies"
March 28	PITT	Vladimir Savinov, University of Pittsburgh, "ATLAS Experiment at the LHC and the (HEP) World of Tomorrow"
April 4	CMU	Prof. Robert Scherrer, Vanderbilt University, "Dark Energy and the Coincidence Problem"
April 11	PITT	Prof. Keith Baker, Hampton University, "Quantum Universe"
April 18	CMU	John Henry Scott, "Electron Microscopy and Tomography"
April 21	CMU	Buhl Lecture, Dr. Hitoshi Murayama, University of California at Berkeley, "E=MC^2",
April 25	CMU	Prof. Ian Shipsey, Purdue University, "Bringing Hearing to the Deaf, Cochlear Implants: a Technical and Personal Account"