Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Colloquium Meetings are held in
1200 Knudsen Hall at 3:30 pm,
unless posted otherwise

For more information, contact Alexander Kusenko

2004: | Winter | Spring | Fall |

2003: | Winter | Spring | Fall |


	Spring 2004
	April 8 Berndt Mueller (Duke) Experiencing life near the Big Bang: how hadrons are signaling the formation of deconfined quark-gluon matter at RHIC April 15 Chao Tang (NEC, Princeton) Physical design principles in molecular and cellular biology April 22 Alex Filippenko (UC Berkeley) Evidence from Type Ia Supernovae for a Decelerating, then Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy May 6 Robert Nelson (Council on Foreign Relations & Princeton U.) Nuclear Bunker Busters, Mini-nukes, and the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile May 13 Bruce Tromberg (UCI) Multi-Dimensional Optical Imaging in Thick Tissues: Contrast across spatial scales May 20 Roger Blandford (Stanford) Relativistic Outflows from Black Holes and Neutron Stars May 27 Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) Cosmic Explosions June 3 Brad Marston (Brown) Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming

	Winter 2004
	January 8 Min Ouyang (UCSB) Molecular Spintronics: Wiring Spin Coherence between Semiconductor Quantum Dots January 15 Michael Witherell (Fermilab) Discoveries Ahead in Particle Physics January 22 Ali Yazdani (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Mapping Electron Waves in High Temperature Superconductors January 29 Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech) Weird Gravity February 5 Carlo Montemagno (UCLA) The Surprising Role of Neutrinos in the Cosmos February 19 Saxon Lecture Margaret Kivelson (UCLA) The Physics of Planetary Magnetospheres February 26 Mikhail Shaposhnikov (EPFL, Lausanne) Baryon asymmetry of the Universe: a window to physics beyond the standard model March 4 Richard Garwin (Council on Foreign Relations & IBM) U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Explosion Testing Read Garwin's article about the discovery of parity non-conservation in muon decays: popular article (PDF), scientific paper. March 11 George Fuller (UCSD) The Surprising Role of Neutrinos in the Cosmos

	Fall 2003
	October 23 Juan Maldacena (IAS) QCD, strings and black holes: the Large N limit of field theories and gravity. October 30 Bruce D. Winstein (University of Chicago) The Cosmic Microwave Background November 6 Giovanni Zocchi (UCLA) DNA and single molecule devices November 13 Sterl Phinney (Caltech) LISA and the Future of Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy

	Spring 2003
	April 3 Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin) High Energy Neutrino Astonomy: Results from the South Pole April 10 Shmuel Nussinov (Tel Aviv) A simple, physicist's approach to complex problems May 8 Rick Trebino (Georgia Tech) The Musical Score, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, and the Measurement of the Shortest Events Ever Created May 15 Gregory Benford (UC Irvine)

	Winter 2003
	January 30 Jim Eisenstein (Caltech) The Quantum Hall Effect Meets Bose Condensation: Long Sought Superfluid Found? February 6 Ned Wright (UCLA) MAPping the Universe February 13 David Weitz (Harvard) Spheres on Spheres: Self Assembly and Structure of Colloidal Particles on Spherical Surfaces February 20 Saxon Lecture John Bahcall (IAS) Solar neutrinos: an overview February 27 Russ Donnelly (University of Oregon) Quantum Turbulence March 6 Rocky Kolb (Fermilab and U. Chicago) The 'Alarming' Phenomenon of Particle Creation in the Expanding Universe March 13 Eric Mazur (Harvard) Understanding or memorization: are we teaching the right thing?