All talks will be held at 4:15 pm in Harriman Hall. Cookies and coffee will be served starting at 3:45.
| Spring Semester 2000 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Jan 25 | Michael Devoret Saclay, France & Yale University |
Electrical transport through single atoms and molecules (cancelled) |
| Feb 1 | Peter Stephens SUNY, Stony Brook |
Malaria, Medicine, and Monte Carlo |
| Feb 8 | Victor Flambaum University of New South Wales |
DOES THE FINE STRUCTURE CONSTANT VARY WITH TIME AND DISTANCE? |
| Feb 15 | Gerry Brown SUNY Stony Brook |
A Theory of Gamma Ray Bursters |
| Feb 22 | Howard Gordon Brookhaven National Laboratory |
The Next Big Thing in High Energy Physics |
| Feb 29 | Robert deZafra SUNY, Stony Brook |
The Hole in the Sky: What Hope for the Ozone Layer? |
| Mar 7 | Bohdan Paczynski, Princeton University Observatory |
Searching the whole sky for variability |
| Mar 14 | Robert Morse, University of Wisconsin |
Towards a Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Detector: The AMANDA/ICECUBE Experiment. |
| Mar 21 | No Colloquium |
Spring Break |
| Mar 28 | David Wineland NIST, Boulder, CO. |
Trapped Ions, Schrodinger's Cat and Quantum Computation |
| Apr 4 | Scott Tremaine Princeton University Observatory |
Black holes in the centers of galaxies |
| Apr 11 | Sidney Drell Stanford University |
The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Stockpile Stewardship and U.S. Security. |
| Apr 17 | Martinus Veltman University of Michigan, Emeritus |
Cancelling Infinities: A Personal View of the Development Towards Understanding the Renormalizability of Gauge Field Theories |
| Apr 18 | John Tranquada, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
Stripe Phases in High Temperature Superconductors |
| Apr 25 | Larry McLerran, Brookhaven National Laboratory |
The Colored Glass Condensate and eRHIC |
| May 2 | Graduate Student Achievement Recognition (Speaker: Peter Kahn) | Max Dresden's Legacy |