Physics Department at the University of Illinois, ca. 1923, when the tradition of Thursday Physics colloquia began.

Physics Colloquium Fall 2005 ~Thursdays since 1923~ Thursdays, 4 p.m. Room 141 Loomis Laboratory Co-Chairs—Paul M. Goldbart and David W. Hertzog

August 25, 2005	Professor Costas N. Papanicolas Department of Physics and Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications University of Athens Athens GREECE	The Shape of Hadrons
September 1, 2005	Professor Klaus Schulten Swanlund Professor of Physics Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL USA	What is Life? An Answer Sought from Photosynthetic Bacteria
September 8, 2005	Professor Claude Bernard Department of Physics Washington University St. Louis MO USA	Precision Results and Predictions from Lattice QCD
September 15, 2005	NO COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULED
September 22, 2005	Professor Gerard C. L. Wong Materials Science and Engineering and Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL USA	Electrostatic Interactions in Biological Complex Fluids
September 29, 2005	Professor Douglas H. Beck Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL USA	Many-Body Physics and QCD: The Old Proton and the Sea
October 6, 2005	Professor J. C. Séamus Davis Professor of Physics Department of Physics Cornell University Ithaca NY USA	Visualizing Complex Electronic Matter at the Atomic Scale
October 13, 2005	NO COLLOQUIUM SCHEDULED
October 20, 2005	Professor Michael Turner Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the National Science Foundation and Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago National Science Foundation and University of Chicago Arlington, VA and Chicago, IL	Big Questions and Bold Dreams: The Future of the Physical Sciences in the 21st Century
October 27, 2005	Professor N. Peter Armitage Recipient of 2005 McMillan Award NSF International Research Fellow Département de Physique de la Matière Condensée Université de Genève and The Johns Hopkins University Genève, Switzerland and Baltimore, MD	Between Electronics and Photonics: Terahertz Investigations of Complex Condensed Matter
November 3, 2005	Professor Rocky Kolb Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Chicago and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Batavia IL USA	Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Inflation
November 10, 2005	Professor Margaret Murnane Fellow of JILA Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Department of Physics JILA and University of Colorado at Boulder Boulder CO USA	Can We Make Atoms Sing and Molecules Dance? Using Fast Laser Pulses to Observe and Control Nature
November 17, 2005	Professor Francis Halzen Hilldale and Gregory Breit Professor Department of Physics University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison WI USA	High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy: Towards Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Observatories
November 24, 2005	NO COLLOQUIUM	THANKSGIVING BREAK
December 1, 2005	Professor Eric Adelberger Professor of Physics, Adjunct Professor of Astronomy Department of Physics University of Washington Seattle WA	Laboratory Tests of Newton’s and Einstein’s Gravity
December 8, 2005	Professor Douglas R. Hofstadter Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition Indiana University Bloomington IN	A Pocket-Sized Telling of the Genesis of the Greatest Ideas of the Greatest Thinker of All Time OR How Analogy Showed Einstein the Light, and Light Showed Einstein the Universe