Welcome to the Spring 2000 Colloquium Series Physics Colloquium


The Spring 2000 Series


Thursdays at 4:00pm
Room 141 in Loomis Lab
1110 West Green Street, Urbana
Please send your comments and suggestions
to the Colloquium Chair:
Aida El-Khadra
Coffee and Refreshments will be served in the lobby at 3:30pm.

Click here for maps and directions to and from Loomis Lab


The Schedule
Date
Speaker
Title
Jan 20 Prof. Eric Mazur
Harvard University
Understanding or Memorization: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?
Jan 27 Prof. Kevin Pitts
UIUC, HEPG
The Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter
Feb 3 Prof. Lillian Hoddeson
UIUC, History Dept.
The Life and Science of John Bardeen:
A Profile of Scientific Creativity
Feb 10 Prof. Eric Adelberger
Univ of Washington
Experimental Tests of the Equivalence Principle
Feb 17 Prof. Harry Drickamer
UIUC, Emeritus
Some Applications of Pressure Tuning Spectroscopy
Feb 24 Prof. C. Thompson
Univ. North Carolina
New Perspectives on Neutron Star Magnetism
Mar 2 Prof. Peter Lepage
Cornell University
What is Renormalization, Anyway?
Mar 9 Prof. Dennis Hall
U of Rochester
Circular Bragg Microlasers and Their Properties
Mar 16 NO SEMINAR
SPRING BREAK
Mar 23 NO SEMINAR
APS March Meeting
Mar 30 Prof. David Nelson
Harvard University
Localization and Population Biology
April 6 Prof. Albert Libchaber
Rockefeller University
Reading Genomes and Controlling Gene Expression
April 13 Prof. Robert Laughlin
Stanford University
Pseudogap Ordering in High Tc Superconductors
April 20 Prof. Lene Hau
Harvard University
The Art of Taming Light to Bicycle Speed
April 27 Prof. Brian Greene
Columbia University
String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime
May 4 NO SEMINAR
READING DAY

Maintained by Donna L. Guzy 2/29/00 d-guzy@illinois.edu