Physics Colloquium

The Spring 2000 Series

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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