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

Physics Colloquium Spring 2004 ~Thursdays since 1923~ Thursdays, 4 p.m. Room 141 Loomis Laboratory Semester Chair-Vijay Pandharipande

 

January 22, 2004	Professor Anthony J. Leggett 2003 Nobel Laureate in Physics Department of Physics University of Illinois Urbana IL	Superfluid 3-He: The Early Days as Seen by a Theorist
January 29, 2004	Professor Charles M. Falco Chair of Condensed Matter Physics Professor of Optical Sciences Department of Physics, Optical Sciences Center University of Arizona Tucson AZ	Optics at the Dawn of the Renaissance
February 5, 2004	Professor Aurel Bulgac Department of Physics University of Washington Seattle WA USA	The Many Facets of Superfluidity in Dilute Fermi Systems
February 12, 2004	Professor Philip Nelson Department of Physics and Astronomy Penn State University Philadelphia PA USA	From Spinning Tops to DNA
February 19, 2004	Professor Andrew Cleland Associate Professor of Physics Department of Physics University of California Santa Barbara CA	Quantum Electromechanical Systems: Are we There Yet?
February 26, 2004	Professor Tom Browder Physics Department University of Hawaii Honolulu HI	CP Violation from Belle
March 4, 2004	Professor James Wolfe Department of Physics and Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL USA	Imaging Excitonic Matter and Phonons in Crystals
March 11, 2004	Professor C. Megan Urry Director, Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics Department of Physics Yale University New Haven CT USA	The Demographics of Supermassive Black Holes
March 18, 2004	Professor David J. Wineland Physics, NIST Boulder Laboratories National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder CO	Quantum-mechanical Entanglement and Raising Schrödinger's Cat
March 25, 2004	No Colloquium -SPRING BREAK	No Colloquium-Spring Break
April 1, 2004	Professor Susan W. Kieffer Walgreen Professor of Geology Department of Geology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL	The Physics of Geologic Nozzles
April 8, 2004	Professor Nigel Goldenfeld Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Ecology and Evolution at the Forgotten Frontier: The Biocomplexity of Microbes
April 15, 2004	Professor Carl Wieman 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physics Department of Physics & JILA University of Colorado Boulder CO	Applying the Tools of Physics to Teaching Physics
April 22, 2004	Professor William A. Zajc Department of Physics Columbia University New York NY	SPECIAL COLLOQUIUM: Spring 2004 Axel Lecture-Recent Discoveries at RHIC: Do They Indicate a New State of Matter?
April 29, 2004	Dr. Robert A. Eisenstein President Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe NM	Searching for Creativity: Tales from the Santa Fe Institute