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

Physics Colloquium Spring 2006 ~Thursdays since 1923~ Thursdays, 4 p.m. Room 141 Loomis Laboratory Co-Chairs—Paul M. Goldbart and David W. Hertzog

January 19, 2006	Professor Bradley Filippone California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA	How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Physics
January 26, 2006	Professor A. Douglas Stone Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics Department of Applied Physics Yale University New Haven CT	Einstein’s Unknown Insight and the Problem of Quantizing Chaotic Motion
February 2, 2006	Professor Scott S. Willenbrock Department of Physics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana IL	Particle Physics: Past, Present, and Future
February 9, 2006	Professor Gerald Gabrielse George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics Department of Physics Harvard University Cambridge MA	One-Electron Quantum Cyclotron Yields a New Electron Magnetic Moment and Fine Structure Constant
February 16, 2006	Professor Barry Barish Linde Professor of Physics Director, Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) California Institute of Technology Pasadena CA	Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves
February 23, 2006	Professor Steven Chu 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate Theodore and Francis Geballe Professor of Physics (Stanford University) and Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Department of Physics Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley CA USA	The Role of Fluctuations in Enzymatic Activity
March 2, 2006	Professor Adam Burrows Department of Theoretical Astrophysics University of Arizona Tucson AZ USA	A New Mechanism for Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions
March 9, 2006	Professor Wolfgang Ketterle 2001 Nobel Laureate in Physics Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology–Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms Cambridge MA USA	Observation of High-Temperature Superfluidity in a Gas of Fermionic Atoms
March 16, 2006	NO COLLOQUIUM	APS MARCH MEETING
March 23, 2006	NO COLLOQUIUM	SPRING BREAK
March 30, 2006	Professor Michael Tinkham Rumford Professor of Physics & Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics Department of Physics Harvard University Cambridge MA USA	Annual Slichter Colloquium: 50 years of Superconductivity
April 6, 2006	Professor William A. Zajc Physics Department Columbia University New York NY US	The Fluid Nature of Quark-Gluon Plasma
April 13, 2006	Professor Richard Packard Department of Physics University of California Berkeley CA USA	Superfluid Weak Links: Physics and Applications
April 20, 2006	Professor Matthew P. A. Fisher Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA USA	Quantum Choreography: Exotica inside Crystals
April 27, 2006	Professor Emeritus Kurt Gottfried Co-founder and Chair of the Union of Concerned Scientists Department of Physics Cornell University Ithaca NY USA	Science Meets Politics: From Thomas Jefferson to George W. Bush