| Date |
Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
Host (Division) |
| September 19 |
Eddy Timmermans |
LANL, T-4 |
The Prospect of Studying
Fermion Pairing in Atom Traps |
Peter W. Milonni (T) |
| September 26 |
Mike Holzscheiter |
P-23 |
First Production of
Cold Antihydrogen Atoms |
(P) |
| October 3 |
Hans V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus |
Max Planck Institut, Germany |
First Evidence for Neutrinoless
Double Beta Decay - New Physics Beyond the Standard Model |
Peter Herczeg (T) |
| October 10 |
Hans-Joachim Ziock |
LANL, EES-6 |
Zero Emission Coal, A New
Approach |
Hubert van Hecke (P) |
| October 17 |
John Matthews |
New Mexico Center for Particle Physics University of New
Mexico |
New Results on the Highest
Energy Cosmic Rays |
(P) |
| October 24 |
Lyudmila Zaitseva |
Stanford |
A Comprehensive Study
of Nuclear Smuggling Incidents Derived from Unclassified Sources |
Bill Priedhorsky (P) |
Cancelled
October 31 |
Valery Nesvishevsky |
|
Quantum Gravitational Steps in The Trapping of Ultra-Cold
Neutrons |
Tom Bowles (P) |
| November 7 |
Karl Alex Mueller |
U of Zurich, Switzerland |
The Development of Superconductivity
Research in Oxides |
Hans Frauenfelder (T) |
| November 14 |
Slava Turyshev |
|
The
Lost 1937 Arctic Flight of Soviet Aviation Hero Sigismund
Levanesky |
Michael Nieto (T) |
| November 21 |
Lee Collins |
LANL, T-4 |
Matter Under Extreme Conditions |
Stephane Mazevet (T) |
| December 5 |
Richard Schirato |
LANL, P-25 |
Status of the MiniBooNE
Neutrino Oscillation Experiment and a Connection to the Supernova
Neutrino Signal |
Michelle Espy (P) |
| December 12 |
Victor Flambaum |
The University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia |
Do The Fundamental Constants
of Nature Vary with Time and Distance? |
Mike Holzscheiter (P) |
| December 19 |
No colloquium will
be held. Physics Division personnel are invited to the P-Div
holiday party! |
| January 9 |
Rajan Gupta |
LANL, T-8 |
Discovering Elementary Particles
and Determining Their Masses |
(T) |
| January 16 |
Jorge Pullin |
Louisiana State U |
Colliding Black Holes: An
Experimental Challenge for Theoretical Relativists |
Gerardo Ortiz (T) |
| January 23 |
Krzysztof Szalewicz |
U of Delaware |
First-principles predictions
based on ab initio intermolecular potentials:
clusters and molecular condensed phase |
Eric Mas (T) |
| January 30 |
Jean-Luc Bredas |
U of Arizona, Tucson |
Characterization of Charge
Transport and Energy Transfer Processes in Organic Semiconductors |
Sergei Tretiak (T) |
| February 6 |
George Fuller |
UC San Diego |
The Neutrino Revolution:
Gravitational Collapse, the Origin of the Elements, and Dark
Matter |
Sanjay Reddy (T) |
| February 13 |
Gregory Stephens |
LANL, P-21 |
A Stranger in a Strange
Land: Physicist Tales from the World of Neuroscience |
Garrett Kenyon (P) |
| February 20 |
Chen-Yu Liu |
LANL, P-23 |
Superthermal Ultra-Cold Neutron
Sources |
Steve Lamoreaux (P) |
| February 27 |
Petr Eliseev |
U New Mexico |
Semiconductor Lasers: from
Homojunctions to Quantum Dots |
Tom Tierney (P) |
| March 6 |
Cancelled—no colloquium
this week. |
| March 13 |
John Cardy |
Oxford University |
Quantum Methods for Classical
Physics |
Misha Chertkov (T) |
| March 20 |
Alex Weiss |
U of Texas at Arlington |
Positron Annihilation Induced
Auger Electron Spectroscopy and Its Use in the Measurement
of the Dopler Broadened Annihilation Spectra of Individual
Core Levels |
Billy Butler (P) |
| March 27 |
Valery Nesvishevsky |
Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France |
Quantum States of
Ultra-Cold Neutrons in the Earth's Gravitational Field |
Tom Bowles (P) |
| April 3 |
Philip Taubman |
The New York Times |
Secret Empire: Eisenhower,
the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage |
Terry Goldman (T) |
| April 10 |
Daniel Fisher |
Harvard U |
A Statistical Physicist's
Look at Earthquakes |
Misha Chertkov (T) |
| April 17 |
Jim Bergquist |
NIST |
A Single-Atom Optical
Clock and a Test of the Stability of Fundamental Constants |
Dana Berkeland (P) |
| April 24 |
Demetri Psaltis |
Caltech |
Holographic Information
Systems |
Fio Omenetto (P) |
| May 1 |
John Martinis |
U of Colorado, Boulder |
Quantum Computation with
Josephson Junctions |
Mike Holzscheiter (P) |
| May 8 |
Emil Mottola |
LANL, T-8 |
Dark Energy and Condensate
Stars: a Quantum Alternative to Classical Black Holes |
(T) |
| May 15 |
Jorge Rocca |
Colorado State U |
Small-Scale Soft X-Ray Lasers
Excited by Fast Discharges and Applications |
Tom Tierney (P) |
| May 22 |
Alan Poon |
Lawrence Berkeley NL |
The Nu Odyssey 2002 |
Tom Bowles (P) |
| May 29 |
David J. Brady |
Duke U |
Geometric Sensors on Optical
Fields |
(P) |
