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Speaker |
Affiliation |
Topic |
Host (Division) |
September 11
in the MSL
Auditorium |
Akira Iwamoto |
Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute |
OKLO vs QSO—on time-variability
of the fine structure constant |
Peter Moller, (T) |
| September 18 |
Terry Sejnowski |
Salk University |
Communication in Neuronal
Networks |
Garrett Kenyon (P) |
| Friday
September 26 |
Adam Arkin |
Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ UC Berkeley, LBNL |
The comparative analysis of microbial stress response |
Bill Hlavacek (T) |
| Friday
October 3 |
Philip Russell |
U of Bath, UK |
Photonic Crystal Fibres |
(P) |
| October 9 |
Thomas Leitner |
LANL, T-10 |
On the Origin of the Domestic
Dog |
(T) |
| October 16 |
John Singleton |
LANL, MST-NHMFL |
Lawbreakers? The physics
of superluminal sources |
Michelle Espy (P) |
October 23
in the Rosen
Auditorium |
Vladimir Lobastov |
Cal Tech |
Ultrafast Electron Diffraction
as a New Tool for Studies of Structural Kinetics |
Fio Omenetto (P) |
| October 30 |
Herschel Rabitz |
Princeton |
Shaped Laser Pulses Acting
as Adaptive "Reagents" |
(P) |
November 6
in the Rosen
Auditorium |
Andrew Cohen |
Boston U |
Electroweak Superconductivity
and the Little Higgs |
John Terning (T) |
| November 13 |
Nicolaas Bloembergen |
U of Arizona and Harvard |
Nonlinear Optics; Past, Present, and Future |
(P) |
| November 20 |
Robert Laughlin |
Stanford U |
The Hunt for the Deceitful Turkey: The Dark Laws of Quantum
Mechanics |
Fio Omenetto (P) |
| November 27 |
Holiday |
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| December 4 |
William H. Goldstein |
Lawrence Livermore NL |
From Quarks to Livermore
to the Cosmos |
Dan Strottman (T) |
| December 11 |
Andrea Cavalleri |
Lawrence Berkeley |
Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction
and Absorption |
(P) |
| December 18 |
Marcus Knudson |
Sandia NL |
Hugoniot, Reverberating
Wave, and Mechanical Reshock Measurements of Liquid Deuterium
to 400 GPa Using Plate Impact Techniques |
J. D. Johnson (T) |
| December 25 |
Holiday |
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| January 8, 2004 |
Umar Mohideen |
UC Riverside |
Exploring the Quantum
Vacuum through the Casimir Effect |
Peter Milonni (T) |
| January 15, 2004 |
Gary
Olsen |
U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
A Tree in the Jungle of Gene
Histories: Or, don't trip on the vines |
Bette Korber (T) |
| January 22, 2004 |
Dana Berkeland |
LANL, P-21 |
Searching for Non-Randomness
of Quantum Mechanics with Trapped Ions |
Michelle Espy (P) |
| January 29, 2004 |
Emily Carter |
UCLA |
Linking Quantum and Continuum
Mechanics to Study Mechanical Response of Materials |
Matt Chalacombe (T) |
| February 5, 2004 |
Ming Liu |
LANL, P-25 |
RHIC/PHENIX |
(P) |
| February 12, 2004 |
Neil Ashcroft |
Cornell U |
Higher Superconductivity
in the Compressed Lower Elements |
Stephane Mazevet (T) |
| February 19, 2004 |
Steven
K. Dower |
U of Sheffield, UK |
Signaling networks in inflammation and innate immunnity |
Bill Hlavacek (T) |
| February 26, 2004 |
Louis Rosocha |
LANL, P-24 |
Plasma-Assisted Combustion |
Michelle Espy (P) |
| March 4, 2004 |
Ann Nelson |
U of Washington |
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Bill Louis (P) |
| March 11, 2004 |
Jose N. Onuchic |
UC San Diego |
Exploring the Protein Funnel
Energy Landscape for Folding and Function |
Angel Garcia (T) |
| March 18, 2004 |
Cancelled |
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| March 25, 2004 |
Margaret Murnane |
U of Colorado |
Multiphoton EUV Photonics |
Fio Omenetto (P) |
| April 1, 2004 |
Rolfe Petschek |
Case Western Reserve |
Ferroelectric liquid crystals:
Realities and possibilities |
Michelle Espy (P) |
| April 8, 2004 |
Hoi-Kwong Lo |
U of Toronto |
From Quantum Cheating to Quantum Security |
Fio Omenetto (P) |
| April 15, 2004 |
David Montgomery |
LANL, P-24 |
Towards Developing a
Fundamental Understanding of Laser-Plasma Interaction Physics |
Louis Rosocha (P) |
| April 22, 2004 |
John Guckenheimer |
Cornell U |
Canards, Chaos, and Relaxation Oscillations |
(T) |
| April 29, 2004 |
Mark Ratner |
Northwestern U |
Molecular Nanostructures:
Fabrication and Transport Aspects |
S. Tretiak (T) |
| May 6, 2004 |
David J. Srolovitz |
Princeton U |
Computational Modeling of the Dynamics of Dislocations |
Art Voter (T) |
| May 13, 2004 |
Julio M. Ottino |
Northwestern U |
Dynamics of Segregation, Mixing, and Coarsening of Granular Matter |
Zoltan Toroczkai (T) |
| May 20, 2004 |
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| May 27, 2004 |
John D. Weeks |
U of Maryland |
Screening, Structure, and Simulations of Ionic Fluids:
The Long and Short of It |
Lawrence Pratt (T) |
June 3, 2004
TA-3, 1698, A103 (MSL) |
Boris Ya. Zeldovich |
U of Central Florida |
Bi-frequency pendulum on a rotary platform: Modeling various optical phenomena |
Misha Chertkov (T) |
June 10, 2004
TA-3, 1698, A103 (MSL) |
Malcolm Steinberg |
Princeton U |
Embryonic tissues as living liquids: A thermodynamic descent from organ to tissue to cell to molecule |
Y. Jiang (T) |
| July 1, 2004 |
Dudley Herschbach |
Harvard |
Dimensional Scaling: Morphing Quantum into Classical Mechanics |
Fio Omenetto (P) |
| *Location to be announced |
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The P/T Colloquium is
typically held each
Thursday, 3:45–5:00 PM.
Refreshments are served
at 3:15 PM.
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