Fall 2003

Physics and Related Fields
Mondays at 4:30 p.m.
Schwartz Auditorium - Rockefeller Hall
Refreshments 4:00 - 4:20 p.m.

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Fall 2003 Schedule

Sept 8
Michelle Wang - Cornell University
Title:  Probing Gene Expression and regulation  at the Single Molecule Level

Sept 15
Stuart Freedman - University of California at Berkeley
Title:  First Results from KamLAND

Sept 22
Eshen Ben-Jacob - Tel Aviv University
Title:  Why Bacteria Go Complex:  Higher Flexibility for Better Adaptability

Sept 29
Scott A. Diddams - National Inst of Standards, Boulder, Colorado
Title:  Optical Atomic Clocks: Science and Metrology on the Femtosecond Time Scale

Oct 6
Martin Schmaltz - Boston University
Title: New Physics at the LHC:  Maybe the Little Higgs

October 13 - FALL BREAK

Oct 20
Qun Shen - Cornell University
Title:  X-Ray Imaging and Microscopy Applications and Future Opportunities with an ERL Source

Oct 27
Carlos Bustamante - University of California at Berkeley
Title:  Grabbing the Cat by the Tail:  Studies of the Packaging of DNA by Single Ph29 Bateriophage Particles using Optical Twizers

Nov 3
Valery Nesvizhevsky - Institute Laue - Langevin, France
Title:  Quantum States of Neutrons in the Gravitational Field, Short-Range Forces and Interaction of Ultracold Neutrons with Nanoparticles

Nov 10
Boris Altshuler - Princeton University and NEC Laboratories-America
Title:  Disorder + Interactions in Electronic Systems

Nov 17
Bob Ecke - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title:  Granular Chains:  Knots, Random Walks and Statistical Mechanics

Nov 24
Jim Cordes - Cornell University
Title:  The Radio Universe:  Arecibo and Next Generation Radio Telescopes

Dec 1
Gerald Gabrielse - Harvard University
Title:  Obserations of Cold Antihydrogen and Fundamental Measurements