Fall 2004

PHYSICS AND RELATED FIELDS
Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
Schwartz Auditorium - Rockefeller Hall
Refreshments 4:00 - 4:20 p.m.

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FALL 2004 Schedule

Aug 30
Bruce Knuteson - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title:  Searching for a Guaranteed Surprise:  Systematic Analysis of Frontier Energy Collider Data

Sept 6
No Seminar Today

Sept 13
Juan Carlos Campuzano - University of Illinois
Title:  What Does Photoemission Tell us About the Electrons in High Temperature Superconductors?

Sept 20
Cumrun Vafa - Harvard University
Title:  Quantum Foam and Melting Crystal

Sept 27
Daniel Kleppner - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title:  Can A Boost-Phase Intercept System Assist Missile Defense?

Oct 4
David R. Nelson - Harvard University
Title:  Spherical Crystallography:  Virus Buckling and Grain Boundary Scars

Oct 11 - FALL BREAK

Oct 18
Albert Libchaber - Rockefeller University
Bethe Lectures
Title:  Some Physical Aspects of the Origin of Life and of Artificial Cells

Oct 25
Albert Libchaber - Rockefeller University
Bethe Lectures
Title:  From Physics Techniques to Biological Observation

Nov 1
Peter Lepage - Cornell University
Title:  The Fall and Rise of Lattice QCD, Part II:  High-Precision Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment

Nov 8
Roy Briere - Carnegie Mellon University
Title:  First Results from CLEO-c and CESR-c

Nov 15
Michael Peskin - Stanford University
Title:  The International Linear Collider:  The Next Step in High-Energy Electron-Positron Physics

Nov 22
Sidney Nagel - University of Chicago
Title:  Physics and the Breakfast Table

Nov 29
Geoff Marcy - University of California at Berkeley
Thomas Gold Lecture Series
Title:  The Properties of Planetary Systems