Fall 2005

PHYSICS AND RELATED FIELDS
Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
Schwartz Auditorium - Rockefeller Hall
Refreshments 3:30 - 3:50 p.m.

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FALL 2005 Schedule

Sept 5
No Seminar 

Sept 12
Gary Westfall - Michigan State University
Kieval Lecture
Title:  Recent Results from RHIC:  Towards a Better Understanding of Polymer-Induced
Frag Reduction

Sept 19
Dung Hai Lee - University of California at Berkeley
Title:  How to Block Nature’s Tendency to Order

Sept 26
Pierre Ramond - University of Florida
Title:  Sunshine at Midnight

Oct 3
Stephen Olsen - University of Hawaii
Parratt Lecture
Title: Homeless Mesons

Oct 10 - FALL BREAK

Oc 17
Donald M. Eigler - IBM Almaden Research Center
Bethe Lectures
Title:  Information Transport and Computation in Nanometer-Scale Structures

Oct 24
Donald M. Eigler - IBM Almaden Research Center
Bethe Lectures
Title:  Single-Atom Spin-Excitation Spectroscopy

Oct 31
Karin A. Dahmen - University of Illinois - Urbana-Champsign
Title:  Crackling Noise and Disorder:  Learning from Magnets and Earthquakes

Nov 7
John Spence - Arizona State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
Title: Diffraction from a Beam of Laser-Aligned Proteins, and some Cavendish History

Nov 14
Neal Lane - Rice University
Title:  The Future of U.S. Science - Storm Clouds on the Horizon

Nov 21
John Reppy - Cornell University
Title:  The Search for the Super Solid

Nov 28
Paul Chaikin - New York University
Title:  Jammed Ellipsoids Beat Jammed Spheres:  Experiments with Candies, Colloids and Crystals