Fall 2006

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 2006 Schedule

Aug 28
Bill Louis - Los Alamos National Laboratory
Title:  Searching for Neutrino Oscillations with MiniBooNE

Sept 4
No Seminar

Sept 11
Mark Trodden - Syracuse University
Title:  Gravitational Approaches to Cosmic Acceleration

Sept 18
Kerry Emanuel - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title:  Is Global Warming Increasing Hurrican Activity?

Sept 25
Persis Drell - Stanford University
Title:  GLAST:  The Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope

Oct 2
Csaba Csaki - Cornell University
Title:  Searching for the Mechanism of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

Oct 9 - FALL BREAK

Oct 16
David Gross - Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC at Santa Barbara
Bethe Lectures
Title:  The Search for a Theory of Fundamental Reality:  The Theory of Elementary Particles

Oct 23
Ziao-Gang Wen - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title:  An Origin of Light, Fermions, and Gravity

Oct 30
Henry Greenside - Duke University
Title:  Songbirds and Synfire Chains

Nov 6
Greg Boebinger - Florida State University
Title:  Levitation, Superconductivity, and the World’s Largest Magnets

Nov 13
Michael Oppenheimer - Princeton University
Title:  How Warm is Too Warm?  Global Warming, Sea Level Rise, and the Future of the Polar Ice Sheets

Nov 20
Neil Ashby - National Institute of Standards and Technology
Title:  Relativity in the Global Positioning System

Nov 27
Daniel Fisher - Harvard University
Title:  Is Evolution Understood?  Quantitative Questions from a Statistical Mechanic