Spring 2004

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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Spring 2004 Schedule

Jan 26
Gerry Jackson - Hbar Technologies. LLC
Title:  Chasing the Dream of Antimatter Commercialization

Feb 2
Harold Rose - LBL - Government
Title:  State and Prospects of Aberration-Corrected High-Resolution Energy-Filtering Electron Microscopes

Feb 9
Gabriela Gonzalez - Loouisiana State University
Title: Gravitational Waves:  New Eyes for Physics and Astronomy

Feb 16
Greg Landsberg - Brown University
Title:  Out-of-This World Physics:  Probing Quantum Gravity in the Lab

Feb 23
Abraham Stroock - Cornell University
Title:  Patterning Microflows

Mar 1
Sivan Kartha - Stockholm Environment Institute’s Climate Program
Title:  The Carbon-Hydrogen Bond:  How Strong is the Interaction between Global Warming and the “Hydrogen Economy?”

Mar 8
Subir Sachdev - Yale University
Title:  Quantum Phase Transitions:  From Mott Insulators tot he Cuprate Superconductors

Mar 15
Joanna Aizenberg - Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Title:  Lessons in Optics from the Deep

Mar 22 - SPRING BREAK

Mar 29
Charles Townes - University of California
Thomas Gold Lecture Series

April 5
Viet Elser - Cornell University
Title:   Phase Retrieval with Atoms, Bits and Pixels

Apr 12
Bruce Winstein - University of Chicago
Bethe Lectures
Title: The Allure of the Neutral Kaons

Apr 19
Bruce Winstein - University of Chicago
Bethe Lectures
Title: Searching for Patterns in the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

Apr 26
David Spergel - Princeton University
Kieval Lecture
Title: WMAP and Beyond:  Implications of Microwave Background Observations

May 3
Andrea Ghez - University of California at LA
Salpeter Lecture Series
Title:  Unveiling a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy