Spring 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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Spring 2005 Schedule

Jan 24 
Dung-Hai Lee - University of California at Berkeley
Title:  From Landau Order to Topological Order

Jan 31
No Seminar

Feb 7
Ben Widom - Cornell University
What’s New with Gibb’s Adsorption Equation

Feb 14
Steve Squyres - Cornell University
Title:  Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Feb 21
Wolfgang Ketterle - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title:  Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms, Molecules, and Fermion Pairs

Feb 28
Alexander Szalay - Johns Hopkins University
Title:  Large Scale Structure of the Universe

Mar 7
Jonathan L. Rosner - Enrico Fermi Institute - University of Chicago
Title:  The Buzz of B’s - News of the Fifth Quark

Mar 14
Buford Price - Berkeley University
Kieval Lecture
Title:  Interconnectedness of Science:  10 12 eV Neutrinos, Climate, Volcanism, and Life in Ice

Mar 21 - SPRING BREAK

Mar 28
Majorie Shapiro - University of California at Berkeley
Why Does the W have Mass?  Prospects for Uncovering the Source of Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

April 4
Matthias Troyer - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Title:   Simulating Quantum Phase Transitions:  From Quantum Magnets to Ultra-Cold Atomic Gases

Apr 11
Ian Shipsey - Purdue University
Title: Bringing Hearing to the Deaf - Cochlear Implants:  A Technical and Personal Account

Apr 18
Michel Devoret - Yale University
Title: The Quantronium:  A Quantum-Mechanically Coherent Electrical Circuit Behaving Like An Atom

Apr 25
Jainendra Jain - Pennsylvania State University
Title: Composite Fermions:  Whay They Are and What They Do

May 2
Victoria Kaspi - McGill University
Salpeter Lecture Series
Title:  Magnetars