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• Unless stated otherwise, all physics and astronomy colloquia will take place on Thursday afternoon from 4 to 5 pm in lecture room 4327.
• Each colloquium will be proceeded by a tea from 3:30 to 4 pm in room 6333.

Date .. Speaker's Name (Institution) -- Title of Talk
Host: Name of Vanderbilt faculty member who invited Speaker
Abstract .. Slides .. References

04-Sep .. David Cohen (Swarthmore) -- High Energy Density Plasma Physics Experiments at the National Labs: X-ray Spectroscopy, Inertial Confinement Fusion, and Laboratory Astrophysics
Host: Keivan Stassun
Abstract ... Slides PDF or PPT ... References

11-Sep .. Frank Carroll, M.D. (MXISystems, Inc., and Vanderbilt FEL) -- Tunable, Monochromatic X-rays from a Compact Source
Host: David Ernst
Abstract ... References

18-Sep .. David Dean (ORNL) -- Challenges of the Nuclear Quantum Many-Body Problem
Host: Volker Oberacker
Abstract

25-Sep .. Michael Turner (Chicago and NSF) -- .. FRANCIS SLACK PUBLIC LECTURE
The Dark Side of the Universe: Beyond Stars and the Starstuff We are Made of
Host: Bob Scherrer
Abstract

26-Sep .. Michael Turner (Chicago and NSF) -- COLLOQUIUM -- time to be announced
Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe: New Physics or the New Aether
Host: Bob Scherrer
Abstract

02-Oct .. Peter Wittich (University of Pennsylvania) -- Studying the Top Quark at CDF
abstract ... References
Host: Paul Sheldon

09-Oct .. Paul Sheldon (Vanderbilt) -- Cancelled -- To Be Rescheduled
Host: David Ernst

16-Oct .. Geoff Greene (UT/ORNL) -- Neutron Beta Decay, the Left-Handed Universe, and Nuclear Physics at Spallation Neutron Source
Host: Vicki Greene
Abstract

23-October .. Gordon Kane (Michigan) -- Particle Physics: A Current and Future Overview
Host: Bob Panvini
Abstract ... References

30-Oct .. George Holzwarth (Wake Forrest) -- Molecular Motors in Live Cells: Velocities and Forces
Host: Shane Hutson
Abstract ... References

06-Nov .. OPEN
Host: TBA

13-Nov -- Talk Cancelled

20-Nov ... David Ernst (Vanderbilt) -- What is the World's Neutrino Oscillation Data Telling Us?
Abstract ... Reference

04-Dec .. Saul Perlmutter (LBL) -- Seyfert Lecture -- Dark Energy Challenges the Physicists
Host: Rob Knop
Abstract

11-Dec .. Georgio Margaratondo (EPFL - Switzerland) -- Imaging and Spectromicroscopy with Advanced Photon Sources
Host: Norman Tolk

15-Jan .. Bob Hiller (Univ. of Mississippi) -- Sonoluminescence: Making Light of Sound
Host: Bob Panvini
Abstract

22-Jan .. Richard Haglund (Vanderbilt) -- Tracking a Metal-Insulator Transition at the Nanoscale

29-Jan .. OPEN

05-Feb .. Talk Cancelled

12-Feb .. G. Scott Hubbard (Director, Ames Lab) -- Holladay Lecturer .. The Exploration of Mars: Historical Context and Current Results
Note: Public Lecture is on Wednesday February 11 at 7:30 pm in 4309 SC
Host: Med Webster
Abstract ... Reference

19-Feb .. Bob Mathieu (Wisconsin) -- FORMAN LECTURE .. "If I Had 45 minutes with a New Professor ..."
Host: Keivan Stassun
Abstract ... Reference

26-Feb .. Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State) -- The Asymmetry Between Matter and Anti Matter
Host(s): Scherrer / Sheldon
Abstract ... Reference

04-Mar .. Max Tegmark (Univ. of Pennsylvania) -- TITLE: Cosmology with SDSS and WMAP
Hosts: Bob Scherrer / Bob Panvini
Abstract ... References

11-Mar .. SPRING BREAK

18 Mar .. Tony Heinz (Columbia University) -- Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy: Controlling Electric Fields on the Femtosecond Time Scale
Host: Tobias Hertel
Abstract

25-Mar .. Xin-Nian Wang (LBL) -- Jet Tomography of Quark Gluon Plasma
Host: Julia Velkovska
Abstract ... Reference

01-Apr .. Burt Ovrut (Penn) -- Brane Worlds and Geormetry
Host: Tom Kephart
Abstract ... Reference

08-Apr ... Glenn Edwards (Duke) -- To Be Rescheduled in Fall 2004
Host: Shane Hutson