SPRING 2005 SCHEDULE
Wednesday, Jan 12: Classes begin in A&S
13-Jan .. Peihong Zhang (job candidate), University of California at Berkeley, "Materials Design from First Principles: novel semiconductors and nanostructured materials," Abstract
20-Jan .. Seyfert Lecture
Gibor Basri, University of California - Berkeley, "Brown Dwarfs - the First Decade." Abstract
21-Jan.. Gibor Basri, University of California - Berkeley, "Looking for 'Earths' around Other Stars." (joint with Fisk University) 12:00 noon, Appleton Room, Jubilee Hall, Fisk University. Abstract
27-Jan .. Charles Reichhardt (job candidate), Los Alamos National Laboratory,"Crystallization, Melting, and Jamming in Colloidal Systems with External Fields," Absrtact
03-Feb .. Cynthia Reichhardt (job candidate), Los Alamos National Laboratory,"Checkerboard and stripe pattern formation in superconductors and quantum Hall systems with competing interactions," Abstract
07-Feb, 3:00pm, SC 4327 (note special time/date) Michael Leuenberger, University of California - San Diego, "Teleportation of electronic many-qubit states via single photons," Abstract
09-Feb, 3:00pm, SC 4327 (note special time/date) Yuri Oganessian, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia, "Synthesis and Decay Properties of the Superheavy Nucleides," Abstract
10-Feb .. Steven Stahler, University of California Berkeley (Stassun),"Unsolved Problems in the Physics of Star Formation," Abstract
17-Feb .. Ulrich Heinz, Ohio State (Greene), "RHIC, the Little Bang and the Quark-Gluon Plasma" Abstract
24-Feb .. cancelled
03-Mar .. Kalman Varga, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (job candidate), "Formation and transport properties of nanostructures based on novel first-principles methods," Abstract
10-Mar .. Spring Break
17-Mar .. Robert Caldwell, Dartmouth University (Scherrer), "New Physics in Light of Dark Energy", Abstract
24-Mar .. Jonathan Rosner, U. Chicago (Weiler), "The Buzz of b's - News of the Fifth Quark", Abstract
28-Mar .. Igor Zutic, University of Maryland [job candidate, note special date/time, Monday, 3:00, SC 4327] "Spin-polarized Transport in Semiconductors: Lessons from Superconductivity", Abstract
31-Mar .. David Ardila, Johns Hopkins (Stassun), "Debris Disks around Solar-type Stars: Placing our Solar System in Context," Abstract
07-Apr .. Gordon Gee, Vanderbilt University, Faculty Assembly (Mrs. Gee)
08-Apr .. Glenn Edwards, Duke University (Hutson) [note special date, Friday, at 4:00 in SC 4327], "Research at the Duke FEL Laboratory"
SLACK LECTURES:
11-Apr.. Daniel Kleppner, MIT (Tolk) [note special date, location, 4:00, Wilson Hall 103], "Boost Phase Intercept and National Missile Defense", Abstract"
12-Apr.. Daniel Kleppner, MIT (Tolk) [note special date, location, 4:00, SC 5211], "Atomic Quantum Fluids", Abstract
FORMAN LECTURE:
14-Apr .. Tim Slater, U. Arizona (Stassun), "What's So Hard about Teaching ASTRO 101?", Abstract
21-Apr .. cancelled
Wednesday, Apr 27: Reading Day
