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semester, 2004
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Wednesday, January 21st 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Dr. David Black, President and CEO, Universities Space Research Association
Subject: "A Taxonomy of the Creatures That Inhabit the Extrasolar Planet Zoo: Are Planets like Art?"
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, January 28th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Subject: Make-up Safety Training and Defibrillator Demonstration
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 4th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Deborah Jin, University of Colorado - Boulder
Subject: Making Condensates with a Fermi Gas of Atoms
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, February 11th 2004
3:30 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 216 Physics
Subject: Faculty/SPS/Undergraduate Physics Major mixer
There will be no Colloquium this week because the mixer will take place instead. Please note room and time change. Refreshments will be served in 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 18th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Mirjam Cvetic, University of Pennsylvania
Subject: Particle Physics from String Theory
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 25th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Reinhard Schlickeiser, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Subject: Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: Exploring Extreme Astrophysical Objects and Cosmic Boundaries
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 3rd 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: S.G. Djorgovski, Caltech
Subject: Exploring the Reionization Era and the Early Structure Formation
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, March 10th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Mikhail Shifman, University of Minnesota
Subject: Understanding the Hadronic World with Supersymmetry
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, March 17th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week.
Wednesday, March 24th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: David J. Tedeschi, University of South Carolina
Subject: Experimental Evidence for Pentaquark States
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, March 31st 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Susumu Saito, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Subject: Fullerenes and Nanotubes
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, April 7th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
Subject: Is There Evidence for the Time Variation of Fundamental Constants?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Monday, April 12th 2004
4:00 pm:
Abigail and John Van Vleck Public Lecture
in 150 Physics
Speaker: Steven Chu, Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Subject: Holding on to Atoms and Molecules with Lasers: From Atomic Clocks to Watching Biomolecules Move
A reception will be held in Room 216 Physics following the lecture.
Tuesday, April 13th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 150 Physics
Speaker: Steven Chu, Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University
Subject: What Can Physics Say About Life?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm. (Note day and room change for Colloquium.)
Wednesday, April 21st 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Professor Paul Kellogg, University of Minnesota & Professor George Parks, University of California - Berkeley
Subject: The Legacy of John Winckler to Space Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, April 28th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The Colloquium is cancelled this week. Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 5th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Boris Shklovskii, University of Minnesota
Subject: Fractionalization Induced Charge Inversion of DNA and Gene Therapy
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 pm
Wednesday, May 12th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The Colloquium has ended for the semester. Refreshments will not be served in Room 210 at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 8th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week.
Wednesday, September 15th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Bob Gehrz, University of Minnesota
Subject: NASA's New Spitzer Space Telescope
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 22nd 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Michael Lukin, Harvard University
Subject: Quantum Control of Photons and Atoms
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 29th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Alec T. Habig, University of Minnesota - Duluth, Physics Dept.
Subject: A Big Tank of Neutrinos
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 6th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Igor Aronson, Argonne National Lab
Subject: Self-Assembly of Metallic Microparticles in Strong Electric Fields
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 13th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Liliya L.R. Williams , University of Minnesota
Subject: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies - The Dark Matter Side of the Story
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 20th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The colloquium will not be held this week. Please join us for refreshments in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 27th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Frances A. Houle, Science and Technology, IBM Almaden Research Center
Subject: Physics and Professional Ethics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 3rd 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Francis Halzen, Physics Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Subject: Neutrino Astronomy at the South Pole: From AMANDA to IceCube
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 10th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Volker Bromm, The University of Texas at Austin
Subject: The First Sources of Light
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 17th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: N. P. Ong, Princeton University
Subject: Vorticity and the Nature of the Superconducting Transition in Cuprates
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 24th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No colloquium - Thanksgiving holiday
Wednesday, December 1st 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Tom Kieft, Biology Department, New Mexico Tech
Subject: Life in the Deep Biosphere
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 8th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Daniel Fisher, Harvard University
Subject: Is Evolution Understood? Quantitative Questions of Statistical Dynamics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 15th 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Robijn Bruinsma, University of California Los Angeles
Subject: Physics of Viral Self-Assembly
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 22nd 2004
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
The colloquium has ended for the semester.
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