UCSD Physics Colloquium Calendar, 1999-2000

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Place and Time: Center Hall 109, Thursdays, 4 p.m.

Fall 1999

Date Speaker Topic/title of talk Institution Host
Oct. 7 Al Overhauser Theoretical Scandals in Low Temperature Superconductivity Purdue University Hirsch
Oct. 14 Shawn Carlson Backyard Neutrino Astronomy Society for Amateur Scientists Okamura
Oct. 21 D. J. Heinzen Molecules in a Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate University of Texas O'Neil
Oct. 28 Jonathan Lunine Brown dwarfs and giant planets U of Arizona Tytler
Nov. 4 Herbie Levine The Physics of Collective Microorganism Patterns UCSD Hirsch
Nov. 11 Ray Ashoori Imaging Single Electrons in the Quantum Hall Liquid MIT Hirsch
Nov. 18 Andy McCammon Theoretical Studies of Biomolecular Activity UCSD Okamura
Dec. 2 Robert Rosner Connecting Astrophysics to Laboratory Experiments: Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes U. of Chicago Diamond

Winter 2000

Date Speaker Topic/title of talk Institution Host
Jan. 13 Lawrence M. Krauss Life, The Universe, and Nothing: Einstein's Biggest Blunder? Case Western Sharma
Jan. 20 Eugene Haller Isotopically Controlled Semiconductors UC Berkeley Schuller
Jan. 27 Sergei Maslov Applying Physics Methods to Economics and Finance Brookhaven Nat. Lab. Hirsch
Feb. 3 Paul Ginsparg Electronic Clones meet the Global Research Archive Los Alamos Manohar
Feb. 10 Harry Swinney The Legacy of G. I. Taylor Univ of Texas Diamond
Feb. 17 Mike Norman Recent Advances in Hydrodynamic Cosmology University of Illinois Wolfe
Feb. 24 Eberhard Bodenschatz Wax Tectonics: Molding the Earth with Wax Cornell University Levine
Mar. 2 Ron Stambaugh Plasma Stability in Tokamaks General Atomics Diamond

Spring 2000

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Date Speaker Topic/title of talk Institution Host
Apr. 13 Richart E. Slusher 21st Century Optical Communications: Where are the Limits? Bell Labs Surko
Apr. 20 Michael Dickinson The Aerodynamic Basis of Insect Flight UC Berkeley Diamond
Apr. 27 Shelly Schultz Intrinsic "Left Handed Meta-Materials": A New Opportunity for Reversed Electromagnetic Properties UCSD Hirsch
May 4 Larry Ford Negative Energy, Wormholes, and Warp Drive Tufts University Tytler
May 11 Stuart Wolf REGENTS LECTURE: Spintronics - Electronics for the 21st Century
LOCATION: Auditorium, Copley International Conference Center, Institute of the Americas 		ONR Schuller
May 18 Matthias Scheffler MAYER COLLOQUIUM: The cutting edge: surfaces and their role in materials' properties
LOCATION: Price Center Theater 		Fritz-Haber-Institut, Berlin Sham
May 25 Ken Intriligator Strings, Branes, and Extra Dimensions UCSD .
Jun 1 Gergely T. Zimanyi The Physics of the Disordered Vortex Matter UC Davis Arovas