Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy


Fall 2001

Colloquia Are Held In The Physics Lecture Hall
At 4:30 P.M. On Wednesday Afternoons

Date Speaker Topic
05-Sept Professor Ronald Gilman
Rutgers University
"Was the deuteron brainwashed by Feynman?"
12-Sept Professor J.C.Davis
Univ. of California - Berkeley
"The Electronic "Nanoscape" of High Temperature Superconductivity"
19-Sept Professor Bradley M. Sherrill
Michigan State University
"Exotic Nuclei in the Cosmos
26-Sept Sang-Wook Cheong
Rutgers University
"Electronic Phase separation in Complex Materials"
03-Oct Professor Dimitri Basov
Univ. of Ca. - San Diego
"High-Tc superconductivity: summing up"
10-Oct Professor Gerry Sussman
MIT
Why "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics"
17-Oct Collin Broholm
Johns Hopkins University
"Magnets without Direction"
24-Oct SAFETY MEETING
REHS
"Right-to-Know, Chemical Hygiene, and Hazardous Chemical Waste Training"
25-Oct Alan Van Heuvelen
Ohio State University
"The unaided mind is highly overrated
and needs external representations to aid thinking
"
31-Oct Professor Lynn Trainor
University of Toronto
"A Physicist looks at Symmetry Breaking in a Biological Application"
07-Nov Kevin Lesko
Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab
"Neutrino Oscillations and the First Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory"
14-Nov Edward F. Redish
University of Maryland
"The science in the art of teaching physics: What do we learn from physics education research?"
21-Nov NO COLLOQUIUM
"HAPPY THANKSGIVING"
28-Nov Boris Altshuler
Princeton University
"Interaction between electrons in Quantum Dots"
05-Dec Eva Silverstein
Sanford University
"Potential Energy in String Theory"
12-Dec Angela Olinto
University of Chicago
"Puzzling Cosmic Rays at the Highest Energies"
19-Dec NO COLLOQUIUM
"Have a Happy and Healthy New Year"
Colloquia in Past Years
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Last updated November 15, 2001