Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquium Schedule
Fall, 1997


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

Date Speaker Topic
3-Sep Harry Lipkin
Argonne Nat. Lab.
Weizmann Institute
The Parton Model and the Mossbauer Effect From Crystals With Synchrotron Radiation To Heavy Quarks
10-Sep Sunil Somalwar
Rutgers Univ.
New Frontiers in K Physics
17-Sep Shmuel Nussinov
Boston Univ.
Tel Aviv Univ.
The Ultimate Planck Accelerator
24-Sep Ramamurti Shankar
Yale
The Field Theory of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
1-Oct Leonard Susskind
Stanford Univ.
Black Holes, Strings and the New Revolution in Theoretical Physics
8-Oct Geoffrey West
Los Alamos
The Origin of Universal Scaling Laws in Biology:
The Physics of the Cardiovascular and Plant Vascular Systems
15-Oct Harvey Tananbaum
Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA
Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility
- Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood
22-Oct Aron Bernstein
M.I.T.
Experiments on Electromagnetic Meson Production:
Probing QCD at the Confinement Scale
29-Oct Matthew Fisher
U.C. Santa Barbara
Physics at the Edge: Strange states in the Quantum Hall Effect
5-Nov Bill Louis
Los Alamos
Do Neutrinos Have Mass?
Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations
12-Nov Andy Millis
Johns Hopkins
`Colossal' Magnetoresistance Manganites:
New Light on Old (and new!) Physics
19-Nov Bruce Robbins
English, Rutgers;
Lee Smolin
Physics, Penn State;
Alan Sokal
Physics, NYU
Humanists and Scientists:
What Do They Have to Say
to Each Other?
3-Dec David Carlson
Solarex
(Amoco/Enron Solar)
Thin Film Photovoltaics -
Commercialization and Challenges

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Last updated October 28, 1997