Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy
Colloquium Schedule
Fall, 1999
Colloquia Are Held In The Physics Auditorium
At 4:30 P.M. On Wednesday Afternoons
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 8-Sep |
Harold
Craighead
Cornell |
DNA motion in nanofabricated systems |
| 15-Sep |
Scott
Tremaine
Princeton |
The stability of the Solar System |
| 22-Sep |
Gary Gladding
Illinois |
Old Wine in New Bottles: Reengineering
the elementary physics sequence at Illinois |
| 29-Sep |
Roberto Car
Princeton |
Molecular Dynamics from First-Principles |
| 6-Oct |
Juan Maldacena
Harvard |
QCD, strings and black holes:
The Large N limit of field theories and gravity |
| 13-Oct |
Konstantin
Likharev
SUNY, Stony Brook |
Digital Nanoelectronics:
Prospects, Problems, and By-products |
| 20-Oct |
Greg
Timp
Bell Labs |
I think, therefore I am . . . Silicon |
| 27-Oct |
Lisa Randall
Princeton |
The Shape of Gravity in Extra Dimensions |
| 3-Nov |
... |
... |
| 10-Nov |
Jill Tarter,
SETI Institute |
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence
Current Status and Future Prospects |
10-Nov 8pm
Public Lecture
ARC 103 |
Jill Tarter,
SETI Institute |
The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence:
Science Fact, Not Fiction |
| 17-Nov |
Andrew Schofield,
Birmingham U., UK |
Non-Fermi
liquids: `Metals without electrons' |
| 24-Nov |
... |
No Colloquium- Thanksgiving |
| 1-Dec |
Vitaly Ginzburg
Lebedev Institute |
What problems of physics and astrophysics
seem now to be especially important
and interesting? |
| 8-Dec |
John W. Harris
Yale |
Understanding Nuclear, Hadronic and Partonic
Matter -
The Search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma |
Colloquia in Past Years
Colloquia for Spring 2000
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Last updated Nov 15, 1999