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