Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquium Schedule
Spring 2000

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

Date Speaker Topic
19-Jan Mike Molnar
PR Newswire
The Star of Bethlehem:
The Legacy of the Magi
26-Jan Mark Devlin
University of Pennsylvania
Determining the Fate of the Universe
from the Top of the World
2-Feb Peter Galison
Harvard University
Time zones: Einstein, Poincare and simultaneity
Joint colloquium with FAS-Dean's Office and
Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture
9-Feb William Bialek
NEC, Princeton
Entropy, complexity and learning
16-Feb James Gunn
Princeton
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
23-Feb ... ...
1-Mar Brad Marston
Brown U.
``Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming.''
8-Mar Jerry Tersoff
IBM Watson
Self-Assembled Quantum Dots
15-Mar No Colloquium Spring break
22-Mar No Colloquium APS March Meeting
29-Mar Paul Falkowski
Rutgers University
An introduction to the biophysics of photosynthetic systems:
interpretation of variable fluorescence in the oceans
5-Apr ... Senior Honors Project Seminars
12-Apr Don Geesaman
Argonne National Laboratory
How Vanilla is your Proton?
19-Apr ... Passover
26-Apr Neil Tyson
Hayden Planetarium
The Making of the New Rose Center
for Earth and Space
Colloquia in Past Years
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Last updated March 6, 2000