Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquium Schedule
Spring 2001

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

Date Speaker Topic
17-Jan Michael Elowitz,
Rockefeller University
NOTE: to be held at Waksman Auditorium
"The Repressilator: a synthetic 
oscillatory network in bacteria"
24Jan Paul Steinhardt
Princeton University
"The Trouble with Dark Matter"
31-Jan Michael Douglas
Rutgers University
"Noncommutative geometry, gauge theory and string theory"
7-Feb Larry McLerran
Brookhaven National Laboratories
"The Color Glass Condensate and eRHIC"
14-Feb John Kirtley
IBM
"Fundamental studies of the high-temperature superconductors
using a scanning SQUID microscope"
21-Feb Gerd Ceder
MIT
Designer Materials:  The Use of First Principles 
Calculations in Materials  Research and Design
28-Feb Steve Kahn
Columbia U.
"First Results from the Reflection Grating Spectrometer 
on the XMM-Newton Observatory"
7-Mar Vladimir Aksyuk 
Lucent Bell Labs
"Silicon Micromachines
in Experimental Physics and Optical Telecommunications"
14 No Colloquium Spring break
21-Mar G. Brown
Stony Brook
 A The ory of Gamma Ray Bursters
28-Mar  Phil Nelson
U. Penn
Physicist looks at DNA
4-Apr No Colloquium Senior Honor Seminars
11-Apr B. Jacak
Stony Brook
"The Little Bang! First results from the Relativistic Heavy
Ion Collider"
18-Apr Blaise  Aguera y Arcas
Princeton
(Joint Colloquium with Media Studies Department.)
  Uncovering the origins of printing: a computational analysis.
25-Apr John Clarke
U.C Berkeley
"SQUIDs, Axions and Bugs"
Colloquia in Past Years
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Last updated Feb 9, 2001