Rutgers University Department of Physics and Astronomy

Colloquium Schedule
Spring 2002

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

Date Speaker Topic
23-Jan Philip R. Goode 
Big Bear Solar Observatory 
The Sun (and Moon) from Big Bear Solar Observatory
30-Jan Ted Postol
MIT
Science, Technology, and Tactics Relevant to National Missile Defense Systems
6-Feb Paul Chaikin
Princeton
"Trillions of quantum dots, fingerprints and stripes:
Nanolithography with diblock copolymers"
13-Feb Gordon Thomson
Rutgers
Studying the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
20-Feb Franco Iachello - Yale
 J.W.Gibbs Professor of Physics and Chemistry
"The Discovery of Supersymmetry in Nuclei"
25-Feb
note
special date
Robert Kirshner 
Harvard
4:30- special colloquium in lecture hall-
"The Accelerating Universe"

8:00pm -The Henry R. and Gladys V. Irons Lecture in Physics and Astronomy

27-Feb
Jackie Krim
 North Carolina State University
 "On the atomic scale origins of static and kinetic friction"
6-Mar Sean Washburn
UNC at Chapel Hill
"How does it feel to roll a molecule?" 
13-Mar Mark Bowick
Syracuse University
"The Statistical Mechanics of Physical Membranes"
20-Mar No Colloquium Spring break
28-Mar
note
special date
place and time
Marc Bockrath
Harvard
1:30 pm
Fiber optics 
auditorium
Carbon Nanoelectronics
3-Apr
Special nano-physics
colloquium
Note special place
and  time 
Kevin Kelly
Penn State
11:30 am
Fiber optics 
auditorium
INVESTIGATING ELECTRONIC MATERIALS ON THE ATOMIC SCALE
10-Apr Senior Honors Project Seminars Senior Honors Project Seminars
17-Apr Charlie Marcus
Harvard
Small Electronics and Quantum Chaos
24-Apr
Note Special Place and time
Baeckland Symposium Schedule
Awardee: Chad Mirkin
North Western
5:00 pm 
Fiber optics auditorium
 "Dip Pen Nanolithography and Combinatorial Nanotechnology"
1-May Paul Schechter
MIT
"Gravitational microlensing in multiply imaged quasars: one
astronomer's noise is another astronmer's signal, and vice versa."
Colloquia in Past Years
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Last updated March 6, 2000