Colloquium Suggestions - Not Yet Scheduled
Fall, 1998
"Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound"
Leo Beranek
MIT
"High T_c Superconductivity"
Sang-Wook Cheong (INVITED)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers
"Sono-Luminescence"
?? Visitor to Kojima
Harold Craighead
(INVITED)
Dept. of Appl. & Engr Phys.
Cornell
"Nano-Machines"
1. Piet Hut
Inst. for Advanced Study
He is part
of an interesting collaboration doing computational
gravitational dynamics (i.e. globular cluster evolution
or cosmology) with the GRAPE special purpose computer.
GRAPE is being developed to do gravity calculations
as fast as possible -- specialized hardware. I believe
the current incarnation of GRAPE is the world's fastest
computer in terms of operations per second.
2.
Neil Tyson (PREFERS DATE IN FALL, 1999)
Director of the Hayden Planetarium (NYC)
The Hayden is undergoing a $160 million dollar rebuilding,
making it the largest ground-based astronomy project
ever. They are making the "planetarium for the 21st century"
and it's going to be very cool. Neil gave a colloquium
about it in the Princeton astro department at the end
of last semester which I saw, and I think it would be
a lot of fun to have him down to give us all a preview.
3. Scott Tremaine
Princeton U. astronomy department.
He just moved there last year. ... theorist known for
work in dynamics of the solar system and of galaxies.
He's always got something interesting going on. Sellwood
and Merritt probably know him well and could offer an
opinion .
Arthur Kosowsky
Lisa Randall. Princeton.
John Mydosh. Leiden... will be
in NJ in the Spring.
Randall, as you must know, is a particle
phenomenologist- first women to have
tenure at Princeton in physics (ever).
Sondhi gives a great talk on Skyrmions
in condensed matter- was the Mcmillan
Prize winner few years back.
Mydosh is an expat Brooklyner who is
a great speaker on materials physics.
Piers Coleman
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