Spring 2001
Current Colloquium Series
FALL 2000
- Thursday, July 27th, 4:00 PM
SHMUEL NUSSINOV, USC and Tel Aviv University
"QCD Inequalities and Interactions of Hadrons" - Tuesday, August 8, 4:00 PM
SHMUEL NUSSINOV, USC and Tel Aviv University
"The Rise and Fall of Cross-Sections" - Thursday, August 17, 4:00 PM
SHMUEL NUSSINOV, USC and Tel Aviv University
"Gamma Ray Bursts and/or Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays" - Tuesday, August 22, 4:00 PM
AHARON CASHER, Tel Aviv University
"Topological Quantum Phenomena" - Thursday, August 31, 4:00 PM
HIROYASU EJIRI, Osaka University
"Neutrino Masses and Solar Neutrinos Studies via Double and Inverse Beta Decays of 100Mo" - Thursday, September 7, 4:00 PM
FRANK AVIGNONE, USC
"ORLaND: A Proposed Neutrino facility to Support Nuclear Astrophysics and Elementary Particle Physics" - September 12 and 14, 4:00 PM
YAKIR AHARONOV, USC and Tel Aviv University
"Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics" - Thursday, September 21, 4:00 PM
RICK CRESWICK, USC
"Can the Arrow of Time be Reversed in the Laboratory?" - Friday, September 22, 4:00 PM
TIM SLATER, Montana State University
"Why Can't Pat and Chris Learn Astronomy?" - Thursday, September 28, 4:00 PM
ANDRZEJ STARUSZKIEWICZ, Jagellonian University
"Why is the Supplementary Series of Unitary, Irreducible Representations of the Lorentz Group there?" - Thursday, October 5, 4:00 PM
PAWEL MAZUR, USC
"Fully Developed Turbulence and Conformal Field Theory" - October 10 and 13, 2:00 PM
SANDU POPESCU, Bristol University
"Quantum Computers and Quantum Cryptography" "Revisiting Hardy's Paradox" - Thursday, October 12, 4:00 PM
RUTH HOWES, Ball State University
"Undergraduate Physics in the 21st Century" - Thursday, October 19, 4:00 PM
VLADIMIR GUDKOV, USC
"Computational Physics and Beyond" - Friday, October 20, 4:00 PM
WALTER KOHN, University of California, Santa Barbara
"The Electronic Structure of Matter: Wave Functions and Density Functions" - Thursday, October 26, 4:00 PM
MILIND PUROHIT, USC
"Particle Anti-Particle Mixing and the BaBar Experiment" - Thursday, November 2, 4:00 PM
JEEVA ANANDAN, USC
"Laws, Symmetries, and Quantum Geometry" - Thursday, November 16, 4:00 PM
ROCCO SCHIAVILLA, Jefferson Laboratory
"Interactions, Currents, and the Structure of Few-Nucleon Systems" - Thursday, November 16, 4:00 PM
JOE JOHNSON, USC
"Numerical Error Fuzzy Numbers, and the Definition of Information" - Thursday, December 7, 4:00 PM
MONICA SORESCU, Duquesne University
"New Trends in the Magnetism of Surfaces and Thin Films"
SPRING 2001
- Thursday, January 18, 4:00 PM
RUSLAN PROZOROV, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
"Unconventional Behavior of the Magnetic Penetration Depth on Unconventional Superconductors" - Thursday, January 25, 4:00 PM
GOU-MENG (PETER) ZHAO, University of Zurich
"Unconventional Isotope Effects in the High-temperature Cuprate Superconductors and Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites" - Thursday, February 2, 4:00 PM
ANDREW CHING TAM, IBM Almaden Research Center
"Innovations and Challenges in the ultra-high-density Magnetic Data Storage Industry" - Thursday, February 8, 4:00 PM
HYUNG-SUK WOO, Clemson University
"Excitations in pi-conjugated Organic Materials and Application in Organic Light Emitting Diodes"
- Thursday, February 15, 4:00 PM
VLADIMIR BUTKO, Louisiana State University
"How an Ultrathin Metal Film Becomes an Insulator"
- Thursday, February 22, 4:00 PM
CHANGYOUNG KIM, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory
"Separation of Spin and Charge Excitations in Correlated One-Dimensional Systems"
- Friday, March 2, 4:00 PM
FRANK AVIGNONE, USC
"Fundamental Physics Involving Low Energy Neutrinos"
- Thursday, March 8, 4:00 PM
EMIL MOTTOLA, "A Problem of Some Gravity: Cosmological Vacuum Energy"
- Thursday, March 22, 4:00 PM
MICHAEL GELLER, University of Georgia
"Tunneling into Strongly Correlated Electron Systems"
- Thursday, March 29, 4:00 PM
SIDNEY COLEMAN, Harvard University
"Quantum Mechanics in Your Face"
- Thursday, April 5, 4:00 PM
VARSHA KULKARNI, USC
"Long Ago When Galaxies Were Young: The Dark and Bright Story of Quasar Spectra"
- Thursday, April 12, 4:00 PM
SEKAZI MTINGWA, North Carolina A & T University
"The Next Linear Collider"
- Thursday, April 19, 4:00 PM
MAYDA M. VELASCO, Northwestern University
"Using Crystals to Solve the Nucleon's Spin Crisis TODAY, ... and Look for Physics Beyond the Standard Model TOMORROW "
- Thursday, April 26
CHARLES TOWNES, University of California, Berkeley
3:30 PM: "Story of the Laser"
7:30 PM: "Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy"
- Thursday, May 24, 4:00 PM
ELIZABETH OROSZ WARNER, University of Maryland
"Deep Impact - The Earth Strikes Back"