2002-2003 Colloquium Series
2001-2002 Colloquium Series
2000-2001 Colloquium Series
1999-2000 Colloquium Series
Nuclear Phyiscs Seminars
High Energy Physics Seminars
Condensed Matter Physics Seminars

Colloquium Schedule - Spring 2003

Colloquium Spring 2004

April

Th 22nd -Michael Gershenson, (Rutgers University)
"Unconventional Electron Transport in Two Dimensions"

Th 15th -Richard Creswick, (University of South Carolina)
"Time Reversal and the Second Law: Forward Into the Past II, Déjá vu all over again"

Th 8th -Varsh Kulkarni, (University of South Carolina)
"Long Ago when Galaxies were Young: Quasar Absorbers as Probes of Galaxy Evolution"

Tu 6th -Roberto Petti, (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland)
"Neutrino Physics"

Fr 2nd -Ken Bloom, (University of Michigan)
"Truth or Consequences: The Emerging Science of the Top Quark"

Th 1st -Gerald A. Miller, (University of Washington)
"Shapes of the Proton"

March

Tu 30th -Thomas Moore, (University of Massachusetts)
"The BaBar Experiment and Rare Leptonic B Decays"

Th 25th -Larry Schultz, (Los Alamos National Laboratroy)
"Cosmic Ray Muon Radiography"

Th 18th -Pushpa Khara, (Utkal University)
"Probing the Universe With Quasar Absorption Lines"

Th 4th -Frank T. Avignone, (University of South Carolina)
"Neutrino Mass: What We Now Know, What We Don't Know, What We want to Know, and What We Must Now Do to Answer These Questions"

February

Th 26th -Eli Ben-Naim, (Los Alamos National Laboratories)
"Statistical Physics of Granular Materials"

Th 19th -Richard Furnstahl, (Ohio State University)
"Effective Field Theory for Many-Body Systems"

Th 12th -Huabei Jiang, (Clemson University)
"Biomedical Optical Imaging"

Th 5th -Peter Hirschfield, (University of Florida)
"Disorder and High Temperature Superconductivity"

January

Fr 30th -Bob Kehoe, (FERMI National Accelerator Laboratory)
"Studying Truth: Measurement of Top Quark Production and Mass at the Energy Frontier"

Th 29th -Steven Dytman, (University of Pittsburg)
"Fundamental Physics From e+e- Total Hadronic Cross Section Data."

Th 22nd -Konstintin Oskolkov, (University of South Carolina)
"Quantum Carpets, Talbot's Effect, and Analytical Number Theory."

Th 15th -Alexey Bezryadin, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Ultrathin Superconducting Nanowires: Quantum Phase Transitions and Phase Slips."

Colloquium Fall 2003

December

Th 18th -Vladimir Zelevinski, (Michigan State University)
"Many-Body Quantum Chaos: New Language and New Physics"

Th 11th -No Colloqium

Th 4th -Shrinivas Kulkarni, (Caltech)
"The Brilliant Gamma-ray Bursts: Death Cries Across the Universe

November

Th 20th -Milind Purohit, (University of South Carolina)
"Future Project in Particle Physics"

Th 13th -Igor Aronson, (Argonne National Laboratory)
"Pattern Formation and Self-Assembly of Microparticles in Strong Electric Field"

Th 6th -Ruslan Prozorov, (University of South Carolina)
"The Power of Sound"

October

Th 30th -Anatolii Polyanskii, (University of Wisconson, Madison)
"Magneto-optical Imaging of Superconducting Materials"

Th 23rd -Tony French,
"Early Days of the Manhattan Project"

Th 16th -Carl Rosenfeld, (University of South Carolina)
"The 3-Neutrino Experiment Redux"

Th 9th -Geoffrey Greene, (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
"A Fundamental Neutron Physics Beamline at the Spallation Neurtron Source"

Th 2nd -Laura H. Greene, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Planar Tunneling Spectroscopy of High Temperature Superconductors: Detecting Broken Symmetries"

September

Th 25th -George Chapline, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
"Quantum Computing Near to The Event Horizon"

Th 18th -David Tedeschi, (University of South Carolina)
"The Pentaquark - An Experimental Point of View"

Th 11th -Physics Faculty, (University of South Carolina)
"Faculty Presentations" Students should attend

Th 4th -Pawel Mazur, (University of South Carolina)
"On the microscopic Theory of Gravitation"

Colloquium Summer II 2003

August

Th 28th -Joseph Johnson, (University of South Carolina)
"Space-Time, Dynamical and Invormation/Entropy 'Lie Groups' An Overview of the Use of Groups in Physics"

Th 21st -Shmuel Nussinov, (Tel-Aviv University, University of South Carolina)
"New Hedronic Exotica"

Th 14th -Shmuel Nussinov, (Tel-Aviv University, University of South Carolina)
"New Hedronic Exotica"

We 6th -Alonso Botero, (Universidad de los Andes, Bogatá, Columbia)
"Geometric Phase/Modulus Relations In Quantum Mechanical Transition Amplitudes" (In memory of Jeeva Anandan)

July

We 30th -Shmuel Nussinov, "New Hardronic Exotica" Postponed until further notice

We 23rd -David Finkelstein, "Beneath Canonical Quantization"

Colloquium Summer I 2003

June


Fr 20th -Peter Knoll, "The Handbag Mechanism in Wide-Angle Exclusive Scattering"

January


Cancelled due to flooding
Th 16th -PSC Flood, "No Colloquium"

Th 23rd -Mike McElfresh, (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), "Probing the Properties of Cells and Cell Surfaces with the Atomic Force microscope"

Th 30th -Christina Lacey, (University of South Carolina), "More Explosive Than a Hollywood Movie: Type II Supernovae"

February


Th 6th -Frank Avignone, (University of South Carolina), "NEUTRINO MIXING, OSCILLATIONS and NEUTRINOLESS DOUBLE-BETA DECAY: MAJORANA and CUORE NEXT GENERATION EXPERIMENTS"

Th 13th -Kunihara Kubodera, (University of South Carolina), "Nuclear Physics in the Sturm und Drang of Neutrino Physics"

Th 20th -Jerome Friedman, (Massachusetts Institute of Techology), "New Horizons in Particle Phyiscs"

Th 27th -Ralf W. Gothe, (University of South Carolina), "The Photon: A Universal Tool to Probe Any Matter, Even No Matter"

March


Th 6th -Adam Para, (Fermilab), "On the Importance of Neutrino Masses"

Th 13th -Spring Break, No Colloquium

Th 20st -Milind Kunchur, "First Feature: The Pair-Breaking Critical Current of a Superconductor"
"Second Feature: The Science of Hearing, Music Preception and Music Reproduction
---When Time Is Not Always One Over Frequency"

Th 27th -Donald U. Gubser, (Naval Research Laboratory), "SUPERCONDUCTIVITY: An Emerging, Energy Efficient Technology"

April


Th 3rd -John Klauder, (University of Florida), "Coherant States: From Abstraction to Application"

Th 10th -Tim Goringe, (University of Kentucky), "Induced Pseudoscalar Coupling of the Proton's Weak Interaction"

Th 17th -Dennis Weygand, (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility), "Spectroscopy: Unraveling the Dynamics and Structure of Matter Through the Search for New States"

Th 24th -Donald G. York, (University of Chicago), "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: A Statistical View of the Universe"

May


Th 1st -Boris Ivlev
"New Enhanced Tunneling in Nuclear Processes"

Colloquium Schedule - Fall 2002

August


TH 22nd - Research Groups, "Presentations"

TH 29th - AEPHRAIM STEINBERG, (University of Toronto), "Making Photons Talk to One Another (Nonlinear optics in the quantum regime)"

September


TH 5th - Richard J. Creswick, (University of South Carolina), "Forward Into the Past! Reversing the Arrow of Time"

TH 12th - Ward Plummer, (University of Tennessee), "Correlated Electron Material by Design: Surface Physics in the New Millennium"

TH 19th - Jeeva S. Anandan, (University of South Carolina), "Laws, Symmetries, and Quantum Probabilities"

FR 20th - Arun Pati, (University of California at Berkeley), "Relative Phase Change During Quantum Operations"

TH 26th - Milind Purohit, (University of South Carolina), "The Linear Collider"

October


TH 3th - Donald Walter, (South Carolina State University), "A Study of the Bubble Nebula, NGC 7635",

TH 10th - Fred Myhrer, (University of South Carolina), "Solar Neutrino Puzzle Resolved, What Next?"

TH 17th - Milind Kunchur, (University of South Carolina), "Unstable flux flow and flux fragmentation in Superconductors"

TH 24th - Eric Snow, (Naval Research Laboratory), "Nanoelectronics Research at the Naval Research Laboratory"

TH 31st - Joseph Johnson, (University of South Carolina), "A Lie Algebra Approach to Logical and Numerical Uncertainty and Information/Entropy Measures"

November


TH 7th - Catherine J. Murphy, (University of South Carolina), "Synthesis, Assembly, and Reactivity of Metallic Nanorods"

TH 14th - Ruslan Prozorov, (University of South Carolina), "Coexistence of Superconductivity and Magnetism"

TH 21st - Ron Edge, (University of South Carolina), "A Gathering for Gardner - Strange and Novel Physical and Mathematical Problems"

TH 28th - Thanksgiving, "No Colloquim"

December


TH 5th - Vladimir Gudkov, (University of South Carolina), "How to measure Information"

TH 12th - Exams, "No Colloquim"

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