Physics Research Conference

Physics Research Conference 2000-01

The Physics Research Conference is held on Thursday at 4:00 P.M. in 201 E. Bridge, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served in 108 E. Bridge at 3:45 P.M. All talks are intended for a broad audience, and everyone is encouraged to attend.

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Date	Speaker*	Title*	Host
September 28	Dr. Eric Adelberger University of Washington	New Tests of Einstein's Equivalence Principle and Newton's Inverse Square Law	Brad Filippone
October 5	Dr. Peter Weinberger Renaissance Technologies	Greed 101-Modern Finance for the Numerate	Jeff Kimble
October 12	Dr. Randy Kamien University of Pennsylvania	Turn of the Screws	Marc Kamionkowski
October 19	Dr. Steven Kahn Columbia University	First Results from the Reflection Grating Spectrometer on the XMM-Newton Observatory	Marc Kamionkowski
October 26	Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle MIT	Collective Enhancement and Suppression in Bose-Einstein Condensates	Jeff Kimble
November 2	Dr. Paul Steinhardt Princeton University	Deep Dark Trouble	Marc Kamionkowski
November 9	Dr. Robert Mawhinney Columbia University	QCD on the Lattice: 20th Century Physics Meets 21st Century Technology	Marc Kamionkowski
November 16	Dr. Bill Phillips NIST	Atom Optics with Coherent deBroglie Waves	Jeff Kimble
November 30	Dr. Roger Rusack University of Minnesota	The Last Fermion	Alan Weinstein
December 7	Dr. Jed Buchwald CIT	How the Ether Spawned the Micro-World	Marc Kamionkowski
January 4	Dr. Joe Veverka Cornell University	NEAR at Eros: Astroid Mysteries Revealed?	Tom Soifer
January 11	Dr. Richard Mewaldt CIT	Solar Energetic Particles: A Surprisingly Variable Sample of Solar Material	Tom Soifer
January 18	Dr. James Eisenstein CIT	Stripes, Bubbles and Goldstone Modes: a New Lexicon for 2D Electron Systems	Jeff Kimble
January 25	Dr. Sidney Nagel University of Chicago	Physics at the Breakfast Table	Jim Eisenstein
February 1	Dr. James B. Hartle UC Santa Barbara	The Future of Gravity	Kip Thorne
February 8	Dr. Erik Winfree CIT	DNA, Computing?	John Preskill
February 15	Dr. Chris Morris Los Alamos National Lab	Proton Radiography	Brad Filippone
February 22	Dr. Douglas Michael CIT	Where Have all the Earthly Neutrinos Gone?	Alan Weinstein
March 1	Dr. Margaret Kivelson University of California Los Angeles	Dowsing with a Magnometer: Inductive Fields of Jupiter's Gallilean Moons	Tom Prince
March 8	Dr. Richard Ellis CIT	The Origin of the Hubble Sequence	Tom Soifer
March 15	Dr. Craig Hogan University of Washington	Gravitational Waves from the Mesoscopic Universe	John Preskill
April 5	Dr. Hari Manoharan Stanford University	Quantum Mirages: Manipulating Electrons with Atoms	Jim Eisenstein .
April 12	Dr. Fiona Harrison CIT	Focusing in the Hard X-ray Band: A New View of the High-Energy Universe	Brad Filippone
April 19	Dr. Robert Westervelt Harvard University	Imaging Coherent Electron Flow	Jim Eisenstein
April 26	Dr. David Awschalom University of California Santa Barbara	Manipulating and Storing Quantum Information in Semiconductors	Jim Eisenstein
May 3	Dr. Julie Theriot Stanford University	Protein Polymers, Crawling Cells, and Comet Tails	Jeff Kimble
May 10	Dr. Hirosi Ooguri CIT	Gauge Theory and String Theory --- A New Synthesis	John Preskill
May 17	Dr. David Hitlin CIT	Telling Teller from Anti-Teller: First Results on CP Violation From BABAR	Alan Weinstein
May 24	Dr. Andrew Lange & Dr. Marc Kamionkowski CIT	From the Big Bang to the Cosmic Hum: Listening to the Music of the Early Universe	Marc Kamionkowski
May 31	Dr. Susan Coppersmith University of Chicago	Force Inhomogeneities in Granular Materials	Jim Eisenstein
June 7	Dr. Gillian Knapp Princeton University	The Sloan Digital Sky Survery	Tom Soifer

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