Physics Research Conference 2001-02

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
October 4	Dr. Art McDonald SNO Institute Director	First Scientific Results from the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory	Brad Filippone
October 11	Paul M. Chaikin Princeton	Trillions of Quantum Dots, Fingerprints, Nanolithography with Diblock Copolymers, and the Formation of Striped Patterns	David Goodstein
October 18	Alain Aspect Institute of Optics	Atom Optics, from Atomic Mirrors to Quantum Atom Optics	Jeff Kimble
October 25	David Goodstein Caltech	A Dynamic New Look at the Lambda Transition	Marc Kamionkowski
November 1	Daniel Gottesman UC Berkeley	Q uantum Cryptography	John Preskill
November 8	Masahiro Teshima University of Tokyo	Extremely High Energy Cosmic Rays	Brad Filippone
November 15	Steve Gubser Caltech	String theory: a singular subject	John Preskill
November 29	Rashid Sunyaev MPA-Garching	Disk Accretion onto neutron star: boundary layer and ways to distinguish black holes from neutron stars	Marc Kamionkowski
December 6	Steven Block Stanford University	Using Optical Tweezers to Study Biological Motors	Jeff Kimble
January 10	Hideo Mabuchi Caltech	Multiscale science, from quantum to bio	Jeff Kimble
January 17	Anthony Tyson Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies	Probing Dark Matter and Dark Energy with Gravitational Lensing	Jim Eisenstein
January 24	Peter Goldreich Caltech	Origin and Evolution of Extrasolar Planetary Systems	Tom Soifer
January 31	Kate Scholberg MIT	Recent Results on Neutrino Mass and Oscillation from Super-Kamiokande and K2K	Brad Filippone
February 7	Steve Koonin Caltech	Earthshine Observations of the Global Climate	Robbie Vogt
February 14	Anthony Readhead Caltech	Cosmology with the Cosmic Background Imager	Marc Kamionkowski
February 21	JoAnne Hewett SLAC	Discovering New Physics at Future Colliders	Marc Kamionkowski
February 28	David DiVincenzo IBM	Alternatives for Building a Quantum Computer	John Preskill
March 7	Valentine Telegdi Caltech and CERN	Why did Arnold Sommerfeld never get the Nobel prize	John Preskill
March 14	Noam Sobel UC Berkeley	The World Smells Different to each nostril: An fMRI and psychophysical study of human olfaction.	Jerry Pine
April 4	Ian Axford IGPP UC Riverside	The Origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays	Ed Stone
April 11	Kenneth Farley Caltech	New life for the oldest geochronometer: timing of mountain range formations	David Goodstein
April 18	Mark Raizen University of Texas at Austin	Controlling the motion of matter with light; from single atoms to neurons	JJeJeff Kimbleff Jj.
April 25	Natalia Kuznetsova Fermilab	How BaBar Grew Up	Emlyn Hughes
May 2	David J. Wineland NIST	Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Atomic Ions	Jeff Kimble
May 9	Curtis Callan Princeton	String Theory, Black Hole Entropy and Hawking Radiation	Hirosi Ooguri
May 16	Markus Meister Harvard	The neural code of the retina	Jerry Pine
May 23	David Hertzog University of Illinois	How the Muon's Spin Challenges the Standard Model	Brad Filippone
May 30	Paul Ginsparg Cornell	Scholarly Information Architecture	John Preskill
June 6	Lene Vestergaard Hau Harvard	Light at bicycle speed Š and slower yet!	John Preskill

2000-2001 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here
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Physics Research Conference 2001-02

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