Physics Research Conference 2002-03

The Physics Research Conference is held on Thursday at 4:00 P.M. in 201 E. Bridge, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served in 114 E. Bridge(New Location) 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 3	Maria Spiropulu Chicago	There's Something About SUSY	Barry Barish
October 10	Wick Haxton University of Washington	Science Arguments for a National Underground Laboratory	Barry Barish
October 17	Steve Quake Caltech	Sequence, structure, function: novel spectroscopy and imaging in biological systems	Jim Eisenstein
October 24	Nima Arkani-Hamed Harvard	Adventures in Theory Space	Hiroshi Ooguri
October 31	Ali Yazdani University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Fine Tuning Electronic States in Carbon Nanotubes	Jim Eisenstein
November 7	Peter Milonni LANL	Fast Light, Slow Light	Jeff Kimble
November 14	Christophe Salomon ENS Paris	Cold Atom Clocks and Fundamental Tests	Jeff Kimble
November 21	Tom Soifer Caltech	SIRTF: NASA's Infrared Great Observatory	Jim Eisenstein
December 5	Rob Phillips Caltech	Physics of DNA Packaging: From Viruses to Chromosomes	Jim Eisenstein
January 9	Michael Roukes Caltech	Mechanical devices for single-molecule and single-quantum nanoscience	Jim Eisenstein
January 16	Gilles Laurent Caltech	Brain Circuit Dynamics and the Encoding of Odor Signals	Michael Roukes
January 23	Tim McKay Michigan	Exploring the Dark Universe	Marc Kamionkowski
January 30	Paul McEuen Cornell	Electronics and Mechanics with Single Molecules	Michael Roukes
February 6	Frances Arnold Caltech	Breeding Proteins	Michael Roukes
February 13	Jerry Wasserburg Caltech	The Evolution of Heavy Elements Since Big Bang	Tom Soifer
February 20	Ned Wright UCLA	MAPping the Universe	Tom Soifer
February 27	Bill Zajc Colombia	The Quest for Old Physics at RHIC	Marc Kamionkowski
March 6	Lars Bildsten UC Santa Barbara	Thermal and Nuclear Evolution of Accreting White Dwarfs	Marc Kamionkowski
March 13	Dan Herschlag Stanford	Exploring the Landscape for RNA Folding	Emlyn Hughes
April 3	Bob McKeown Caltech	KamLAND: Neutrinos from Heaven and Earth	Hiroshi Ooguri
April 10	William Happer Princeton	Spin Polarized Gases	Emlyn Hughes
April 17	Mark Kasevich Stanford	Atom Interferometry	JJeJeff Kimbleff Jj.
April 24	Raissa D'Souza Microsoft Research	Digital dynamics and non-equilibrium physics	John Preskill
May 1	Michel Devoret Yale	Manipulating the quantum state of an electrical circuit	Jim Eisenstein
May 8	Ed Stone Caltech	Voyager’s Race to Interstellar Space	Tom Soifer
May 15	Amnon Yariv Caltech	Optical Wave Phenomena in Photonic Crystals -from Theory to Practice	Jerome Pine
May 22	Ben Schumacher Caltech	What is information?	John Preskill
May 29	Juan Maldacena IAS, Princeton	QCD, strings and black holes: The Large N limit of field theories and gravity	Hiroshi Ooguri
June 5	Barry Barish Caltech	Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves: First Upper Limits from LIGO	Jim Eisenstein

2001-2002 Physics Research Conference Lecture series can be found here

Physics Research Conference 2002-03

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