2002-2003 Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series 

13 Sept.

Physics Faculty - Williams College
Title: "Getting Acquainted with the Physics Dept."

20 Sept.

Dr. Kees Storm - University of Pennsylvania
Title: "Strain Hardening in Biopolymer Networks"

27 Sept.

Dr. Ronald Walsworth - Harvard University
Title: The Story of "Stopped Light"

11 Oct.

Dr. Benjamin Schumacher - Kenyon College
Title: "Entropy, Randomness and the Physics of Computation" [
abstract]
Sponsored by Physics, Astronomy & Computer Science

25 Oct.

Dr. Todd Stievater (Williams '95) - Naval Research Laboratory
Title: "Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Single Quantum Dots: Quantum Computing in Semiconductors"

1 Nov.

Dr. Peter Swain - Mcgill University
Title: "Stochastic Gene Expression in Single Cells"

8 Nov.

Dr. Alan Palevsky (Williams '73) - Raytheon Corporation
Title: Satellite Communication

15 Nov.

Dr. Lutz Huwel - Wesleyan University
4:00 PM, Thompson Physical Lab 205
Title: TBA

20 Nov.

Dr. Seth Shostak - SETI Institute
Public Lecture: 8:00 PM, Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Title: TBA

22 Nov.

Nathan Hodas '03 - Williams College
Title: "Why Good Traffic Goes Bad: Simulating Highway Traffic Flow"

7 Jan.

Dr. James Williams - N.I.S.T.
Title: "CreatingVortices in a Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensate" - 4:00pm

8 Jan.

Dr. David Smith - M.I.T.
Title: "The Hierarchy Problem and Physics Beyond the Standard Model" 4:00pm

10 Jan.

Student Thesis Talks
Jeffrey A. Garland, Nathan O. Hodas, Naim Majdalani, Sarah R. Nichols, Naila A. Baloch, Kathleen S. Gibbons, and Christopher D. Holmes - starting at 2:00pm

13 Jan.

Dr. Gary Felder - Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Title: "The Very Early Universe" - 4:00pm

15 Jan.

Dr. Sima Setayeshgar - Princeton University
Title: "Twist and Buckle: Spatiotemporal Patterns in the Heart" - 4:00pm

21 Jan.

Dr. Vangal N. Muthukumar - Princeton University
Title: "Superconductivity in Doped Mott Insulators" - 4:00pm

28 Jan.

Dr. Joshua Winn - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Title: "Measuring the Universe with Gravitational Lenses"

21 Feb.

Dr. Susan Ginsberg - American Physical Society
Title: "From Lewis and Clark to Nanotechnology: How Science Policy REALLY Works" - 3:00pm [
abstract]

28 Feb.

Christopher Elkinton '98 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Title: "Deep Water Offshore Wind Energy"

4 March

Student Thesis Talk - Kristen Shapiro '03
4:15pm

7 March

Dr. James Dunlop - Yale University
title: "Recreating the Big Bang at RHIC: 10^12 Degrees in the Shade"

13-14 March

Sigma Xi Faculty Research Lectures: Prof. Sarah Bolton - Williams College - 4:00pm

11-12 April

Joint Meeting of the New England Sections of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers

18 April

Dr. Robert Hallock - University of Massachusetts
Title: "The Magical World of Two-Dimensional 3He corks on a Shallow 4He Ocean"

25 April

Dr. Howard Bond - Space Telescope Science Institute
Title: "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Light Echo Around V838 Monocerotis: An Astronomical CAT Scan"

30 April

Dr. Joris Gerssen - Space Telescope
Title: "A Search for Black Holes in Globular Clusters" - 4:00pm

2 May

Kerwyn Casey Huang - M.I.T. - Department of Physics
Title: "E. coli's Division Decision: Modeling Min-protein Oscillations"
2:35pm - Joint with Biology Department

9 May

Dr. George Benedek - M.I.T.
Title: "The Physical Basis of Protein Condensation Diseases: With Application to Cataract and Alzheimer's Disease"

13 May

Dr. Martin Guerrero - University of Illinois
Title: "X-ray Bubbles: from Planetary Nebulae to Superbubbles" - 4:00pm

16 May

Dr. Elizabeth Simmons - Dept. of Physics - Boston University
Title: "Why is this Quark Different from all Other Quarks?"

19 May

Student Thesis Talks - Jeffrey A. Garland, Nathan O. Hodas, Naim Majdalani, Sarah R. Nichols, Kathleen S. Gibbons, Christopher D. Holmes and Kristen L. Shapiro
1:00pm