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Sept. Physics
Faculty - Williams College 20
Sept. Dr.
Kees Storm - University of Pennsylvania 27
Sept. Dr.
Ronald Walsworth - Harvard University 11
Oct. Dr.
Benjamin Schumacher - Kenyon College 25
Oct. Dr.
Todd Stievater (Williams '95) - Naval Research
Laboratory 1
Nov. Dr.
Peter Swain - Mcgill University 8
Nov. Dr.
Alan Palevsky (Williams '73) - Raytheon Corporation 15
Nov. Dr.
Lutz Huwel - Wesleyan University 20
Nov. Dr.
Seth Shostak - SETI Institute 22
Nov. Nathan
Hodas '03 - Williams College 7
Jan. Dr.
James Williams - N.I.S.T. 8
Jan. Dr.
David Smith - M.I.T. 10
Jan. Student
Thesis Talks 13
Jan. Dr.
Gary Felder - Canadian Institute for Theoretical
Astrophysics 15
Jan. Dr.
Sima Setayeshgar - Princeton University 21
Jan. Dr.
Vangal N. Muthukumar - Princeton University 28
Jan. Dr.
Joshua Winn - Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics 21
Feb. Dr.
Susan Ginsberg - American Physical Society 28
Feb. Christopher
Elkinton '98 - University of Massachusetts, Amherst 4
March Student
Thesis Talk - Kristen Shapiro '03 7
March Dr.
James Dunlop - Yale University 13-14
March Sigma
Xi Faculty Research Lectures: Prof. Sarah Bolton - Williams
College - 4:00pm 11-12
April 18
April Dr.
Robert Hallock - University of Massachusetts 25
April Dr.
Howard Bond - Space Telescope Science Institute 30
April Dr.
Joris Gerssen - Space Telescope 2
May Kerwyn
Casey Huang - M.I.T. - Department of Physics 9
May Dr.
George Benedek - M.I.T. 13
May Dr.
Martin Guerrero - University of Illinois 16
May Dr.
Elizabeth Simmons - Dept. of Physics - Boston University 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
Title: "Getting Acquainted with the Physics
Dept."
Title: "Strain Hardening in Biopolymer Networks"
Title: The Story of "Stopped Light"
Title: "Entropy, Randomness and the Physics of Computation"
[abstract]
Sponsored by Physics, Astronomy & Computer
Science
Title: "Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Single Quantum Dots:
Quantum Computing in Semiconductors"
Title: "Stochastic Gene Expression in Single
Cells"
Title: Satellite Communication
4:00 PM, Thompson Physical Lab 205
Title: TBA
Public Lecture: 8:00 PM, Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall
Title: TBA
Title: "Why Good Traffic Goes Bad: Simulating Highway
Traffic Flow"
Title: "CreatingVortices in a Dilute Bose-Einstein
Condensate" - 4:00pm
Title: "The Hierarchy Problem and Physics Beyond the
Standard Model" 4:00pm
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
Title: "The Very Early Universe" - 4:00pm
Title: "Twist and Buckle: Spatiotemporal Patterns in the
Heart" - 4:00pm
Title: "Superconductivity in Doped Mott Insulators" -
4:00pm
Title: "Measuring the Universe with Gravitational
Lenses"
Title: "From Lewis and Clark to Nanotechnology: How Science
Policy REALLY Works" - 3:00pm [abstract]
Title: "Deep Water Offshore Wind Energy"
4:15pm
title: "Recreating the Big Bang at RHIC: 10^12 Degrees in
the Shade"
Title: "The Magical World of Two-Dimensional 3He corks on a
Shallow 4He Ocean"
Title: "Hubble Space Telescope Observations of the Light
Echo Around V838 Monocerotis: An Astronomical CAT
Scan"
Title: "A Search for Black Holes in Globular Clusters" -
4:00pm
Title: "E. coli's Division Decision: Modeling Min-protein
Oscillations"
2:35pm - Joint with Biology Department
Title: "The Physical Basis of Protein Condensation Diseases:
With Application to Cataract and Alzheimer's
Disease"
Title: "X-ray Bubbles: from Planetary Nebulae to
Superbubbles" - 4:00pm
Title: "Why is this Quark Different from all Other
Quarks?"
1:00pm