Please contact the host if you wish to arrange a discussion with the speaker.

6 Sep 2002	Don Goldsmith, The Runaway Universe Host: Roberts, [email protected]
13 Sep 2002	Chris Fryer, T6, Los Alamos National Laboratory Core-Collapse Supernovae Host: Davids, [email protected]
20 Sep 2002	Alan Nathan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The Physics of Hitting a Home Run Hosts: Kelly, [email protected]; and Davids, [email protected]
27 Sep 2002	J. David Jackson, UC Berkeley and LBNL Historical Roots of Gauge Invariance Host: Lu, [email protected]
4 Oct 2002	Fall DNP Meeting - No colloquium
11 Oct 2002	Fall DNP Meeting - No colloquium
18 Oct 2002	Jun Ye, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) Control of coherent light: Time meets Frequency Host: Lu, [email protected]
25 Oct 2002	Art McDonald, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario Solving the Solar Neutrino Problem Host: Davids, [email protected]
1 Nov 2002	David DeMille, Yale University Tabletop probes for TeV physics: searches for the electric dipole moment of the electron Host: Lu, [email protected]
8 Nov 2002	Valery Nesvizhevsky, Institute Laue-Langevin, France Quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field Host: Jackson, [email protected] Postponed
15 Nov 2002	Jayanth Banavar, Penn State University The Geometry and Physics of Proteins Host: Gemmell, [email protected]
22 Nov 2002	Walter Kutschera, University of Vienna Isotope Studies of the Alpine Iceman Oetzi Host: Ahmad, [email protected]
29 Nov 2002	Thanksgiving - No colloquium
6 Dec 2002	Walter Henning, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung mbH, Darmstadt, Germany The GSI Future Facility Host: Jackson, [email protected]
13 Dec 2002	John Arrington , Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory Do Ordinary Nuclei Contain Exotic States of Matter? Host: Lu, [email protected]
20 Dec 2002	Yuri Oganessian , Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, JINR, Dubna, Russia Heaviest Nuclei Close to the "Islands of Stability" of Superheavy Elements Host: Ahmad, [email protected]
27 Dec 2002	Christmas/New Year Holiday - No colloquium
3 Jan 2003	Christmas/New Year Holiday - No colloquium
10 Jan 2003	Valery Nesvizhevsky, Institute Laue-Langevin, France Quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field Host: Jackson, [email protected]
17 Jan 2003	Kenneth M. Kemner, Environmental Research, Argonne National Laboratory Using High-Energy X-ray Physics to Address Environmental Science Problems Host: Kelly, [email protected]
24 Jan 2003	Jim Truran, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Enrico Fermi Institute, U. Chicago Tracing the Abundance History of the Cosmos Host: Ahmad, [email protected]
31 Jan 2003	Stuart Freedman, University of California, Berkeley KamLand Host: Lu, [email protected]
7 Feb 2003	Alfred H. Mueller, Department of Physics, Columbia University Small-x behavior and saturation in nuclear and particle physics Host: Lu, [email protected]
14 Feb 2003	Robert L. Merlino, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa Dusty plasmas in the laboratory and space Kelly, [email protected]
21 Feb 2003	Postponed ... see 21 Mar 2003
28 Feb 2003	Phil Woods, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh Nuclei Beyond the Proton Drip-Line Host: Davids, [email protected]
7 Mar 2003	David Wineland, Time and Frequency Division, NIST Quantum games with trapped atomic ions; whither quantum computation? Host: Lu, [email protected]
14 Mar 2003	Janet Conrad , Department of Physics, Columbia University Seeking the Small Silent Type Host: Jackson, [email protected]
21 Mar 2003	J. Murray Gibson, Associate Laboratory Director, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory Music, Fourier and Wave-Particle Duality Host: Gemmell, [email protected]
28 Mar 2003	Steven Rolston, Atomic Physics Division, NIST Ultracold Neutral Plasmas Host: Lu, [email protected]
4 Apr 2003	Jeffrey S. Hangst, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Aarhus, Denmark The Production of Cold Antihydrogen Host: Lu, [email protected]
10 Apr 2003	NB. Thursday Achim Richter, Institute for Nuclear Physics, Darmstadt University of Technology Playing Billiards with Microwaves - Quantum Manifestations of Classical Chaos Host: Roberts, [email protected]
11 Apr 2003	Hendrik Schatz, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University Cosmic Fireworks and Radioactive Beams Host: Davids, [email protected]
18 Apr 2003	Martin Savage, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle Effective Field Theory in Nuclear Physics Host: Roberts, [email protected]
25 Apr 2003	Timothy Chupp, Physics, Applied Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor NMR and MRI with Laser Polarized Noble Gases: What's New? Host: Ahmad, [email protected]
2 May 2003	Friedrich-K Thielemann, Theoretical Nuclear Astrophysics Group, University of Basel, Switzerland Nuclei far from Stability: Their Role and Production in Astrophysical Events Host: Roberts, [email protected]
9 May 2003	Hasan Padamsee, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics, Cornell University Why Superconductivity Will Propel the Next Generation Accelerators for Light Sources and Linear Colliders Host: Kelly, [email protected]
16 May 2003	T.-S. Harry Lee, Physics, Argonne National Laboratory What have we learned recently from few-GeV Electroweak Reactions? Host: Roberts, [email protected]
23 May 2003	Shoucheng Zhang, Department of Physics, Stanford University Can Relativity be an Emergent Principle? Host: Jackson, [email protected]
30 May 2003	Scott Thomas, Department of Physics, Stanford University High Energy Colliders as Black Hole Factories: The End of Short Distance Physics Host: Jackson, [email protected]
6 Jun 2003	Axel Drees, - Experimental Nuclear and Heavy Ion Physics, Physics and Astronomy, SUNY Stony Brook Jet Quenching and the Quark Gluon Plasma at RHIC Host: Birger Back, [email protected]

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2002-2003 Committee

University of Chicago Physics Department Colloquia
University of Illinois at Chicago Physics Department Colloquia
Northwestern University Physics and Astronomy Colloquia & Seminars
Fermilab Colloquia

ANL Physics Division

Comments to: John Arrington: [email protected]