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  Colloquia Series
Fall 2001

Each semester, the School of Physics invites a variety of speakers to come share their exciting research with students and faculty at Georgia Tech. All students and faculty are invited. If you have questions or would like to set up an appointment with one of the speakers, please contact Jim Gole, Predrag Cvitanovic', Dragomir Davidovic.
 
--ALL LECTURES ARE ON WEDNESDAYS AT 3:00 pm in LECTURE ROOM 5 UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

 

August 20-- Classes begin
 
8/29 Brendan Plapp, A.P.S. Congressional Fellow
"Life as a Physicist in the U.S. Congress"

(Note: change in Date)
Monday, September 3, 2001 - Labor Day
 
9/19 Cancel
9/26 John L. Margraue, Department of Chem. and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University
"The Fluorination, Derivatization and Solvation of Carbon Nanotubes"

10/3 John F. Marko, University of Illinois, Chicago
"Micromanipulation Study of Single DNAs and Chromosomes"
10/10 Martin Golubitsky, Department of Mathematics, U. of Houston
"Pattern Formation in the Primary Visual Cortex"
10/15 (Monday) Alain Aspect, Institute of Optics, Paris, France
"Atom Optics: From Atom Mirrors to Atom Lasers"

(Note: This special colloquium will be held on Monday, 3:00 pm in lecture room 5 at Howey Physics Building.)
10/17 Allan MacDonald, Sid W. Richardson Fdn. Regents Chair, the University of Texas at Austin
"Semiconductor Ferromagnetism and Spintronics"
10/24 Gene Mele, U. of Pennsylvania
"High Technology in Low Dimensions: Physics of Molecular Nanotubes"
10/31 M.J. Feigenbaum, Rockefeller Univ., NY
"Views from Below the Surface"

11/7 Matthias Bode, U. of Hamburg
"Spin-polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy"
11/14 Postponed
Peidong Yang, Department of Chem, U.C. Berkeley
"Nanowire Building Blocks: Rational Synthesis and Novel Properties"
11/21 Postponed to Feb. 6th, 2002
Charles Marcus, Department of Physics, Harvard U.
"Small Electronics and Quantum Chaos"
Thursday and Friday, November 22 and 23, 2001-- Thanksgiving Break
 
11/28 Gang Bao, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Molecular Biomechanics: The Deformation and Dynamics of Proteins and Nucleic Acids"

12/5 Alexei Kojevnikov, University of Georgia
"Freedom, Collectivism, and Quasiparticles"
December 7-- Classes end