Spring 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, Dragomir Davidovic, Raymond Flannery, David Finkelstein.
Note: You can check out the Colloquia and Seminar Series of Fall 2000 here.
CURRENT FRONTIERS
IN PHYSICS
--ALL LECTURES ARE AT 2:00 pm
in LECTURE ROOM 2 UNLESS OTHERWISE
NOTED
| Feb 16 |
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Argonne National Laboratory
"Superconductivity: History and Modern State" |
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| Mar 30: |
Leo P. Kadanoff, James Frank Institute, University of Chicago
Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck: The Development of Complexity in Physical System |
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COLLOQUIA
SERIES
--ALL LECTURES ARE AT 3:00 pm
in LECTURE ROOM 5 UNLESS OTHERWISE
NOTED
| Jan 10: |
Dean Driebe, University of Texas
"Chaos, Time, and Statistical Mechanics" |
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| Jan 17: |
Anna Lin, University of Texas at Austin
"Frequency locking in a reaction-diffusion system" |
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| Jan 24: |
Thom Orlando, Georgia Tech Chemistry
"Diffraction and Initial State Effects in Stimulated Desorption" | |
| Jan 31: |
Dr. Zheng-Tian Lu, Argon National lab
"Catching Rare Atoms with Light" | |
| Feb 7: |
Jim Sowell, School of Physics, Gerogia Tech
"A Menagerie of Close Binary Systems" | |
| Feb 12: |
Marie Curie Exhibit Symposium (this is a Monday seminar)
Beginning at 1:30 pm, MARC Auditorium. Three 45 Minute Talks: "Don't Call Her Madame," Ms. Susan Quinn, Author of Marie Curie: A Life. "Politics, 'Race', and Gender: Lise Meitner and the Discovery of Nuclear Fission" Professor Ruth Lewin Sime Biographer and Professor, Department of Chemistry, Sacramento City College. Their Day in the Sun: The Women of the Manhattan Project" Dr. Caroline Herzenberg, Argonne National Lab. | |
| Feb 14: |
No Colloquium: Note, however, Feb. 12, 16(Frontiers), and 19.
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| Feb 19: |
Special Colloquium--Marie Curie Exhibit Speaker: Judy Franz, Executive Officer, American Physical Society (this is a Monday seminar)
"Women in Science: Crashing Through the Glass Ceiling" 3:00, Lecture Room 4, School of Physics | |
| Feb 21: |
Dennis Prather, University of Delaware
"Meso-and Nano-Scopic Technologies for Chip-Scale Optical Interconnects" | |
| Feb 28: |
Uri Banin, Department of Physical Chemistry, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
"Optical and tunneling spectroscopy of semiconductor clusters and nanocrystals" Mar 5-9: Spring Break - no colloquium |
| Mar
14: |
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M. Schlesinger, Department of Physics, University of Windsor, Canada
| "Electrochemically Produced Quantum Dots (An Old Solution to a New Problem)" Mar
21: |
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Michael Cross, Caltech
| "Spatiotemporal Chaos-Challenges and Progress" Mar
28: |
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Zameer Hasan, Temple University
| High-Density and Fast Spectral Memmories by Optical Hole-burning in II-VI Materials
Apr 4: |
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Tom Solomon, Bucknell
| "Levy Flights and Superdiffusive Transport in Fluid Flows"
Apr 11: |
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Carl Williams, NIST.
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TBA
Apr 18: |
| Erik J. Heller, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University
| Joe Ford Memorial Lecture "Wave Chaos: From Quantum Devices to Concert Halls"
Apr 30: |
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Harold Szu, Dept ECE, GWU Wash. DC.
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"Why should we use pairs of sensors to process spech and images?" Note: this lecture will be in Conference Room N110 Apr 27: last day of classes Apr 30 - May 4: final exams May 5: end of spring term
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NONLINEAR SCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES
CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR SERIES
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