Spring
Quarter 2004
COLLOQUIA
Spring Quarter, 2004 - Zhu & Liu
MONDAY- 4:10 p.m., 55 Roessler Hall
April 5
Dr. Stephen Thorsett, UC Santa Cruz
"Radio Pulsars: Doing Nuclear Physics with a Telescope"
Abstract
April 12
Dr. Barry Barish, California Institute of Technology
"Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves"
Abstract
April 19
Dr. Eva Silverstein, SLAC
"Dark Energy and the Degrees of Freedom of String Theory"
Abstract
April 26
Dr. Frances Hellman, UC San Diego
"Spin Electronics: Magnetic Moments and Amorphous
Semiconductors
"
Abstract
May 3
Dr. Sunil Sinha, UCSD
"Diffuse Scattering Studies of Lattice Modulations and
Lattice Distortions in Complex Oxides"
Abstract
May 10
Dr. Shamit Kachru, Stanford/SLAC
"Cosmology on the String Theory Landscape"
Abstract
May 17
Dr. Geoff Marcy, UC Berkeley
"Extrasolar Planetary Systems"
Abstract
May 24
Dr. Stephan Meyer
"WMAP and Future CMB Experiments"
Abstract
HIGH ENERGY/ELEMENTARY PARTICLE PHYSICS
SEMINAR
Spring Quarter, 2004 - Kiskis
TUESDAY - 4:10 p.m., Room 416 Physics/Geology
Special Date, Thursday, May 27
Dr. Marco Battaglia, Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory
"Supersymmetric Dark Matter and the
Linear Collider:
Physics potential and Detector requirements"
Abstract
June 1
Dr. Chris Hill, University of California Santa Barbara
"Top Dileptons at the Tevatron and Beyond"
Abstract
June 8
Dr. Andre Sopczak, Lancaster
University
"Higgs Physics: from LEP to a Linear Collider"
Abstract
NUCLEAR
SEMINAR
Spring Quarter, 2004 - Cebra
COSMOLOGY
SEMINAR
Spring Quarter, 2004 - Albrecht
THURSDAY - 12:10 p.m., Room 416
Physics/Geology
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April 22
Dr. John Dubinski, CITA
"A Universe in
Motion: The Dynamical
Evolution of Galaxies in a Cosmolgical Context"
Abstract
April 29
Dr. Rachel Akeson, JPL
"First
Science Results with the Keck
Interferometer"
Abstract
May 6
Dr. Lorenzo Sorbo, UC Davis
"Moving
Sources in a Ghost Condensate"
Abstract
May 13
Dr. Kim-Vy Tran, ETH Institute of
Astronomy, Zurich
"Post-starburst
Galaxies at
Intermediate Redshifts"
Abstract
May 20
Dr. Alexander Maloney, Stanford
"Beauty is Attractive: Moduli
Trapping at Enhanced Symmetry Points"
Abstract
May 27
Todd Small, Caltech
"The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Results from the First Year"
Abstract
June 3
Dr. Jean-Paul Kneib, Caltech
"Cluster Lenses: a Deep Look in the Universe"
Abstract
June 10
Dr. Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley
"On the Maximum Luminosity of Galaxies and Their Central
Black
Holes: Feedback From Momentum-Driven Winds"
Abstract
CONDENSED MATTER SEMINAR
Spring Quarter, 2004 - Scalettar
THURSDAY
- 4:10 p.m., Room 416 Physics/Geology
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more information on Speakers
April 1
Dr. Larry Sorensen,
University of Washington
"How magnets remember/frget: Truth from speckle"
Abstract
April 8
Dr. Andrea Cavalleri, Lawrence
Berkeley National
Laboratory
"Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction and Spectroscopy: new Light
on the Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Strongly Correlated Systems"
Abstract
April 13
Dr. Rossitza Pentcheva, University
of Munich
"On the Stabilization of Polar Metal Oxide Surfaces: A
First Principles Study of Fe304(001)"
Abstract
April 15
Dr. Leonid Butov, University of
California, San Diego
"Phenomena in cold excition gasses: Condensation,
macroscopic ordering and beyond"
Abstract
April 22
Dr. Dieter Weller,
Seagate Technology
"Assult on Storage Densities of 1 Terabit per Sq inch and
beyond"
Abstract
April 29
Dr. Damon Jackson,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Designer Diamond Anvils: A Novel Technique for Electrical
Transport and AC Susceptibility Measurements"
Abstract
Monday, May 3
Dr. Charles
Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Pattern formation in systems with competing interactions:
Applications to materials science"
Abstract
May 6
Dr. Lin Yang, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory
"Quantum-based simulations of material strength and phase
diagrams for high-Z metals"
Abstract
May 13
Dr. Helmut Katzgraber,
Theoretische Physik, ETH
Hoenggerberg
"Typical versus average superfluid density: Understanding
the vortex glass phase"
Abstract
May 20
Dr. Matthew Hastings,
Center for Nonlinear Studies, LANL
"Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in Higher Dimensions"
Abstract
May 27
Dr. Choong-Shik Yoo,
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
"High Pressure Materials Research at the APS"
Abstract
Special Date,
Friday, May 28
Dr. Leonard Sander, The University
of Michigan
"Kinetic Pinning
and Biological
Antifreezes"
Abstract
June 3
Dr. Zack Schlesinger,
University of California Santa Cruz
"Systematic
Study of Kondo Resonance Scaling via Infrared/Optical Spectroscopy"
Abstract
PHYSICS EDUCATION - PHYSICS
298-23 SEMINAR
Spring Quarter, 2004
FRIDAY- 12:00-1:00, Room 113 Walker
Annex
STUDENTS ONLY SEMINAR
Spring Quarter, 2004
WEDNESDAY - 12:30 p.m., 416
Physics/Geology
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