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2007-2008 Colloquium Chairman:Tom Witten, t-witten@uchicago.edu, CIS E227, 773-702-0947, Jeff Harvey, harvey@theory.uchicago.edu, RI 284, 773-702-9897, Mark Oreglia, oreglia@hep.uchicago.edu, HEP 215, 773-702-7446, Scott Wakely, wakely@ulysses.uchicago.edu, LASR 227, 773-834-3249. Thursdays, 4:15 p.m., KPTC 106, 5720 South Ellis Avenue Spring 2008 Colloquia Autumn 2007 Colloquia | Winter 2008 Colloquia
Date	Speaker Host	Title Institution
April 3	Burton Richter Mark Oreglia	Energy in the 21st Century (Presentation Slides) Stanford Linear Accelerator
April 10	Elena Aprile Juan Collar	Dark Matter WIMPs and the XENON ExperimentCANCELLED Columbia University
April 17	Steve Ritz Scott Wakely	GLAST: The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope Goddard Space Flight Center
April 24	Angela Belcher Tom Witten	From Nature and Back Again...Giving New Life to Materials for Energy, Electronics and the Environment Massachusetts Institute of Technology
May 1	Bill Phillips Cheng Chin	Rotating atoms with light: a new twist on coherent deBroglie-wave optics NIST
May 8	Joseph R Dwyer Scott Wakely	X-ray Emission from Thunderstorms and Lightning Florida Institute of Technology
May 15	Roy Schwitters Mark Oreglia	Imaging Large Objects with Cosmic Rays: Lessons Being Learned in the UT Maya Muon Project University of Texas at Austin
May 22	Stanislas Leibler Tom Witten	Fluctuations, Information, and Survival: Some Lessons learned from Bacteria The Rockefeller University
May 29	Ian Foster Tom Witten	*Distributed Computing University of Chicago
June 5	Tim Hallman Mark Oreglia	*Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Physics Brookhaven National Lab
June 12	Kip Thorne Bob Wald	*Gravitational Waves, Numerical Relativity, and Quantum Measurement Theory California Institute of Technology
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Persons with disabilities may request assistance in advance from Mrs. Plitt: p-plitt@uchicago.edu or 773-702-7006. Directions to the Kersten Physics Teaching Center are available online. Past colloquia: 1993-99, 1999- .

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