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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


* Actual title to follow


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Directions to the Kersten Physics Teaching Center are available online.

Past colloquia: 1993-99, 1999- .




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