Physics Department
2004-05 Colloquia Webcast         

1 LeConte Hall - 4:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted)               Colloquia Chair, Dmitry Budker

NOTE: Webcasts are provided as QuickTime files. To view a webcast, download the free QuickTime Player software from the Apple website then click on the colloquium you would like to view.

Fall 2004 (click here)

Spring 2005

Monday, January 24            (click here for webcast)
Dr. Margarita Ryutova, Researcher, Geophysics & Planetary Physics, LLNL/Stanford University
"Solar Transition Region - Shocks in Action"
Host: Dmitry Budker

Monday, January 31     
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Professor Larry Gladney, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania

"Seeing Dark Energy"
Host: George Trilling

Monday, February 7     
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Dr. Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory
"Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Saharan Water"
Host: Dmitry Budker

Monday, February 14     
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Professor Mike Hayden, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
"Neutron-detected Tomography of Impurity-seeded Superfluid Helium"
Host: Dmitry Budker

Monday, February 28     
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Professor Paul Selvin, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Fluorescence Imaging with One Nanometer Accuracy (FIONA): Application to Molecular Motors"
Host: Jan Liphardt

Monday, March 7
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Robert Birgeneau, UC Chancellor

"High Temperature Superconductivity & Magnetism: Friends or Foes?"
Host: Marjorie Shapiro

Monday, March 14   
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Dr. Andreas Wallraff, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University
"Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics: Doing Quantum Optics on a Chip"

Host: John Clarke

Monday, March 28
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Professor Marcis Auzinsh, Visiting Miller Professor, University of Latvia
"Atomic and Molecular Dynamics in a Magnetic and an Electric Field "
Host: Dmitry Budker

Monday, April 4    
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Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers, PhD '60
"Physicists and Congress: A Weak Interaction"
Host: Howard Shugart


Oppenheimer Lecture
     Monday, April 11
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     Time & Place: Pimentel Hall, 5:45 p.m.

Professor Martin Rees
Department of Cosmology & Astrophysics
Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
Host: University Professor Marvin Cohen


Monday, April 18
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Mac Keiser, Chief Scientist, Gravity Probe B
Stanford University
"Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission"

Host: Dima Budker


Monday, April 25     (click here for webcast)
Dr. Chris Quigg, Theoretical Physics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
"The Double Simplex: Envisioning Particles and Interactions"
Host: Marjorie Shapiro


Monday, May 2     (click here for webcast)
Professor Ian Shipsey, Department of Physics, Purdue University
"Bringing Hearing to the Deaf: Cochlear Implants a Technical and Personal Account"
Host: Marjorie Shapiro


Monday, May 9    (click here for webcast)
Dr. Wojciech H. Zurek, Fellow, LANL
"Probabilities from Entanglement, Born's Rule from Envariance"
Host:

Fall 2004


Monday, September 13  (webcast not available)
       Dr. Yuriy Kosevich
       Moscow State University
       "Supersonic and Subsonic Nonlinear Excitations in Anharmonic Lattices"

       Host: Allan Lichtenberg           

Monday, September 20     
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       Professor Randall G. Hulet
       Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
       "Conversion of an Atomic Fermi Gas to a Molecular Bose Einstein"
       Host: Dan Stamper-Kurn         

Monday, September 27     
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       Professor Mary K. Hudson
       Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth
       "New Radiation Belts from Solar Storms"
       Host: Bob Lin                       

Monday, October 4     
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       Professor Robert J. Goldston
       Director, DOE Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
      "Advances in Magnetic Fusion Science and the ITER Project" 
       Host: Jonathan Wurtele           

Monday, October 11  (click here for webcast)
       Donald Glaser
       Professor in the Graduate School, Nobel Laureate, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley
       "What can we see, how do we see it, and why do we see things that aren't there?"
       Host: Carlos Bustamante  

 Monday, October 18      (click here for webcast)
       Professor Margaret Kivelson
       
Department of Earth & Space Sciences, UCLA
       "Global Dynamics of the Jovian Magnetosphere"
       Host: Stuart Bale                

Segrè Lecture
     Wednesday, October 20      
 (webcast not available)
     1 LeConte Hall, 5:45 p.m.

       Professor Clifford M. Will
       Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis
       "Was Einstein Right?"


Monday, October 25
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       Dr. Lute Maleki
       Senior Research Scientist, JPL
       "Optical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators & Artificial Atoms"
       Host: Dmitry Budker

Monday, November 1
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       Dr. Paul B. Corkum     

       Program Leader, Femtosecond Science, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
       "Attosecond Science & Technology"
       Host: Roger Falcone

Monday, November 8
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       Professor John Harte
   
       Department of Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
       "Predicting Climate Change on a Green Planet: A Daunting Challenge"
       Host: Mary K Gaillard

Monday, November 15
       Dr. Marcia McNutt
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       President & CEO, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
       "Engineering the Ocean"
       Host: Marjorie Shapiro

Monday, November 22

       Professor Raymond Jeanloz        
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       Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, UC Berkeley
       "From Earth to Stars: Interiors & Evolution of Planets"

Monday, November 29        
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       Dr. George Chapline, Laboratory Physicist, LLNL
       "Quantum Mechanics & Relativistic Astrophysics"
       Host: Chris McKee

Monday, December 6        
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       Professor Keith Schwab
       Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland
       "Putting the Mechanics Back into Quantum Mechanics"
       Host: Michael Crommie