Physics
Department
2004-05 Colloquia Webcast
1 LeConte
Hall - 4:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) Colloquia
Chair, Dmitry Budker
NOTE: Webcasts
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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 (click here for webcast)
Professor Larry Gladney, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania
"Seeing Dark Energy"
Host: George Trilling
Monday, February 7 (click here for webcast)
Dr. Zheng-Tian Lu, Argonne National Laboratory
"Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Saharan Water"
Host: Dmitry Budker
Monday, February 14 (click here for webcast)
Professor Mike Hayden, Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
"Neutron-detected Tomography of Impurity-seeded Superfluid Helium"
Host: Dmitry Budker
Monday, February 28 (click here for webcast)
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 (click here for webcast)
Robert Birgeneau, UC Chancellor
"High Temperature Superconductivity & Magnetism: Friends or Foes?"
Host: Marjorie Shapiro
Monday, March 14 (click here for webcast)
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 (click here for webcast)
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 (click here for webcast)
Congressman Vernon J. Ehlers, PhD '60
"Physicists and Congress: A Weak Interaction"
Host: Howard Shugart
Oppenheimer Lecture
Monday, April 11 (click here for webcast)
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 (click here for webcast)
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:
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 (click here for webcast)
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 (click here for webcast)
Professor Mary K. Hudson
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth
"New Radiation Belts from Solar Storms"
Host: Bob Lin
Monday, October 4 (click here for webcast)
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 BustamanteMonday, 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 (click here for webcast)
Dr. Lute Maleki
Senior Research Scientist, JPL
"Optical Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators & Artificial Atoms"
Host: Dmitry Budker
Monday, November 1 (click here for webcast)
Dr. Paul B. Corkum
Program Leader, Femtosecond Science, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
"Attosecond Science & Technology"
Host: Roger Falcone
Monday, November 8 (click here for webcast)
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 (click here for webcast)
President & CEO, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
"Engineering the Ocean"
Host: Marjorie Shapiro
Monday, November 22
Professor Raymond Jeanloz (click here for webcast)
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences, UC Berkeley
"From Earth to Stars: Interiors & Evolution of Planets"
Monday, November 29 (click here for webcast)
Dr. George Chapline, Laboratory Physicist, LLNL
"Quantum Mechanics & Relativistic Astrophysics"
Host: Chris McKee
Monday, December 6 (click here for webcast)
Professor Keith Schwab
Laboratory for Physical Sciences, University of Maryland
"Putting the Mechanics Back into Quantum Mechanics"
Host: Michael Crommie