Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 pm in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.

Nov. 16, 1999	John C. Mankins (’78), NASA Challenges and Opportunities for Affordable Human Exploration of the Solar System
Nov. 9, 1999	Denise M. Krol, University of California at Davis Optical Materials for Waveguide and Fiber Devices
Oct. 26, 1999	Roger Carlson (’89), TRW The Chandra X-Ray Space Telescope, or, Why I Should Have Paid Attention in Theo-Mech
Oct. 5, 1999	Mary Barsony, University of California at Riverside The Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems in Our Era
Sept. 21, 1999	Stephen K. Park, University of California at Riverside Use of Naturally Occurring Low Frequency Electromagnetic Waves for Determination of Feologic Structure
May 4, 1999	Paul Kwiat, University of California at Riverside Something Quantum This Way Comes
April 20, 1999	Harry Tom, University of California at Riverside What Can Happen in a Few Femtoseconds?
April 6, 1999	Henry C. Kapteyn (’83), University of Michigan Ultrashort Light Pulses
March 23, 1999	Michael Cross, Caltech Controlling Chaos: Towards Quieting the Beating Heart
March 2, 1999	Robert P. Wolf, Harvey Mudd College Boojums and Hyperbolic Hedgehogs: Strange Beauty of Nematic Liquid Crystal Emulsions
Feb. 9, 1999	David J. Stevenson, Caltech The Formation of the Earth and the Role of Impacts on the Origin of Life
Feb. 2, 1999	James R. Groome, Harvey Mudd College Deactivation Kinetics of Sodium Channels in Skeltal Muscle: Independent or Cooperative Gating?
Nov. 24, 1998	Robert Knop (’90), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Measuring the Expansion of the Universe with Supernovae
Nov. 19, 1998	Thomas R. Cech, University of Colorado at Boulder Life at the end of the Chromosome: Where Chemistry and Biology Meet Bioinformatics
Oct. 27, 1998	Lee Casperson, Portland State University Instabilities and Chaos in Lasers and Other Physics Systems