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.

April 4, 2000	Frank A. Moscatelli, Swarthmore College NIST F-2: The Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock
Feb. 29, 2000	Barry C. Barish, Caltech The Detection of Gravitational Waves
Feb. 15, 2000	S. R. Kulkarni, Caltech The Brilliant Gamma-ray Bursts: Dying Cries for the Deep Universe
Feb. 1, 2000	Ken Janda, University of California at Irvine Liquid Helium Nano-droplets, a Superfluid Solvent?
Jan. 18, 2000	Dale M. Meade, Princeton University Confining a Fusion Fire: A Grand Challenge for Science and Technology
Nov. 30, 1999	Matt Carey (’85), IBM Almaden Research Center What’s in Your Hard Drive: Thin Films for Magnetic Recording
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