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.

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
Oct. 13, 1998	Adam S. Landsberg, WM Keck Science Center Disorder and Synchronization in Josephson Junction Arrays
Sept. 29, 1998	Chih-Yung Chen, Harvey Mudd College Persistent Photoconductivity in Si :mil:`\delta`-doped GaAs
Sept. 15, 1998	Joseph B. Platt, Harvey Mudd College Ancient Days With Elementary Particles
April 21, 1998	Scot Gould, WM Keck Science Center Silk Stalkings: The Mechanics of Spider Silk During Prey Capture
March 24, 1998	Marco Leona, Los Angeles County Museum of Art More Than Meets The Eye: Scientific Examination of Works of Art
March 3, 1998	Mark Johnson (’89), TRW Superconductor Electronics: Pendulums, SQUIDS, and Single-Flux Quanta
Feb. 17, 1998	Roger Falcone, University of California at Berkeley Ultrafast Time-Scale Interactions of Intense Laser Light With Matter
Feb. 3, 1998	Ronald Hellings, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Space Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
Dec. 2, 1997	Sarah D. Johnson, University of La Verne Measuring the Lifetime of Beauty