Physics Colloquium Schedule, Spring 1996

All talks will be held on Thursday, except where noted, at 4:30 P.M. in Room 58 Science Tower with refreshments at 4:10 P.M., Room 58 (Foyer) Science Tower.


February
1 Professor Seth Teller, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT 'Geometric Partitioning for Interactive High-Fidelity Visual Simulation'
8 Dr. Jay Sulzburger, Scholar-at-large 'Quantum Computing'
22 Professor Jeff Norman, Physics Department, Vassar College 'Physics and Applications of Photorefractive Materials'
29 Professor Philip Gould, Physics Department, University of Connecticut 'Preventing Collisions Between Laser Cooled Atoms'
March
11-22 midsemester break
28 Professor Moses Chan, Physics Department, Penn State title: TBA
April
11 Professor Thomas Maudlin, Philosophy Department, Joint with Philosophy Department 'The Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics'
18 Dr. Brant Johnson, RHIC Group, Brookhaven National Lab 'Ahead to the Past at RHIC, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider'
25 Professor Donald Candela, Physics Department, University of Massachusetts at Amherst title: TBA
April
2 BERTMAN LECTURE: TBA