Michigan State University
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Spring 2004 Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are presented at 4:10 pm on Thursdays in 1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.
Refreshments are served at 3:45 pm in 1400A Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

Date
(2004)

Speaker

Speaker's
Institution

Title

Local
Host

22 January

Franco Nori

University of Michigan and RIKEN

Controlling the Motion of Magnetic Flux Quanta in Superconductors

-

29 January

Marco Fornari

Central Michigan University

Perovskites: Old and New Compounds

-

05 February

Tim Beers

Michigan State University

Mining the Milky Way Galaxy with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

-

12 February

Boris Kayser

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Neutrino Physics

Chivukula

19 February

Benn Tannenbaum

Federation of American Scientists

Congress versus Science

Tollefson

26 February

Leon Lederman

Illinois Math and Science Academy

It's Time for 21st Century Science Education

Pope

4 March

-

No Colloquium

-

-

11 March

-

Spring Break

-

-

18 March

Eric Mazur

Harvard University

Memorization or Understanding: Are We Teaching the Right Thing

Benenson

25 March

Hitoshi Murayama

UC Berkelely

The Next Twenty Years in Particle Physics

-

01 April

Steve Kivelson

University of California Los Angeles

Locally Crystalline Electron Fluids

Dykman

08 April

Greg Tucker

Brown University

Recent WMAP Results on Cosmic Microwave Background (tentative)

HEP

15 April

Jerome I. Friedman
Distiguished Lecturer

Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Are We Really Made of Quarks?

Wed. April 14, 7:30p.m. Kellogg Center Big 10 C
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New Horizons in Particle Physics

Colloquium

Tollefson

22 April

J.C. Seamus Davis

Cornell University

The Secret Order of the Cuprates

-

29 April

Art Champagne

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Globular Clusters, Nuclear Physics, and the Age of the Galaxy

Schatz

06 May

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Contact Lorie Neuman at neuman@pa.msu.edufor more information or if special accommodations are necessary.

This page last updated Tuesday, 6 April 2004 at 11:30:28 EST