MSU Physics & Astronomy Colloquia

Fall Semester 1994

MSU P-A Colloquia are usually held in Room 118 of the Physics-Astronomy Building on the Michigan State University campus at 4:10 pm on Tuesdays of Fall and Spring Semesters. Refreshments are available in Room 224 at 3:45 pm.

Persons listed as "Host" may be contacted to arrange for meetings with non-local speakers (once their travel arrangements and such have been finalized).

Note: there have been some changes made recently in the November & December schedule.

30 August 1994
Speaker: George Zaslavsky, NYU-Courant Inst.
Topic: Chaos and Dynamical Generation of Symmetry
Hosted by: Vladimir Zelevinsky, zelevinsky@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
06 September 1994 : NOTE: this talk will be held at the Abrams Planetarium auditorium.
Speaker: David Batch, Director, Abrams Planetarium
Topic: The Abrams Planetarium
Hosted by: Raymond Brock, brock@chip.pa.msu.edu
13 September 1994
Speaker: Maris Abolins, Michigan State University
Topic: Status of the Search for the Top Quark
Hosted by: Brad Sherrill, sherrill@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
20 September 1994
Speaker: Alexander Patashinsky, Northwestern University
Topic: The Structure of Liquids
Hosted by: Vladimir Zelevinsky, zelevinsky@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
27 September 1994
Speaker: Russell Betts, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
Topic: Positron Production in Heavy Ion Collisions: Current Status
Hosted by: Brad Sherrill, sherrill@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
04 October 1994
Speaker: G. P. Hansen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Topic: Halo Nuclei Studied with Fast Radioactive Beams
Hosted by: Aaron Galonsky, galonsky@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
11 October 1994
Speaker: James Linnemann, Michigan State University
Topic:The Physics of D0
Hosted by: Brad Sherrill, sherrill@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
18 October 1994
Speaker: Peter Leonard, University of Maryland
Topic: The Impact of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9: Could It Happen To Us?
Hosted by: Brad Sherrill, sherrill@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
25 October 1994
Speaker: Beverly Heartline, Director of Outreach, Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility
Topic: The CEBAF Outreach Program
Hosted by: Gerard Crawley, 21523GMC@msu.edu
01 November 1994
Speaker: Konrad Gelbke, Michigan State University & Director, National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
Topic: The NSCL Coupled Cyclotron Project
08 November 1994
Speaker: Michael Thoennessen, Michigan State University & NSCL
Topic: The Structure of Particle Unstable Nuclei
15 November 1994
Speaker & Topic: Special talk & demonstration by members of the MSU Science Theatre on the group's current activities and plans.
22 November 1994
Speaker: Arthor McDonnald, Director, Sudbury Solar Neutrino Detector
Topic: Solar Neutrino Detection
Hosted by: Brad Sherrill, sherrill@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
29 November 1994
Speaker: Nino Panagia, Space Telescope Science Institute
Topic: The View of SN1987a from the Repaired Hubble Space Telescope
Hosted by: Brad Sherrill, sherrill@nscl.nscl.msu.edu
06 December 1994
Speaker: Robert Eisenstein, Director, Physics Division, National Science Foundation
Topic: The Times, They Are a-Changin'
Hosted by: Raymond Brock, brock@chip.pa.msu.edu

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MSU Physics-Astronomy Colloquium Schedule page, created by George J. Perkins.
Updated 1994.12.05