Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2001

Monday, January 8, 2001 (Beginning of the semester)

Monday, January 15, 2001

• University Holiday: M.L. King Holiday, No Colloquium

Tuesday, January 30, 2001 (Special date!)

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• DNA and its Interactions
• Dr. Alexei Tkachenko (Bell Laboratories)
• Abstract
• Contact

Friday, February 2, 2001 (Special date!)

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 3, Physics Hall
• Messier 32: Rosetta Stone or Enigma?
• Dr. Guy Worthey, St. Ambrose University, Davenport
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, February 5, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• Understanding Protein Folding with Energy Landscape Theory
• Dr. Steve Plotkin (University of California, San Diego)
• Abstract
• Contact

Tuesday, February 6, 2001 (Special date!)

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 3, Physics Hall
• Getting Cosmology From Gamma Ray Bursts
• Dr. Bradley Schaefer (University of Texas at Austin)
• Abstract
• Contact

Wednesday, February 7, 2001 (Special date!)

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 3, Physics Hall
• The Stellar Metallicity-Giant Planet Connection
• Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez (University of Washington)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, February 19, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• Strengthening the link between research and instruction in physics education
• Professor David Meltzer (Iowa State University)
• Abstract
• Contact

Tuesday, February 20, 2001 (Special date!)

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• Understanding the folding mechanism of proteins: theory meets experiments
• Dr. Cecilia Clementi (University of California, San Diego)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, February 26, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• The Search for Metallic Hydrogen at High Pressure
• Professor Richard Martin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Abstract
• Contact

Tuesday, February 27, 2001 (Special date!)

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 3, Physics Hall
• The Interstellar Medium of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies
• Dr. Lynn Matthews, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, March 5, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• Condensed Matter in Extreme Environments: Current Experimental Status at ISU
• Professor Robert Modler (Iowa State University)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, March 12, 2001

• University Holiday: Spring Break, No Colloquium

Monday, March 19, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• The Logic of the LHC - How do we know where to look if we don't know what we are looking for?
• Professor Howard M. Georgi (Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, March 26, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• Single Crystals of Organic Semiconductors
• Dr. Christian Kloc (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, April 2, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• The Final Fermion - Hunting the Tau Neutrino
• Professor Kenneth Heller (University of Minnesota)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, April 9, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• The Colored Glass Condensate and the EIC
• Dr. Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Lab)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, April 16, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• Superconductor-Insulator Transitions in the Two-Dimensional Limit
• Professor Allen M. Goldman (University of Minnesota)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, April 23, 2001

• 4:10 P.M. in Room 5, Physics Hall
• The Breakdown of Microscopic Time Reversal Invariance and the "Cathedral Builders' Paradigm"
• Professor Ikaros Bigi (University of Notre Dame)
• Abstract
• Contact

Monday, April 30, 2001

• Final exam week, No Colloquium

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