Colloquia and Seminars

DATE	SPEAKER	TITLE and ABSTRACT
Jan. 27	Michael Naughton Boston College	Physics of Molecular Organic Conductors
Feb. 3	Michael Chapman Georgia Institute of Technology	Quantum control of ultra-cold atoms: Bose-Einstein condensates, quantum gates and atom fibers
Feb. 10	Elisa Riedo Georgia Institute of Technology	Nanomechanics: from nanotechnology to biology
Feb. 17	Len Sander University of Michigan	Patterns and Growth in Highly Malignant Brain Tumors
Feb. 24	Philippe Coussot Navier Institute	The physics of mud
March 3	Michael F. Shlesinger Office of Naval Research	Pitfalls and Paradoxes in the History of Probability Theory
March 10	Rick Trebino Georgia Institute of Technology	Frontiers in the Characterization of Ultrashort Laser Pulses
March 17	Spring Break
March 24	Carsten Krebs Pennsylvania State University	Oxygen Activation by the alpha-Ketoglutarate-Dependent Dioxygenases
March 31	Peter Young UC Santa Cruz	Do Spin Glasses have Phase Transitions?
April 7	Paolo De Los Rios Laboratoire de Biophysique Statistique, Lausanne	Harnessing entropy to translocate proteins across membranes
April 14	John R. de Bruyn University of Western Ontario	Drag in Yield-Stress Fluids
April 21	Jane Wang Cornell University	Efficiency of flapping flight
April 28	Narayanan Menon University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Squeezing some new facts out of glasses

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