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Department of Physics
Colloquium Schedule, Spring 2004
Wednesdays 4:00 pm in Swain West 119 ( Tea at 3:30 pm in SW113)

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Date
Speaker
Topic*
January 14 John Page (University of Manitoba)
Host: David V. Baxter
Ultrasonic Waves in Random and Ordered Mesoscopic Materials
January 21 Dr. Gerald Gwinner (University of Manitoba)
Host: Mike Snow
Atomic clocks at 7% of the speed of light - testing time dilation at a heavy-ion storage ring
January 28
Konopinski Lecture Series
Phil Bucksbaum (University of Michigan)
Host: Mike Snow
Ultrafast Quantum Control: Teaching Atoms, Learning from Molecules
February 4 Roger Pynn (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Host: David V. Baxter
Spin Echo Scattering Angle MEasement (SESAME): A new approach to neutron scattering that can be developed at LENS
February 11 Jens Gundlach (University of Washington)
Host: W. Mike Snow
Measuring Newton's Gravitational Constant G
February 18 Charles J. Horowitz (Indiana University) Nuclear Pasta: Non Uniform Matter in Neutron Stars and Supernovae
February 25
Konopinski Lecture Series
Raman Sundrum (Johns Hopkins University)
Host: Charles Horowitz
The Cosmological Constant Problem in Fundamental Physics
March 3
Konopinski Lecture Series
Jan Tobochnik (Kalamazoo College)
Host: Steven Gottlieb
Using computer simulations to understand concepts in statistical physics
March 9 (Tuesday)
7:30 p.m.
Konopinski Memorial Lecture
Dr. Jill Tarter (Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI and Director of the Center for SETI Research)
Host: Timothy Londergan
Life, the Universe, and SETI In a Nutshell
March 10
joint with Astronomy
Konopinski Lecture Series
Dr. Jill Tarter (Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI and Director of the Center for SETI Research)
Host: Timothy Londergan

SETI 2020: A Roadmap for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence

March 17
SPRING BREAK
March 24 Madappa Prakash (State University of New York at Stony Brook)
Host: Charles Horowitz
Mergers of Compact Binary Stars
March 31 Jeffrey Richman (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Host: Steven Gottlieb
Matter vs. Antimatter in the BaBar Experiment
April 7
Konopinski Lecture Series
Peter Weichman (Alphatech, Inc.)
Host: Sima Setayeshgar
A physicist's guide to the landmine/unexploded ordnance problem: theory and experiment
April 12 (Monday) at 4:00 pm in Fine Arts 015
Geology Colloqiuium
Konopinski Lecture Series
Dr. H. Harrison (Jack) Schmitt, Astronaut-Geologist-Senator
Hosts: Abhijit Basu & Dick Durisen
Implications of Lunar Evolution for the Evolution of Mars and the Earth
April 13 (Tuesday) at 7:30 pm in Wittenberger Auditorium Dr. H. Harrison (Jack) Schmitt, Astronaut-Geologist-Senator
Hosts: Abhijit Basu & Dick Durisen
To the Moon and Beyond
April 14
with Biocomplexity Institute
James P. Keener (University of Utah)
Host: James A. Glazier
The Dynamics of Growing Biofilm
April 21
Awards Colloquium
Konopinski Lecture Series
Howard C. Berg (Harvard University)
Host: James A. Glazier
E. coli in Motion

* NOTE: Italics for topic only and regular type for formal title

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The 14th Public Joseph & Sophia Konopinski Memorial Lecture in Physics

Dr. Jill Tarter
Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI
Director of the Center for SETI Research

Tuesday, March 9, 2004, 7:30 p.m.

Life, the Universe, and SETI In a Nutshell

Another summer, another “blockbuster” movie about aliens... but do they really exist? The real scientific search for evidence of life, and particularly intelligent life, elsewhere in the cosmos is just as exciting as the “reel” version, and a lot more logical. So far, we have only life-as-we-know-it to guide our speculations and observations. But new technologies, a new appreciation of the tenacity of life and a growing respect for the world of microbes, new spacecraft and missions, and new observatory facilities are rapidly expanding our viewpoint and surprising us. We can expect more surprises. In the next few decades we will take a much closer look at the places within our solar system where liquid water (even vast oceans) may exist and harbor life. We will probe the closest stars to see if other ‘Earths' and ‘biospheres' exist. SETI will broaden its strategies and extend its range out into the galaxy, looking for evidence of someone else's technology. We don't know what we will find; that's part of the excitement.

Whittenberger Auditorium -- Indiana Memorial Union
Followed by an open reception at the University Club, Indiana Memorial Union


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