Fall 1998 Clark Physics Colloquium Schedule

Thursdays at 4 p.m. in room N-105
Sackler Science Center
refreshments at 3:45 p.m.
Special times and rooms denoted in boldface

date speaker institution title host
September 10 Sid Redner Boston University "Aggregation Kinetics in Gelation, Traffic, Wealth, and other Everyday Phenomena" Gould
September 17 Bill Klein Boston University "The Physics of Earthquakes" Gould
September 24 Karin Dahmen Harvard University "Hysteresis, Avalanches, Earthquakes, and Plain Old Criticality" Kudrolli
October 1 Nathan Israeloff Northeastern University "Disco Honey? Probing Nanoscale Dynamics in Glass" Gould
October 8 Mehran Kardar MIT The `Friction' of Vacuum, and other Fluctuation-Induced Forces - Abstract Kudrolli
October 15 no colloquium - - -
October 22 Chris Marone MIT "Laboratory Derived Friction Laws for Seismic and Aseismic Faulting" Kudrolli
October 29 Sharon Finberg Penn State University "He atom scattering studies on Aluminum surfaces" Gould
November 5 Daniel Hong Lehigh Effect of excluded volume and gravity on granular dynamics: 'Fermi statistics' and condensation Kudrolli
November 6, 7 physics symposium Talks by Gene Mazenko, Ray Mountain, Jon Machta, Fereydoon Family, Jan Tobochnik, Ivan Kramer, Fred Wu, and panel discussion moderated by Peter Reynolds with Bruce Boghosian and Richard Brower.
Special Seminar: Tuesday, November 10, 4:00 pm Kristian Schaadt Clark & Niels Bohr Institute Quantum Chaos and Vibrating Plates Kudrolli
November 12 K. R. Sreenivasan Yale University "Conundrums of Scaling in Turbulence" Gould
November 19 Virginia Long SUNY Binghamton, Chemistry tentative title: "Far-infrared study of the Jahn-Teller effect in a fulleride salt" Landee
November 26 Thanksgiving - --
December 3 Randal Harrington University of Maine "Theoretical Frameworks for Conducting Research in Physics Education: An Example from Electrostatics." view abstract Gould

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Updated 3 December 1998
Sujata Davis: sdavis1@clarku.edu