Spring 1996 Clark Physics Colloquium Schedule

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

date speaker institution title host
Jan. 11 Andrew Albrecht Clark thesis proposal Landee
Jan. 18 James Thomas U Mass Polymer Center Macromolecular switches for biological membrane control Gould
Jan. 25 Peter Kaplan NEC Research Institute Building a biochemical computer: An experimental review of the promise and challenge of computing with DNA Gould
Feb. 1 Rena Zieve Yale University Experiments on the multiple superconducting phases of (U,Th)Be13 Gould
Feb. 8 Elizabeth Mann Ecole Normale Superieure The Physics of Monolayer Polymers Gould
Feb. 15 Diandra Leslie-Pelecky University of Nebraska Magnetism in nanostructured materials: What happens when there is more grain boundary than grain? abstract Gould
Monday, Feb. 19 at 3 pm. George Thurston MIT Phase diagrams of eye lens protein solutions Gould
Feb. 22 Susan Watson UC, San Diego Destruction of superconductivity in a narrow band metal; K_3C^{60} Gould
Feb. 29 open none none none
Monday, March 4 at 3 pm.Jeffrey Urbach University of Texas, Austin Reproducibility and correlations of magnetic avalanches abstract Gould
March 7 Stuart Field University of Michigan Dynamics of driven superconducting vortices abstract Gould
March 14 Clark spring break no colloquium
March 21 APS meeting
Special colloquium in honor of the 70th anniversary of Goddard's first rocket flight. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics/Computer Science, and Physics.
Tuesday, March 26 at 4 pm. Carol Jo Crannell NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterOut of this world experiences: From balloons to the space stationBlatt
Special seminar cosponsored by the Marsh Institute and the Environmental Science and Policy Program, Marsh Conference Room, 16 Claremont Street
Wednesday, March 27 at noon Marc FischerLawrence Berkeley LaboratoryExploring nature's responses to global climate change: Carbon and water feedbacks from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphereTurner
March 28 Marc Fischer Lawrence Berkeley LaboratoryEstimating human exposures to gaseous contaminants: Experimental techniques for indoor and outdoor airGould, Goble
Monday, April 1 at 3 pm. Xinsheng (Sean) Ling NEC Research Phase transitions in Two-Dimensional Superconducting Arrays Gould
April 4 open none none none
April 11 Milton Cole Penn State From wetting to solvation: new transitions for weakly interacting system Gould
April 18 open none none none
April 25 Brett Ellman McGill Heat and sound in a vacuum Gould
May 2 at 11 am in Room N-104 Jim Martin Sandia LaboratoriesStructure and dynamics of electrorheological fluids Gould
Monday, May 6 at 11 am Peter Kaplan NEC Research Institute Observing Entropy in a Binary Colloidal Suspension Gould
Monday, May 13 at 11 am David V. Anderson Anderson Scientific Consulting Using Computers, Multimedia and the Internet to Teach Physics Gould
Monday, May 13 at 4 pm Grant Plummer North Carolina State University Molecular Spectroscopic Tools for Environmental Research abstract Agosta

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Last updated 7 May 1996
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