Physics Colloquium Schedule

Spring Quarter 2000

University of Washington

Mondays at 4pm in Room A102 of the Physics/Astronomy Building
coffee, tea and cookies are served at 3:30 in the lobby

colloquium chair: Eric Adelberger
March 27 David Nelson, Harvard Univ.
Localization and Population Dynamics
April; 3 Kenneth Nordtvedt, Northwest Analysis
Space Experiments in Gravity:
Searching for New Interactions and Deviations from General Relativity
April 10 Frank Wilczek, Institute for Advanced Study
QCD in Extreme Conditions
April 17 Julie Theriot, Stanford University
A New Mechanism for Bacterial Locomotion
April 24 Nicholas White, NASA Goddard
Cosmic Journeys to the Edge of Gravity, Space and Time
May 1 Ed Hinds, University of Sussex
Atomic Mirrors, Waveguides and Chips
May 8 Lisa Randall, Princeton University
The Shape of Gravity in Extra Dimensions
May 15 Blayne Heckel, University of Washington
Were Einstein and Newton Right?
May 22 BORIS JACOBSOHN LECTURE
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
Quasicrystals
May 23 SPECIAL BORIS JACOBSOHN TALK
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
Quintessence and Cosmic Acceleration
June 5 JOINT PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM
Andrew Lange, Caltech
The Embrionic Universe Revealed:
Images of the Cosmic Microwave Background