USC Physics & Astronomy
Department Colloquium

The Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium is held on Monday afternoons at 4:15 p.m. in room SLH 100 unless otherwise noted.

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January 15

Martin Luther King Day, University Holiday

January 22

Spintronics: Electronics for the 21st Century
Dr. Stuart A. Wolf
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

January 29

Cold atoms in optical lattices
David Weiss
Department of Physics; University of California; Berkeley,

February 5

Deep South African Gold Mines as Natural Laboratories for Studying Earthquake Physics
Tom Jordan
Department of Earth Sciences; University of Southern California

February 12

The Search for Stellar Mass Black Holes
Dr. Ann Esin
Caltech

March 5

Solar neutrinos: where we are, where we are going.
John Bahcall
Institute for Advanced Study

March 12

Spring Break

March 19

Special Event: On March 20, 2001, Stephen Hawking will present a public lecture "The Universe in a Nutshell" at USC. The lecture is sponsored by the CIT-USC Center for Theoretical Physics.

March 26

Current state of plasma physics research
Cynthia Kieras Phillips
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Princeton University

April 2

Molecules and superfluid helium droplets
Andrey Vilesov
Department of Chemistry University of Southern California

April 9

Open date

April 16

Title to be announced
Shoko Sakai
Division of Astronomy UCLA

April 23

Interpreting genomic polymorphism data: what history has to tell us
Simon Tavare'
Department of Biology And
Department of Mathematics University of Southern California
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