USC Physics & Astronomy
Department Colloquium

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The Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium is held on Monday afternoons at 4:15 p.m. in room SLH 102 unless otherwise noted.

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Fall 2002

September 2
Labor Day, University Holiday

September 9
Entanglement without Nonlocality. Nonparadoxical Interpretation of a Type of Experiment Regarded as an Example of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox
Israel Senitzky
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, USC

September 16
Engineering Life Span in Transgenic Drosophila
John Tower
Department of Molecular & Computational Biology, USC

September 23
Physics of Viruses
Robijn Bruinsma
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA

September 30
Transport and Mechanical Properties of Heterogeneous Materials
Muhammad Sahimi
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, USC

October 7
Constrained Motion with Nonideal Constraints
Firdaus Udwadia
Dept. of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, USC
Abstract

October 14
Semiconductor Nanostructures: Nature's Way
Anupam Madhukar
Departments of Materials Science and of Physics & Astronomy, USC

October 21
Super ENSO and Global Climate Changes
Lowell Stott
Dept. of Earth Sciences, USC

October 28
Interaction of the Solar Wind with the Local Interstellar Medium: Theory and Experiment
Vladislav Izmodenov
Department of AeroMechanics and GasDynamics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

November 4
Linking Atomistic and Continuum Modeling of Dislocation Core Properties
Nicholas Kioussis
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, California State University, Northridge
Abstract

November 11
Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis from a Physicist's Point of View
Julian Chen
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

November 18
STM-based investigation and control of surface chemistry
Ludwig Bartels
Department of Chemistry, University of California Riverside

November 25
Local and Non-Local Magnetic Moments in Amorphous Silicon Near the Metal-Insulator Transition
Frances Hellman
Dept. of Physics, UCSD
Abstract

December 2
Particle Physics Precision Calculations
Zvi Bern
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA

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