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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September 22

Why Do People Argue About the Screening Factor in Stellar Nuclear Reactions?
Giora Shaviv
Department of Physics and Asher Space Research Institute
Technion, Haifa, Israel
Abstract

September 29

Postponed

October 13

Macroscopic Quantum Physics of a Superfluid ³He Weak Link
or
"Whistle While You Work"
Seamus (J.C.) Davis
Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Abstract

October 27

Molecular Engineering of Liquid Crystals for Display Applications
Shin-Tson Wu
Hughes Research Laboratory

November 10 Special Location: THH 101

Recent Results from the Mars Pathfinder Mission
Matthew Golombek
Jet Propulsion Laboratory

November 17

A New Method of Signal Processing for Solving Selected Problems in Physics and for Analyzing Experimental Data
Howard Taylor
Depts. of Chemistry and Physics, USC

November 24

Emerging Physics in the Quests for Creating Miniature Exploding Stars and Accelerators
Warren Mori
Depts. of Physics and Electrical Engineering, UCLA

December 1

Spin Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Antiferromagnets
Anders Sandvik
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

December 2 Note Special Day & Location: SLH 102

Non-Equilibrium Quantum Noise in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Listening to Fractional Charge
Claudio Chamon
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Abstract

December 8

Harmonic Generation and its Time Control
Bernard Piraux
Département de physique
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Nueve, Belgium