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 102 unless otherwise noted.
Fall 1999
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September 6
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Labor Day
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September 13
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Paramagnetic Reentrance from the Meissner State in
Mesoscopic Normal Metal -
Superconductor Proximity Structures
Ana Celia Mota
Institute for Solid State Physics
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ETH Zurich
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September 20
- Quasiclassical Theory of Vibrational to Translational Energy
Transfer at Low and Ultralow Temperatures
Evguenii E. Nikitin
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
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September 27
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A Tour of Hot Subjects in the Physics of Finance
Didier Sornette
Department of Earth and Space Sciences
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UCLA
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October 4
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String Theory And The Quest For Unification
Edward Witten
Institute for Advanced Study
,
Princeton University
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October 11
- What Do We Learn from Earthquakes?
Leon Teng
Earth Sciences,
USC
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October 18
- Phases and Phase Transitions in the Quantum Hall Effect
Dunghai Lee
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley
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October 25
- Quantum Dot Based Artificial Solids
Jim Heath
Dept. of Chemistry,
UCLA
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November 1
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Probing the Limits of Fundamental Approximations in Soft-X-Ray
Photoemission
Dennis Lindle
Department of Chemistry,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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November 8
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Probing High-Tc Superconductivity on the Atomic Scale
by High Resolution Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Seamus Davis
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley
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November 15
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Quantum Percolation on the Square Lattice: Crystal Growth, Neutron
Scattering, and Quantum Monte Carlo
Martin Greven
Department of Applied Physics,
Stanford University
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November 22
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Nonlinear Magneto-Optics: New Twists in an Old Plot
Dmitry Budker
Department of Physics,
UC Berkeley
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November 29
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Hysteresis and Relaxation in Disordered Magnets
Gergely Zimanyi
Department of Physics,
UC Davis
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December 6
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Exotic Quantum Effects in Low Dimensional Magnets
Ian Affleck
Department of Physics,
University of British Columbia
Last updated:
Sun Nov 7 18:09:11 PST 1999
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