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Yale Physics Club

The Physics Club at Yale has a long history of presenting talks by the foremost researchers in all fields of physics, including many Nobel Physics prizewinners. The meetings are held on Fridays during the regular school year from 4:00 p.m.-5 :00 p.m. in 59 Sloane Physics Laboratory. Tea and coffee are served at 3:30 p.m. in the Sloane Lounge. The Sloane Lounge is located on the third floor of the Sloane Physics Laboratory. Visitors are welcome.

For more information contact the Chairman's Office (203) 432-3650.



Previous semesters: [Fall 2002]

SPRING 2003


 

Friday, January 17, 2003

Michael Chapman
Georgia Tech
Filling up the quantum toolbox: experiments with quantum gases, quantum gates, and atom fibers
Host: David Demille

 

Friday, January 24, 2003

John Harris
Yale University
Recreating the Primordial Quark-Gluon Soup

Friday, January 31, 2003

Paul Steinhardt
Princeton University
The return of the cyclic universe
Host: Subir Sachdev

 

Friday, February 7, 2003

Gregory Dash
University of Washington
History of the search for a theory of melting: Insight, interfaces and dimensionality.
Host: John Wettlaufer

 

Friday, February 14, 2003

Tilo Wettig
Yale University
Quantum Chromodynamics on a lattice: supercomputers and a new mathematical trick

 

Friday, February 21, 2003

Dr. Donald Eigler
IBM Almaden Research Center
Molecule Cascades: Nanometer-Scale Architectures That Compute
Host: John Tully

 

Friday, February 28, 2003

Gibbs Symposium

 

Friday, March 7, 2003

Professor Gregory Tucker
Brown University
First Year Results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)
Host: Jeffrey Snyder

Friday, March 28, 2003
PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL TIME:
Tea at 4pm, Talk at 4:30pm

Michel Devoret
Yale University
Quantum information processing with superconducting tunnel junction circuits

 

Friday, April 4, 2003

Stanislas Leibler
The Rockefeller University
Genetic and biochemical networks: a physicist's perspective

 

Friday, April 11, 2003

Steven Koonin
California Institute of Technology
The Role of Physicists in National Security

 

Friday, April 18, 2003

No Physics Club
Leigh Paige Prize Lectures: Monday (April 14th),
Wednesday (April 16th), Thursday (April 17th)

 

Friday, April 25, 2003

Stephen Irons
Yale University
Wireless Student Polling: An interactive introduction to a new instructional tool at Yale

 

Friday, May 2, 2003

Charles Stevens
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
What the visual cortex computes

 

Friday, May 9, 2003

Steven Manly
University of Rochester
Nuggets from the Long Island gold rush

 


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