Colloquium – Archive
Fermilab Colloquium Calendar 2003-2004
Lectures begin at 4:00 p.m. in 1 West
Orange titles are specialized; Green titles are general interest.
| Date | Speaker/Institute | Title | Host | Abstract | Video | |
| Sep 3 | Eric Heller Harvard University |
The Science and Art of Electron Flow in Two Dimensional Electron Gasses | A. Kronfeld M. Albrow |
Download |
None | None |
| Sep 10 | Arlene Lennox Fermilab |
Hadron Therapy for Cancer Treatment | M. Albrow | Download |
None | Video |
| Sep 17 | Al Mueller Columbia University |
Diffraction and Small-x Physics | M. Albrow | Download |
None | Video |
| Sep 24 | Paul Steinhardt Princeton University |
The Endless Universe | M. Albrow | Download |
ppt | Video |
| Oct 1 | No Colloquium | |||||
| Oct 8 |
Noam Chomsky MIT |
The Aftermath of September 11 | R. Raja | Download |
ppt | Video |
| Oct 15 | J. Murray Gibson Argonne National Lab |
Physics of the Blues: Music, Fourier and Wave-Particle Duality | M. Albrow | Download |
ppt | Video |
| Oct 22 | Mark Adams Case-Western Reserve |
Genomics: Looking at Life in New Ways | R. Carrigan | Download |
ppt | Video |
| Oct 29 | Martin Elvis Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory |
Solving Quasars (Part 1) | C. Stoughton | Download | ppt | Video |
| Nov 5 | Michael Lesk Rutgers University |
Everything Digital: Converting the World in 2 Exabytes | R. Carrigan | Download |
None | Video |
| Nov 12 | Andrei Linde Stanford University |
Inflation, Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe | J. Beacom | Download |
None | video |
| Nov 19 | Christian de Duve Rockefeller University and Christian de Duve Institute of Cellular Pathology |
Singularities in the Origin and Evolution of Life | R. Carrigan | Download |
Video | |
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving | No Colloquium | ||||
| Dec 3 | Juan Collar University of Chicago |
Low-Background Detector Development at EFI: WIMPs, Axions, Neutrinos and Other Sneaky Beasts | J. Beacom | Download |
ppt | video |
| Dec 10 | John Campbell University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
Rutherford, Maestro of the Atom | A. Kronfeld | Download |
video | |
| Dec 17 | Ian Shipsey Purdue University |
Bringing Hearing to the Deaf Cochlear Implants: A Technical and Personal Account |
A. Kronfeld | Download |
ppt | video |
| Dec 24 | Christmas Holiday | No Colloquium | ||||
| Dec 31 | New Year’s Holiday | No Colloquium | ||||
| Jan 7 | Chris Morris Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Charged Particle Radiography | R. Raja | Download |
None | video |
| Jan 14 | Hector Rubinstein Stockholm University |
Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe | M. Albrow | Download |
ppt | video |
| Jan 21 | George Gollin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Buying a PhD from a University That Doesn’t Exist | A. Kronfeld | Download |
None | None |
| Jan 28 | Dan Green Fermilab |
Physics at CMS | M. Albrow | Download |
ppt | video |
| Feb 4 | Kerry Magruder University of Oklahoma |
The Works of Galileo, A Guided Tour | A. Boehnlein | Download |
None | None |
| Feb 11 | Steven Van Sciver Florida State University |
Superfluid Helium from the Macroscopic to the Microscopic | M. Albrow | Download |
ppt | video |
| Feb 18 | J. D. Bjorken SLAC |
The Classification of Universes | M. Albrow and R. Carrigan | Download | video | |
| Feb 25 | Spencer Wells National Geographic Society |
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey | R. Raja | Download | ppt | video |
| Mar 3 | Achim Richter Darmstadt University |
Playing Billiards with Microwaves: Quantum Manifestations of Classical Chaos | R. Carrigan | Download | video | |
| Mar 10 | Philip Phillips University of Illinois |
The Full Mottness: Asymptotic Slavery | J. Nachtman | Download | video | |
| Mar 17 | Ajit Varki U of California-San Diego |
Genetic Differences Between Great Apes and Humans: Implications for Human Evolution | R. Carrigan | Download | ppt | video |
| Mar 24 | Leon Lederman Director Emeritus-Fermilab |
Progress and the Lack Thereof in the Reform of US Science Education (Neither have we found Higgs or the Theory of Everything!) | K. Burkett | Download | video | |
| Mar 31 | Richard I. Cook University of Chicago |
Operating at the Sharp End: Accidents and Human Error in Complex Systems | M. Albrow and S. Tkaczyk | Download | video | |
| Apr 7 | Glover Ferguson Accenture Technology Labs |
Reality Online: Intelligent Objects, the Democratization of Technology and the “Next Big Thing” | E. James | Download | ppt | video |
| Apr 14 | Victor Suller Louisiana State University |
Synchrotron Radiation Sources | M. Albrow | Download | PPT | Video |
| Apr 21 | Adolf Witt University of Toledo |
Photoluminescence by Interstellar Nanoparticles | E. James | Download | video | |
| Apr 28 | Chris Quigg Fermilab |
The Coming Revolutions in Particle Physics | M. Albrow | Download | video | |
| May 5 | Doug Hofstadter Indiana University |
How Analogy Drives Physics | K. Burkett | Download | None | video |
| May 12 | David DeMille Yale University |
Tabletop Probes for TeV Physics: Searches for Electric Dipole Moments of Elementary Particles | J. Beacom | Download | ppt | video |
| May 19 | Mark Strikman Penn State University |
Looking Forward in QCD | M. Albrow | Download | video | |
| May 26 | Gary Sanders California Institute of Technology |
Managing Big Science Projects: Avoiding the Near Death Experience | R. Kephart | Download | ppt | video |
| Jun 2 | No Colloquium – Users Meeting | |||||
| Jun 9 | Christopher Martin California Institute of Technology |
The Galaxy Evolution Explorer: Results from the First Year | J. Beacom | Download | ppt | video |
| Jun 16 | Doug Osheroff Stanford University |
Understanding the Columbia Space Shuttle Accident | R. Erbacher and J. Nachtman | Download | ppt | video |
| Jun 23 | Kenneth Wilson The Ohio State University |
The Origins of Lattice Gauge Theory | A. Kronfeld | Download | ppt | video |
| Jun 30 | Patrick Le Du Saclay |
Using HEP Technology to Fight Cancer | M. Albrow | Download | PPT | Video |
| Jul 7 | R. Carrigan Fermilab |
100 Years of Science | M. Albrow | Download | ppt | Video |
| Jul 14 | Rusi Taleyarkhan Purdue University |
Observation of Nuclear Fusion in Sonoluminescence | R. Raja | Download | Video | |
| Jul 21 |
Jim Baller |
Bringing “True” Broadband to America | G.P. Yeh/M. Albrow | Download | ppt | Video |
| Jul 28 | Mel Shochet University of Chicago |
The Top Quark: Past, Present and Future | M. Albrow | Download | Video | |
| Aug 4 | ||||||
| Aug 11 | ||||||
| Aug 18 | Dan Wallach Rice University |
The Risks of Electronic Voting | A. Boehnlein | Download | Video | |
| Aug 25 | Ed Seidel Max-Planck-Institut |
Enabling Science and Engineering Applications on the Grid | A. Boehnlein | Download | PPT | Video |