GRADUATE STUDENT MINICOLLOQUIA
FALL '02
Fridays 1 pm, 335 West Hall.
| September 6 |
| No Colloquium |
| GSI Training |
| September 13 |
| Mike Duff, "The Theory Formerly Known as Strings". |
| Wolfgang Lorenzon,"The Mystery of Nucleon Spin". |
| September 20 |
| Keith Riles,"Searching for Gravitational Waves with LIGO". |
| Samuel Moukouri,"Numerical Studies of Electron Correlations in Low Dimensional Systems". |
| September 27 |
| Tim McKay,"Structures in the Universe: Luminous and Dark Matter". |
| Eli Rykoff,"The Search for an Advisor". |
| October 4 |
| Tim Chupp,"Laser Polarized Noble Gases". |
| David Gerdes, "Physics at 10^-18 meters". |
| October 11 |
| Mark Newman,"The Statistical Physics of Networks: The Internet, the Six Degrees of Separation, and all that". |
| Mike Longo,"Small High-Energy Physics Experiments". |
| October 18 |
| James Wells,"Gravity probes at high-energy colliders". |
| Carl Akerlof,"The Search for Fast Optical Transients in Astrophysics". |
| October 25 |
| John Monnier, "Long-Baseline Optical Interferometry". |
| Paul Drake,"Experimental Astrophysics at Michigan". |
| November 1 |
| Matthew O'Donnell (Chair, Biomedical Engineering
Dept of UM" |
| "Life After Graduate School" |
| November 8 |
| Bing Zhou,"The ATLAS Project at Michigan". |
| Tour of the ATLAS lab. |
| November 15 |
| Steve Rand, "Slowing, Stopping, and Storing light". |
| Brad Orr,"What's so Big About Nano?" |
| November 22 |
| Gordy Kane, "Particle physics, the Standard Model, Supersymmetry, and....". |
| Brent Nelson, "Studies in High Energy Theory". |
| November 29 |
| Thanksgiving |
| December 6 |
| Roberta Morris (UM Law), "Life After Graduate School". |
| December 13 |
| Fred Adams, ``Extrasolar planets: The quest for alien worlds'' |