September 7, No colloquium
September 14: 340 West Hall
State of the Department
Professor Myron Campbell, Chair of Physics, University of Michigan
September 21: 1324 East Hall
*What Astronomy Has Done for Einstein?
Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell, University of Oxford
September 28: 340 West Hall
Biophysics with Single DNA Molecules
Professor Jens-Christian Meiners, University of Michigan
October 5: 340 West Hall
*A Century of Particle Physics
Professor Tini Veltman, Nobel Laureate (1999), University of Michigan
October 12: 340 West Hall
Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries by the Swift Mission
Dr. Neil Gehrels, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
October 19: Rackham Amphitheater
*Does the Every Day World Obey Quantum Mechanics?
Professor Anthony Leggett, Nobel Laureate (2003), University of
Illinois
October 26: 340 West Hall
Pentaquarks: Do They Exist?
Professor Wolfgang Lorenzon, University of Michigan
November 2: 340 West Hall
*Brownian Motion and Beyond: Collective and
Emergent Phenomena in Condensed Matter Physics
Professor Len Sander, University of Michigan
November 9: 340 West Hall
*The Expanding Universe and Big Bang Cosmology
Professor Katie Freese, University of Michigan
November 16: 340 West Hall
*Future Particle Physics - Can We Understand the
Smallest and Largest Phenomena Even Better?
Professor Gordy Kane, University of Michigan
November 22 (Tuesday!):
340 West Hall
Singlets and Triplets and the Route to
Electroluminescence in Organic Materials
Professor Stephen Forrest, Princeton/Michigan