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