January 22
Bose-Einstein Condensation
Dr. Chris Gould
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, USC
January 29
Liberating Two electrons from Helium with One Photon
Dr. Robin Shakeshaft
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, USC
February 5
Fuzzy Engineering
Dr. Bart Kosko
Associate Professor and Director Signal and Image Processing Institute, USC
February 12
Whither Science and Physics in the 21st Century?
Dr. Lloyd Armstrong
Provost, Vice President for Academic Affairs, USC
February 19
President’s Day
February 26
Photonic Implementation of Neural Networks
Dr. Armand Tanguay
Department of Electrical Engineering / Electrophysics, USC
March 4
Visual Recognition
Dr. Christoph v.d.Malsburg
Departments of Computer Science and Physics & Astronomy, USC
March 11
Spring Recess
March 18
From Stars to Super-Planets
Dr. Didier Saumon
Department of Planetary Sciences and Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
March 25
A Few Elementary Chemical Processes
Dr. Curt Wittig
Department of Chemistry, USC
April 1
Excited-State Molecular Photoionization Dynamics
Dr. Stephen T. Pratt
Argonne National Laboratory
April 8
Neutrino Processes in the Sun and Supernovae
A.B. Balantekin
Dept. of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract
During the last thirty years experiments measuring the flux of electron neutrinos coming from the sun revealed a rate smaller than that predicted by the standard model of the sun. In this colloquium first a status report on the solar neutrino experiments will be given, emphasizing the role of future experiments. The relationship between the outcome from solar, atmospheric, and supernovae neutrino experiments will be highlighted.
The significance of neutrino masses, mixings between different families, and neutrino interactions with matter in the sun and supernovae along with the implications for cosmology will be discussed. In particular the role of neutrinos in supernova shock reheating and r-process nucleosynthesis in a supernovae will be highlighted. Implications of density fluctuations in the sun and supernova hot bubble for neutrino processes will be presented.
April 15
Interference Experiments with Twin Photons
Dr. Gerd Bergmann
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, USC
April 22
Astronomical Evidence for Missing Mass — An Observer’s View
Dr. Gibson Reaves
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, USC
April 29
Numerical Studies of Quantum Chromodynamics: Current STatus and Future Prospects
Dr. Robert Sugar
Dept. of Physics, UC Santa Barbara