January 25
Imaging Unconventional Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors
John Kirtley
IBM Watson Research Center
1998 Buckley Prize
February 1
Pairing Symmetry, Non-Equilibrium Superconductivity, and Magnetic Pair Breaking in High-Temperature Superconductors
Nai-Chang Yeh
Condensed Matter Physics , Caltech
February 8
Quantum Computing and Quantum Communication: Theory and Experiment
Steven van Enk
Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, Caltech
February 16, SPECIAL LOCATION: SSC AUDITORIUM
Scattering in Presence of an External Confinement and Low-Dimensional Exotic Collective Systems in Magnetic Traps
Maxim Olshanii
Atomic Physics, Harvard University
February 22
String Theory and the Fabric of Space Time
Brian Greene
Department of Physics, Cornell
March 1
How can a single photon kick several electrons out of an atom?
Hugo van der Hart
JILA, University of Colorado
March 8
Teleporting an Atomic Wavepacket
Scott Parkins
Dept. of Physics, University of Auckland
March 15
SPRING BREAK
March 22
APS CENTENNIAL MEETING – ATLANTA
March 29
Not the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: 2D Electrons of a Different Stripe
Jim Eisenstein
Condensed Matter Physics , Caltech
April 5
The Structure of Magnetic Flux Quanta in Superconductors
Kathryn Moler
Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
April 12
Bose-Einstein Condensation: The Fate of Trapped Atoms
Tao Pang
Physics Department, University of Nevada
“An Introduction to Computational Physics”
April 19
What is the Fundamental Plan of the Brain?
Larry Swanson
Dept. of Biological Sciences, USC
April 26
Optical Signatures of the Spin Gap in Low-Dimensional Cuprates and Vanadates
Dirk van der Marel
Department of Physics, University of Groningen
May 3
Black Holes in Diverse Dimensions
Chiara Nappi
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University