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Physics Colloquium Spring 2004

All colloquia are on Thursdays at 4:00 pm in Thimann Lecture Hall 1.

Tea and cookies are served in the lobby of the Interdisciplinary Sciences Building (ISB) (ground floor, adjacent to the main entrance) at 3:30 pm prior to the colloquium.

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April 1, 2004
Intraocular Retinal Prosthesis for the Blind
Wentai Liu
Department of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

April 8, 2004
The Cosmological Constant and Quantum Theories of Gravity
Tom Banks
Physics Department, UC Santa Cruz

April 15, 2004
High Tc Superconductivity: Recent Progress and Open Questions
Mohit Randeria
KITP Santa Barbara & Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

April 22, 2004
The Unexpected Physics in Modern Wireless Communication : Replicas, Diffusons, and Supersymmetry for fun and profit.
Steven H. Simon
Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs

April 29, 2004
Why coin flipping is biased
Richard Montgomery
Mathematics Department, UC Santa Cruz

May 6, 2004
Cosmology on the string theory landscape
Shamit Kachru
Stanford University

May 13, 2004
Life on a triangular lattice: strong correlation and frustration
N. Phuan Ong
Physics Department, Princeton University

May 20, 2004
The Energy Frontier: In the search for new physics
Marcela Carena
Fermilab

May 27, 2004
Some Mysteries of Quantum Matter
Elihu Abrahams
Physics Department, Rutgers University

June 3, 2004
Postcards from the Energy Frontier
John Womersley
Fermilab

Please send suggestions for future speakers to the colloquium committee: Howard Haber: haber@scipp.ucsc.edu, Sriram Shastry: sriram@bartok.ucsc.edu