Colloquium schedule 2003/4

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All colloquia are Thursday 330 pm (except where noted). Click on an underlined title to see an abstract for the seminar.

SPRING SEMESTER

March 11th, 2004

Gravitational Lenses: Nature's Telescopes
Professor Dan Maoz, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Tel Aviv University.
March 18th, 2004

The fascinating geometry of leaves and torn plastic sheets
Dr Eran Sharon, Physics Dept., Hebrew University.
March 25th, 2004

Spatially and spectrally resolved optical studies of semiconductor quantum wells and nanostructures
Professor Dan Rich, Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University.
April 15th, 2004

Discrete Light
Professor Yaron Silberberg, The Harry Weinrebe Professor of Laser Physics, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Inst.
April 22nd, 2004

noise and fluctuations in superconductivity
Professor Grzegorz Jung, Physics Department, Ben Gurion University.
April 29th, 2004

Towards a Coherent Theory of Physics and Mathematics: The Theory Experiment Connection
Professor Paul Benioff, Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A.
May 6th, 2004

How cells touch, attach, and move along the extracellular matrix
Professor Alexander Bershadsky, The Joseph Moss Professor of Biomedical Research, Dpt. of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Inst. of Science.
May 13th, 2004

NO COLLOQUIUM
May 20th, 2004

Towards artificial gene circuits
Dr. Roy Bar-Ziv, Dept. of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science
May 27th, 2004

NO COLLOQUIUM
June 3rd, 2004

Semiconductor quantum dots as optical sources of single photons
Professor David Gershoni, Physics Department, The Technion.
June 10th, 2004

LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE AT 2:00 PM IN THE SENATE ROOM
FESTIVE COLLOQUIUM
in honour of recently retired faculty members of the department.
program will be announced shortly.
June 17th, 2004

Status of the ATLAS Detector; the Largest Experiment in the world
Professor Giora Mikenberg, Department of Particle Physics, The Weizmann Institute.


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