SPHP Fall 2007
September 15
The Great Scientific Instruments: Why Do We Build Them [PDF]
Professor David Hertzog,
Department of Physics, University of Illinois
September 29
The Liquid Crystalline State of Matter: From the
Laboratory to the Shopping Mall
Professor Paul Goldbart,
Department of Physics, University of Illinois
October 13
Fire or Ice? The Fate of the Universe [PDF]
Professor Jon Thaler, Department of Physics, University of Illinois
October 27—Physics Day
Physics Van Performance and Tours of Research Laboratories
November 10
Over the Moon with Carbon Nanotubes [PDF]
Professor Nadya Mason, Department of Physics, University of Illinois
December 1
Mysteries of the Cold Universe [PDF]
Professor Smitha
Vishveshwara, Department of Physics,
University of Illinois