CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
			Vol. 29, No. 30
			Physics Seminar Calendar
			April 23  April 27, 2001 



	MONDAY APRIL 23, 2001 

	THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS AND RELATIVITY SEMINAR 10:00 AM  11:30 AM, Room
	39, Bridge Annex. 
	"Gravity Waves, Chaos and Black Holes"
	Janna Levin, Advanced Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and
	Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University. 



	TUESDAY APRIL 24, 2001 

	CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES COLLOQUIUM 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, off campus. 
	William T. Golden Auditorium, 813 Santa Barbara Street
	"Evolution of Field Spheroidal Galaxies," Dr. Felipe Menanteau, Carnegie
	Observatories.
	Information: 626-577-1122. Open to the public. 

	MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM, 151 Sloan. 
	"Superexponential Growth of the Number of Periodic Points Is Generic, But
	Has Probability Zero"
	Vadim Y. Kaloshin, Princeton University. 


	 
	WEDNESDAY APRIL 25, 2001 

	MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS SEMINAR 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, 351 Sloan. 
	"Spectral Analysis on Certain Fractals," Alexander Teplyaev, NSF
	Postdoctoral Fellow, department of mathematics, UC Riverside. Information:
	www.math.caltech.edu/events/mathphys.html. Open to the public. 

	IPAC LUNCH SEMINAR 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM 102 Morrisroe 
	"A HST/NICMOS Coronagraphic Search for Substellar Companions”
	Patrick Lowrance, IPAC.
	http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/seminars/

	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIUM 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 155 Arms, Robert Sharp Lecture Hall. 
	"The Role of Supernovae in Galaxy Formation" 
	Professor George Efstathiou, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University.  



	THURSDAY APRIL 26, 2001 

	PHYSICS RESEARCH CONFERENCE 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 201 E. Bridge. 
	"Manipulating and Storing Quantum Information in Semiconductors" David D.
	Awschalom, Professor of Physics, and Director, Center for Spintronics and
	Quantum Computation, UC Santa Barbara. Refreshments, 108 East Bridge 3:45
	p.m. Information: 
	www.pma.caltech.edu/~physcoll/PhysColl.html. 
	 
	MATHEMATICS COLLOQUIUM 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM, 151 Sloan. 
	"The Mathematics of the Second Law of Thermodynamics" 
	Elliott H. Lieb, Professor of Mathematics and Physics, Princeton University.


	  
	FRIDAY APRIL 27, 2001 

	HIGH ENERGY THEORY SEMINAR 11:00 AM, 469 Lauritsen. 
	"Noncommutative Geometry and Quantum Error Correction"
	John Preskill, Caltech.

	THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS AND RELATIVITY SEMINARS 2:00 PM, 114 East Bridge. 
	"Broad Fe K-alpha lines in AGN: tests of accretion disk physics and strong
	field gravity"
	Sergei Nayakshin, GSFC.

	INSTITUTE FOR QUANTUM INFORMATION SEMINAR 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, 102 Steele. 
	"Theory (and Practice) of Noiseless Quantum Subsystems" 
	Lorenza Viola, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Open to the public.

	CALTECH/JPL ASSOCIATION FOR GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
	4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, 155 Arms, Robert Sharp Lecture Hall. 
	“LIGO End-to-End Model: Application to LIGO I” 
	Hiro Yamamoto, member of the professional staff, LIGO project, and Matt
	Evans, graduate student in Physics, Caltech.