Late Announcements: JAPC and SPECIAL SEMINAR

[Lisa Bastille <lbastill cfa harvard edu>]

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
1:00 PM

Special Atomic and Molecular Physics talk


Pratt Conference Room, 1:00 - 2:00 pm,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St. Cambridge MA

*Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger*

Prof. Edward Gerjuoy - University of Pittsburgh

* *   The career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who 
was born on April 22, 1904, was celebrated in a 
June, 2004 Los Alamos Symposium, wherein I 
recalled my experiences as a Ph.D. student of 
Oppenheimer's in Berkeley, California during the 
period August 1938 to January 1942.  I shall 
recount some of these recollections, 
concentrating on conveying a portrait of 
Oppenheimer as creator and inspiration of 
probably the most important pre-war United States 
school of theoretical physics.  During a portion 
of this period (the 1940 academic year) Julian 
Schwinger, who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for 
the development of the modern formulation of 
quantum electrodynamics and deservedly has been 
termed a genius, was employed as what today would 
be termed Oppenheimer's post doc.  Therefore, 
especially because Schwinger now seems almost 
forgotten, although he died only fifteen years 
ago (on July 16, 1994), I also will recall some 
of Schwinger's interactions with Oppenheimer and 
Oppenheimer's students including myself, in an 
attempt to convey some comprehension of 
Schwinger's astonishing theoretical physics 
talents.


AND


Wednesday, 11/4, 2009,
4:30 PM

Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and 
Optical Physics and Harvard University Physics 
Department Joint Atomic Physics Colloquium

Jefferson Laboratory * Room 356

"Disorder in cold atomic gases"

Prof. Thierry Giamarchi
DPMC-MaNEP, University of Geneva Affiliation



Sponsored by Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Physics ITAMP (http://itamp.harvard.edu) and Harvard Physics Department
(http://www.physics.harvard.edu)

--
? Lisa Bastille
? ITAMP Coordinator
? Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
? Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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? Cambridge, MA 02138-1516
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