Society of Physics Students

hbar@phys.columbia.edu

Columbia University in the City of New York

Fall 2004

 October 7, 2004

Speaker: Professor Allen Blaer

Talk Title: Columbia's Physics program and the Nobel Prize in Physics

Abstract:

Professor Blaer will introduce the physics program at Columbia to prospective physics majors and go on to have a discussion about the Nobel Prize in Physics.

 September 23, 2004

Speaker: Professor Brian Cole

Talk Title: High Energy Nuclear Physics Being Studied with the RHIC

Abstract:

Professor Cole will be speaking about the research taking place at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory. In particular, his talk will focus on the study of nuclear matter at extreme temperatures and densities. One of the goals of this research is experimental manifestation of the QCD phase transition from ordinary hadronic matter to a form of matter in which quarks and gluons become locally deconfined.