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Theory Homepage Discussions from Winter 1997 to Fall 2001

(in reverse chronological order)

         Fall 2001
  • Dec.11 Introduction to functional integral approach: the third formulation of quantum statistical mechanics with Xian Xi Dai (Fudan U) and EVENSON
  • Dec.4 Surface Superconductivity and Upper Critical Field for the Ginzburg-Landau model with Kening Lu (BYU)
  • Nov.27  Book Discussion: "The end of time" by Julian Barbour
  • Nov.13 Standard Quantum Theory versus deBroglie-Bohm: experimental possibilities? with Stephanie Magleby
  • Nov.6 Challenges in computational simulations of electromagnetics with Karl Warnick (BYU)
  • Oct.30 Four Corners Meeting Preview with Steven Millward
  • Oct.30 Bose-Einstein condensation in external fields with Xian Xi Dai (Fudan U)
  • Oct.23 Derivatives without limits (BERRONDO)
  • Oct.16 Discrete and continuum hybrid models in cell biology with John Dallon (BYU)
  • Oct.9 Application of group theory to nonlinear differential equations with Ivan Tsyfra
  • Oct. 2 On a generalized inverse problem with Xian Xi Dai (Fudan U)
  • Sep.25 Boltzmann distribution for finite microcanonical ensembles with Randy Shirts (BYU)
  • Sep.18 Newtonian Black Holes? (BERRONDO)
  • Sep.11 first meeting for Fall '01
  • Aug.7 Climate change due to the Sun with Sallie Baliunas

    Winter 2001

  • Hydrodynamic wave mechanics? (BERRONDO)
  • Apr.10 Book Discussion: "E = m c^2" by David Bodanis
  • Apr.3 Einstein Miraculous Year (3) the photoelectric effect (EVENSON)
  • Mar.27 Einstein Miraculous Year (2) relativity  (HIRSCHMANN)
  • Mar.20 Critical gravitational collapse in Einstein Yang Mills Fields with Steven Millward
  • Mar.13 SRC Preview with Jake Anderson, Michael Christenson and Steven Millward
  • Mar.6 The H and Na atoms under spherical confinement with Malcolm Hicken
  • Feb.27 Einstein Miraculous Year (1) Avogadro and Brownian motion (VAN HUELE and BERRONDO)
  • Feb.13 The Mean King's Problem (VAN HUELE)
  • Feb.6 Theory faculty discussion
  • Jan.30 Inflationary models: a progress report with Jennifer Briscoe
  • Jan.23 Theoretical and Mathematical Physics in the New Millenium (VAN HUELE)
  • Jan.16 First meeting for Winter '01

Fall 2000

  • Dec. 5 The incompatibility of de Broglie-Bohm theory with quantum mechanics with Stephanie Magleby
  • Nov. 28 Book discussion: "Warmth disperses and Time passes" by HC von Bayer
  • Nov. 14 Light as the solution to puzzles about light with David Grandy (BYU)
  • Nov. 7 "Selectivity and the production of experimental results" by Allan Franklin (EVENSON)
  • Oct.31 Mathematical conjectures arising from string theory with Tyler Jarvis (BYU)
  • Oct. 24 Analogical modeling and quantum computation with Royal Skousen (BYU)
  • Oct. 17 "Selectivity and the production of experimental results" by Allan Franklin (EVENSON)
  • Oct.10 The Casimir effect (BERRONDO)
  • Oct. 3 Nobel Prize 2000 Nominations
  • Sep.26 Four Corners Meeting Preview with Philip Du Toit and Malcolm Hicken
  • Sep.19 CP violation and K physics (VAN HUELE)
  • Sep. 12 "The Sommerfeld seminar" and "Who ordered theorists?" (VAN HUELE)
  • Sep. 5 first meeting for Fall '00
  • Aug. 29 Spinors and the Lorentz group with Valeri Dvoeglazov (U Zacatecas)

Winter 2000

  • May 2 Forces, uncertainty and the Gibbs entropy: a theorem in classical statistical mechanics by Ralph Baierlein with Brent Morring and VAN HUELE 
  • Apr.25 Entropy and interactions in classical and quantum systems: a theorem, a conjecture and a counterexample with Xianxi Dai (Fudan U) and EVENSON
  • April 11 Book Discussion: "The end of ceratainty" by Ilya Prigogine
  • Apr. 4 Unified theory of some inverse problems in physics with Xianxi Dai (Fudan U)
  • Mar. 28 Irreversibility in classical equations: Rohrlich versus Zeh (VAN HUELE)
  • Mar. 21 Inverse problems in physics: specific heats to phonon spectrum inversion with Xianxi Dai (Fudan U)
  • Mar. 14 Spring Research Conference Preview
  • Mar. 7 The end of certainty (BERRONDO)
  • Feb.29 The end of certainty (BERRONDO)
  • Feb. 15 Theory of the gravity well and other delights (HARRISON)
  • Feb. 8 Statistical analysis of data in the health sciences with Dennis Tolley (BYU)
  • Feb. 1 Microscopic reversibility versus macroscopic irreversibility (BERRONDO)
  • Jan. 25 The final word on group velocity with Justin Peatross (BYU) and Scott Glasgow (BYU)
  • January 18 Avogadro, the hypothesis, the number and the constant with Dale Kitchen and VAN HUELE
  • Jan. 11 First meeting for Winter '00

Fall 1999

  • Nov. 30 Book Discussion: The Elegant Universe" by Brian Greene
  • Nov. 16 Physics and information with Brent Morring
  • Nov. 9 A study of quantum clocks with Seokjae Kim (MS thesis defense)
  • Nov. 2 Dynamical Hyperfine Interactions (II) (EVENSON)
  • Oct. 26 Dynamical Hyperfine Interactions (I) (EVENSON)
  • Oct. 19 The 1999 Nobel Prizes in Physics: G.'t Hooft and M. Veltman (VAN HUELE)
  • Oct. 12 Simulating Electrolytes Using Realistic Models for Water with Eckhard Spohr, (Univ.Ulm)
  • Oct. 5 Particle in the Box and Boundary Conditions (VAN HUELE)
  • Sep.. 28 Special Solutions of Einstein's Equations (HARRISON)
  • Sep. 21 Low Temperature Anomalies in the Properties of the Electrochemical Interface with Doug Henderson, (BYU)
  • Sep.14 Vectors and Cliffors (BERRONDO)
  • Sep. 7 first meeting for Fall '99

Winter 1999

  • April 6 Book Discussion: "The nature of space and time" by S. Hawking and R. Penrose
  • April 13 Book Discussion: "The nature of space and time" by S. Hawking and R. Penrose
  • March 30 "An interview with David Bohm (1917-1992) (video)
  • March 23 Delayed Choice and Quantum Eraser (VAN HUELE)
  • March 16 John Wheeler and his work (HARRISON)
  • March 9 SRC Preview with David Oliphant, Seokjae Kim, Michael Stay,...
  • March 2 Discrete Fourier Transform for Quantum Algorithms with Brent Kraczek
  • February 23 On tests of Special Relativity with Matthew W. Anderson
  • February 9 Computational Evaluation of QM Ground States with Malcolm Hicken and BERRONDO
  • February 2 Research at the Nanoscale with Robert Davis (BYU)
  • January 26 Mach's Principle (HARRISON)
  • January 19 The Story of Isospin (VAN HUELE)
  • January 12 "The Story of Spin" by Sin-itiro Tomonoga (VAN HUELE)
  • January 5 First meeting for Winter '99

Fall 1998

  • December 1 Book Discussion: Great Feuds in Science
  • November 24 Brief introduction to Feynman diagrams with Manuel Berrondo
  • November 17 Euler's instability analysis with Jean-Francois Van Huele
  • November 3 On dimensional analysis & the transparency of the Universe
  • October 20 Designing and managing a research group page with Harold Stokes
  • October 13 Two presentations for the APS four Corners Regional Meeting
  • October 6 A Pedestrian Approach to Symmetry-Adapted Molecular Orbitals (II)
  • September 29 A Pedestrian Approach to Symmetry-Adapted Molecular Orbitals (I)
  • September 22 An INTRODUCTION to DIFFERENTIAL FORMS with Kent HARRISON
  • September 15 Discussion with Scott BERGESON
  • September 8 first meeting for Fall '98  

Winter 1998

  • April 14 Book Discussion: "MORE THAN ONE MYSTERY" by Mark P. Silverman
  • March31 Fourier Algorithms and Quantum Learning with Dan VENTURA
  • March 17 Quantum Clocks and Special Relativity with Seokjae KIM
  • March 10 Dedication of the renovated ESC
  • March 3 Why are not all the atoms in the universe ionized? with Van Huele
  • February 24 ON ATOM COOLING with Tom ZAUGG
  • February 10 DO INTENSITIES INTERFERE ? with Jean-Francois VAN HUELE
  • February 3 MOLECULAR MODELING with Randy SHIRTS
  • January 27 Group theory and applications in Physics with Manuel BERRONDO
  • January 20 PHSCS 513R: Differential Forms for Fun and Profit with Kent HARRISON
  • January 13 First meeting for Winter '98

Fall 1997

  • December 9 BOOK DISCUSSION: SCHRODINGER MACHINES by Gerard Milburn1
  • December 2 FIBRE BUNDLES and THE MAGNETIC MONOPOLE with Bryan WISE
  • November 18 THE INTERNET, THE WEB, AND PHYSICS (Part two) with Phillip DUKES
  • November 11 THE INTERNET, THE WEB, AND PHYSICS with Phillip DUKES
  • November 4 THE PHYSICS OF BIRD VISION with Howard BRYANT from Univ. of New Mexico
  • October 21 Pais' K-meson system with Jean-Francois VAN HUELE
  • October 14 A Tale of Two Lifetimes with Jean-Francois VAN HUELE
  • October 7 A Tale of Two Lifetimes with Jean-Francois VAN HUELE
  • September 30 A Pedestrian Approach to Clifford Algebras with Manuel BERRONDO
  • September 23 THE GEOMETRY OF MIXING with Alma WILSON
  • September 16 FALL PROGRAM MEETING
  • September 9 AN EXTENSIVE NUMERICAL SEARCH FOR PLANETARY NICHES IN THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM
Winter 1997
  • April 8 BOOK DISCUSSION: BEYOND EINSTEIN by ichio KAKU
  • April 1 THE UNIFICATION THEORY Video with WEISSKOPF, WEINBERG, RICHTER, GELL-MANN,..
  • March 25 Spring Research Conference Preview II
  • March 18 Spring Research Conference Preview I
  • March 11 A Primer in Knot Theory (I) with Arkady Vaintrob (Mathematics, BYU)
  • March 04 A Primer in Knot Theory (II)ith Arkady Vaintrob (Mathematics, BYU)
  • Ferbruary 25 COLLOIDAL PARTICLES IN AN ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION with Andrij TROKHYMCHUK
  • Ferbruary 11 WEB Resources in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics with Everyone
  • Ferbruary 4 NONLINEARITIES IN ELECTROMAGNETISM with David ARNOLD (ECE, BYU)
  • January 28 Interaction Energy between multipoles with Everett Larson
  • January 21 REPORT ON THREE CONFERENCES with WISE, HARRISON, and VAN HUELE
  • January 14 FIRST WINTER MEETING


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