Physics Division Colloquium

Argonne National Laboratory

The tables below present some statistics for the 908 colloquia given from September 1980 to June 2008.

There have been a total of 908 colloquia from Sept 1980 to June 2008. Below is a classification of the topics covered in the talks. A given talk might have several topics and the 908 colloquia have a total of 1489 classifications.

  .... Talks .....                      Topic
 Number  Percent                        Topic
 ******  *******  ************************************************
  136      10     astronomy, astrophysics
   38       3     biology, medicine
   20       1     chemistry
   83       6     atomic physics, QED
   67       5     fundamental physics, general relativity
   25       2     geophysics, weather
   66       5     high-energy & particle physics
  115       8     condensed matter, materials, nanoscience
  271      20     nuclear physics
   48       4     optics, lasers
   19       1     heavy-ion plasma, RHIC, other high-energy H.I.
   65       5     QCD, quarks, standard model
  128       9     accelerators, detectors, traps, facilities
   34       3     general science
   81       6     technology, engineering, reactors
   34       3     neutrinos
   46       3     math, computer science, chaos, quantum computing
   30       2     history, biography
   51       4     misc., other, politics
Distribution (number, percent) of the colloquia in the most frequent topics.
 SEASON  TOTAL   ASTRO  ATOMIC  MATTER  NUCLEAR   QCD   OPTICS   ACCEL   TECH
 ******  *****  ******  ******  ******  *******  *****  ******  ******  *****
  1980     33     6 18   8 24     2  6   13 39    1  3   4 12     2  6   2  6
  1981     27     1  4   3 11     3 11    9 33    0  0   2  7     3 11   1  4
  1982     27     5 19   2  7     2  7   10 37    0  0   3 11     4 15   1  4
  1983     33     4 12   3  9     1  3    7 21    2  6   1  3     4 12   4 12
  1984     32     5 16   5 16     4 13    7 22    1  3   1  3     3  9   2  6
  1985     31     4 13   5 16     4 13    8 26    1  3   1  3     6 19   3 10
  1986     33     8 24   3  9     5 15    8 24    1  3   1  3     2  6   5 15
  1987     31     4 13   3 10     6 19    8 26    2  6   0  0     5 16   1  3
  1988     33     2  6   4 12     6 18    6 18    6 18   1  3     7 21   6 18
  1989     30     4 13   2  7     3 10   10 33    1  3   0  0     3 10   1  3
  1990     34     7 21   5 15     2  6    6 18    2  6   1  3     1  3   3  9
  1991     32     1  3   3  9     5 16   15 47    5 16   1  3     5 16   1  3
  1992     36     4 11   5 14     4 11   13 36    4 11   3  8     8 22   3  8
  1993     34     4 12   3  9     4 12   11 32    3  9   2  6     5 15   5 15
  1994     31     6 19   3 10     6 19    8 26    2  6   3 10     4 13   0  0
  1995     34     4 12   3  9     5 15   13 38    0  0   1  3     4 12   1  3
  1996     30     4 13   4 13     5 17    8 27    2  7   5 17     2  7   5 17
  1997     37     7 19   5 14     7 19   19 51    1  3   2  5     3  8   4 11
  1998     31     3 10   2  6     4 13   10 32    4 13   1  3     6 19   5 16
  1999     31     7 23   2  6     5 16   10 32    4 13   0  0     5 16   7 23
  2000     36     7 19   2  6     7 19   10 28    2  6   4 11     8 22   3  8
  2001     32     5 16   1  3     2  6   13 41    2  6   0  0     6 19   3  9
  2002     34     6 18   2  6     1  3   10 29    1  3   3  9     5 15   4 12
  2003     36     8 22   0  0     3  8    7 19    3  8   1  3     7 19   7 19
  2004     37     2  5   0  0     7 19    9 24    2  5   1  3     7 19   2  5
  2005     33     9 27   0  0     5 15   11 33    4 12   1  3     2  6   0  0
  2006     32     6 19   3  9     3  9    6 19    4 13   1  3     7 22   0  0
  2007     28     3 11   2  7     4 14    6 21    5 18   4 14     4 14   2  7

  Total   908   136 15  83  9   115 13  271 30   65  7  48  5   128 14  81  9
 
The 908 talks were given by speakers from 287 institutions (some speakers have more than one affiliation)

Institutions with 10 or more talks

 NUMTALK  Percent                 INSTITUTE
 *******  *******  *****************************************
   100      11     ANL Physics Div.
    64       7     U. of Chicago
    29       3     U. of Illinois, Urbana
    27       3     ANL Materials Science Div.
    27       3     Fermilab National Accelerator Lab.
    25       3     MIT
    21       2     LBNL
    20       2     CalTech
    20       2     U. of Washington
    19       2     LANL
    17       2     ANL High Energy Physics Div
    17       2     Princeton U.
    14       2     BNL
    14       2     Harvard U.
    14       2     NIST             . of Colorado
    13       1     Thomas Jefferson National Lab.
    13       1     Michigan State U.
    13       1     SUNY, Stony Brook
    13       1     Weizmann Institute of Science
    13       1     Yale U.
    12       1     Northwestern U.
    12       1     Stanford U.
    11       1     JILA and U. of Colorado
    11       1     Penn State U.
    10       1     ANL Chemical Science and Engineering Div.
    10       1     Bell Labs.
    10       1     Indiana U.
    10       1     U. of Michigan
There have been a total of 194 talks ( 21 % ) from ANL divisions.

Number of talks by same speaker

          NUMTALK  NUM
          *******  ***
             7       1
             6       2
             5       3
             4      12
             3      16
             2      83
             1     615
Speakers giving 4 or more talks:
 
     NAME        DATE                        TITLE
 ************  ********  *********************************************
 Harry Lipkin   5/15/81  Magnetic moments of quarks, leptons and hadro
                9/30/83  Fun with Magnetic Monopoles
                1/17/86  The Impact of the Discovery of the Antiproton
                7/17/87  Why Nuclei are Made of Nucleons Instead of Qu
                6/21/91  The Clock Paradox in Quantum Tunnelling: Is t
                9/23/91  Applications of Quantum Mechanics and Isospin
                9/09/94  The Mossbauer Effect and the Parton Model: fr
 
 
       NAME          DATE                        TITLE
 ****************  ********  *********************************************
 Walter Henning    11/13/87  Prospects of Heavy Ion Physics at 1 GeV/Nucle
                    3/13/92  Particle Production in Compressed Nuclear Mat
                    4/14/95  Nuclei Far from Stability: Research Opportuni
                   10/29/99  Going Away from Stability
                    12/6/02  The GSI Future Facility
                     5/9/08  Intense Rare Isotope Beams -- Science Goals a
 
 Walter Kutschera  11/02/84  Dating and Mass Spectrometry with Acccelerato
                    3/13/87  Rare Decay Modes of Heavy Nuclei
                   11/16/90  Searching in the Dark: The Quest for Hypothet
                    6/25/93  Long-Lived Noble Gas Radioisotopes
                   11/22/02  Isotope Studies of the Alpine Iceman Oetzi
                    5/13/05  Synchronizing cultures in the past: Pushing m
 
 
        NAME           DATE                        TITLE
 ******************  ********  *********************************************
 Donald F. Geesaman  10/03/80  Macroscopic features of pion-nucleus scatteri
                      3/09/90  The FNAL E665 Experiment - Deep Inelastic Muo
                     12/10/93  Nuclear Physics at Multi-GeV Hadron Facilitie
                      2/11/00  How vanilla is your proton?
                     10/28/05  What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know i
 
 Teng Lek Khoo       10/24/80  Evolution of nuclear shapes with spin and tem
                      1/22/88  Plans for a National Gamma Ray Facility
                     11/08/91  Superdeformation in Nuclei: Physics in a Seco
                      1/17/97  Superdeformation: Order Embedded in Chaos
                      11/3/06  Superheavy Nuclei and Elements
 
 John P. Schiffer    12/12/86  Is There a Condensed State in Ion Beams?
                      2/03/89  Are Crystalline Ion Plasmas Attainable?
                      2/10/95  The Way to Crystallization of Confined Ions:
                       1/7/00  Nuclear Physics, The Core of Matter, The Fuel
                      9/21/07  Perspectives on Nuclear Physics over the Past
 
 
          NAME             DATE                        TITLE
 **********************  ********  *********************************************
 Stuart J. Freedman       5/07/82  Quantum Mechanics, Reality and All That
                         10/23/92  Search for the 17-keV Neutrino
                          1/31/03  KamLand
                          3/25/05  Direct Evidence for Neutrino Oscillations fro
 
 Gerald Gabrielse         1/12/90  An Accurate Measurement of the Antiproton Mas
                          5/24/96  Extremely Cold Antiprotons and Antihydrogens
                          1/14/00  Observing the Quantum Limit of an Electron Cy
                          12/8/06  New Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Mome
 
 Dieter M. Gruen          4/14/89  Lasers in Surface Science
                          5/24/91  Why Bother About Buckyballs?
                           5/5/00  The Egg as Eye: Ultrananocrystalline Diamond
                          1/21/05  Fullerenes, nanotubes and ultrananocrystallin
 
 Roy Holt                 4/29/88  Hunting Quarks in Nuclei
                           9/8/00  Illuminating the Deuteron at Jefferson Lab
                          2/20/04  Frontiers at the Femtoscale
                           4/1/05  Many facets of the deuteron
 
 Harold E. Jackson, Jr.   9/24/82  The Argonne GeV Electron Microtron, GEM
                          5/13/94  The New Era at CEBAF
                          5/16/97  HERMES, A New Approach to Nucleon Spin Studie
                          1/11/02  HERMES and the Spin of the Proton
 
 Edward W. Kolb           3/23/84  Massive Magnetic Monopoles in Cosmology and A
                          2/28/86  The Saga of Cygnus X-3
                          9/25/98  Seeds of Cosmic Structure: Quantum Fluctuatio
                         10/14/05  Thoughts on Dark Matter and Dark Energy
 
 Vijay R. Pandharipande   2/27/81  Nuclei, neutron stars and nuclear Hamiltonian
                          2/22/85  Fragementation of Hot Classical Drops
                          9/25/92  Correlation Effects in Electron-Nucleus Scatt
                          2/16/96  Dumbbells and Donuts: Femtometer Structures i
 
 David N. Schramm        12/03/82  The Very Early Universe
                          5/13/88  Shadows of Creation: The Dark Matter of the U
                          4/07/95  Recent Action with the Big Bang
                         11/21/97  Dark Matter and the Density of Baryons in the
 
 Michael S. Turner        2/18/83  Cosmology
                         12/07/90  Big Bang Nucleosynthesis: Nuclear Physics and
                          9/29/95  Big-Bang Cosmology: Successes and Challenges
                         10/26/01  Making Sense of the New Cosmology
 
 Zeev Vager              10/02/81  A controversy - are there quantum mechanical
                         11/01/85  New Progress in the Detection of Gravitationa
                         12/05/86  Molecular Structure Determination by the Coul
                          1/17/92  Monopoles, Bad Adiabatic Approximations and N
 
 Carl E. Wieman          12/06/85  Highly Precise Measurements of Weak Neutral C
                          3/03/89  Parity Nonconservation in Atoms: Nuclear Spin
                         10/13/95  Bose-Einstein Condensation in an Ultracold Ga
                          1/26/01  Quantum Explosions and Implosions in a Bose-E
 
 Robert B. Wiringa        3/29/85  Quantum Liquid Drops
                         11/03/89  Nuclear Many-Body Theory: from Deuterons to N
                          9/12/97  Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations for Light Nu
                           3/8/02  Nuclear Forces and the Destiny of the Univers
 

 

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