| Date | Discussion Leader | Topic / Paper(s) |
| 14 Jan | Hang Liu | Proton Form Factor: Background Nucleon Electromagnetic Form Factors, Haiyan Gao, published: Int. J. Mod. Phys E12:1-40 (2003). Please read sections 3.2 and 4.3. |
| 21 Jan | Roundtable Discussion | Neutron Form Factor Developments in the measurement of GnE, the neutron electric form factor, talk presented by Donal Day at LOWq03 (summer 2003). |
| 28 Jan | Ting Lin |
2003 Nobel Prizes Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, Anthony J. Leggett: "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids" Reading: Advanced Information |
| 4 Feb | Catalin Matei |
DOE 20 Year Plan |
| 11 Feb | Yannis Parpottas |
DOE 20 Year Plan |
| 18 Feb | George Caia |
Are the fundamental constants constant?,
A Cern Courier article by Harald Fritzsch |
| 25 Feb | Moses Oginni |
Further Evidence for Cosmological Evolution
of the Fine Structure Constant,
J. K. Webb et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 091301 (2001).
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| 3 Mar | Deepshikha Choudhury |
The Oklo bound on the time variation of the fine-structure
constant revisitited, T. Damour and F. Dyson,
Nucl. Phys. B480, 37 (1996).
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| 10 Mar | Anders Gardestig |
COLOR-SUPERCONDUCTING QUARK MATTER,
Mark Alford,
Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science,
December 2001, Vol. 51, pp. 131-160.
The reading assignment for this week is sections 1-4;
the rest will be covered next quarter.
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