Dear students and colleagues

With this message we wish to introduce the Zurich Physics Colloquium in its new form. You find all information on this weekly event under our webpage

http://www.colloquium.phys.ethz.ch

Please spend a few minutes to study our page and extract the relevant information; in particular, take a look at our mission statement and note our recommendations to students (noted under `Education'), our comments to speakers (noted under `Info for Speakers'), as well as those to the hosts (noted under `Info for Hosts'); there you also find a link for submission of new proposals. Members of the faculty of UniZH and ETHZ are invited to submit proposals for speakers at any time.

The communication on the physics colloquium is organized via the `Zurich Physics Colloquium' mailing list; you will obtain a reminder to join the colloquium every week during the semester. All faculty members of UniZH and ETHZ on the official faculty lists (maintained by the two physics institutes at UniZH and the physics department at ETHZ) are on the colloquium list by default (we appologize for last weeks mailings regarding removal of faculty from the `Physics Kolloquium' mailing list due to reorganization of the new list). All other are asked to subscribe via the webpage

http://www.colloquium.phys.ethz.ch

obviously, if you receive this mail you are already in the list and no further action is required. Please motivate your colleagues who did not obtain this announcement to subscribe. Also, please tell the students in your class to subscribe (you can download a poster and make some reclama).

We plan to make the Zurich Physics Colloquium an event which is worth to attend every week --- we need your collaboration in terms of personal interest (please attend the colloquium as often as possible) and suggestions for top class speakers (please make sure that your suggestion fits the mission of the colloquium).

We wish to thank

Etusch Szabo Hanni Hediger Sebastian Huber

for the many ideas and hours they have invested in this project.

Kind regards

Gianni Blatter Tilman Esslinger Thomas Gehrmann

Gianni Blatter Theoretische Physik Schafmattstr. 32 ETH Hönggerberg CH-8093 Zürich office: +41 44 633 2568 home: +41 44 844 42 50