J. Murray Gibson<br>

Associate Laboratory Director,
 Advanced Photon Source,
 Argonne National Laboratory<br>

<i>Music, Fourier and Wave-Particle Duality</i><p>

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Art and science are intimately connected. There is probably no art that
reveals this more than music. Music can be used as a tool to teach
physics and engineering to non-scientists, illustrating such diverse
concepts as fourier analysis and quantum mechanics. This colloquium is
aimed in reverse, to explain some interesting aspects of music to
physicists. <br>
Topics include:<p>

What determines the frequency of notes on a musical scale?<p>

What is harmony and why would fourier care?<p>

Where did the blues come from?
    (We' re talking the "physics of the blues", and not "the blues of
physics"  - that's another colloquium).<p>

Is there a musical particle?<p>

What has music to do with nanotechnology? (I don't have an answer to
this one yet, but I still have a week to think about it).<p>

I aim to include as much music as physics, and even though the creative
originality of the content will be far below the usual physics
colloquium standards,  I hope that this seminar will be a memorable
diversion from the norm.<p>
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