Department Colloquia Fall 2007

Chem-Phys 155
Fridays 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Refreshments are served in Chem-Phys 155 at 3:15 PM

Colloquia distinguished by a shift in time or place are indicated by an *. Please see the accompanying links for details.

Some links may not be active until the week of the talk.

August 24
Dr. Tom Troland
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kentucky, Lexington
From the Coolest Gas to the Hottest Stars - The Sky at Many Wavelengths
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

August 31
Dr. Roger Pynn
Department of Physics
Indiana University
and
Spallation Neutron Source
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
An Introduction to Neutron Scattering
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

September 7
Dr. Keh-Fei Liu
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kentucky, Lexington
Strong Interaction of Quarks and Gluons on the Lattice
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

September 14
Dr. Moshe Elitzur
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kentucky, Lexington
Active Galactic Nuclei: A Paradigm Shift
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

September 21
Dr. Rick Gaitskell
Department of Physics
Brown University
Noble Travails: XENON10, LUX and Other Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

September 28
Dr. Daniel Phillips
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ohio University, Athens
The Same, but Different: What the Neutron Can Teach Us
About Strong Interactions
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner

October 5
Dr. Jim Braatz
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Green Bank, West Virginia
Megamasers and Cosmology
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Moshe Elitzur

October 12
Dr. Michael C. Martin
Advanced Light Source Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Coherent synchrotron radiation from storage rings as a broadband, high-power terahertz source
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Joe Brill

October 19
Dr. Herman Verlinde
Department of Physics
Princeton University
String Theory and Particle Physics
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Sumit Das

October 24* • Public Lecture
Dr. Eric Mazur
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Stopping Time
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

October 25*
Dr. Eric Mazur
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Subcellular surgery and nanosurgery
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

October 26
Dr. Xiangdong Ji
Department of Physics
University of Maryland, College Park
Exploring the partonic structure of the nucleon
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Bing-An Li

November 2
Dr. Tom Rossing
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Stanford University
Acoustics of Eastern and Western Bells, Old and New
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Keith MacAdam

November 9
Dr. Clifford Johnson
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Southern California
Strings Everywhere?
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Sumit Das

November 16
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero

November 23
Academic Recess -- Thanksgiving
No Colloquium

November 30
Dr. Jamie Nagle
Department of Physics
University of Colorado, Boulder
Material Properties of the Hottest Nuclear Matter on Earth: Quark Gluon Plasma
Abstract…
Faculty Host: Renee Fatemi

December 7
Reserved
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero