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 *.
Pls. see the accompanying links for details.
Some links may not be active until the week of the talk.
Jan. 13
Dr. Steve Yates
Department of Chemistry & Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kentucky Probing Nuclear Vibrations with Fast Neutrons
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner
Jan. 20
Dr. Zheng-Tian Lu
Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Department of Physics and Enrico Fermi Institute, The University of Chicago Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Saharan Water
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner
Jan. 27
Dr. Richard C. Lamb
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University (Emeritus Professor)
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky High Energy Astrophysics
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner
Feb. 3
Dr. Fred Wietfeldt
Department of Physics, Tulane University
Ionizing Radiation Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology Precision Neutron Decay Measurements at NIST
Faculty Hosts: Steve Yates and Susan Gardner
Feb. 10
Dr. Sumit Das
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kentucky
From Matrices to Space-Time
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner
Feb. 16*
Van Winter Lecture
Dr. Eric Heller
Department of Physics & Department of Chemistry, Harvard University MAKING WAVES: a random walk through the science, politics and art of wave physics
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero and Joe Straley
Feb. 17
Dr. Eric Heller
Department of Physics & Department of Chemistry, Harvard University Rays and waves passing through weakly deflecting random media:
Implications for
electron flow, starlight refraction, and freak waves in the ocean
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero and Joe Straley
Feb. 24
Dr. Bruce Hinds
Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
Department of Chemistry
University of Kentucky Functional Nanomaterials: nm-Scale Shadow Lithography,
Molecular Electrodes, and Carbon-Nanotube-Based Membranes
Faculty Host: Gang Cao
Mar. 3
Dr. Aharon Kapitulnik
Department of Applied Physics and Physics, Stanford University Constraints on Yukawa-Type Deviations from Newtonian Gravity at sub -100
Microns
Faculty Host: Ganpathy Murthy
Mar. 9*
Dr. Scott Dodelson
Theoretical Astrophysics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, The University of Chicago Fundamental Physics from Space
Faculty Host: Al Shapere
Mar. 10
Dr. Jun Ye
Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)
National Institute of Sciences and Technology, Boulder
Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder Cold molecules --- Stark deceleration and precision spectroscopy
Faculty Host: Mike Cavagnero
Mar. 17
Academic Recess -- Spring Break
No Colloquium
Mar. 21*
Dr. Elizabeth Beise
Department of Physics, University of Maryland
National Science Foundation
Strange and not so Strange Things about the Proton
Faculty Host: Wolfgang Korsch
Mar. 24
Dr. Dan Ralph
Department of Physics, Cornell University
Manipulating Nanomagnets Using Spin-Polarized Currents
Faculty Host: Ganpathy Murthy
Mar. 31
Dr. Richard Milner
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mysteries of the Long Distance Structure of the Nucleon
Faculty Host: Wolfgang Korsch
Apr. 7
Dr. JoAnne Hewett
Theory Group, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Discovering the Quantum Universe: The Role of Particle Accelerators
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner
Apr. 14
Dr. Mark Lacy
Spitzer Science Center, Caltech How much supermassive black hole growth is obscured by dust?
Faculty Host: Nancy Levenson
Apr. 21
Dr. Eric Norman
Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Recent Developments in Neutrino Science:
A Whole Lot About Almost Nothing
Faculty Host: Steve Yates
Apr. 28
Joint Colloquium with Geology
Dr. Kerry Emanuel
Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hurricanes and Climate
Faculty Host: Susan Gardner
