Departmental Colloquia, 2007-8

Colloquia are scheduled for 4:00 pm on Thursdays with a 15-minute coffee and conversation period preceeding the talk.  Colloquia are open to the public and are always, unless otherwise noted, in Room 202 Physics Building (the large auditorium off the front lobby).

Date

Speaker

Home Institution

In-House Host

Title

8/23        
8/30 Jian Shen ORNL & Univ. Tenn. Pan "Magnetic Nanostructures Beyond Nature"
9/6 Howard Lee UGA   "Ergometer and Ergometry"
9/13        
9/20        
9/27 Zhengwei Pan UGA  

"Controlled Growth of One-Dimensional Nanostructures−−The Art of Nanoscience"

10/4 Simon Capstick FSU Nakayama "The nature of strongly interacting particles"
10/11 S. Sen SUNY Buffalo Lee "Consequences of Nonlinearity & Granular (Meta)materials"
10/18 Dave DeMille Yale Stancil "Diatomic Molecules as Quantum Tools"
10/25       Fall Break
11/1 Jun Ye JILA Fertig "The art of light-based precision measurement"
11/8 Kate Kirby Harvard-Smithsonian CfA Stancil "Ethics Issues in the Practice of Physics"
11/15        
11/23       Thanksgiving
11/29        
12/6 Sara Majetich  Carnegie Mellon Meltzer "Magnetic Nanoparticles and Nanoscale Imaging"
12/10-1/4       Final Exams, Winter Holidays
1/10 Xiaoping Hu Emory/Georgia Tech Q. Zhao "Approaches for Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Magnetic Nanoparticles"

1/17

Allan MacDonald Univ. of Texas Stancil "Bilayer Exciton Superfluidity"
1/24 Martha P. Haynes Cornell Stancil "HI Cosmology in the Local Universe with ALFALFA"
1/31 Linda Young Argonne NL Fertig "Strong-field control of x-ray processes"
2/7 Ted von Hippel Univ of Texas Magnani "Debris Disk White Dwarfs and the Fate of Planetary Systems"
2/14        

tuesday
2/19

Thomas Schulthess ORNL Landau "Toward Materials Specific Simulations of Superconductivity in the Cuprates"

tuesday
2/26

Yancy Shirley University of Arizona Magnani "The Evolution of the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation"
2/28 Inseok Song Spitzer Science Center, Caltech Magnani

"Exo-zodiacal dust and our Solar System"

tuesday
3/4

Stan Metchev UCLA Magnani "Circumstellar Debris Disks and Sub-stellar Companions: Direct Views into the Evolution of Exoplanetary Systems"
3/6 David Helfand Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory Caillault "Life and Death in the Milky Way"
3/13       Spring Break
tuesday
3/18
Angela Laird U. Texas, San Antonio Q. Zhao "Systems-Level Modeling of Functional Neuroimaging Data Using Meta-Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling"
3/20 Franz Himpsel Univ. of Wisconsin Y. Zhao

"Self-Assembled Nanostructures at Silicon Surfaces:From Low-Dimensional Electrons to the Limits of Data Storage"

monday
3/24
Steve Girvin Yale Schüttler Menendez Lecture, 4:00 PM: "Quantum Money, Teleportation and Computation"
3/27 Jayajit Das MIT Schüttler "Membrane Proximal Signaling in T lymphocytes: An interplay between co-operative processes and stochastic fluctuations"
4/3 Antonio Piza Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil Lee "Today's quantum theory: good old wine in new bottles?
4/10 Frank Winkler Middlebury College Shelton "SN 1006 at Age 1001—Dazzling Star to Puzzling Remnant"
4/17     Lee Bill Cummings Day
4/24 Van Dixon Johns Hopkins Ullrich

Undergraduate Awards Day

"The FUSE Survey of Diffuse O VI Emission from the Interstellar Medium"

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