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).
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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" |
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| 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" |
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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 | ||||
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Thomas Schulthess | ORNL | Landau | "Toward Materials Specific Simulations of Superconductivity in the Cuprates" |
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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 | |
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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 | |||
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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 | |
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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 |
"The FUSE Survey of Diffuse O VI Emission from the Interstellar Medium" |