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Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule
Spring 2008
NOTE: All colloquia will be held on THURSDAY at 3:40 PM in Rm. 109 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.
DATE |
TITLE OF TALK |
SPEAKER |
SPEAKER'S INSTITUTION |
HOST |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan. 17 |
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Jan. 24 |
"Astrophysical Black Holes" | Ramesh Narayan | Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics |
Juhan Frank |
Jan. 31 |
"MINERvA: Precision measurements of neutrino scattering at Fermilab" Abstract |
Robert Bradford | University of Rochester | Bill Metcalf |
Feb. 7 |
CANCELED Abstract |
Natalia Perkins | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Ilya Vekhter |
Feb. 12 |
"Neutrino flavor-mixing - news from the frontier" Abstract |
Christopher Mauger | California Institute of Technology | Bill Metcalf |
Feb. 14 |
"Detecting Neutrinos from GRB's with IceCube" Abstract |
Ignacio Taboada | University of California-Berkeley | Bill Metcalf |
| Feb. 19 Tuesday |
"Neutrino and Neutrinoless Experiments" Abstract |
Huaizhang Deng | University of Pennsylvania | Bill Metcalf |
Feb. 28 |
"In search of neutrinoless double beta decay" Abstract |
Kai Zuber | University of Sussex | Thomas Kutter |
March 6 |
"Exploring the transient Universe with gravitational waves" Abstract |
Patrick Brady | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Gabriela Gonzalez |
| March 13 | "Quantum Coherence Effects in Solids" | Olga Kocharovskaya | Texas A&M University | Jonathan Dowling |
March 20 |
Spring Break |
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March 27 |
"The Stellar Halo of Andromeda Galaxy and Dwarf Galaxy Building Blocks" | Puragra Guhathakurta | University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory |
James Clem & Arlo Landolt |
April 3 |
"Imaging with Phase-Sensitive Light" Abstract |
Jeff Shapiro | Massachusetts Institute Technology |
Jonathan Dowling |
April 10 |
"Strands of Superconductivity at the Nanoscale" Abstract |
Paul M.Goldbart | Department of Physics & Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Daniel Sheehy |
| Mon, April 14 --- 3:40 PM --- 435 Nicholson |
Special Colloquium "Quantum Critical Phenomena in Correlated Electron Systems" |
Rongying Jin | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Dana Browne |
| April 17 | "High-Tc Superconductivity: Summing Up" Abstract |
Dimitrii Basov | University of California, San Diego | Ilya Vekhter |
Tues, |
Special Colloquium "Modelling Black Hole Binary Mergers" |
Erik Schnetter | CCT-LSU | Ed Seidel |
| April 24 | "Of Common Envelopes and Planetary Nebulae" Abstract |
Orsola de Marco | American Museum of Natural History | Geoff Clayton |
| Wed, April 30 --- 3:40 PM --- 109 Nicholson |
Special Colloquium "TBA" |
Jiandi Zhang | Florida International University | Dana Browne |
| May 1 | "TBA" | Peter Milonni | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Jonathan Dowling |
May 8 |
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