Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Schedule

FALL 2012    |  SPRING 2013  |  Fall 2013

NOTE: All colloquia will be held on THURSDAY at 3:30 PM in Rm. 109 Nicholson, unless otherwise indicated.

DATE
TITLE OF TALK
SPEAKER
SPEAKER'S INSTITUTION
HOST
Aug. 23        
Aug. 30        
Sept. 6 "Whither is the correlated oxide Interface?"
Abstract
Jak Chakhalian University of Arkansas Jiandi Zhang
and
Ward Plummer
Sept. 13 "Emergent behavior of cold atomic gases"
Abstract
Daniel Sheehy LSU
Physics & Astronomy
Michael Cherry
Sept. 20 "Newton's Gedankenexperiment: Newton and Einstein, gravitation and relativity"
Abstract
George Ford University of Michigan Robert O'Connell
Sept. 27 "How to double the number of undergraduate physics majors"
Abstract
Sacha Kopp University of Texas-Austin Dana Browne
Oct. 4 "Squeezed States of Light - Generation and Applications"
Abstract
Eugeniy Mikhailov College of William and Mary Jonathan Dowling

Oct. 11
-

130
Howe-Russell

"Landing Curiosity on Mars with Flight Director Keith Comeaux"
Abstract
Keith Comeaux NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Michael Cherry
Oct. 18 Fall Holiday
Oct. 25 "Dynamic Electron Scattering: An emerging technique to measure material transport properties"
Abstract

Patrick Garrity

Loyola University Juana Moreno

Nov. 1

"Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Emerging Applications" El-Sayed H. Ibrahim University of Florida-Jacksonville Wayne Newhauser

Nov. 7
-
4:30 PM
-
119 Nicholson Hall

"What I did with my Physics Degree" Brian Burgess Praeses Michael Cherry
Nov. 8 "Observation of Zitterbewegung in a degenerate quantum gas"
Abstract
Ian Spielman National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Dan Sheehy
Nov. 15 "Massive Star Formation Through The Universe"
Abstract
Jonathan Tan University of Florida Jan Staff
Nov. 22 Thanksgiving Holiday
Nov. 29        
Dec. 6 "Macroscopic Quantum Objects"
Abstract
Yanbei Chen California Institute of Technology Thomas Corbitt
and
Gabriela Gonzalez

Last updated: January 7, 2013