Physics and Astronomy Calendar
Week of Monday, September 8th 2008
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Monday, September 8th 2008
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Yong Qian, University of Minnesota
Subject: Stars powered by dark matter annihilation
2:30 pm:
Fine Theoretical Physics Institute Seminar
in 435 Physics
The seminar will not be held this week.
Tuesday, September 9th 2008
12:20 pm:
Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Yves Adjallah, University of Minnesota
Subject: Electronic Transport in Co-Deposited Amorphous/Nanocrystalline Films
1:00 pm:
Space Physics Seminar
in 143 Physics
Organizational meeting
2:30 pm:
Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
in 435 Physics
To be announced
Wednesday, September 10th 2008
12:30 pm:
Astronomy Grad Student Journal Club
in 358 Physics
Speaker: Pete Mendygral
Subject: Simulated X-ray Emission from MHD Jets
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Vuk Mandic, UMN
Subject: LIGO: Status and Recent Results
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, September 11th 2008
12:10 pm:
Astronomy Journal Club
in B49 Physics
Speaker: Andrea Mehner and Terry Jones
12:15 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: TBA
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Professor C. C. Huang, University of Minnesota
Subject: Novel physical properties of the smectic-C_alpha* phase in liquid crystals
2:30 pm:
Nuclear Physics Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Alexander Heger, University of Minnesota
Subject: Type I X-Ray Bursts - The most common thermonuclear explosions in the universe.
Friday, September 12th 2008
2:30 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in 157 Physics
Speaker: Marvin Marshak
Subject: Underground Physics: Neutrinos and More
Primarily for the first-year physics graduate students
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Hasok Chang, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London
Subject: Phlogiston Revisited: An Argument for Scientific Pluralism
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
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