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Wednesday, January 17th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Subject: No seminar this week.
Wednesday, January 24th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Steve Pierson, Head of Government Relations, American Physical Society
Subject: China and India: A new Sputnik? Federal funding for physical sciences research
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, January 31st 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Bolek Wyslouch - MIT
Subject: Heavy-Ion Physics with the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, February 3rd 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Michael Marder, University of Texas, Austin
Subject: Rising above the gathering storm with U Teach
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 7th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Open Date
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 14th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Alexander Grosberg
Subject: To knot or not to knot: making neckties of polymers
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 21st 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Marco Peloso
Subject: Before and After Inflation
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, February 28th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin
Subject: The Generation and Evolution of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 7th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Wick Haxton - University of Washington
Subject: What Nuclear Physicists Don't Know About Neutrinos
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 14th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Spring Break: No Colloquium this week.
Wednesday, March 21st 2007
4:00 pm:
Abigail and John Van Vleck Lecture
in 150 Physics
Speaker: Professor Barry Barish - California Institute of Technology
Subject: "Probing Einstein’s Universe"
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics following lecture
Thursday, March 22nd 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 150Physics
Speaker: Barry C. Barish, Caltech
Subject: The Next Great Particle Accelerator: The International Linear Collider
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, March 28th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Gary Horowitz
Subject: Quantum Black Holes
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 4th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: No speaker this week due to illness.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 11th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Aharon Kapitulnik
Subject: Search for Gravity-like Forces at sub-mm distance
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 18th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Fran Bagenal, University of Colorado
Subject: Exploring the Giant Magnetosphere of Jupiter
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, April 25th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Meigan Aronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University
Subject: Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Michigan Experience
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 2nd 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Ivan Schuller, University of California-San Diego
Subject: Pathological Science
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, May 9th 2007
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
This colloquium will resume in the fall.
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