Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Fall Semester
Wednesday, September 3rd 2008
There will be no colloquium this week. Please note the permanent change in the colloquium time.
Wednesday, September 10th 2008
Speaker: Vuk Mandic, UMN
Subject: LIGO: Status and Recent Results
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, September 17th 2008
Speaker: James Kakalios, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Materials Science of Superheroes (All New! All Different!)
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Wednesday, September 24th 2008
Speaker: P. James E. Peebles, Princeton University
Subject: The Cosmological Tests
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Wednesday, October 1st 2008
Speaker: Mikhail Katsnelson, Radboud University Nijmegen
Subject: New bridge between condensed matter physics and quantum electrodynamics
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Wednesday, October 8th 2008
Speaker: Marvin Marshak, UMN
Subject: Exploring the Neutrino Frontier
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Wednesday, October 15th 2008
Speaker: Joerg Schmalian, Ames Laboratory
Subject: Emergent symmetries and dimensionality reduction at quantum critical points
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Wednesday, October 22nd 2008
Speaker: George Fuller, UCSD
Subject: Neutrinos: Stealthy Agents of Destruction and Creation in the Cosmos
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Wednesday, October 29th 2008
Speaker: Salman Habib, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Subject: The Dark Universe Challenge
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Wednesday, November 5th 2008
There will be no colloquium this week. There will be no refreshments.
Wednesday, November 12th 2008
Speaker: Charles Dermer, US Naval Research Laboratory
Subject: Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Origin in Light of First Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
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Wednesday, November 19th 2008
Speaker: Konstantin Matveev, Argonne National Laboratory
Subject: Charge and spin propagation through quantum wires
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Wednesday, November 26th 2008
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 3rd 2008
Speaker: Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana University
Subject: Physics and Quantum Computation
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Wednesday, December 10th 2008
Speaker: Anna Hayes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Subject: Application of Nuclear Physics to Energy and National Security
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, December 17th 2008
There will be no colloquium this week.
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