Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
Fall Semester
Wednesday, September 9th 2009
Speaker: Daniel Cronin-Hennessy
Subject: Neutrinos@Minnesota
Wednesday, September 16th 2009
Speaker: Michael Zudov
Subject: Magnetotransport in quantum Hall systems in very high Landau levels
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Wednesday, September 23rd 2009
Speaker: Professor Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
Subject: Bionic Hearing:the Science and the Experience
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Wednesday, September 30th 2009
Speaker: Costas Soukoulis, Iowa State University, Ames Lab and Dept. of Physics
Subject: Bending Back Light: The Science of Negative Index Materials
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Wednesday, October 7th 2009
Speaker: Helen Quinn, Stanford University
Subject: The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
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Wednesday, October 14th 2009
Speaker: Dan Dahlberg, University of Minnesota
Subject: A Microscopic Understanding of Exchange Anisotropy in Fe/MnF_2 Bilayers
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Wednesday, October 21st 2009
Speaker: Kent, Irwin, NIST
Subject: Superconducting detectors: from nuclear non-proliferation to cosmology
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Wednesday, October 28th 2009
Speaker: Professor Ikaros Bigi, University of Notre Dame
Subject: The Cathedral Builder's Paradigm' or `Studies of Heavy Flavour Dynamics: Its Glorious Past and Equally Promising Future
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Wednesday, November 4th 2009
Speaker: Alexander Heger, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Deaths of the Biggest Stars
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Wednesday, November 11th 2009
Speaker: Brian Anderson, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Subject: Lessons in extreme solar wind-planetary interactions at Mercury: Results from the three MESSENGER flybys in anticipation of orbital observations in 2011
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Wednesday, November 18th 2009
Speaker: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Subject: Oxide Nanoelectronics
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Wednesday, November 25th 2009
No colloquium this week. Thanksgiving.
Wednesday, December 2nd 2009
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 9th 2009
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 16th 2009
Speaker: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Startup of the Large Hadron Collider and First Observations from CMS
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