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
Speaker: To be announced
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Wednesday, December 9th 2009
Speaker: To be announced
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