All future
Monday, November 9th 2009
Speaker: Laurens Keek, University of Minnesota
Subject: X-ray bursts with too short recurrence times
Speaker: Adam Schreckenberger, University of Minnesota
Subject: K. Lang. Neutrino Oscillations Results from MINOS, 2006
Students are welcome to read the paper and come discuss! (Professors are less welcome.)
Tuesday, November 10th 2009
Speaker: Yen-Hsiang Lin, University of Minnesota
Subject: Indirect magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-insulator transitions
Speaker: Jesse Woodroffe, University of Minnesota
Subject: The global structure of magnetospheric ultra low frequency waves and its relation to ionospheric conductivity
There will be no seminar this week.
There will be no seminar this week.
Wednesday, November 11th 2009
Speaker: Meng-Ru Wu, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spectral split of supernova neutrinos
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
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, November 12th 2009
Speaker: Brian Anderson, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Subject: "Continuous Global Birkeland Currents from the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment: AMPERE.
Speaker: Michael Milligan and Bob Gehrz
Speaker: Andrei Frolov, Simon Fraser University
Subject: Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Preheating
Speaker: Martin Greven, University of Minnesota
Subject: Novel magnetic excitations in the pseudogap phase of a cuprate superconductor
Friday, November 13th 2009
Speaker: Jeremiah Mans
Subject: CMS at LHC
mainly for new graduate students
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Beers, Michigan State U
Subject: The Chemo-Dynamical History of the Milky Way as Revealed by SDSS/SEGUE
Speaker: Jeffrey Yost, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
Subject: Programming Enterprise: Women Entrepreneurs in Software and Services, 1965-1990
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Wednesday, November 18th 2009
Speaker: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Subject: Oxide Nanoelectronics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, November 19th 2009
Speaker: Thomas Cohen, University of Maryland
Subject: Baryons and holography
Speaker: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Subject: Possible Observation of Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall States in an Interfacial Oxide Nanostructure
Friday, November 20th 2009
Speaker: Chris Leighton, Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota
Subject: Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Novel Magnetic Materials
mainly for new graduate students
Speaker: Dr. Charles Woodward, U Minnesota, Astronomy
Wednesday, November 25th 2009
Speaker: No colloquium this week. Thanksgiving.
Thursday, November 26th 2009
Speaker: No Journal Club this week.
Speaker: No High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar due to holiday closing
Subject: Holiday, University Closed
Friday, November 27th 2009
Speaker: No colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 2nd 2009
Speaker: To be announced
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, December 3rd 2009
Speaker: Pete Mendygral and Evan Skillman
Speaker: Alexei Bazavov, University of Arizona
Subject: TBA
Friday, December 4th 2009
Speaker: Cynthia Cattell
Subject: Particle acceleration and energy transfer in space plasmas
mainly for new graduate students
Speaker: Dr. Judith Cohen, Caltech
Wednesday, December 9th 2009
Speaker: To be announced
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, December 10th 2009
Speaker: Andrea Mehner and Yong Qian
Friday, December 11th 2009
Speaker: Shaul Hanany
Subject: Reaching to the Big Bang
mainly for new graduate students
Speaker: Dr. Farhad Zadeh, Northwestern U
Speaker: David Queller, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Rice University
Subject: What Is an Organism?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
Thursday, December 17th 2009
Speaker: Finals Week - No High Energy Seminar this Week
Thursday, December 24th 2009
Speaker: No Speaker Today
Subject: Holiday, University Closed
Thursday, December 31st 2009
Speaker: No Speaker Today
Subject: Holiday, University Closed
Thursday, January 7th 2010
Thursday, January 14th 2010
Thursday, January 21st 2010
Friday, January 22nd 2010
Speaker: Martin Greven
Subject: Neutron and x-ray scattering of strongly correlated electron systems.
mainly for new graduate students
Thursday, January 28th 2010
Friday, January 29th 2010
Speaker: Oriol Valls
Subject: Condensed matter theory
mainly for new graduate students
Thursday, February 4th 2010
Thursday, February 11th 2010
Thursday, February 18th 2010
Wednesday, February 24th 2010
Speaker: Ray Orbach, Department of Energy
Subject: To be announced.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, February 25th 2010
Wednesday, March 3rd 2010
Speaker: Haiyan Gao (Duke University)
Subject: Neutron Electric Dipole Moment
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, March 11th 2010
Thursday, March 18th 2010
Speaker: Spring Break - No Seminar this Week
Thursday, March 25th 2010
Wednesday, March 31st 2010
Speaker: Vladimir Savinov, University of Pittsburgh
Subject: Probing the Nature of Neutrinos and Other Fun Stuff with ATLAS at the LHC.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, April 14th 2010
Speaker: Albert Libchaber, The Rockefeller University
Subject: biological physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, April 15th 2010
Wednesday, April 21st 2010
Speaker: Chandra Varma, UC Riverside
Subject: High temperature superconductivity theory; Honorary degree
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, April 22nd 2010
Wednesday, April 28th 2010
Speaker: Francis Everett, Stanford University
Subject: Gravity Probe B
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, April 29th 2010