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Week of Monday, February 20th 2012

Monday, February 20th 2012
Speaker: Victor Boantza, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney
Subject: Can Chemists be Good Physicists? An Eighteenth-Century Perspective
Tuesday, February 21st 2012
2:30 pm:
Biophysics Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: David Thomas
Wednesday, February 22nd 2012
3:35 pm:
Speaker: Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Impact of the LHC and Direct Detection Experiments on Supersymmetric Dark Matter
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Thursday, February 23rd 2012
12:10 pm:
Astronomy Journal Club in B49 Physics
Speaker: Zahra Forootaninia and Kristen McQuinn
12:15 pm:
Speaker: Tracy Slatyer
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 210 Physics
March meeting practice talks
Friday, February 24th 2012
1:35 pm:
Speaker: Dr. John Cannon, Macalester College
2:00 pm:
Untitled in Physics 435
Speaker: Eric Sharpe
2:00 pm:
Untitled in Physics 435
Speaker: Eric Sharpe
2:00 pm:
Speaker: Eric Sharpe
2:00 pm:
TBA in Physics 435
Speaker: Eric Sharpe
Speaker: Author: Mark Borrello, University of Minnesota; Readers: Ben Kerr, University of Washington, and Rob Richards, University of Chicago
Subject: Author Meets Readers: Evolutionary Restraints: The Contentious History of Group Selection
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
3:35 pm:
Speaker: John Broadhurst, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced

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