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Week of Monday, November 9th 2009
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Monday, November 9th 2009
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Laurens Keek, University of Minnesota
Subject: X-ray bursts with too short recurrence times
3:35 pm:
Student Journal Club
in 140 Physics
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
12:20 pm:
Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Yen-Hsiang Lin, University of Minnesota
Subject: Indirect magnetic-field-tuned superconductor-insulator transitions
12:20 pm:
Space Physics Seminar
in 143 Physics
Speaker: Jesse Woodroffe, University of Minnesota
Subject: The global structure of magnetospheric ultra low frequency waves and its relation to ionospheric conductivity
2:30 pm:
Biophysics Seminar
in 166 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
2:30 pm:
Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
in 435 Physics
There will be no seminar this week.
Wednesday, November 11th 2009
1:25 pm:
Nuclear Physics Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Meng-Ru Wu, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spectral split of supernova neutrinos
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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
11:15 am:
Special Space Seminar
in 170 Physics
Speaker: Brian Anderson, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
Subject: "Continuous Global Birkeland Currents from the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment: AMPERE.
12:10 pm:
Astronomy Journal Club
in B49 Physics
Speaker: Michael Milligan and Bob Gehrz
12:15 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Andrei Frolov, Simon Fraser University
Subject: Primordial Non-Gaussianity from Preheating
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Martin Greven, University of Minnesota
Subject: Novel magnetic excitations in the pseudogap phase of a cuprate superconductor
Friday, November 13th 2009
2:30 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in 143 Physics
Speaker: Jeremiah Mans
Subject: CMS at LHC
mainly for new graduate students
3:35 pm:
Astronomy Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Timothy Beers, Michigan State U
Subject: The Chemo-Dynamical History of the Milky Way as Revealed by SDSS/SEGUE
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
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.
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