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Week of Monday, February 13th 2012
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Monday, February 13th 2012
11:00 am:
Speaker: Renee Raphael, Department of History, University of Alabama
Subject: A Dialogic Revolution: Galileo, Jesuit Readers, and a New Experimental Reading
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Matthew Hayes (L'Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et planetologie
Subject: Lyman-alpha diagnostics in the epochs of galaxy formation and cosmic reionization
Tuesday, February 14th 2012
12:20 pm:
Space Physics Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Cynthia Cattell
Subject: Solar cycle and solar illumination dependence of auroral ion beams
12:20 pm:
Special Condensed Matter Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Professor Aviad Frydman, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Subject: The Superconducting Insulator
2:30 pm:
Elementary Particle Physics Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Giovanni Franzoni, University of Minnesota
Subject: Search for the Higgs Boson in the Gamma Gamma Channel at CMS
2:30 pm:
Thesis Defense
in Physics 131
Speaker: Bryce Beverlin
Subject: Coherent oscillations in modeled neuronal networks
Wednesday, February 15th 2012
1:30 pm:
Nuclear Physics Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Clint Young, McGill University, Canada
Subject: Hard-scale probes of heavy-ion collisions
Dr. Young is a candidate for a postdoctoral position.
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Thursday, February 16th 2012
12:10 pm:
Astronomy Journal Club
in B49 Physics
Speaker: Danielle Berg and Larry Rudnick
12:15 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar
in 435 Physics
Speaker: Daniel Krefl
Subject: B-Model Approach to Refined Partition Functions
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Andrey Varlamov, University of Rome
Subject: Quantum Fluctuations and Dynamic Clustering of Fluctuating Cooper Pairs
Friday, February 17th 2012
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Brett L. Walker, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Montana State University, Bozeman
Subject: Toxic Archipelago: The Hybrid Causes of Industrial Disease in Japan
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:15 p.m.
3:35 pm:
MN Inst. for Astrophysics Colloquium
in 210 Physics
Speaker: Dr. Alberto Bolatto, U Maryland
Subject: The Large Scale Picture of Star Formation in Galaxies: Bright Gas, Dark Gas, and Galaxy Evolution
3:35 pm:
Physics Education Seminar
in 143 Physics
Speaker: Leon Hsu, University of Minnesota
Subject: Using computer coaches in Fall2011 introductory physics
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Seminar
in 157 Physics
Speaker: Boris Shklovskii, University of Minnesota
Subject: Non-Fermi liquid behavior due to Orbital Fluctuations in Iron Pnictide Superconductors
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