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semester, 2007

Monday, January 29th 2007
1:30 pm:
Speaker: Amy Connolly, UCLA, Candidate for the Astrophysics & Cosmology Faculty Position
Subject: Closing in on Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos with the Radio Detection Technique
Thursday, February 1st 2007
Speaker: Ignacio Taboada, Berkeley. Candidate for the Astrophysics & Cosmology Faculty Position
Subject: High Energy Neutrino Astrophysics: IceCube
Wednesday, February 14th 2007
1:30 pm:
Ph.D. Thesis Defense in 435 Physics
Speaker: K. H. Sarwa B. Tan
Subject: Electrical Transport in Indium Oxide Thin Films near the Magnetic Field-Induced Superconductor-Insulator Transition
Tuesday, April 24th 2007
1:30 pm:
Thesis Defense in Physics Room 435
Speaker: Xiaohua Lou
Subject: Electrical detection of spin transport in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures
Thursday, May 3rd 2007
1:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in Physics Room 435
Speaker: Ben Speakman
Subject: Atmospheric Electron Neutrinos in the MINOS Far Detector
Friday, May 4th 2007
09:00 am:
Subject: Bio '07: Physics Inspired by Biology
May 4 - 6, 2007, www.ftpi.umn.edu/bio07/
Tuesday, May 29th 2007
1:00 pm:
Ph. D Thesis Defense in Physics Room 170
Speaker: Hyuk-Jae Jang
Subject: Magnetization Reversal Study on Patterned Ferromagnetic and Exchange-Biased Systems
2:00 pm:
Physics Seminar in Physics 166
Speaker: Vladimir Rekovic, University of New Mexico
Subject: Search for Chargino/Neutralino Production Using Low Pt Di-Muon Triggers of CDF on Tevatron
Tuesday, June 5th 2007
Subject: The Dark Side of the Universe 2007
June 5-10, 2007. For more information: http://www.ftpi.umn.edu/dsu07
Wednesday, June 6th 2007
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Sergey Y. Tetin, Abbott Laboratories
Subject: Antigenic Epitopes on Peptides and Proteins
Friday, June 15th 2007
2:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in Physics Room 435
Speaker: Weimin Deng
Subject: Studies of Wall-Film Superfluidity in 3He/4He Mixtures
Monday, June 25th 2007
1:30 pm:
Thesis Defense in Physics 236A
Speaker: Peanut McCoy
Subject: Surface structures and reentrant transitions in tilted smectic phases of chiral liquid crystals
Tuesday, July 10th 2007
10:15 am:
THESIS DEFENSE in Physics, Room 358B
Speaker: Zengqiang (John) Liu
Subject: Optical and resonant x-ray studies of chiral smectic-C liquid crystals structures and transitions
Tuesday, July 24th 2007
12:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in Physics 435
Speaker: Roman Lutchyn
Subject: Kinetics of Superconducting Quantum Circuits
Monday, August 6th 2007
12:15 pm:
Johns Hopkins University in Physics 435
Speaker: Takemichi Okui
Subject: ``The 't Hooft Model As A Hologram.''
Wednesday, August 15th 2007
1:00 pm:
PhD Thesis Defense in Physics 133
Speaker: Sean O'Neill
Subject: Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Interactions Between Radio Galaxies and Their Environments
Thursday, August 16th 2007
10:00 am:
PhD Thesis Defense in Physics 435
Speaker: Rob Compton
Subject: Pinning and Dynamics of a Magnetic Vortex Core
2:00 pm:
PhD Thesis Defense in Physics 435
Speaker: Alexey Kobrinskii
Subject: Exchange bias in epitaxial manganite bilayers
Monday, September 17th 2007
3:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in Walter Library, Room 402
Speaker: Dale Jackson, Dept. of Astronomy
Subject: Dust at Low Metallicity: A Spitzer Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies
Thursday, September 20th 2007
12:00 pm:
Speaker: Dr. Randy Jokipii, University of Arizona
Subject: Implications of Recent Remote and In Situ Observations of the Outer Heliosphere and the Local Interstellar Medium
Thursday, October 4th 2007
Speaker: Leo P. Kadanoff
Subject: Making a Splash; Breaking a Neck: The Development of Complexity in Physical Systems
Thursday, November 8th 2007
10:00 am:
Thesis Defense in Physics 358B (Astronomy Reading Room)
Speaker: Jeremy Gogos
Subject: An Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Disappearance Measurement with the MINOS Far Detector
Thursday, November 22nd 2007
No events scheduled for today.
Friday, November 23rd 2007
No events scheduled for today.
Monday, November 26th 2007
10:00 am:
Thesis Defense in Walter Library, Room 404
Speaker: Longhua Hu
Subject: Statistical Mechanics Problems in Biopolymer Physics
Tuesday, November 27th 2007
3:00 pm:
Special Astrophysics Seminar in Astronomy Reading Room (358)
Speaker: Massimo Marengo, Harvard Center for Astrophysics
Subject: A Spitzer View of the epsilon Eridani Planetary System
Monday, December 3rd 2007
4:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in 435 Physics
Speaker: Alexander Scott
Subject: Measuring Quantum Correlations in Entangled D Decays at CLEO-c
Friday, December 14th 2007
1:00 pm:
Speaker: Tom Bing, University of Maryland, College Park
Subject: Upper Level Physics Students' Framing of Math Use
Tuesday, December 18th 2007
1:00 pm:
Speaker: Joss Ives, University of British Columbia
Subject: Reforming a Large Introductory Physics Course at the University of British Columbia
Wednesday, December 19th 2007
10:00 am:
Thesis Defense in 435 Physics
Speaker: Paul Barsic
Subject: Thermodynamics, Triplets, and Transport: The Proximity Effect in Superconductor/Ferromagnet Nanostructures

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