Physics and Astronomy Calendar
Fall Semester
Monday, September 8th 2008
Speaker: Yong Qian, University of Minnesota
Subject: Stars powered by dark matter annihilation
Monday, September 15th 2008
Speaker: Tim Klein, University of Minnesota
Subject: Radiative D Decays at CLEO-c
Thursday, September 18th 2008
Speaker: Joseph Eberly, Dept. of Physics, University of Rochester
Subject: Quantum Mechanics and Weird Quantum Optics
Tuesday, September 23rd 2008
Speaker: P. James E. Peebles, Princeton University
Subject: Finding the Big Bang
Thursday, October 2nd 2008
Speaker: Dr. William McDonough, University of Maryland, Department of Geology
Subject: Antineutrino Detection, Geoneutrinos and Heat Production in the Earth
Friday, October 17th 2008
Speaker: Jeremy Kasdin, Princeton University
Subject: Are We Alone? Imaging Extrasolar Earthlike Planets from Space
Friday, November 7th 2008
Thursday, November 20th 2008
Speaker: Kaiyan Gao
Subject: Study of Radiative Decays of Psi(2S) Mesons
This is the public portion of Ms. Gao's thesis defense.
Monday, November 24th 2008
Speaker: Crystal Austin, University of Minnesota
Subject: Analytical and Numerical Studies of Dark Matter Halos
This is the public portion of Crystal Austin's thesis defense.
Friday, December 5th 2008
Wednesday, December 10th 2008
Speaker: Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT
Subject: Why are we so excited about carbon nanostructures?
Speaker: Piotr Grzywacz, University of Minnesota
Subject: A renormalized theory of fluctuations in polymer blends and diblock copolymer melts
Speaker: Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT
Subject: Women in Leadership Roles in Science and Engineering
Wednesday, December 17th 2008
Speaker: Matthew G. Sexton, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Evolution and Decay of Supersymmetric Flat Directions in the Early Universe
This is the public portion of Mr. Sexton's thesis defense.
Friday, December 19th 2008
Speaker: Kimia Ghanbeigi, University of Minnesota
Subject: Prediction of Templates in the Auditory Cortex system
This is the public portion of Ms. Ghanbeigi's thesis defense.
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