University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

Physics and Astronomy Colloquium

Fall Semester

Wednesday, September 7th 2005
4:00 pm:
The Colloquium will not be held this week.
Wednesday, September 14th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Alex Kamenev, University of Minnesota
Subject: Statistical Mechanics of Ion Channels: There is No Life Without Entropy
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 21st 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Branko Stojkovic, Bank of America
Subject: Squeezing the Stock Market: A Practical Model of Equity Market Impact
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, September 28th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: J. Zasadzinski, University of California, Santa Barbara
Subject: Saving Babies with Old and New Physics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 5th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Seth Fraden, Brandeis University
Subject: B2 or not B2
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 12th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Peter Litchfield
Subject: Neutrinos in Minnesota
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 19th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Larry McLerran, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Subject: The Color Glass Condensate
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 26th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Mike DuVernois, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Cosmic Radiation at High Energies: Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos Near the GZK Cutoff
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 2nd 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Reinhard Schwienhorst, Michigan State University
Subject: Physics in the Third Generation: Testing the Standard Model at the Energy Frontier
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 9th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Robert Rynasiewicz, Johns Hopkins
Subject: The Birth of the Light Quantum Heuristic
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 16th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Vincent Noireaux, University of Minnesota
Subject: An Artificial Cell Based on Gene Expression in Vesicles
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 23rd 2005
4:00 pm:
Subject: The colloquium will not be held this week.
Refreshments will not be served.
Wednesday, November 30th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: Charles Woodward, University of Minnesota
Subject: DEEP IMPACT - A Probe of Comet Structure and Origins
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 7th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: George Crabtree, Argonne National Laboratory
Subject: The Two Hydrogen Economies
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 14th 2005
4:00 pm:
Speaker: P.Z. Myers, University of Minnesota, Morris
Subject: The Antithesis of Intelligent Design; or, why reality is actually about Dumb Accidents
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:30 p.m.

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