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Wednesday, January 21st 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no Colloquium this week.
Wednesday, January 28th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: Misha Voloshin, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spontaneous and induced creation of semi-classical objects. (Is it safe to run high-energy colliders?)
Wednesday, February 4th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Paul Crowell, University of Minnesota
Subject: Spin Transport
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, February 11th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: Misha Shifman, University of Minnesota
Subject: From superconductivity to quark confinement
Wednesday, February 18th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: David Thomas, University of Minnesota
Subject: Structural dynamics of muscle proteins resolved simultaneously on nanosecond and millisecond time scales
Wednesday, February 25th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: Keith Olive, University of Minnesota
Subject: Dark Matter: From Cosmology to Colliders
Wednesday, March 4th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: Juan-Carlos Campuzano (Univesity of Illinois in Chicago)
Subject: Pairing above $T_c$ in the high temperature superconductors
Wednesday, March 11th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jeremiah Mans, University of Minnesota
Subject: Year Zero at the LHC
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, March 18th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, March 25th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: Konrad Gelbke, Michigan State University
Subject: Plans for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University
Wednesday, April 1st 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Prof. Gary J. Ferland, University of Kentucky
Subject: What powers the intra-cluster filaments in large clusters of galaxies?
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, April 8th 2009
5:00 pm:
2009 Abigail and John Van Vleck Lectures
in 150 Physics
Speaker: Albert Fert, 1Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, 91767 Palaiseau, and Université Paris-Sud
Subject: Spintronics: electrons, spins, computers and telephones
Reception to follow lecture in Physics 216
Thursday, April 9th 2009
4:00 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 150 Physics
Speaker: Albert Fert, 1Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, 91767 Palaiseau, and Université Paris-Sud
Subject: Carbon nanotubes, graphene, molecules : promising materials for spintronics
Note different day for the colloquium, this week only. Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, April 15th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: Dmitri "Mitya" Chklovskii (Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Subject: Statistical physics meets neurobiology: Is your brain wired optimally?
Wednesday, April 22nd 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: Paul Canfield (Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory)
Subject: Ending of the tyranny of copper: Intermetallic superconductivity in the post copper-oxide age.
Wednesday, April 29th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics 131
Speaker: Eva Andrei (Rutgers)
Subject: Graphene: the magic of electrons in flatland
Tuesday, May 5th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Leo Kadanoff, James Franck Institute, University of Chicago
Subject: To be announced.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, May 6th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Professor Eric Donovan, University of Calgary
Subject: Using the Aurora to Remote Sense Plasma Physical Processes in Near-Earth Space
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics at 3:00 p.m. this week only.
Wednesday, May 13th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No Colloquium this week--Finals week.
Wednesday, September 9th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Daniel Cronin-Hennessy
Subject: Neutrinos@Minnesota
Wednesday, September 16th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Michael Zudov
Subject: Magnetotransport in quantum Hall systems in very high Landau levels
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, September 23rd 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Professor Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
Subject: Bionic Hearing:the Science and the Experience
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, September 30th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Costas Soukoulis, Iowa State University, Ames Lab and Dept. of Physics
Subject: Bending Back Light: The Science of Negative Index Materials
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 7th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Helen Quinn, Stanford University
Subject: The Mystery of the Missing Antimatter
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 14th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in Physics
Speaker: Dan Dahlberg, University of Minnesota
Subject: A Microscopic Understanding of Exchange Anisotropy in Fe/MnF_2 Bilayers
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 21st 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Kent, Irwin, NIST
Subject: Superconducting detectors: from nuclear non-proliferation to cosmology
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 28th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Professor Ikaros Bigi, University of Notre Dame
Subject: The Cathedral Builder's Paradigm' or `Studies of Heavy Flavour Dynamics: Its Glorious Past and Equally Promising Future
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 4th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Alexander Heger, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Deaths of the Biggest Stars
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 11th 2009
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
Wednesday, November 18th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jeremy Levy, University of Pittsburgh
Subject: Oxide Nanoelectronics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 25th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
No colloquium this week. Thanksgiving.
Wednesday, December 2nd 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 9th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 16th 2009
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Roger Rusack, University of Minnesota
Subject: The Startup of the Large Hadron Collider and First Observations from CMS
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
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