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Wednesday, September 7th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no Colloquium this week.
Wednesday, September 14th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Anand Bhattacharya, Argonne National Laboratory
Subject: Digital Synthesis : A Pathway to New Materials in the Complex Oxides
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, September 21st 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Roger Blandford, Stanford University
Subject: Higher Energy Astrophysics
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, September 28th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Alexei Koulakov, Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, NY
Subject: Formation of brain maps: nurture versus nature.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 5th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Prof. Philip Kim, Columbia University
Subject: Pseudo-Spin and Pseudo-Relativistic Quantum Mechanics in Graphene
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 12th 2011
2:30 pm:
Erikson Lecture
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Michael Dyakonov, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb University of Montpellier, France
Subject: The Spin Hall Effect
This is a special event, note time change from Colloquium. Refreshments will be served in 216 after the lecture.
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week. Note: Erikson Lecture at 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, October 19th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Eugene Demler, Harvard University
Subject: Learning about order from noise
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, October 26th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Prof. Vuk Mandic, University of Minnesota
Subject: Astrophysics with Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 2nd 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Jos Uffink, Dept. of Philosophy, Univ. of Minnesota
Subject: Recent advances in the formulation of the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics.
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 9th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Joseph Dwyer, Florida Institute of Technology
Subject: X-ray Emissions from Thunderstorms and Lightning
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 16th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: William L. Holzapfel, University of California at Berkeley
Subject: Cosmological Constraints from Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background with the South Pole Telescope
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, November 23rd 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, November 30th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
There will be no colloquium this week.
Wednesday, December 7th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Yuri Kamyshkov, University of Tennessee
Subject: Matter-Antimatter Transformation Search with cold neutrons
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
Wednesday, December 14th 2011
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
in 131 Physics
Speaker: Professor Andrey Chubukov, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Subject: New Iron age -- superconductivity in Fe-pnictides
Refreshments served in Room 216 Physics after colloquium
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