University of Minnesota
School of Physics & Astronomy

Academic Calendar

Fall Semester

Monday, September 5th 2011
08:00 am:
University closed
Sunday, September 25th 2011
1:00 pm:
Physics Fall Picnic in Van Cleve Park, 901 15th Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 
All members of the Physics Department and their families are invited.
Thursday, September 29th 2011
09:00 am:
Thesis Defense in 435 Physics
Speaker: Maribel Nunez-Valdez
Subject: Structural and Elastic Properties of Iron-Bearing Olivine Polymorphs at High Pressures and Temperatures: A First-Principles Study
Monday, November 14th 2011
2:30 pm:
Thesis Defense in Physics 157
Speaker: Anthony Hatke
Subject: Nonequilibrium transport in semiconductor quantum structures
Tuesday, December 6th 2011
12:20 pm:
Special Seminar in 210 Physics
Speaker: Rajan Gupta, LANL
Subject: Natural Gas can be more than a bridge fuel -- it can fuel development
*Note: this is a special general interest seminar, not a "special Nuclear seminar" as was previously announced.
Thursday, December 15th 2011
10:45 am:
Speaker: Grant Remmen, University of Minnesota
Subject: Hubble Space Telescope Subpixel Modeling of Anomalous High-Excitation Emission Lines in the Ejecta of Eta Carinae
This is the public portion of Mr. Remmen’s Senior Honors Thesis Defense.

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