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Friday, June 7th 2019
08:00 am:
Last day of Instruction for May Session
Friday, June 21st 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Lake Maria State Park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Saturday, June 22nd 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Lowry Nature Center
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Saturday, June 29th 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Nerstrand Big Woods State Park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Friday, July 5th 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Eastman Nature Center
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Saturday, July 6th 2019
3:35 pm:
Universe in the Park in Wild River State Park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Wednesday, July 10th 2019
1:30 pm:
Thesis Defense in Physics Tate 301-20
Speaker: Brian J. O'Neill, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Subject: Simulations of Narrow-Angle Tail Radio Galaxy Evolution and Shock Interactions
This is the public portion of Mr. O'Neill's PhD Dissertation Defense
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Friday, July 12th 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Afton State Park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Saturday, July 13th 2019
3:35 pm:
Universe in the Park in Lake Maria State Park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Friday, July 19th 2019
12:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in Pan 110
Speaker: James Delles, University of Minnesota
Subject: What Kramers and Arrhenius didn't expect: two-state switching out of thermal equilibrium.
This is the public portion of Mr. Delles' thesis defense. His advisor is Dan Dahlberg.
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Father Hennepin State Park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Saturday, July 20th 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Mille Lacs Kathio State Park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Friday, July 26th 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Saturday, July 27th 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in William O'Brien State park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Friday, August 2nd 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Dodge Nature Center
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Saturday, August 3rd 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in William O'Brien State park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Monday, August 5th 2019
10:00 am:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Vasiki Konneh:
Subject: “Observation of Quantum Hall Ferromagnetism in Ultrahigh Quality hBN/Gr/CrI3/hBN van der Waals Heterostructures”
10:20 am:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Paul Bailey
Subject: “Nonlinear Magnon Scattering Observations via MOKE
10:40 am:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Beatrice Gulner
Subject: Current Relaxation in Amorphous Semiconductor Alloys
There will be a coffee break after this talk.
11:30 am:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Elizabeth Breen
Subject: Enhancement of Superconductivity by Parallel Magnetic Fields in Polycrystalline Lead Films
11:50 am:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Andy Sheng
Subject: Curved Emergent Dimension from Strong Interactions
12:10 pm:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Omar Beesley
Subject: Studying the Hadronic Activity of Neutrons in the NOvA Experiment
There will be a one hour break for lunch after this talk
1:30 pm:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Bronson Lynn
Subject: The Correlations Between the Right-Handed W Boson and Leptoquark Searches
1:50 pm:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Chika Onubogu
Subject: AGN Jets in Galaxy Cluster Shock: The Effects of External Magnetism on System Dynamics
2:10 pm:
REU Student Conference in Pan 110
Speaker: Ebba Green
Subject: CHAOS—Chemical Abundance of Spirals
Wednesday, August 7th 2019
12:00 pm:
REU Poster Session in Pan 110
Pizza will be provided.
Thursday, August 8th 2019
2:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in Tate 201-20
Speaker: Juliana Vievering, University of Minnesota
Subject: Nature of Energy Release and Transfer for Solar and Stellar Flares Using High-sensitivity Hard X-ray Instrumentation
This is the public portion of Ms. Vievering's thesis defense. Her advisor is Lindsay Glesener
Friday, August 9th 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Gooseberry Falls State park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Saturday, August 10th 2019
8:30 pm:
Universe in the Park in Tettegouche State Park
Presentations are held rain or shine from 8:30 to 10:00 or 11:00pm, including telescope observing.
Thursday, August 22nd 2019
1:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in PAN 110
Speaker: Mengxing Ye, University of Minnesota
Subject: Magnetism in correlated electron systems
This is the public portion of Ms. Ye's thesis defense. Her advisor is Andrey Chubukov
3:00 pm:
Thesis Defense in 120 PAN
Speaker: Tianbai Cui, University of Minnesota
Subject: Disorder effects and non-equilibrium dynamics on the electronic orders of strongly correlated materials
This is the public portion of Mr. Cui's thesis defense. His advisor is Rafael Fernandes.
Friday, August 23rd 2019
09:00 am:
Astrophysics Cosmology Outreach in University of Minnesota Building, Minnesota State Fair
11:00 am:
Thesis Defense in PAN 110
Speaker: Michael Sammon, University of Minnesota
Subject: Electronic Properties of Oxide and Semiconductor Heterostructures
This is the public portion of Mr. Sammon's thesis defense. His advisor is Boris Shklovskii.

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