Physics and Astronomy Calendar
Week of Monday, February 18th 2019
Monday, February 18th 2019
Speaker: David Caratelli (FNAL)
Subject: Neutrinos in High Definition
Tuesday, February 19th 2019
Speaker: Cynthia Cattell and Chris Colpitts
Subject: Wave generation by relativistic electron beams in a plasma: Initial results fromLAPD run
There will be no seminar this week.
Wednesday, February 20th 2019
Speaker: Boris Spivak, University of Washington
Subject: Magneto-transport phenomena related to the chiral anomaly in Weyl and Dirac semimetals
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
Speaker: Nadja Strobbe (FNAL)
Subject: Taking aim at New Physics
Thursday, February 21st 2019
Speaker: Gordon Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UMN
Subject: Development of large-scale networks in visual cortex.
Speaker: Grantland Hall and Pat Kelly
Speaker: Roger Launius, Chief Historian for NASA and Senior Curator of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum (retired)
Subject: Why Go to the Moon? Apollo, the Space Race, and the Many Faces of Lunar Exploration
Speaker: Flavio Cavanna, Yale
Subject: Lifting the lid on DUNE, the new international mega-science project in the US
Faculty Host: Roger Rusack
Friday, February 22nd 2019
Speaker: Tom Welle, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced.
Speaker: Xiaojun Fu
Subject: Broken symmetry states in the N = 3 Landau level of GaAs quantum wells with alloy disorder
Speaker: Radu Roiban (Penn State)
Speaker: Anna Williams, Macalester University
Subject: Exploring the coevolution of magnetic fields and galaxies in different environments
Speaker: Michael Gordin, History - Princeton University
Subject: Einstein in Bohemia: Science and Prague before and after the Habsburgs
Refreshments served at 3:15 p.m.
There will be no seminar this week.
Speaker: Carolyn Bishoff, UMN Libraries
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