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Week of Monday, February 18th 2019

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Monday, February 18th 2019
12:15 pm:
Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar in Tate 301-20
Speaker: TBD
3:35 pm:
Elementary Particle Physics Seminar in Physics PAN 110
Speaker: David Caratelli (FNAL)
Subject: Neutrinos in High Definition
[Abstract]
Tuesday, February 19th 2019
1:25 pm:
Space Physics Seminar in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Cynthia Cattell and Chris Colpitts
Subject: Wave generation by relativistic electron beams in a plasma: Initial results fromLAPD run
4:00 pm:
Center for Excellence in Sensing Technologies and Analytics Seminar in 101 Tate
There will be no seminar this week.
Wednesday, February 20th 2019
1:25 pm:
Condensed Matter Seminar in 110 PAN
Speaker: Boris Spivak, University of Washington
Subject: Magneto-transport phenomena related to the chiral anomaly in Weyl and Dirac semimetals
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Boris Shklovskii
3:30 pm:
Elementary Particle Physics Seminar in Physics
Speaker: Nadja Strobbe (FNAL)
Subject: Taking aim at New Physics
[Abstract]
Thursday, February 21st 2019
10:10 am:
Biophysics Seminar in 120 PAN
Speaker: Gordon Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, UMN
Subject: Development of large-scale networks in visual cortex.
[Abstract]
12:10 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Journal Club in Physics Tate 301-20
Speaker: Grantland Hall and Pat Kelly
3:30 pm:
Special Public Lecture in Best Buy Theater, Northrop, University of Minnesota
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
Consider attending - invite students! Get more details at http://www.northrop.umn.edu/events/why-go-moon-apollo-space-race-and-many-faces-lunar-exploration
3:35 pm:
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium in Physics Tate B50
Speaker: Flavio Cavanna, Yale
Subject: Lifting the lid on DUNE, the new international mega-science project in the US
[Abstract]
Faculty Host: Roger Rusack
Friday, February 22nd 2019
11:00 am:
Nuclear Physics Seminar in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Tom Welle, University of Minnesota
Subject: To be announced.
12:20 pm:
Condensed Matter Sack Lunch Seminar in Tate 301-20
Speaker: Xiaojun Fu
Subject: Broken symmetry states in the N = 3 Landau level of GaAs quantum wells with alloy disorder
12:30 pm:
High Energy Theory Lunchtime Seminar in Tate 110 (note location change for this week)
Speaker: Radu Roiban (Penn State)
2:30 pm:
MN Institute for Astrophysics Colloquium in Physics Tate 301-20
Speaker: Anna Williams, Macalester University
Subject: Exploring the coevolution of magnetic fields and galaxies in different environments
[Abstract]
3:35 pm:
History of Science and Technology/Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science Colloquium in 275 Nicholson
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.
3:35 pm:
Physics Education Seminar in PAN 110
There will be no seminar this week.
4:40 pm:
Introduction to Research Special Seminar (Course Requirement) in Tate 120
Speaker:  Carolyn Bishoff, UMN Libraries

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