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Events During February, 2008
- Monday, February 4th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- "Physics Results from the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), Stan Kaye, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- MRI - Molecular Imaging, from Vision to Reality, Hanns-Joachim Weinmann Ph.D., Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany
- Tuesday, February 5th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Seeing with the mind as well as the eye, Bob Greenler, UW-Milwaukee, Department of Physics
- Thursday, February 7th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Physics at the University of Colorado, Kyle McElroy, Physics, University of Colorado
- Friday, February 8th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Bringing Hearing to the Deaf, Ian Shipsey, Purdue University
- Monday, February 11th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- (none), Jim Drake, University of Maryland
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Title to be announced, Katie McMillian, Assistant Professor of Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health
- Materials Science & Engineering Seminar; 4:00 pm; 265 MSE
- Structure, Processing, Properties, and Applications of Carbon-based Organic Semiconductors and Carbon Nanotubes, Michael S. Arnold, Post-doctoral research fellow University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Tuesday, February 12th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Electoral dynamics in the 2008 presidential primaries, Charles Franklin, Political Science
- Plasma Seminar--Special Day; 2:30 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Ion Pickup and Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts, Jim Drake, University of Maryland
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Evolution of the Earliest Stages of Low-mass Star Formation, Yancy Shirley, University of Arizona
- Thursday, February 14th
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Electronic transport in inhomogeneous quantum wires, Jerome Rech, Argonne National Laboratory
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Stellar Archaeology: Galaxy Evolution from the Ground Up, Jason Harris University of AZ - Steward Observatory
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- How Does A Thing Like That Work?, David Willey, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
- Friday, February 15th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Hot On The Trail of Particle Dark Matter, Dan Hooper, Fermilab
- Math Colloquium; 4:00 pm; B239 Van Vleck
- Geometry of boundary shear turbulence: a stroll through 61,506 dimensions, Predrag Cvitanovic, Center for Nonlinear Sciences, Georgia Tech
- Monday, February 18th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Validation in Fusion Research: Toward Guidelines and Best Practices, Terry, Department of Physics/Plasma, University of Wisconsin
- Medical Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 1345 Health Science Learning Center (refreshments will be served)
- Brachytherapy Facility Shielding, Glenn P. Glasgow, M.S. Ph.D., F.A.A.P.M., F.A.C.R Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiation Oncology Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
- Tuesday, February 19th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Acceleration of human evolution: interactions of genes with culture and geography, John Hawks, Anthropology
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- Illuminating the Glowing Magnetospheres of Massive, Luminous Stars, Richard Townsend, University of Delaware- Bartol Research Institute
- Thursday, February 21st
- R. G. Herb Condensed Matter Seminar; 10:00 am; 5310 Chamberlin Hall
- Anderson localization transitions, multifractal wave functions, and conformal invariance, Ilya Gruzberg, Physics Dept. University of Chicago
- Friday, February 22nd
- Special Atomic Physics Seminar; 10:00 am; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Engineering a Quantum Information Processor, Professor Jungsang Kim, Duke University
- Phenomenology Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Matching NLO Calculations with Parton Shower: the POsitive-Weight Hardest Emission Generator, Carlo Oleari, Univ. di Milano-Bicocca
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Visualizing Pair Formation and the Riddle of High-Temperature Superconductivity, Ali Yazdani, Princeton University
- Monday, February 25th
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar; 12:05 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Magnetic Fields in HIgh Intensity-Laser Produced Plasmas, Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan
- Tuesday, February 26th
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar; 12:05 pm; 4274 Chamberlin Hall
- Generalising the Reynolds number from turbulence to sand-piles(S.O.C.) to ecosystems, George Rowlands, University of Warwick
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:45 pm; 6515 Sterling Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm in 6521 Sterling)
- The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy, Jason Kalirai, University of California - Santa Cruz
- Thursday, February 28th
- String Theory Seminar; 2:30 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Title to be announced, Yu Nakayama, Berkeley
- Astronomy Colloquium; 3:30 pm; Room TBA
- Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies, Josh Simon, CALTECH
- Special Plasma Physics Seminar; 4:00 pm; 5280 Chamberlin Hall
- Testing Gyrokinetic Turbulence Simulations, Dr. Robert Budny, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Friday, February 29th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 1:20 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 1:00)
- Topological defects in nanomagnets, Oleg Tchernyshyov, Johns Hopkins University
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Probing the sources of solar magnetism with helioseismology and simulations, Juri Toomre, JILA and Dept Astrophysical & Planetary Sciences, University of Colorado