Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2008 Fall Semester
August 2008
September 2008
- Friday, September 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Double Beta Decay-The Key to Neutrino Properties, Petr Vogel, Caltech
- Friday, September 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Rapture of the Deep Sky, Professor Melville P. Ulmer, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University
- Friday, September 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- GLAST first results, David A. Smith, Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Bordeaux-Gradignan
October 2008
- Friday, October 3rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Cosmic Rays, Pierre Sokolsky, University of Utah
- Friday, October 10th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Nuclear Forensics: Preparing for the Experiment One Hopes Never to Do, Dr. Jay Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Retired) and The Hertz Foundation
- Friday, October 17th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Physics of Space Weapons, David Wright, Union of Concerned Scientists and MIT
- Friday, October 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Impact!, Sid Nagel, University of Chicago
- Friday, October 31st
- Physics Department Colloquium, H.T. Richards Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Surveying the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky with Milagro and HAWC, Brenda Dingus, Los Alamos National Lab
November 2008
- Friday, November 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Gravitational Waves and Multimessenger Astrophysics - an Experimenter's Point of View, Szabolcs Marka, Columbia University
- Friday, November 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Experiments on the Newly Functioning Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Lab, Haskell Taub, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Monday, November 24th
- Physics Department Colloquium, D.W. Kerst Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (Coffee and cookies at 3.30 pm) - Studying Astrophysics in the Laboratory: How is Angular Momentum Rapidly Transported in Accretion Disks?, Hantao Ji, Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University
- Friday, November 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 8:00 am
- No Colloquium--Thanksgiving Recess
December 2008
- Friday, December 12th
- Last Day of Class
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2103 Chamberlin Hall
- Holiday Colloquium, Holiday Colloquium
- Tuesday, December 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 12:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 11:30 am)
- Magnetic Self-Organization in the Reversed Field Pinch, John Sarff, Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin