Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2008 Spring Semester
January 2008
- Friday, January 25th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- From ASDEX Upgrade to ITER: Preparing the Next Step in Fusion Research, Hartmut Zohm, Max Planck Institute
February 2008
- 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
- Thursday, February 14th
- 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
- Friday, February 22nd
- 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
- 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
March 2008
- Friday, March 7th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Quantum Measurements: From a Philosophical Dilemma to a Technological Resource, Klaus Molmer, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Aarhus, Denmark
- Friday, March 14th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Quest for Spinning Glue, Bernd Surrow, MIT
- Friday, March 28th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Particle Acceleration and Explosive Energy Release by the Sun, Bob Lin, University of California - Berkeley
April 2008
- Wednesday, April 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Set My Vortices Free: Observing the Kosterlitz-Thouless Crossover in an Optical Lattice, Nobel Prize Winner Eric Cornell, University of Colorado-JILA
- Friday, April 11th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Trapping and Counting Photons without Destroying Them: A New Way to Look at Light, Serge Haroche, Ecole Normale Superieure
- Friday, April 18th
- Physics Department Colloquium, H. H. Barschall Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Recent Developments in Neutron Radiography, Hans Otto Meyer, Indiana University
May 2008
- Thursday, May 1st
- Physics Department Colloquium, Winner of the Distinguished Alumni Award 2008;
5:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 4:30 pm) - Exoplanet Detection and Characterization: Status and Prospects, Wesley A. Traub, Jet Propulsion Lab
- Friday, May 2nd
- Physics Department Colloquium, H.T. Richard Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Neutrino Oscillations: Recent Triumphs and Future Challenges, Bob McKeown, Caltech
- Friday, May 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Climate Change: Local to Global and Back Again, John Magnuson, Emeritus Professor of Zoology and Limnology, UW-Madison