Physics Department Colloquia |
Events During the 2010 Spring Semester
January 2010
- Friday, January 22nd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Quark-Gluon Plasma in QCD, at RHIC and LHC, and in String Theory, Krishna Rajagopal, MIT
February 2010
- Friday, February 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Stanislav Boldyrev, University of Wisconsin, Department of Physics
- Friday, February 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Turning Photons into Polarized Nuclei, Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin, Department of Physics
- Friday, February 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Special Joint Physics/Astronomy Colloquium Talk;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Confronting the Dark Energy Crisis in Fundamental Physics, Christopher Stubbs, Harvard University, Physics and Astronomy
March 2010
- Friday, March 5th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Uncovering the Nature of Dark Matter with Direct Detection Experiments. Status and Prospects from a XENON Perspective., Uwe Oberlack, Rice University
- Friday, March 12th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Richards Lecture;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Probing Early Universe Particle Physics with Neutrons at the Institut Laue-Langevin, Peter Geltenbort, ILL Grenoble
- Friday, March 19th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Quantum Computer: Dream and Realization, Rainer Blatt, Institute for Experimental Physics University of Innsbruck and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
- Friday, March 26th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Increasing Diversity in Physics: the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters to PhD Bridge Program, David J. Ernst, Vanderbilt University, Fisk University
April 2010
- Friday, April 2nd
- Spring Break
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm
- No Colloquium--Spring Break
- Friday, April 9th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee and cookies at 3:30 pm)
- Baryons: Testing Ground of QCD Dynamics, Jose Goity, JLab/Hampton University
- Friday, April 16th
- Physics Department Colloquium, Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Colloquium;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Dark Matter in the Universe, Katherine Freese, University of Michigan
- Friday, April 23rd
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- The Transient Revolution in Astrophysics, Eliot Quataert, UC-Berkeley
- Friday, April 30th
- Physics Department Colloquium; 4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm)
- Plasma Turbulence in the Solar Wind, Bill Dorland, University of Maryland
May 2010
- Friday, May 7th
- Last Day of Class
- Physics Department Colloquium, Distinguished Award Winner;
4:00 pm; 2241 Chamberlin Hall (coffee at 3:30 pm) - Does the Nation have a Nuclear Future? The Role of Science in the Regulation of the Nation's Most Controversial Energy Source, Dr. Gregory B. Jaczko, Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission