General Colloquia
Spring 2008
Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at 4:00 p.m. in Physics room 223. Tea/cookies are served at 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 242.
Date |
Speaker |
Host |
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|---|---|---|---|
| January | 10 |
Kenneth Herwig
Oak Ridge National Laboratory "Neutron Scattering " |
David Koltick |
| 17 |
Tim Zwier
Purdue "Single-conformation Spectroscopy and Dynamics in the Complexity Gap: Synthetic Foldamers and Flexible Bichromophores" |
Ian Shipsey | |
| 24 |
Tim Sands
Purdue University "Metal/Semiconductor Superlattices as Thermoelectric Metamaterials for High-Temperature Direct Thermal Energy Conversion" |
Ian Shipsey | |
| 31 |
Mansour Shayegan
Princeton "Electrons in Flatlands: Surprises Never Stop" |
Leonid Rohkinson | |
| February | 07 |
Mildred Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology College of Science Distinguished Lecture Series (Co-sponsored by the Department of Physics Colloquium Series) "The Potential of Nanostructured Materials to Address the Challenge of a Sustainable Energy Resource" PHYS, Room 114, 4:30-5:30PM Refreshments are served at 3:45.m. in Physics room 242. |
Anant Ramdas |
| 14 |
David Koltick
Purdue University "The Search for Special Nuclear Material Using Particle Physics Techniques" |
Ian Shipsey | |
| 21 |
Edward Gerjuoy
University of Pittsburgh "Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger" |
Yong Chen | |
| 28 |
Christopher Monroe
University of Maryland "Quantum Networks of Atoms" |
David Nolte | |
| March | 06 |
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| 20 |
Canceled |
Ken Ritchie | |
| 27 |
Paul Shepson
EAS, Purdue University "Climate Change: Fundamentals, Impacts and Opportunities" |
Ian Shipsey | |
| April | 03 |
George Gollin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Academic Fraud and a Calculus of Death" |
Ian Shipsey |
| 10 |
Roger Blandford
Kavli Institute, Stanford "16th Hubert M. James Lecture" "Black Holes:The End of Time or a New Beginning" |
Nick Giordano and Ian Shipsey | |
| 17 |
Paul McEuen
Cornell "Nano carbon: from terahertz transistors to atomic membranes" |
Leonid Rohkinson | |
| 24 |
Saul Teukolsky
Cornell University "Black Holes and Gravitational Waves" |
Ian Shipsey | |
