College of Science

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

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
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

Fall 2007