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Department of Physics525 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette, IN
47907-2036
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Telephone:
(765) 494-2970
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(765) 494-0706
2006-2007 General Colloquia
Spring 2007
| Date | Speaker | Host |
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| January 18 |
Professor Daniela Bortoletto
Location: PHYS 223 Purdue University "Physics at the High Energy Frontier: Connections Between the Quarks and the Cosmos" |
Ramdas |
| January 25 |
Professor Marc Caffee
Location: PHYS 223 Purdue University ""Lithic Astronomy: Production of Cosmic-Ray-Produced Nuclides in Solar System Materials"" |
Ramdas |
| February 01 |
Tom Hemmick
Location: PHYS 223 SUNY Stony Brook "Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions: Adventures at the Highest Energy Densities Created by Man" |
Elmore |
| February 08 |
Prof. Sean Carroll
Location: PHYS 223 California Institute of Technology "Dark Energy, or Worse?" |
Bortoletto |
| February 15 |
Dr. Russell Hemley
Location: PHYS 223 Geophysical Laboratory Carnegie Institute of Washington, Washington, D.C. "New Findings in Materials Under Pressure" |
Ramdas |
| February 22 |
Professor Licia Verde
Location: PHYS 223 University of Pennsylvania "Interpreting the Sound of the Universe" |
Bortoletto |
| March 01 |
Prof. David Landau
Location: PHYS 223 Center for Simulational Physics The University of Georgia "A New Approach to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics and Beyond" |
Giordano |
| March 08 |
APS March Meeting
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| March 22 |
Prof. Ramanath Cowisk
Location: PHYS 223 McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences & Physics Department Washington University, St. Louis "The Dark Matter Halo of Our Galaxy" |
Ramdas |
| March 29 |
Professor Howard Baer
Location: PHYS 223 Florida State University ""Supersymmetric Dark Matter: Direct, Indirect, and Collider Searches"" |
Bortoletto |
| April 05 |
Robert E. Blankenship
Location: PHYS 223 Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor in Arts and Sciences Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO "Energy Transfer Processes in Photosynthetic Antennas from Extremophiles" |
Savikhin |
| April 12 |
Prof. Walter Kohn
Location: Fowler Hall, Stewart Center University of California, Santa Barbara SIGMA XI DISTINGUISHED LECTURE "The Power of the Sun" |
Ramdas |
| April 19 |
Professor Steve Kahn
Location: PHYS 223 Department of Physics Stanford University ""Wide-Field Surveys of the Optical Sky: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)"" |
Peterson |
| April 26 |
Jeffrey E. Post, Ph.D.
Location: PHYS 223 Curator, National Gem and Mineral Collection Smithsonian Institute ""The United States National Gem Collection and Recent Research on the Hope Diamond"" |
Ramdas |
Fall 2006
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held at 4:00 p.m. in Physics room 223. Coffee/cookies are served at 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 242.
| Date | Speaker | Host | |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 24 |
Professor Hui Cao
Location: PHYS 223 Northwestern University "Light Localization and Its Applications" |
David Nolte | |
| August 14 |
Professor John J. Quinn
Location: PHYS 223 University of Tennessee, Knoxville "Novel Incompressible States of Matter: Fractional Quantum Hall Effect" |
A.K. Ramdas | |
| August 21 |
Professor Maxim Lyutikov
Location: PHYS 223 Purdue University "“Eclipses and Orbital Modulation in Binary Pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B”" |
A.K. Ramdas | |
| August 28 |
Professor John Peterson
Location: PHYS 223 Purdue University Department of Physics "Investigating Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters" |
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| October 05 |
Professor Sergei Savikhin
Location: PHYS 223 Purdue University Department of Physics "Chlorophylls in photosynthetic complexes:" |
A.K. Ramdas | |
| October 12 |
Professor Leonid Rokhinson
Location: PHYS 223 Purdue University Department of Physics "Spintronics, or how to be in charge with spins" |
A.K. Ramdas | |
| October 19 |
Professor Amos Nur
Location: Fowler Hall, Stewart Center (Reception 3:15-3:45PM, Stewart Foyer West) Stanford University Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture "Oil and War: Oil Peak vs. Oil Panic" |
Sigma Xi | |
| November 02 |
Professor John Nousek
Location: PHYS 223 Penn State University ""Swift: Using Gamma-ray Bursts as a Window to the Universe"" |
John Finley | |
| November 08 |
Professor Eugene Haller
Location: Fowler Hall, Stewart Center (Refreshments 3:15-3:45PM, STEW 306) University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecture "“Germanium: From its Discovery to High Speed Transistors”" |
Sigma Xi | |
| November 16 |
Professor John Rigden
Location: PHYS 223 University of Washington, St. Louis "Why Is It Einstein? What Lesson Can We Draw?" |
A.K. Ramdas | |
| December 07 |
Dr. John Tranquada
Location: PHYS 223 Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department Brookhaven National Laboratory ""Seeing Stripes in High Temperature Superconductors"" |
Erica Carlson | |