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Past Colloquia Spring 2008

Date

Speaker

Host
January10 Kenneth Herwig
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"Neutron Scattering "
 David Koltick
January17 Tim Zwier
Purdue
"Single-conformation Spectroscopy and Dynamics in the Complexity Gap: Synthetic Foldamers and Flexible Bichromophores"
 Ian Shipsey
January24 Tim Sands
Purdue University
"Metal/Semiconductor Superlattices as Thermoelectric Metamaterials for High-Temperature Direct Thermal Energy Conversion"
 Ian Shipsey
January31 Mansour Shayegan
Princeton
"Electrons in Flatlands: Surprises Never Stop"
 Leonid Rohkinson
February07 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
February14 David Koltick
Purdue University
"The Search for Special Nuclear Material Using Particle Physics Techniques"
 Ian Shipsey
February21 Edward Gerjuoy
University of Pittsburgh
"Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger"
 Yong Chen
February28 Christopher Monroe
University of Maryland
"Quantum Networks of Atoms"
 David Nolte
March06
March20
Canceled
 Ken Ritchie
March27 Paul Shepson
EAS, Purdue University
"Climate Change: Fundamentals, Impacts and Opportunities"
 Ian Shipsey
April03 George Gollin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Academic Fraud and a Calculus of Death"
 Ian Shipsey
April10 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
April17 Paul McEuen
Cornell
"Nano carbon: from terahertz transistors to atomic membranes"
 Leonid Rohkinson
April24 Saul Teukolsky
Cornell University
"Black Holes and Gravitational Waves"
 Ian Shipsey