Contact Information
Department of Physics525 Northwestern Avenue
West Lafayette, IN
47907-2036
Map and Directions
Telephone:
(765) 494-2970
Fax:
(765) 494-0706
General Colloquia
Fall 2012
Fall 2012 | Spring 2013 | Fall 2013
Unless otherwise noted, colloquia are held at 4:00 p.m. in Physics room 203.
Tea/cookies are served at 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 242.
Next Colloquium
Thursday August 22, 2013
Promotion Colloquium
Purdue University
Time: 4:00pm
Location: PHYS 203 - Refreshments are served at 3:30 p.m. in Physics room 242
Host: Nick Giordano
Date |
Speaker |
Host |
Abstract |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 23 |
Erica Carlson
Purdue University "Decoding Spatial Complexity in Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems" |
Nick Giordano | Abstract | |
| August 30 |
Mike Manfra
Purdue University "Creating order in a disordered world: MBE’s role in condensed matter physics" |
Nick Giordano | Abstract | |
| September 06 |
Wei Xie
Purdue University "Exploring the Properties of the Quark Gluon Plasma with Heavy Flavor Probes" |
Nick Giordano | Abstract | |
| September 13 |
Matt Lister
Purdue University "Supermassive Black Holes, Jets, and the Gamma-Ray Sky" |
Nick Giordano | Abstract | |
| September 20 |
Zhen-Tian Lu
Argonne National Laboratory "Atom Trap, Krypton-81, and Global Groundwater" |
Wei Cui | Abstract | |
| September 27 |
Leonid Rokhinson
Purdue University "Interactions in mesoscopic systems" |
Nick Giordano | Abstract | |
| October 04 |
David Koltick
Purdue University "Applying Nuclear and Particle Physics to Diagnose Cancer" |
Ian Shipsey | Abstract | |
| October 11 |
Lev Ioffe
Rutgers University "The challenge of fault tolerant quantum computation." |
Leonid Rokhinson | Abstract | |
| October 18 |
Vicky Kaspi
McGill University "Searching for Radio Pulsars: Big Work for Big Payoff" |
John Finley | Abstract | |
| October 24 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Quantum Beauty" |
David Miller | Abstract | |
| November 01 |
Claire Gmachl THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & MIRTHE at Princeton University "Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers" |
Oana Malis | Abstract | |
| November 08 |
Nick Bigelow
University of Rochester "Spinning a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate" |
Yong Chen | Abstract | |
| November 15 |
John Mather
Goddard Space Flight Center "James Webb Space Telescope: Science Opportunities and Mission Progress" |
Wei Cui | Abstract | |
| November 29 |
Professor Mike Thewalt
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada "“Highly enriched 28Si: from a new kilogram to quantum computing”" |
David Nolte | Abstract | |
| December 06 |
Professor Karin Dahmen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Unifying theory for universal quake statistics: from compressed nanopillars to earthquakes" |
Erica Carlson | Abstract |
