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Spring 2013

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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
January 10 Rafael Lang
Purdue University

"Closing in on Dark Matter"

 Ian Shipsey Abstract
January 17 Doug Glenzinski
Fermilab

"A Rare Opportunity - the Mu2e Experiment at Fermilab"

 Ian Shipsey Abstract
January 24 Brijesh Srivastava
Purdue University

"Matter Under Extreme Conditions"

 Rolf Scharenberg Abstract
January 31 Claire Gmachl
Dept. of Electrical Engineering & MIRTHE at Princeton University

"Mid-Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers"

 Oana Malis Abstract
February 07 Kyoungsoo Lee
Purdue University

"The Varied Fates of Galaxies in the Young Universe"

 Ian Shipsey Abstract
February 14 Ali Shakouri
Purdue University - Birck

"Nanoscale electrothermal energy transport"

 Yong Chen Abstract
February 21 Andreas Becker
University of Colorado

"Tracing Electron Dynamics on the Attosecond Time Scale"

 Chris Greene Abstract
February 28 Ji-Xin Cheng
Purdue University - Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

"Bond-selective Imaging: A New Window into the Unseen World"

 David Nolte Abstract
March 07 Peter Littlewood -- POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER
Argonne National Laboratory

"POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER"

 Yong Chen Abstract
March 14 SPRING BREAK -- No Colloquium
March 21 Andrei Beloborodov
Columbia University

"Mechanism of gamma-ray bursts"

 Dimitrios Giannios Abstract
March 28 Michael Chapman
Georgia Tech

"Non-equilibrium dynamics of a quantum pendulum"

 Yong Chen Abstract
April 04 John Rigden
American Institute of Physics

"Edward M. Purcell: The Complete Physicist"

 Anant Ramdas Abstract
April 11 Robert Reasenberg
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

"Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle on a Sounding Rocket"

 Ephraim Fischbach Abstract
April 12 Roger Dixon
Fermilab

"The History of Tevatron"

 Bill Fornes Abstract
April 17 Samuel Werner and Anthony Arrott
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri and Neutron Physics Group, National Institutes of Standards and Technology/Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University

"The Effect of the Earth's Gravity and Rotation on the Quantum Mechanical Phase of the Neutron/The Effect of Overhauser on Many"

 Abstract
April 18 John Hopfield
Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

"Al as Mentor and Physics Pioneer"

 Ephraim Fischbach Abstract
April 25 Robert Willett
Bell Laboratories

"Non-Abelian excitations in solid state systems"

 Mike Manfra Abstract