Fall 2007 Spring 2008 Fall 2008 Spring 2009 Current

Physics Colloquium Series, Fall 2007 and beyond

Usual Time and Place » Thursday: 4:15 p.m. / Rockefeller 301

Unusual times or locations are noted in red.

Coordinator: Philip Taylor, Department of Physics
Date Speaker Title Host
Aug 30
Sept 6 C. Rosenblatt
Case Physics
The Physics Enterprise
Sept 13 Onuttom Narayan
Univ California, Santa Cruz
Energy Transport in One-dimensional Systems Phil Taylor
Sept 20 Robert Collins
University of Toledo
Real-time polarization spectroscopies: applications in thin film growth and photovoltaics Gary Chottiner
Sept 27 Robert Scherrer
Vanderbilt University
Science And Science Fiction
Oct 4 4:30
Schmidt Auditorium
John Deutch
MIT
Energy options [joint colloquium with Chemistry]
Oct 11 4:30
Clapp 108
Gregory H. Rau
LLNL
Stabilizing Atmospheric CO_2 [joint colloquium with Chemistry]
Oct 18 Robert P. Kirshner
Harvard Astrophysics
Fundamentals of Supernova Cosmology [joint with Astronomy] Earle Luck
Oct 25
Nov 1 Oleg Lavrentovich
Kent State University
Chromonic Liquid Crystals Chuck Rosenblatt
Nov 8 George Gollin
UIUC
Hijacking Liberia and Other Unspeakable Acts: Diploma Mills in a Networked World Dan Akerib
Nov 15 Andrew Jaffe
Imperial College London
The Cosmic Microwave Background: Cosmology, Topology and Probability Glenn Starkman
Nov 29 Corbin Covault
Case Physics
Breaking News from the Auger Observatory
Dec 6 Hiroyuki Fujita
CEO, Quality Electrodynamics LLC
From Jackson Homework to Quality Electrodynamics Robert W. Brown
Dec 13 Gus Evrard
U of Michigan
Computing the Cosmos: Illuminating the Dark Side with Clusters of Galaxies [joint colloquium with Astronomy] Earle Luck
Jan 17
Jan 24 Benjamin Schumacher
Kenyon College
Information Engines and the Second Law Jon Leong
Jan 31
Feb 7 Xuan Gao
Case Physics
Feb 14
Feb 21 Robert Grober
Yale
Lawrence Krauss
Feb 28
Mar 6 A. G. Petukhov
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Thermodynamics of carrier-mediated magnetism in semiconductors Walter Lambrecht
Mar 13
No colloquium -- spring break
Mar 20 Brad Marston
Brown University
The Quantum Mechanics of Global Warming Jonathan Leong
Mar 27
Apr 3
Apr 10
Apr 17 Steve Lamoreaux
LANL
A Neutron Electric Dipole Moment? Arnie Dahm
Apr 24 Dieter Hartmann
Clemson
Astronomy with Radioactivities [joint colloquium with Astronomy] Earle Luck