Fall 2014 Colloquia

All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.

Date

Speaker

Institution

Host

Title

8/25 Amit Chakrabarti K-State Welcome Back
9/1 University Holiday - Labor Day
9/8 Tim Bolton K-State A. Chakrabarti How We the People Support Physics Research, and How We More-Or-Less Get it Right

9/15

Jo Clay Washington State Univ. A. Chakrabarti Student Learning in Inquiry-based STEM Classrooms

9/22

Andrew Ivanov K-State A. Chakrabarti Physics beyond Higgs: Search for Extra Vector-Like Matter at the Large Hadron Collide
9/25 Kay Meggers Alcoa A. Chakrabarti Neff Lecture (Leadership Studies, McVay Family Town Hall): Driving Profitable Growth with Aluminum Flat Rolled Products
9/29 Jim Chelikowsky Univ. of Texas A. Chakrabarti Nichols Lecture (Hale Hemisphere Room): Addressing Dirac's Challenge: Practical Quantum Mechanics to Predict the Properties of Materials
10/6 Alice Quillen Univ. of Rochester G. Horton-Smith The Formation and Evolution of Exotic Multiple Planet Systems
10/13 Hui Zhao Univ. of Kansas C. Trallero Nonlinear Optical Studies of Electronic Transport in Semiconductors
10/20 Irina Novikova The College of William & Mary B. DePaola Cool Quantum Optics with Hot Rb Atoms
10/27 Randy Knize US Air Force Academy B. DePaola Alkali Lasers
11/3 Jackie Fassler-Kerstetter and Tod Kerstetter K-State Music E. Sayre Ricola! The Swiss Alphorn, the Overtone Series, and a Brief History of Wind Instrument Design
11/10 Alex Levine UCLA Chemistry J. Schmit Semiflexible Networks with Transient Cross Linkers: Bundling, Rheology, Ripping, and Healing
11/17 David Hammer Tufts Univ. E. Sayre Teaching Physics as a Pursuit
11/24 Thanksgiving Break
12/1 Charles Rice K-State Agronomy G. Horton-Smith Climate Change Science, Adaptation, and Mitigation: The latest from the IPCC 2014 Report
12/8 Linyou Cao North Carolina State Univ. R. Szoszkiewicz and E. Sayre 2D Materials and Heterostructures: From Scalable Synthesis to A New Age of Atomic-scale Catalysis and Photonics

Colloquium Committee

Ellie Sayre (Chair), Glenn Horton-Smith, Bharat Ratra, Gary Wysin, and Nicoleta Ploscariu

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