Fall 2016 Colloquia

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

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
8/22	Artem Rudenko	K-State Physics	B. DePaola	Ultrafast and intense light-matter interactions: From 8 microns to 8 kiloelectronvolt
8/29	Brett DePaola	K-State Physics		Welcome Back
9/5	University Holiday - Labor Day
9/19	Christoph Bostedt	Argonne National Laboratory / Northwestern University	A. Rudenko	Research with free-electron lasers: new horizons for ultrafast x-ray sciences
9/26	Glenn Horton Smith	K-State Physics	B. DePaola	Towards the Biggest, Most Intense Neutrino Experiments Ever
10/3	Kim Coble	San Francisco State Univ.	E. Sayre	Using Results From Research on Undergraduate Learning in Cosmology to Build and Test an Interactive Student-Centered Curriculum
10/10	Heather Bloemhard	American Astronomical Society	B. DePaola	Science Policy for Scientists
10/17	Anil Pahwa	K-State Electrical & Computer Engineering	B. DePaola	Challenges of Meeting Electricity Needs of the Growing World Population with Renewable Energy
10/24	Yun Liu	Univ. of Delaware	J. Schmit	Understanding concentrated protein solutions: opportunities and challenges for modern colloid science
11/7	Patrick Charbonneau	Duke Univ.	J. Schmit	A Soft-matter Perspective on Protein Crystallization
11/14	Jonathan Pelz	Ohio State Univ.	E. Sayre	MS-to-PhD Physics Bridge Programs – Our Experience at Ohio State University
11/21	Thanksgiving Break
11/28	Daniel Fischer	Missouri Univ. of Science & Technology	A. Rudenko	Control and Analysis of Atomic Few-Body Systems

Colloquium Committee: Ellie Sayre (Chair), Andrew Ivanov, Bharat Ratra, Gary Wysin, and Javad-Seyyed Robatjazi