Fall 2018 Colloquia

All colloquia are held at 4:15 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.

Coffee & Cookies will be held at 5:15 p.m. in CW 119.

Date

Speaker

Institution

Host

Title

8/20 First Day of Classes
8/27 Brett DePaola K-State Welcome Back
9/3 University Holiday - Labor Day
9/4 Brian Washburn K-State B. DePaola Fiber Laser Sources for Mid-Infrared
Gas-Phase Spectroscopy
9/10 S. James Gates Jr. Brown Univ. B. DePaola Two 1,358,954,496 Pixel Set Going Among SUSY differential equations to Graphs, Codes, and Permutations
9/11, Tues S. James Gates Jr. Brown Univ. B. DePaola Neff Lecture: What Abdus Salam Taught Me About Jazz (Umberger 105)
9/17 Mark Alford Washington Univ. B. Ratra Quark Matter: The High-Density Frontier
9/25, Tues Lado Samushia K-State B. DePaola Precision Cosmology with Galaxy Surveys
10/1 Salman Habib Argonne Lab/Kavli Institute at Univ. of Chicago L. Samushia Precision Cosmology with Synthetic Universes and Machine Learning
10/8 Christophe Royon Univ. of Kansas T. Bolton A Journey to Understand the Proton at the Large Hadron Collider
10/15 Gabriela González Louisiana State Univ. B. DePaola Gravitational Waves Astronomy
10/16, Tues Gabriela González Louisiana State Univ. B. DePaola Neff Lecture: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, Black Holes & Other Matters (Umberger 105)
10/22 Leslie Atkins Elliott Boise State Univ. E. Sayre Teaching for Transfer
10/29 Jo Dunkley Princeton Univ. B. DePaola Neutrino physics from cosmological surveys
10/30, Tues Jo Dunkley Princeton Univ. B. DePaola Peterson Lecture: Our Window on the Universe (Umberger 105)
11/5 Christine A. Orme Lawrence Livermore National Lab B. Flanders

Watching Materials Assemble

11/12

Andrei Gritsan Johns Hopkins Univ. Y. Maravin Understanding Emptiness: The Higgs Field and Beyond
11/19 Thanksgiving Break
12/3 Benjamin Zwickl RIT J.T. Laverty Physics education for career preparation: Lessons from optics and photonics

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

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