Spring 2014 Colloquia

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

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
1/21, Tues.	Jun Ye	UC-Boulder	Amit Chakrabarti	Making a Clock
1/22, Wed.	Eleanor Sayre	K-State	Amit Chakrabarti	Students Develop Identity as Physicists
1/27, Mon.	Jeremy Schmit	K-State	Amit Chakrabarti	Many-body Protein Systems: Challenges of Timescale and Resolution
2/24, Mon.	Joe Redish	Univ. of Maryland	Dean Zollman	Reinventing Introductory Physics for Life Scientists (IPLS)
3/3, Mon.	Yurii Maravin	K-State	Amit Chakrabarti	Special Lecture: Discovering the Higgs Boson (Leadership Studies, Town Hall)
3/10, Mon.	Steven Cundiff	JILA/Univ. of Colorado	Carlos Trallero	Optical Multi-Dimensional Coherent Spectoscopy
3/17, Mon.	Spring Break
3/24, Mon.	Angelo Bongiorno	Georgia Tech	Robert Szoszkiewicz	Physical Chemistry of Functionalized Epitaxial Graphene
4/1, Tues.	Adrian Melott	Univ. of Kansas	Amit Chakrabarti	Peterson Lecture: Death from the Skies: Astrophysical Threats to Life on Earth (Town Hall, Leadership Studies)
4/7, Mon.	Adams Myers	Univ. of Wyoming	Glenn Horton-Smith	Prospects for Probing Primordial Physics with Quasars
4/14, Mon.	Martin Stockli	Oak Ridge National Lab	Kevin Carnes	Boosting Neutron-based Research by Ramping the SNS Accelerator to 1 MW
4/21, Mon.	See Leang Chin	Univ. Laval Canada	C.D. Lin	When a Dot of Intense Laser Light Pierces through Air....
4/28, Mon.	Edward Farhi	MIT	Amit Chakrabarti	Physics Based Approaches to Quantum Computing
4/29, Tues.	Edward Farhi	MIT	Amit Chakrabarti	Neff Lecture: Quantum Computing (Leadership Studies, Town Hall)

Glenn Horton-Smith (Chair), Bharat Ratra, Ellie Sayre, Robert Szoszkiewicz