Spring 2015 Colloquia

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

Date

Speaker

Institution

Host

Title

1/26 Uwe Bergmann Stanford U. Thumm Going ultra-short and ultra-bright - The science and applications of the world's first X-ray free electron laser
2/2 Chris Polly Fermilab T. Bolton Muon g-2 and the quest for TeV scale physics
2/9 Artem Rudenko K-State A. Chakrabarti Imaging dynamics of small quantum systems with light
2/16 Punit Prakash K-State J. Schmit Technologies for conformal image-guided thermal therapy of cancer: challenges and opportunities
2/23 Hongxing Jiang Texas Tech A. Chakrabarti Special Public Lecture on the Nobel Prize in Physics: History and development of efficient blue LEDs for lighting
3/2 Herman Batelaan Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln U. Thumm Controlled double slit electron diffraction
3/9 Daniel Stern JPL A. Chakrabarti Neff Lecture (Town Hall, Leadership Studies): Highlights from the NuSTAR Satellite
3/10 Daniel Stern JPL G. Horton-Smith Surprising New Insights into Quasars from the WISE Satellite
3/16 Spring Break
3/23 Michael Wittman Univ. of Maine E. Sayre Investigating Teacher Knowledge of Energy, Students' Ideas, and Pedagogical Strategies

3/30

Martin Muschol Univ. of South Florida J. Schmit What Can Soft Condensed Matter Physics Tell Us about Alzheimer's Disease?
4/6 Arvinder Sandhu Univ. of Arizona V. Kumarappan Attosecond spectroscopy to study electron dynamics in complex systems
4/13 Regina Demina Univ. of Rochester T. Bolton Does Nature respect (gauge) symmetry? (Higgs boson discovery and beyond)
4/20 Risa Wechsler Stanford Univ. G. Horton-Smith The Dark Universe from Cosmological Surveys
4/27 Michael Brooks Author, Columnist, New Statesman, Consultant, New Scientist A. Chakrabarti Peterson Lecture (Hemisphere Room, Hale Library) Welcome to Wonderland: Making sense of life in a quantum universe

5/4

Mary Rezac K-State Chem Engineering E. Sayre Solute transport through polymers:
Manipulating structure-property-performance relationships for desired results

5/11

Mark Boland Univ. of Melbourne A. Chakrabarti

Special Oz-to-Oz Colloquium in CW 144/145

Blinded by the Light: Science and Art at the Australian Synchrotron

Colloquium Committee

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

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