Spring 2017 Colloquia
All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.
Date |
Speaker |
Institution |
Host |
Title |
| 1/23 | Rosemary Russ | Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison | J.T. Laverty | |
| 1/30 | Loren Greenman | Univ. of California-Berkeley | B. DePaola | Electronic dynamics in polyatomic molecules for bound and continuum states |
| 2/2 | Stefan Pabst | Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics | B. DePaola | |
| 2/6 | Alicia Allbaugh | JPL | B. DePaola | |
| Tues, 2/7 | Alicia Allbaugh | JPL | B. DePaola | Nichols Lecture: Curiously Roving on Mars: Overview of the Mars Science Laboratory Project (Cardwell 101) |
| 2/9 | Antonio Picón | Argonne National Lab | B. DePaola | Theoretical approaches for ultrafast inner-shell and strong-field physics |
| 2/13 | Nicolas Douguet | Drake Univ. | B. DePaola | Light-induced coherent control and ultra-fast dynamics |
| 2/16 | A.-T. Le | K-State | B. DePaola | Rescattering physics and ultrafast molecular imaging |
| 2/27 | Greg Landsberg | Brown Univ/Fermi | Y. Maravin | Searches for Dark Matter in CMS |
| 3/6 | Gordon Videen | US Army Research Lab | M. Berg | Light Scattering and Remote Sensing of Small Particles |
| 3/13 | Gary Wysin | K-State | B. DePaola | An Overview of the 2016 Nobel Prize: Topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter |
| 3/20 | Spring Break | |||
| 3/27 | Romain Ceolato | ONERA/The French Aerospace Lab | M. Berg | Spectral Polarimetric Light-Scattering by Complex Media: From Aerosols to Biomedical Tissues |
| 4/3 | Kate Kirby | American Physical Society | B. DePaola |
APS and K-State: Addressing Diversity Challenges (in Physics) |
| 4/10 |
Manher Jariwala |
Boston Univ. | E. Sayre | The Learning Assistant Model as a Catalyst for Institutional Change and Instructional Improvement |
| Tues, 4/11 at 3:00 p.m. |
Fred Espenak |
Goddard Space Flight Center and Mr. Eclipse | B. DePaola | Photographing the Total Eclipse Workshop (Cardwell 101) |
| Tues, 4/11 |
Fred Espenak |
Goddard Space Flight Center and Mr. Eclipse | B. DePaola | Neff Lecture: The Great American Total Eclipse of 2017 (Cardwell 101) |
| 4/17 | John Preskill | CalTech | B. DePaola | |
| Tues, 4/18 | John Preskill | CalTech | B. DePaola | Peterson Lecture: Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier (Cardwell 101) |
| 4/24 | Jens Biegert | Inst. of Photonic Sciences | A. Summers | |
| 5/1 | Nikhil Padmanabhan | Yale Univ. | L. Samushia | Mapping Dark Energy to 1% (and better) |
| Tues, 5/2 | Scholarship Presentation & SPS Induction | K-State | B. DePaola | |
Colloquium Committee: Ellie Sayre (Chair), Andrew Ivanov, Bharat Ratra, Gary Wysin, and Javad-Seyyed Robatjazi
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