Michigan State University
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Fall 2005 Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are presented at 4:10 pm on Thursdays in 1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.
Refreshments are served at 3:45 pm in 1400A Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

Date	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Local Host
Sep. 1	OPEN	------	------	------
Sep. 8	Gary Westfall	MSU	Recent Results form RHIC- A Perfect Liquid	------
Sep. 15	Charles Marcus	Harvard University	Making Quantum Bits	Mark Dykman
Sep. 22	Mark Voit	MSU	Tracing Cosmic Evolution with Galaxy Cluster	------
Sep. 29	Elizabeth Simmons	MSU	How to popularize physics	------
Oct. 6	Sally Dawson	BNL	Physics at the LHC: A Revolution in the Making	Sekhar Chivukula
Oct. 13	Megan Donahue	MSU	Violent Feedback from Central Black Holes in Cluster Galaxies	------
Oct. 20	George Fuller	UCSD	Neutrinos: Nature's Stealthy Agents of Disorder and Creation	Brad Sherill
Oct. 27	Richard Casten	Yale University	Structural Evolution in Atomic Nuclei:  Phase Transitions, Critical Points and the Proton-Neutron Interaction.	Krzysztof Starosta
Nov. 3	Kevin Trenberth	National Center for Atmospheric Research	The flow of energy through the Earth’s climate system and implications for climate change	Peter Schroeder
Nov. 10	William Curry	Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution	A New Reconstuction of Deep Water Circulation During the Last Glacial Period	Peter Schroeder
Nov. 17	Ali Yazdani	Princeton University	Wavefunction Imaging in Correlated and Nanoscale Electronic Systems	Stuart Tessmer
Nov 24	No Colloquium Thanksgiving	------	------	------
Dec. 1	Jolie Cizewski	Rutgers University	Graduate Education and Mentoring in Physics and Astronomy	Krzysztof Starosta
Dec. 8	Krzysztof Starosta	MSU	Nuclear structure via electromagnetic probe	------

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Map to the BioMedical & Physical Sciences Building .

Building accessibility information.

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Speakers should contact Debbie Simmons (517-355-9200 x2032, simmons@pa.msu.edu) for travel arrangements.