Fall 2008 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Colloquia are presented at 4:10 pm on Thursdays in 1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.
Refreshments are served at 3:30 pm in 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

Date (2008)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
September 4	Kam-Biu Luk	University California Berkeley	Studying Neutrino Oscillation with Nuclear Reactors	View Schedule	C.-P. Yuan
September 11	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	CANCELLED	View Schedule	CANCELLED
September 18	Ani Aprahamian	University of Notre Dame	Expanding Universe and shrinking budgers: What do they mean for planning your research?	View Schedule	Filomena Nunes
September 25	James Dye	Michigan State University	My half-century with alkali metals- from alkali metal anions to anionic electrons	View Schedule	Bill Pratt
October 2	Don Eigler	IBM Almaden Research Center	The Quest for Spin Cascade Logic Circuits	View Schedule	David Tomanek
October 9	Keith Ellis	FNAL	Hard QCD- from the Tevatron to the LHC	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula
October 16	Jon Miller	Michigan State University	The Sources of Scientific Literacy in the United States	View Schedule	Martin Berz
October 23	Alex Kamenev	University of Minnesota	Statistical mechanics of ion channels, or why there is no life without entropy	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
October 30		NO COLLOQUIUM		View Schedule
November 6	Ted Norris	University of Michigan	Ultrafast electronic dynamics in semiconductor quantum structures	View Schedule	Chih-Wei Lai
November 13	Wonho Jhe	Seoul National University	Realization of the ideal mean-field critical behaviour far from equilibrium with modulated cold atoms	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
November 20	Robert Rutledge	McGill University	Measuring the Dense Matter Equation of State with the International X-Ray Observatory	View Schedule	Alex Brown
November 27	*No colloquium, Happy Thanksgiving *
December 5	Steve Squyres	Cornell University	Science results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission	No Schedule	Wolfgang Bauer
Dr. Steve Squyres will be giving a special Colloquium on December 5, 2008. This special seminar will be held at 12:30 pm in 1415 BPS. There will be no time available for private meetings with the speaker. All are invited to attend this event *