Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Series: 2008 Spring

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Michigan State University

Spring 2008 Colloquium Schedule

Colloquia are presented at 4:10 pm on Thursdays in 1415 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

Refreshments are served at 3:35 pm in 1400 Biomedical & Physical Sciences Bldg.

April 10, 2008: Annual Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Distinguished Lecture Seminar to be held at Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center Auditorium.

8:00p.m. Admission is free to the public.

Date (2008)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
January 24	Tom LeCompte	Argonne	The Large Hadron Collider meets Halliday and Resnick	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula
January 31	Sergei Obukhov	University of Florida	Long-Range Interaction in Polymer Melts: The Anti-Casimir Effect	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
February 7	Gregory R. Snow	University of Nebraska- Lincoln	The Pierre Auger Observatory: Capturing Messengers from the Extreme Universe	View Schedule	Jim Linnemann
February 14	Brian McNamara	University of Waterloo	AGN Feedback in Clusters and Galaxies	View Schedule	Megan Donahue
February 21	*Raymond Bishop*	University of Manchester	Journeys to and in Quantum Phase Space: Extended quantum phase-space formulations of quantum many-body theory and quantum information theory.	View Schedule	Vladimir Zelevinsky
February 28	Raymond Brock	Michigan State University	Got Mass?	View Schedule
March 6	--- Spring Break ---
March 13	* APS * No Colloquium
March 20	Philip Kim	Columbia University	Relativistic Quantum Physics at Your Pencil Tips: Dirac Fermion in Graphitic Carbon.	View Schedule	Norman Birge
March 27	Christopher T. Hill	Fermilab	Symmetry and the Origin of Mass	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula
April 3	Anthony Thomas	Jefferson Laboratory	Scientific Achievements and Opportunities at Jefferson Lab	View Schedule	T. B. A.
April 10	Lawrence Krauss	Case Western Reserve University	Our Miserable Future	No time allowed for meetings!!	Tim Beers
April 10 Distinguished Lecture Seminar	Lawrence Krauss	8:00pm Kellogg Center Auditorium Free to the public	Science, Non-science and Nonsense: From Aliens to Creationism	No time allowed for meetings!!	Tim Beers
April 17	Duncan Steel	University of Michigan	T.B.A.	View Schedule	Michael Moore
April 24	Kerry Vahala	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	T.B.A.	View Schedule	Carlo Piermarocchi

Map to the BioMedical & Physical Sciences Building Building accessibility information

For travel arrangements, reimbursement questions or to make an appointment with the speaker please contact Kim Crosslan ( 884-5531 or crossla3@msu.edu).

If you would like to attend lunch or dinner with the speaker please, contact the local host via email..

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Last updated by Kim Crosslan on: 2008.05.02 (Friday) 17:41:26 EDT