Physics & Astronomy Fall 2009 Colloquium

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

Date (2009)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
September 10	Douglas Osheroff	Stanford University	Understanding the Five Ordered Phases of Liquid and Solid Helium	View Schedule	Brage Golding
September 17	Murray Peshkin	Los Alamos	Reflections on Wartime Los Alamos and some of its people	View Schedule	Vladimir Zelevinsky
September 24	Boris Altshuler	Columbia University	Anderson Localization: looking forward	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
October 1	Marcos Dantus	MSU- Chemistry	The concept of the universal laser source, its demonstration and applications	View Schedule	Ruby Ghosh
October 8	Judy Franz	A.P.S. Past Executive Officer	Adventures in Physics Outside the Laboratory	View Schedule	Betty Tsang
October 15	Thomas Glasmacher	FRIB Project Manager	The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at MSU	View Schedule	Ruby Ghosh
October 22	No Colloquium today, October 22!!!
October 29	Daniela Carollo	Australian National University	The Dichotomy of the Halo of the Milky Way	View Schedule	Tim Beers
November 5	Edward Brown	Michigan State Univerisity	Journey to the core of a neutron star	View Schedule	Wolfgang Bauer
November 12	Chong-Yu Ruan	Michigan State Univeristy	Towards material imaging at the space-time limit	View Schedule	Wolfgang Bauer
November 19	Matt Strassler	Rutgers University	The Large Hadron Collider: What's it For and What's at stake?	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula
November 26	* No colloquium, Happy Thanksgiving *
December 3	Henry Abarbanel	Univ. of California San Diego	Dynamical State of Parameter Estimation	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
December 10	Hugh Montgomery	Director of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility	Exploring the Nature of Matter: Jefferson Lab and its plans	View Schedule	Chip Brock