Spring 2009 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

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Spring 2009 Colloquium Schedule

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 (2009)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
January 22	Neil deGrasse Tyson	Public Lecture- 7:30pm Pasant Theater, Wharton Center No Colloquium on this date due to Public Lecture
January 29	Marcela Carena	Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	Three Mysteries of Matter	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula
February 5	Bob Haddon	University of California Riverside	Advances in the Chemistry and Application of Carbon Nanomaterials	View Schedule	Brage Golding
February 12	Wolfgang Mittig	Michigan State University- NSCL	Nuclear Power and Global Energy Problems	View Schedule	Ruby Ghosh
February 19 Physics and Society	Graham R. Fleming	UC Berkeley	Grand Challenges in Basic Energy Sciences	View Schedule	Peter Schroeder
February 26	Roger G. Tobin	Tufts University	Sox and Drugs: Baseball, Steroids and Physics	View Schedule	Ruby Ghosh
March 5	Meg Urry	Yale University	Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution	View Schedule	Megan Donahue
March 12 & March 19	** No colloquium, Spring Break and APS
March 26	John Spence	Arizona State University	Femtosecond X-ray lasers for biophysics	View Schedule	Chong-Yu Ruan
April 2	Julia Phillips	Sandia National Laboratory	Science and the Energy Security Challenge: The Example of Solid-State Lighting	View Schedule	Ruby Ghosh
April 9	Ron Shen	University of California Berkeley	Probing Water Interfacial Structures	View Schedule	Chih-Wei Lai
April 16	Pier Oddone	Director, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory	The future of particle physics in the U.S.	View Schedule	Chip Brock
April 23	Paul Chu	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay	From BCS through HTS to RTS	View Schedule	Chih-Wei Lai
April 30	Wilson Ho	University of California Irvine	Visualization of Quantum Mechanics	View Schedule	Ruby Ghosh

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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