Fall 2011 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2011)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
September 01	Gotthard Seifert	TU Dresden	Going Beyond Carbon in Nanoscience	View Schedule	David Tomanek
September 08	Walt deHeer	Georgia Tech.	The Science and Technology of Epitaxial Graphene: New Directions in Graphene Nanoelectronics.	View Schedule	Tomanek
September 15	Rachel Ivie	American Inst. of Physics	The Global Survey of Physicists: A Collaborative Effort Illuminates the Situation of Women in Physics	View Schedule	Berz
September 22	Ed Loh	Michigan State University	Molecular Hydrogen in the Crab Nebula---how a 4-eV Molecule Interacts in a TeV Environment	View Schedule	Bauer
September 29	Zhong Lin Wang	Georgia Tech.	Nanogenerators for self-powered sensors and piezotronics for biomechanics- CMOS interacing	View Schedule	Chong-Yu Ruan
October 06	Paul Goldbart	Georgia Tech.	Strands of Superconductivity at the Nanoscale	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
October 13	No Seminar			View Schedule
October 20	John Mather	James Webb Space Telescope	James Webb Space Telescope: Science Opportunities and Mission Progress	View Schedule	Bauer/Brian OShea
October 27	George Crabtree	University Illinois at Chicago	Superconductivity as an Electricity Carrier	View Schedule	S.D. Mahanti
November 03	Rafael Lang	Purdue Univ.	Direct Search for Dark Matter	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula
November 10	Bogdan Wojtsekhowski	TJNAF	Nucleon Structure from Elastic Electron Scattering	View Schedule	Vladimir Zelevinsky
November 17	Wolfgang Bauer	MSU	Energy: Some Solutions for the Biggest Problem of our Century	View Schedule	Bauer
November 24	No colloquium: Thanksgiving Day (MSU Closed)
December 01	Mike Moore	MSU	Exploring Entanglement at the Matter-Light Interface"	View Schedule	Bauer
December 08	Carlo Piermarocchi	MSU	Optical control of Spins and Excitons in Semiconductors	View Schedule	Bauer