Spring 2011 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2011)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
January 13	APS Meeting no Colloquium	NA	NA	View Schedule	NA
January 20	Ed Loh	MSU	Using Ph183 to design the Spartan Infrared Camera for the SOAR Telescope	View Schedule	Norman Birge
January 27	Darrell Schlom	Cornell	Changing Dielectrics Into Multiferroics- Alchemy Enabled B Strain	View Schedule	John McGuire
February 03	Leo Lau-Canceled	University of Western Ontario	R&D in Green Energy & Green Manufacturing Technology at the University of Western Ontario	View Schedule	Betty Tsang
February 10	Wade Fisher			View Schedule	Joey Huston
February 17	Julie McEnery	NASA	A New View of the High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope	View Schedule	Jim Linnemann
February 24	Filomena Nunes-	MSU-NSCL	Reaction Theory For Studying Rare Isotopes The Missing Piece of the Puzzle	View Schedule	Norman Birge
March 03	No Speaker	No Speaker	NA	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula
March 10	Spring Break: no colloquium
March 17	Irwin Shapiro	Harvard	A half-Century Quest to Measure Einstein's Prediction of Frame Dragging	View Schedule	Timothy Beers
March 24	APS Meeting	No Colloquium	No Colloquium - APS March Meeting	View Schedule	-
March 31	Jenny Hoffman	Harvard	The Competitive Landscape of High-Tc Superconductivity	View Schedule	-
April 07	Michel Janssen	Univ. of Minnesota	No Success Like Failure …’: Einstein’s Quest for General Relativity, 1907–1920	View Schedule	Norman Birge
April 14	Robert Mawhinney	Columbia	Lattice QCD in the Age of Smartphones	View Schedule	-
April 21	Gene Stanley-	Boston University-	Liquid Water, the Most Complex Liquid: New Results in Nanoconfined and Biological Environments	View Schedule	Norman Birge
April 28	Jim Eisenstein	Caltech	Superconductivity versus the Quantum Hall Effect -	View Schedule	Norman Birge

Using Ph183 to design the Spartan Infrared Camera for the SOAR Telescope