Spring 2012 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2012)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
January 05	Reinhard Schwienhorst NOTE: Special Date	MI State Univ.	Top Quark Physics	View Schedule	Chip Brock
January 12	Alex Levchenko	MI State Univ.	Quantum Rectification in Mesoscopic Circuits: Point Contacts, 2DEG Bi-layers, Giaever Transformers	View Schedule	S. Tessmer
January 19	Ray Devito	MI State Univ.	From Concept to Market: Commercialization of Academic Research	View Schedule	Bauer/Tessmer
January 26	Carl Bromberg	MI State Univ.	Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at the Intensity Frontier	View Schedule	S. Tessmer
February 02	No Speaker		No Speaker	View Schedule	No speaker
February 09	Jack Bass	MI State Univ.	Current-Perpenduclar-to-Plane (CPP) Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) Studies at MSU	View Schedule	S. Tessmer
February 16	Scott Bogner	MI State Univ.	Putting on Blurry Glasses: Nuclei and Nuclear Matter at Low Resolution	View Schedule	Vladimir Zelevinsky
February 23	Thomas Dietz	MI State Univ.	America’s Climate Choices: Reflections on Assessing the State of the Science	View Schedule	Chivukula
March 01	APS March Meeting: no colloquium
March 08	Spring Break: no colloquium
March 15	Richard Green	Mount Graham International Observatory	The Large Binocular Telescope - A New Era in Ground-Based Astronomy and Technological Innovation	View Schedule	Mark Voit
March 22	Wade Fisher	MI State Univ.	The Fugitive Boson: Higgs Hunting at Particle Colliders	View Schedule	S.Tessmer
March 29	Gary Bernstein	U.Penn	Cosmology without Cosmic Variance	View Schedule	Mark Voit
April 05	Name withdrawn at speaker request	Univ. of Washington	Nuclear Waste Stalemate: DoesNuclear Power Have a Future?	View Schedule	Betty Tsang
April 12	Dean Lee	North Carolina State	Effective Field Theory on the Lattice: Ab Initio Calculations of Nuclei and Many-Body Systems	View Schedule	Filomena Nunes
April 19	Roy Rajarshi	Univ. of Maryland	Synchronization in Real Networks: Chaos, Communicatin and Chimeras	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
April 26	Valerie Otero	Univ. of Colorado, Boulder	Title: A Physics Department’s Role in Addressing National Crises in Physics Education	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula