Fall 2013 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2013)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
August 29	No Speaker	MSU	Classes Start MSU August 28th	View Schedule
September 05	Robert Ehrlich	George Mason University	Our Energy Future	View Schedule	Gary Westfall / Wolfgang Bauer
September 12	Brian O'Shea	MSU	The Universe in a Box: Adaptive Mesh Simulations of Cosmological Structure Formation	View Schedule	Phil Duxbury
September 19	Witold Nazarewicz	University of Tennessee ORNL	The Limits of the Nuclear Landscape: The Science of FRIB	View Schedule	Konrad Gelbke/Gary Westfall
September 26	David Nygren	Lawrence Berkeley National Lab	Gas-Filled Detectors: The Long-Distance Champions of Particle Physics	View Schedule	Betty Tsang
October 03	Samir Mathur	Ohio State	The Story of the Black Hole Information Paradox	View Schedule	Sekhar Chivukula
October 10	Marcelo Jaime (Cancelled)	LANL, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Exotic Magnetic States of Matter Explored to 100 Tesla	View Schedule	Carlo Piermarocchi
October 17	Steinn Sigurdsson (Note:Refreshments will be in rm 1415, NOT the Kitchen)	Pennsylvania State University	Black Holes: Overcrowding and Population Controls	View Schedule	Stephen Zepf
October 24	Tyce DeYoung	Pennslvania State University	First Light at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory	View Schedule	James Linnemann
October 31	Wade Fisher	MSU	Horror Vacui - The Higgs Boson and the Fate of our Vacuum	View Schedule	Raymond Brock
November 07	Vadim Smelyanskiy	NASA:Ames Research Center	Near Term Quantum Computing at NASA	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
November 14	Brendan Casey	Fermilab	Muon g-2 and The Big Move	View Schedule	Wade Fisher
November 21	Michael A. Dubson	University of Colorado Boulder	Transforming Teaching in a Physics Department: Educational Reforms that Stick	View Schedule	Stuart Tessmer
November 28	Thanksgiving: no colloquium
December 05	Shanker Balasubramaniam	MSU	Overcoming Challenges in Electromagnetic Analysis of Electrically Large Multiscale Structures	View Schedule	Piermarocchi
December 12	Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic	NSCL-MSU	Correlation Measurements in Nuclear Beta Decay	View Schedule	Bollen

For travel arrangements, reimbursement questions or to make an appointment with the speaker
please contact Shawna Prater (884-5601 or prater@pa.msu.edu).

If you would like to attend lunch or dinner with the speaker, please contact the local host via E-mail.