Fall 2014 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2014)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
August 28	Henriette Elvang	U.of Michigan	New Exciting Approaches to Scattering Amplitudes (abstract)	View Schedule	Elizabeth Simmons
September 04	Martin Gruebele	U.o f Illinois	Effects of Crowding On Protein Stability, Kinetics and Function (abstract)	View Schedule	Phil Duxbury
September 11	Shannon Schmoll HELD IN THE PLANETARIUM	MSU Planetarium	Hello , Abrams: A Look at the New Digistar 5 System at the Abrams Planetarium (abstract)	View Schedule	Norman Birge
September 18	Kevin E. Trenberth DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER	NCAR	Earth's Energy Balance Revisited (abstract)	View Schedule	Schroeder / Duxbury
September 25	Damian Handzy	Investor Analytics	A Physicist's Not So Random Walk Down Wall Street (abstract)	View Schedule	Wolfgang Bauer
October 02	Martin Savage	University of Washington	Nuclear Forces from Quantum Chromodynamics (abstract)	View Schedule	Witold Nazarewicz
October 09	Predrag Cvitanovic (SATE speaker 10/10)	Georgia Tech.	Recurrent Flows: The Clockwork Behind Turbulence (abstract)	View Schedule	Mark Dykman
October 16	Eric Brewe Joint CREATE4STEM	Florida International	Engaging Students in Modeling Instruction (abstract)	View Schedule	Danny Caballero
October 23	Lisa Lapidus	MSU	Understanding Aggregation Diseases from Physical Principles (abstract)	View Schedule	Norman Birge
October 30	Chong-Yu Ruan	MSU	Bottom-Up View frm an Ultrafast Electron Microscope: Thinking and Building Science Cases from Molecular Perspectives (abstract)	View Schedule	Norman Birge
November 06	Ed Brown	MSU	Accreting Neutron Stars and the Physics of Dense Matter (abstract)	View Schedule	Norman Birge
November 13	Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz	UC Santa Cruz	Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe (abstract)	View Schedule	Stephen Zepf
November 20	Pengpeng Zhang	MSU	Understanding the Growth Mechanism of Organic Thin Films on Inorganic Substrates (abstract)	View Schedule	Norman Birge
November 27	Thanksgiving: no colloquium
December 04	John McGuire	MSU	One Exciton Two Exciton Red Excition Blue Excition: Excition-Exciton Interactions in Graphene Quantum Dots (abstract)	View Schedule	Norman Birge

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