Spring 2014 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2014)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
January 09	James J. Wynne Special "Physics and Society Colloquium"	IBM	Excimer Laser Surgery - The Foundation for Laser Refractive Surgery and Future Applications	View Schedule	Tomanek/Schroeder
January 16	Cristiano Galbiati	Princeton University	A Walk on the DarkSide	View Schedule	Raymond Brock
January 23	Peter Littlewood	Argonne National Laboratory	Polariton Condensation	View Schedule	Chung Yu Ruan/Carlo Piermarocchi
January 30	Morten Hjorth-Jensen	NSCL-MSU	Computing in Science Education. Integrating a Computational Perspective in the Basic Science Education	View Schedule	Alex Brown
February 06	PA Faculty	MSU	Research Highlights from NUC BIO PER	View Schedule	Duxbury
February 13	PA Faculty	MSU	Research Highlights from AST HEP CMP	View Schedule	Duxbury
February 20	Klaus Blaum	Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics	Fundamental Tests of Nature with Cooled and Stored Exotic Ions	View Schedule	George Bollen
February 27	Leonid Levitov	MIT	Atomic Collapse in Graphene	View Schedule	Levchenko
March 06	MSU Spring Break: No Colloquium
March 13	David Wineland Distingushed Speaker	National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST	Single Atom Optical Clocks	View Schedule	Alex Brown/Duxbury
March 20	Mark Newman	Physics University of Michigan	Erdös Numbers and Epidemics: The Physics of Networks	View Schedule	Carlo Piermarocchi
March 27	Paula R. L. Heron	University of WA-Seattle	Is "Interactive" Teaching Sufficient to Promote Conceptual Development in Physics?	View Schedule	Danny Caballero
April 03	Chih-Wei Lai	MSU	Light and Matter in Flatland	View Schedule	Brage Golding
April 10	Marcelo Jaime	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Exotic Magnetic States of Matter Explored to 100 Tesla	View Schedule	Simmons/Piermarocchi
April 17	Eva Y. Andrei	Rutgers University	Graphene: A Physicist's View of the "Wonder Material"	View Schedule	John McGuire
April 24	Alice White	Boston University	Thirty Years in the Idea Factory	View Schedule	Norman Birge

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.