Fall 2015 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2015)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
September 10	Mark Voit First week of Classes	MSU	Precipition - Regulated Galaxy Evolution	View Schedule	Brian O'Shea
September 17	Karl Van Bibber	Berkeley	The Curse of the Bambino	View Schedule	Michael Thoennessen
September 24	Pawel Danielewicz	MSU	Asymetric Nuclear Matter	View Schedule	Bill Lynch
September 29	DISTINGUISHED LECTURER special date/Tuesday (1400BPS) Andrea Ghez	UCLA	Our Galactic Center: A Laboratory for Exploring the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes	View Schedule (Monday) View Schedule (Tuesday)	Megan Donahue
October 01	Phillipp Heck	Chicago Field Museum	Presolar Stardust - The Oldest Solid Samples in the Lab	View Schedule	Hendrik Schatz & Geology
October 08	Symposium for Konrad Gelbke Wharton Center Pasant Theatre 2:00 - 5:30pm	MSU	50 Years of Beam and Konrad Gelbke's Remarkable Career	View Schedule	Michael Thoennessen
October 15	Mark Raizen	Univ. of Texas	Maxwell's Demon: Cooling of Atoms and Efficient Isotope Separation	View Schedule	Chong Yu Ruan
October 22	Jeffrey McMahon	UofM	Surveying the Cosmic Microwave Background with ACTPol and the Advanced ACTPol Experiments	View Schedule	Wade Fisher
October 29	Evi Goldfield	NSF	The Lifecycle of an NSF Proposals: Hints for Preparing a Competitive Proposals	View Schedule	Duxbury/Katharine Hunt Chemistry
November 05	Paul Drake	UofM	Laboratory Astrophysics at High Energy Density	View Schedule	TBD
November 12	Michael Lisa	Ohio State	The Physics of Sports: A Real Science Course for the Non-Science Major	View Schedule	William Lynch
November 19	Bob Stein (Location Abrams Planetarium)	MSU	Solar SuperStorms (planetarium show-first public viewing!)	View Schedule	Brian O'Shea
November 26	Thanksgiving: no colloquium
December 03	Jon Paley	Fermilab	In the Nus: Long- Baseline Neutrino Oscillations and the Future of Particle Physics in the US	View Schedule	Kendall Mahn
December 10	Krishna Rajagopal	MIT	Doping and Probing the Original Liquid: Opportunities and Challenges from Heavy Ion Collisions	View Schedule	Scott Pratt

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.