Spring 2015 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2015)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
January 15	Maura McLaughlin	West Virginia University	A Galactic Scale Gravitational Wave Observatory	View Schedule	Hendrik Schatz
January 22	Mauricio Terrones	Penn State	Two-Dimensional Materials: From Doped Grapphene to Ws2 Monolayers Van Der Waals Solids and More	View Schedule	Ty DeYoung
January 29	André de Gouvêa	Northwestern	The Brave nu World	View Schedule	Ty DeYoung
February 05	Karl van Bibber	LBNL	A Microwave Cavity Search for Dark Matter Axions	View Schedule	Michael Thoennessen
February 12	Falk Herwig	University of Victoria Canada	Revealing the Rise of the Elements in the Early Universe with an Integrated Computatinal Mult-Physics Approach	View Schedule	Hendrik Schatz
February 19	Paul McEuen	Cornell	Nanotube Guitars and Graphene Machines: Pushing the Boundaries with Carbon Nanomaterials	View Schedule	John McGuire & Norman Birge
February 26	Phillipp Heck	Chicago Field Museum	Presolar Stardust-The Oldest Solid Samples Available for Laboratory Study	View Schedule	Schatz w/Geology
March 05	Jaideep Taggart Singh	MSU Physics & Astronomy and NSCL	Searching for Lung Disease and The Origin of Matter Using Magnetized Noble Gases	View Schedule	Ty DeYoung
March 12	MSU Spring Break: No Colloquium Monday, 3/9-Friday, 3/13
March 19	Joe Carlson	LANL	Correlated Pairs and Neutrino Scattering from Nuclei	View Schedule	Kendall Mahn
March 26	Jack Dongarra	UTK	Architecture-Aware Algorithms and Software for Peta and Exascale Computing	View Schedule	Witold Nazarewicz
April 02	Xijie Wang	Stanford/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	MeV Ultrafast Electron Scattering: Catching Electron and Phonon in Action	View Schedule	Chong-Yu Ruan and Jie Wei FRIB
April 09	Michel Devoret	Yale	Superconducting Quantum Circuits	View Schedule	Norman Birge
April 16	Sami Mitra	PRL	PRL Today	View Schedule	David Tomanek
April 23	Nergis Mavalvala	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Quantum Opportunities in Gravitational Wave Detectors	View Schedule	Vladimir Zelevinsky
April 30	Christopher Fuchs	University of Massachusetts Boston	Quantum Theory from Quantum Information? (What would Feynman say?)	View Schedule	Jim Linneman

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.