Fall 2017 Colloquium: Physics and Astronomy

Date (2017)	Speaker	Speaker's Institution	Title	Speaker Schedule	Local Host
September 07	Julie Posselt	University of Southern California	Inclusive Graduate Education: Linking Recruitment, Admissions, and Retention Practices for Equitable Access and Willbeing	View Schedule	Caballero
September 14	Investiture	MSU		View Schedule
September 21	John Ralston	Univ. of Kansas	How Fundamental are YOUR Constants? [abstract]	View Schedule	Chivukula
September 28	Wolfgang Bauer	MSU	The Physics of Green Energy - Parking long solar panel project [abstract]	View Schedule	Brock
October 05	Crystal Bailey	APS	Physics Careers Breaking the Myth of the "Non-Traditional" Physicist: The Real Story About Employment for Physics Graduates [abstract]	View Schedule	Tollefson
October 12	David Poulson	MSU	Beyond journals: Communicating science to those who make the decisions and pay the bills [abstract]	View Schedule	Mittig
October 17	Investiture (Special day)	MSU		View Schedule
October 26	Peter Pesic	St. John's College, Santa Fe	Music and the Making of Modern Physics [abstract]	View Schedule	Linnemann
November 02	Laura Chomiuk	MSU	Rethinking the Funamentals of Classical Nova Explosions [abstract]	View Schedule	Brown
November 09	Nima Arkani-Hamed	Institute for Advanced Study - Princeton	"Towards a Common Origin for Quantum Mechanics and Spacetime"	View Schedule	Huston
November 16	Xianglin Ke	MSU	Novel quantum phenomena in complex oxides [abstract]	View Schedule
November 23	Thanksgiving: no colloquium
November 30	Scott Bogner	MSU	"Frontiers in Nuclear Many-body Theory" [abstract]	View Schedule
December 05 - Tuesday - Special day @ 4:10, Rm 1400 BPS	Danny Caballero	MSU	Using physics education research to explore how students learn to engage with scientific tools and practices [abstract]	View Schedule
December 07	Keith Schwab	Caltech	Opportunities for Quantum Sensors based on Superfluid Helium [abstract]	View Schedule	Pollanen
December 13 - Wed-Special Day @ 4:10 Rm 1415 BPS	Darren Grant	Alberta	Ghosts in the ice-Searching for the Universe's most elusive particles at the South Pole [abstract]	View Schedule	DeYoung

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