Spring 2006 Colloquia

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title of Colloquium
Jan 19	1:30 pm	Little Theatre	Chuck Greenfield	General Atomics	D. Zollman and Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering	Advances and New Developments in Fusion Energy Research Using the Tokamak
Jan 23	4:30 pm	CW 102	Steve Gao	KSU Geology	D. Zollman	Seismology and Seismic Exploration of the Earth's Interior
Jan 26	1:05 pm	CW 102	Robert Kirshner	Harvard	B. Ratra	Supernova Cosmology: Why Astronomers Think the Universe is Accelerating
Jan 30	4:30 pm	CW 102	Franz Kaertner	MIT	B. Washburn	Octave Spanning Lasers and Phase Control
Feb 13	4:30 pm	CW 102	William Romig - Nichols Lecturer	Norfolk Southern Corporation	D. Zollman	Ernest Fox Nichols Lecture The Value of a Physics Education in the Business World
Feb 27	4:30 pm	CW 102	Deepak Mathur	Tata Institute, Mumbai	L. Cocke	Matter in Strong Optical Fields: From Molecules and Clusters to Living Cells
Mar 2	4:30 pm	CW 102	Henrik Stapelfeldt	Aarhus University	L. Cocke	Alignment of Molecules by Strong Laser Pulses
Mar 6	4:30 pm	CW 102	Ken Heller	Univ. of Minnesota	S. Rebello	Building an Introductory Physics Course for Biology Majors
Mar 7	4:30 pm	CW 102	George Gibson	Univ. of Connecticut	L. Cocke	Extreme Multiphoton Physics: Are 20-photon Transitions Really Possible?
Mar 13	4:30 pm	CW 102	Kristan Corwin	KSU Physics		Optical Frequency References: Putting a Frequency Ruler in Your Pocket
Mar 20	Spring Break
Mar 27	4:30 pm	CW 102	Manijeh Razeghi	Northwestern University	J. Lin	Quantum Sensing Through Nano-Optoelectronics: Inspiration from Nature
Apr 3	4:30 pm	CW 102	Mathias Brust	Liverpool University	T. Rahman	Gold Nanoparticles with Chemical and Biomolecular Functionality
Apr 10	4:30 pm	CW 102	Abdelkader Kara	KSU		Structure, Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Nanostructured Metals