Spring 2007 Colloquia

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title of Colloquium	Schedule
2/12	Jim Stack, Director	KSU Biosecurity Research Inst.	A. Chakrabarti	The Kansas State University Biosecurity Research Institute
2/19	Nathaniel Bowden	Sandia National Laboratories	G. Horton-Smith	Neutrinos for Non-Proliferation
2/22	Vladimir Burtman	Univ. of Utah	A. Chakrabarti	Advances in Molecular Nanoelectronics: Phase Transition and Spintronic Studies in Organic Low Dimensional Systems	Burtman (pdf)
2/26	Scott Crittenden	Army Research Lab	A. Chakrabarti	Electrogenic Bacteria: Microbial Fuel Cells and Chemoelectric Biosensors	Crittenden (pdf)
3/1	Ivan Smalyukh	Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	A. Chakrabarti	Self-organized and Optically-controlled Colloidal Structures in Ordered Matrices of Soft and Biomolecular Materials	Smalyukh (pdf)
3/6	Vinod Kumarappan	Aarhus Univ.	L. Cocke	Aligning Molecules with Strong Laser Fields	Kumarappan (pdf)
3/12	Lawrence Krauss	Case Western Reserve University	B. Ratra	Life, The Universe, and Nothing: The Dismal Future in an Ever Expanding Universe
3/12	Lawrence Krauss⁺	Case Western Reserve University	B. Ratra	Peterson Public Lecture - Einstein's Biggest Blunder?: A Cosmic Mystery Story⁺
3/19	Spring Break
3/26	Alice Bean	Univ. of Kansas	T. Bolton	The Quarked Project: How Elementary School Kids Learn Particle Physics
4/2	Glenn Horton-Smith	KSU Physics		Mid-Tenure Review - The Neutrino Revolution & What I've Been doing at K-State to Foment Another One
4/3	Igor Litvinyuk	KSU Physics		Mid-Tenure Review - Strong Field Atomic and Molecular Physics at J.R. Macdonald Laboratory
4/9	Francis Robicheaux	Auburn Univ.	B. Esry	Making and Holding(?) Atomic Anti-matter
4/16	Rick Trebino*	Georgia Institute of Technology	K. Corwin	The Musical Score, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra & the Measurement of the Shortest Events Ever Created
4/23	Robert H. Austin*	Princeton	A. Chakrabarti	Darwin Meets Nano
4/30	John Thompson	Univ. of Maine	S. Rebello	Student Understanding of Relationships Between Physics & Mathematics Concepts in Upper-Level Thermodynamics	Schedule