Fall 2013 Colloquia

All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
8/26	Amit Chakrabarti	K-State		Welcome Back
9/2	University Holiday - Labor Day
9/9	Daniel Gauthier	Duke Univ.	K. Corwin	Superradiance and Pattern Formation in Laser-driven Cold Atoms
9/12	Margaret Wertheim		Physics, Art & Beach Museum of Art	General Public Lecture: Making Space, Thursday, 9/12, at 7:00 p.m. in 109 Justin Hall
9/16	Vinod Kumarrapan	K-State	A. Chakrabarti	Alignment and Orientation of Molecules with Lasers: A Quest for the Molecular Frame
9/17	Robert Szoszkiewicz	K-State	A. Chakrabarti	Biological and Soft-Matter Physics in the Szosz-lab, KSU
9/23	David Wittman	UC-Davis	G. Horton-Smith	Large Dark-Matter Colliders
9/30	Scott Franklin	RIT	E. Sayre	Why We Derive: Meaning Behind Mathematical Moves
10/7	Krzysztof Gorski	JPL	G. Horton-Smith	Universe According to Planck
10/14	Michele Munson	Aspera	A. Chakrabarti	Nichols Lecture: I was You (Hale Library - Hemisphere Room at 4:30 p.m.)
10/21	Mark Brodwin	UMKC	G. Horton-Smith	The Euclid Mission
10/29	Phil Ugorowski	K-State	C. Sorensen	Recent Progress in Freeing Helium-3 for Physics Research
11/4	John Belcher	MIT	S. Rebello	Interactive Learning and MOOCs in MIT Physics
11/11	Anh Thu Le	K-State	A. Chakrabarti	Imaging Molecular Structure with Ultrafast Intense Laser Pulses
11/18	Cheng Chin	Univ. of Chicago	C.D. Lin	From Cosmology to Cold Atoms: Observation of Sakharov Acoustic Oscillations in Quenched Atomic Superfluids
11/25	Thanksgiving Break
12/2	Keti Kaadze	Fermliab	A. Chakrabarti	Higgs Discovery and Beyond
12/9	Ruth Douglas Miller	K-State	G. Horton-Smith	Wind Power Changes and Challenges

Colloquium Committee

Glenn Horton-Smith (Chair), Bharat Ratra, Ellie Sayre, Robert Szoszkiewicz

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