Fall 2018 Colloquia
All colloquia are held at 4:15 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.
Coffee & Cookies will be held at 5:15 p.m. in CW 119.
                  Date | 
               
                  Speaker | 
               
                  Institution | 
               
                  Host | 
               
                  Title | 
            
| 8/20 | First Day of Classes | |||
| 8/27 | Brett DePaola | K-State | Welcome Back | |
| 9/3 | University Holiday - Labor Day | |||
| 9/4 | Brian Washburn | K-State | B. DePaola | 
                  Fiber Laser Sources for Mid-Infrared Gas-Phase Spectroscopy  | 
            
| 9/10 | S. James Gates Jr. | Brown Univ. | B. DePaola | Two 1,358,954,496 Pixel Set Going Among SUSY differential equations to Graphs, Codes, and Permutations | 
| 9/11, Tues | S. James Gates Jr. | Brown Univ. | B. DePaola | Neff Lecture: What Abdus Salam Taught Me About Jazz (Umberger 105) | 
| 9/17 | Mark Alford | Washington Univ. | B. Ratra | Quark Matter: The High-Density Frontier | 
| 9/25, Tues | Lado Samushia | K-State | B. DePaola | Precision Cosmology with Galaxy Surveys | 
| 10/1 | Salman Habib | Argonne Lab/Kavli Institute at Univ. of Chicago | L. Samushia | Precision Cosmology with Synthetic Universes and Machine Learning | 
| 10/8 | Christophe Royon | Univ. of Kansas | T. Bolton | A Journey to Understand the Proton at the Large Hadron Collider | 
| 10/15 | Gabriela González | Louisiana State Univ. | B. DePaola | Gravitational Waves Astronomy | 
| 10/16, Tues | Gabriela González | Louisiana State Univ. | B. DePaola | Neff Lecture: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, Black Holes & Other Matters (Umberger 105) | 
| 10/22 | Leslie Atkins Elliott | Boise State Univ. | E. Sayre | Teaching for Transfer | 
| 10/29 | Jo Dunkley | Princeton Univ. | B. DePaola | Neutrino physics from cosmological surveys | 
| 10/30, Tues | Jo Dunkley | Princeton Univ. | B. DePaola | Peterson Lecture: Our Window on the Universe (Umberger 105) | 
| 11/5 | Christine A. Orme | Lawrence Livermore National Lab | B. Flanders | |
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                   11/12  | 
               Andrei Gritsan | Johns Hopkins Univ. | Y. Maravin | Understanding Emptiness: The Higgs Field and Beyond | 
| 11/19 | Thanksgiving Break | |||
| 12/3 | Benjamin Zwickl | RIT | J.T. Laverty | Physics education for career preparation: Lessons from optics and photonics | 
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