Fall 2019 Colloquia

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

Coffee & Cookies will be held at 4:15 p.m. in CW 119.

Date	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
9/2	University Holiday - Labor Day
9/9	Eleanor Sayre	K-State	B. DePaola	Consequences of asset-based models for physics education
9/16	Daniel Rolles	K-State	B. DePaola	Time-Resolved Studies of Ultrafast Dynamics in Molecules
9/17	Lado Samushia	K-State	B. DePaola	Measuring Properties of our Universe with a Sub-percent Precision
9/23	Daniel Kennefick	Univ. of Arkansas	B. DePaola	A Brief History of Gravitational Wave Emission
9/24, Tues	Daniel Kennefick	Univ. of Arkansas	B. DePaola	Neff Lecture: No Shadow of Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse Expeditions that Confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity (CW 103)
9/30	Ketino Kaadze	K-State	B. DePaola	What's Next at the Large Hadron Collider: Fundamental Science with the World's Largest Scientific Instrument
10/7	Lincoln Carr	Colorado School of Mines	B. DePaola	Peterson Lecture: How the Quantum Craze is Changing the World: From the Hilarious Feynman to 300+ Seriously Powerful Quantum Computers (CW 103)
10/8, Tues 3:30 pm	Lincoln Carr	Colorado School of Mines	B. DePaola	Where's the Quantum in the Quantum? The Soliton Quantumness Scale and Emergence of a Classical World
10/14	Kevin Lannon	Univ. of Notre Dame	A. Ivanov	Reaching Beyond the LHC Energy with Top Quarks
10/21	Chihway Chang	Univ. of Chicago	C.D. Lin	Decoding the Universe with Cosmic Surveys
10/28	Robynne Lock	TAMUC	E. Sayre	Physics Together: Engaging Young Women in Physics with STEP UP
11/4	Andrew Weiner	Purdue Univ.	S. Hosseini-Zavareh	Photonic Signal Processing: Ultrafast, Broadband, and Quantum
11/5, Tues	Bharat Ratra	K-State	B. DePaola	Nobel Prize in Physics Lecture: The Accelerating Expanding Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Einstein's Cosmological Constant, or Why Jim Peebles was Awarded Half of the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize (Poster)
11/11	Meenakshi Narain	Brown Univ.	K. Kaadze	Postcards from the Future — The Physics Landscape at the High-Luminosity LHC
11/18	Yong-Le Pan	US Army Research Laboratory	M. Berg	Real-time detection and characterization of biological and chemical aerosol particles at a trace level in atmosphere
11/25	Thanksgiving Break
12/2	Mustapha Ishak	Univ. of Texas at Dallas	L. Samushia	The Acceleration of the Cosmos and Tests of Gravity at Large-Scales in the Universe

Colloquium Committee: Ellie Sayre (Chair), Andrew Ivanov, Chii-Dong Lin, Bharat Ratra, Gary Wysin, and Javad-Seyyed Robatjazi

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