All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.
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 |
*Leasure Hall - Room 13
+7:00 p.m. in the K-State Alumni Center
*NEFF LECTURE IN PHYSICS - Cardwell 103
Colloquium Committee: Tim Bolton (Chair), Zenghu Chang, Jingyu Lin, Yuri Maravin, Fran Mateycik
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