All colloquia are held at 4:00 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title of Colloquium |
| 1/28 | Yurii Maravin | Kansas State Univ. | Bring on the LCH | |
| 2/12 | Brian Washburn | Kansas State Univ. | Lasers, Amplifiers and Combs: Nonlinear Physics in Optical Fibers | |
| 2/18 | Thomas Pfeifer | UC-Berkeley | D. Zollman |
Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Control
with Coherent Attosecond Soft-X-Rays: Novel Techniques and Applications |
| 2/21 |
Hiromichi Niikura |
National Research Council | D. Zollman |
Attosecond and
Angstrom Science |
| 2/25 | Mette Gaarde | Louisiana State Univ. | B. Esry | How to Control and Optimize the Generation of Coherent, Ultrafast XUV Radiation |
| 2/26 | Eleftherios Goulielmakis | Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics | D. Zollman |
Tracking Electronic Processes
with Sub-100-Attosecond Resolution |
|
3/3 3:30 p.m. K-State Alumni Center |
William D. Phillips | NIST/Univ. of Maryland | B. Esry | Peterson Public Lecture: Time and Einstein in the 21st Century: The Coolest Stuff in the Universe |
| 3/4 | William D. Phillips | NIST/Univ. of Maryland | B. Esry | A Bose Condensate in an Optical Lattice: Cold Atomic Gases as Solid State Systems |
| 3/10 | Katsumi Midorikawa | RIKEN/Japan | Z. Cheng | Nonlinear Physics with Intense High-order Harmonic Pulses |
| 3/11 | Brett Flanders | Oklahoma State University | D. Zollman | The Development of Nanomaterials for Electrophysiological Applications |
| 3/17 | Spring Break | |||
| 3/24 | Robert Szoszkiewicz | Columbia University | D. Zollman | Single-molecule and Local Studies of Mechanical (un)folding of Proteins, Enzymatic Catalysis, and Water Structure at Solid Surfaces |
| 3/27 | Alexy Snezhko | Argonne National Lab | D. Zollman |
Emergent Behavior, Self-Assembly and
Novel Properties of Generated Phases in Magnetic Granular Ensembles |
| 3/31 | Philip Bucksbaum | Stanford University | L. Cocke | Neff Lecture: Ultrafast Quantum Control |
| 4/7 | Michael Vogeley | Drexel University | B. Ratra | Cosmic Voids and Void Galaxies |
| 4/10 | Michael Dickson | University of South Carolina | T. Bolton | Quantum Reference Frames and the Origins of Uncertainty |
| 4/14 | Min Xiao | Univ. of Arkansas | Z. Chang | Controlling Nonlinear Optical Processes in Coherent Atomic Media |
| 4/21 | Neville W. Reay | The Ohio State Univ. | T. Bolton | Clickers in Classrooms |
| 4/28 | Barry Dunning | Rice Univ. | U. Thumm | Designer Atoms: Engineering Rydberg Atoms Using Pulsed Electric Fields |
| 5/5 | Ramanath Cowsik | Washington Univ. St. Louis | B. Ratra | Dynamical Probes of Dark Matters of the Universe |
Colloquium Committee: Tim Bolton (Chair), Hongxing Jiang, Igor Litvinyuk, Bharat Ratra, Wang He
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