All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title of Colloquium |
8/29 | Amit Chakrabarti | K-State Physics | Welcome | |
9/5 | University Holiday - Labor Day | |||
9/12 | B. DePaola | K-State Physics | C.D. Lin | Science Advising at the U.S. Department of State: Do they Listen? |
9/19 | Jacques G. Amar | Univ. of Toledo Physics | A. Chakrabarti | Temperature-accelerated Dynamics and Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of Thin-film Growth |
9/26 | Robert Hilborn | Univ. of Texas at Dallas | D. Zollman | The Scientific Foundations for Future Physicians Report and the Revised MCAT: Implications for Introductory Physics and Chemistry Courses for the Life Sciences |
10/3 | Marcia Molina | KSU Research Foundation | A. Chakrabarti | Special Presentation: Patent or Publish? Why you don't have to choose? |
10/10 | Terry Bigioni | Univ. of Toledo Chemistry | A. Chakrabarti | Experimental Studies of Nanoparticles Assembly |
10/17 | Gintaras Duda | Creighton Univ. | T. Bolton | The Dark Sector: From Particle Physics to Cosmology |
10/31 | Tim Bolton & Bharat Ratra | K-State HEP & Cosmology | C.D. Lin | Hot Topics in Physics News: Can Neutrinos Travel Faster than the Speed of Light? and A Nobel Prize for the Accelerating Universe |
11/7 | Peter M. Hoffmann | Wayne State Univ. | R. Szoszkiewicz | How to Teach a Simple Liquid New Tricks - the Curious Behavior of Liquids Under Nanoconfinement |
11/14 | Penny Warren - Ernest Nichols Distinguished Lecturer | Ball Aerospace & Technologies | A. Chakrabarti | Ernest Nichols Distinguished Alumni Lecture: A Physicist Looks at Detector Engineering |
11/21 | University Holiday - Thanksgiving Break | |||
11/28 | Chris Elles | KU Chemistry | B. Flanders | Ultrafast Reaction Dynamic of a Photochromic Molecular Switch |
12/5 | Wendell Hill | Univ. of Maryland | C. Trallero | Carrier-phase Control with Many-Cycle Pulses: CEP Stabilization Not Required |
Colloquium Committee: Chii-Dong Lin (Chair), Bharat Ratra, Jeremy Schmit, Carlos Trallero, Dean Zollman & Ying Chen
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