All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title of Colloquium |
1/17 | University Holiday - Martin Luther King Day | |||
1/18 | Robert Szoszkiewicz | K-State | The Szosz-lab at KSU: Nanomechanical Properties of Selected Proteins and Single Chemical Bonds, and Some Results with Thermochemical Nanolithography on Polymers | |
2/10 | Jeremy Schmit | Univ. of California-San Francisco | D. Zollman | What are the driving forces for the aggregation of proteins into crystals or amyloid fibrils? |
2/14 | Xiaoming Mao | Univ. of Pennsylvania | D. Zollman | Isostaticity and a Unified View of Soft Elasticity |
2/17 | Tim Atherton | Case Western Reserve Univ. | D. Zollman | Liquid Crystals and Patterned Surfaces |
2/23 | Greg Morrison | Harvard Univ. | D. Zollman | Generalized Erdos Numbers, Networks, and Communities |
2/28 | Angela Speck | Univ. of Missouri-Columbia | B. Ratra | Cosmochemistry & Astromineralogy: from the Big Bang to Life |
3/7 | Marvin Marshak | Univ. of Minnesota | T. Bolton | The Deep Underground Sky |
3/8 | Vinod Kumarappan | K-State | Laser-induced Alignment of Asymmetric Top Molecules | |
3/14 | Thomas Weinacht | Stony Brook Univ. | C. Trallero | An Ultrafast Quantum Camera: Capturing and Controlling Molecular Dynamics with Ultrafast Laser Pulses |
3/21 | Spring Break | |||
3/28 | Andras Kis | Ecole Polytechnique Federale | R. Szoszkiewicz | Semiconducting Alternative to Graphene: Single-Layer MoS2 |
4/4 | Wolfgang Rudolph | Univ. of New Mexico | K. Corwin | Laser Damage – What do We Know and Why is it Still an Issue? |
4/6 | Chaden Djalali | Univ. of South Carolina | D. Zollman | Chiral Symmetry and Medium Modification of Vector Mesons |
4/11 | George Gibson | Univ. of Connecticut | C. Trallero | Just What is the Connection Between Physics and Music? |
4/18 | Christopher Elles | Univ. of Kansas | B. Flanders | |
4/25 | Piotr Marszalek | Duke Univ. | R. Szoszkiewicz | The nanomechanics of proteins, nucleic acids and polysaccharides |
5/2 | Kameshwar Wali | Syracuse | D. Zollman | Cremona Violins; a Physicist’s Quest for the Secrets of Stradivari |
5/3 3:30 Hemisphere Room, Hale Library |
Kameshwar Wali | Syracuse | D. Zollman | Peterson Lecture: Exploring the Invisible Universe: Chandra X-ray Satellite Laboratory |
Colloquium Committee: Tim Bolton (Chair), Bharat Ratra, Robert Szoszkiewicz, Uwe Thumm & CheChen Wang
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