All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title of Colloquium |
8/27 | Amit Chakrabarti | K-State Physics | Welcome | |
9/3 | University Holiday - Labor Day | |||
Tues, 9/11 | Sanjay Rebello | K-State | A. Chakrabarti | Research on Transfer of Learning and Implications for Instruction |
9/17 | Nicholas Suntzeff | Texas A&M | B. DePaola | Supernova Cosmology and the Accelerating Universe - from an Astronomer's Point of View |
9/24 | Paul Adams & Jack Maseberg | Fort Hays State Univ. | S. Rebello | Kansas From 88,000 Feet: FHSU's High-Altitude Balloon Launch |
Tues,10/2 | Michael Murray | Univ. of Kansas | G. Horton-Smith | Searching for New States of Matter with the CMS Experiment |
10/8 | Peter Vekilov | Univ. of Houston | J. Schmit | The Two-step Mechanism and the Solution-crystal Spinodal for Nucleation of Crystals in Solution |
10/15 | Bob Woodruff | Lockheed Martin & Univ. of Colorado | A. Chakrabarti | Nichols Lecture: An Inquiring Mind in Search of Phun from Fysics (Town Hall-Leadership Studies Building) |
10/22 | Chris Jacobsen | Argonne Nat'l Lab/ Northwestern Univ. | C. Trallero | Oscillators, X-rays, and Global Carbon: Adventures in X-ray Nanofocusing |
10/29 | Amy Betz | K-State Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering | Amit Chakrabarti | Enhancing Transport Phenomena in Microgeomtries |
11/5 | Greg Snow | Univ. of Nebraska | G. Horton-Smith | Recent Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory |
11/12 | Alexei Sokolov | Texas A&M | C. Trallero | Femtosecond Laser Pulses Interacting with Molecules: Physics and Applications |
11/19 | University Holiday - Thanksgiving Break | |||
11/26 | Brian Thomas | Washburn | G. Horton Smith | Astrophysics and Life on Earth |
12/3 | Eric Brewe | Florida International University | E. Sayre | Modeling Physics Education Transformation as an Educational Ecosystem |
Colloquium Committee: Glenn Horton-Smith (Chair), Bharat Ratra, Jeremy Schmit, Carlos Trallero, Dean Zollman & Ying Chen
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