Fall 2015 Colloquia
All colloquia are held at 4:30 p.m. in CW 102 unless otherwise stated.
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
| 8/24 | Carlos Luis Trallero-Giner | Centro Latino Americano de Fisica | A. Chakrabarti | Latin American Center for Physics and its Challenges for the Developing of Science (Hemisphere, Hale Library) |
| 8/31 | Amit Chakrabarti | K-State | Welcome Back | |
| 9/7 | University Holiday - Labor Day | |||
| 9/8 | Jody Brazil | Firemon Co. | A. Chakrabarti | Nichols Lecture - Physics: The Curriculum of the Entrepreneur (Hemisphere, Hale Library) |
9/14 | Kristan Corwin | K-State | A. Chakrabarti | Gas-filled Hollow Optical Fibers for Robust Frequency References and Novel Lasers |
Thurs, 9/17 in CW 103 | Carl E. Wieman, Nobel Laureate | Stanford | D. Zollman | Provost's Lecture on Excellence in Scholarship - Taking a Scientific Approach to Science and Engineering Education (103 Cardwell Hall) |
9/21 | Carlos Trallero | K-State | A. Chakrabarti | Strong Field Physics: From Isolated Atoms to Solids |
9/22 | Eleanor Sayre | K-State | A. Chakrabarti | Physics Learning at Large and Small Scales |
| 9/28 | Jeremy Schmit | K-State | A. Chakrabarti | Fitting in and Avoiding the Path of Least Resistance |
| 10/5 | E. Craig Dukes | Univ. of Virginia | T. Bolton | Probing the Frontiers of Physics Using Rare Particle Decays |
| 10/19 | Bernard J. Feldman | Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis | B. Ratra | The Schön Affair |
| 10/26 | Adam Riess | Johns Hopkins Univ/Space Telescope Science Inst. | A. Chakrabarti | Expansion of the Universe Seen by Hubble |
| 10/27 | Adam Riess | Johns Hopkins Univ/Space Telescope Science Inst. | A. Chakrabarti | Neff Lecture: Supernovae and the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe |
| 11/2 | Steve Leone | UC-Berkeley | A. Summers | Attosecond Dynamics: From Atoms to Semiconductor Solids |
| 11/3 | Ed Caner | Case Western Reserve Univ. | A. Chakrabarti | Physics Entrepreneurship |
| 11/16 | Gerry Williger | Univ. of Louisville | B. Ratra | Panchromatic Imaging of a Transitional Disk: The Disk of GM Aur in Optical and FUV Scattered Light |
| 11/23 | Thanksgiving Break | |||
| 11/30 | Hume Feldman | Univ. of Kansas | A. Chakrabarti | Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Convergence |
| 12/7 | Graca Rocha | JPL | Glenn Horton-Smith | Overview of Planck Data and (Cosmological and Astrophysical) Results |
| 12/8 | Matthew J. Berg | Mississippi State University | A. Chakrabarti | Aerosol Particle Characterization With Digital Holography |
Colloquium Committee: Ellie Sayre (Chair), Andrew Ivanov, Bharat Ratra, Gary Wysin, and Sachiko McBride
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